Prepare for the Azure AI Fundamentals certification examination. This book covers the basics of implementing various Azure AI services in your business. The book not only helps you get ready for the AI-900 exam, but also helps you get started in the artificial intelligence (AI) world.
The book starts with a short overview of the AI-900 exam and takes you through the exam prerequisites and the structure of the exam. You will then learn basic and advanced AI in Azure. Principles of responsible AI, Azure Machine Learning (ML), Azure Cognitive Services, and Bot Services are covered, followed by a practice test. You will go through ML fundamental concepts, model training, and validation along with case studies and a practice test for better preparation. The book includes the fundamentals of Azure and computer vision cognitive services. Various vision services and face services are demonstrated as well as analyzing image and text using OCR. You will un
Table of ContentsChapter 1: AI-900 Overview of Exam Preparation Chapter Goal:The chapter introduces the exam to the learners. The exam object-
ives are made clear to the readers. Readers gain understanding about exam modules, module weightage, and how much to expect from each module throughout the examination. Links to pertinent resources on Microsoft Learn would be provided for the readers' benefit.
No of pages: 2
Subtopics
1. Exam Overview
2. Who is this exam for – Exam prerequisite
3. Modules and weightage in exam
4. Module Description
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Chapter Goal:
The chapter's objective is to introduce some foundational, high-level elements. These concepts would be explored in depth over the next chapters of the books.
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics
1. What is Artificial Intelligence?
2. Understanding Artificial Intelligence workloads
3. Principles of Responsible AI
4. Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Microsoft Azure
5. AI Services in Microsoft Azure
1. Azure Machine Learning
2. Azure Cognitive Service
3. Azure Bot Service
4. Azure Cognitive Search
6. Module Review
7. Introspective Practice
8. Solutions to the practice test
9. References: Microsoft Learn
Chapter 3: Machine Learning Fundamental Concepts Chapter Goal: This chapter make reader familiar to the Machine Learning fundamentals introducing Machine Learning, Types of Machine Learning, Model training and validation. Here readers will also get to know about various tools used for Machine Learning.
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. What is Machine Learning?
2. Describing Core Machine Learning Concepts
1. Dataset, Features and Labels
2. Machine Learning Algorithms in brief
3. Machine Learning Workflow
4. Model Evaluation Metrics
3. Types of Machine Learning
1. Regression
2. Classification
3. Clustering
3. The two importance elements: Model Training and Validation
4. Introducing Azure Machine Learning
5. Tools for Azure Machine Learning
1 Azure Machine Learning Studio
2 Azure Machine Learning Designer
6 What is Automated Machine Learning?
7. Practical Labs:
Using Azure Machine Learning Designer to build a regression model Using Azure Machine Learning Designer, create a classification model
Using Azure Machine Learning Designer to build a clustering model
8. Module Review
9. Introspective Practice
10. Solutions to the practice test
11. References: Microsoft Learn
Chapter 4: Computer Vision
Chapter Goal: The chapter introduces readers to the fundamentals of Azure Cognitive Services in brief, as well as in depth knowledge of Computer Vision Cognitive Service.
No of pages: 50
Sub - Topics:
1. Getting Started with Azure Cognitive Service
Benefits of Cognitive Service
Azure Cognitive Service: Speech
Language
Vision
Decision
Open AI Service
2. What is Computer Vision?
3. Computer Vision Core Elements: Image Classification and Object Detection
3. Computer Vision Application
4. Exploring Various Vision Service
1. Computer Vision
2. Custom Vision
3. Face
4. Form Recognizer
5. Understanding of OCR
6. Practical Labs:
- 1. Analysing image with Computer Vision
- 2. Training Models with Custom Vision
- 3. Using Face Service to analyse faces
- 4. Analysing text with Computer Vision Service using OCR
7. Introspective Practice Test
8. Solutions to the practice test
9. References: Microsoft Learn
Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces readers with the responsibilities of Natural Language processing such as text analysis, language modelling, entity recognition, sentiment analysis, speech recognition and synthesis and how to leverage Microsoft Azure for NLP.
No. of Pages: 50
1. Getting Started with Natural Language Processing
1. What is Natural Language Processing?
2. Core NLP Responsibilities
1. Text analysis and entity recognition
2. Sentiment analysis
3. Speech recognition and synthesis
4. Machine Translation
5. Semantic Language modelling
2. AI for Conversational Interactions
3. Microsoft Azure for NLP
1. Core Azure NLP workloads: Language, Speech and Translator
2. Language:
1. Language Detection
2. Key phrase extraction
3. Entity Detection
4. Sentiment Analysis
5. Question Answering
6. Conversational Language Understanding
3. Speech:
1. Text to speech
2. Speech to text
3. Speech translation
4. Translator
1. Text Translation
2. Microsoft Azure platform for Conversational AI
1. Azure Bot Service
3. Practical Labs:
- 1. Text analysis with text-analysis-service
- 2. Using the Speech service's speech-to-text capabilities to transcribe audible speech to text.
- 3. Using the Speech service's text-to-speech capabilities to generate audible speech from text.
- 4. Using translator service to convert text
- 5. Language Understanding Application Development
- 6. Developing a Q&A generator with Azure Bot Service
- 7. Provisioning chat bot using Microsoft Azure Bot Service
4. Introspective Test
5. Solutions to the Practice Test
6. References: Microsoft Learn
