AI-103 · Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure
Each publication has a different job. Start with the guide that matches what you need now, or use them in sequence for the most complete JITA learning experience.
Build working judgment for Azure AI application and agent development.
This Field Guide develops a working mental model of Azure AI application and agent development. You will connect choose the appropriate Foundry services, models, retrieval, grounding, memory, tools, and multimodal capabilities, design RAG and agent patterns that match workload, data, and interaction requirements, reason about prompt, model, retrieval, tool, and orchestration failure boundaries, and apply responsible AI, content-safety, identity, and access controls. You are not just memorizing feature names; you are learning what owns the requirement, what can fail, and how to verify the outcome.
- model problem vs retrieval or grounding problem
- RAG workflow vs agent/tool orchestration
- successful generation vs evaluated and operationally safe response
Prove your AI-103 judgment across Azure AI application and agent development under exam-style conditions.
This Exam Preparation Guide tests whether your understanding of Azure AI application and agent development survives realistic decision pressure. You will practice separating model problem vs retrieval or grounding problem, RAG workflow vs agent/tool orchestration, and successful generation vs evaluated and operationally safe response. Each scenario is designed to make you identify the governing fact, reject the nearest plausible alternative, and explain the evidence that keeps the correct answer correct.
- model problem vs retrieval or grounding problem
- RAG workflow vs agent/tool orchestration
- successful generation vs evaluated and operationally safe response
Understand it first. Then prove you can apply it.
The Field Guide builds the understanding. Use it when you need the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
The Exam Preparation Guide tests the judgment. Use it when you need to practice under exam-style conditions, distinguish close answers, and understand why the correct answer survives changed facts.
Recommended sequence: Field Guide → Exam Preparation Guide → return to the Field Guide for targeted remediation where needed.