Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution (AI-102T00)

This course is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. The course will use C# or Python as the programming language. Gain the necessary knowledge for designing Azure AI solution by building a customer support chat Bot using artificial intelligence from the Microsoft Azure platform including language understanding and pre-built AI functionality in the Azure Cognitive Services. 

Software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and conversational AI solutions on Azure.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal
• Knowledge of either C# or Python
• Familiarity with JSON and REST programming semantics
  Recommended course prerequisites
• AI-900T00: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals course

1 - Prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure

• Define artificial intelligence
• Understand AI-related terms
• Understand considerations for AI Engineers
• Understand considerations for responsible AI
• Understand capabilities of Azure Machine Learning
• Understand capabilities of Azure AI Services
• Understand capabilities of the Azure Bot Service
• Understand capabilities of Azure Cognitive Search

2 - Create and consume Azure AI Services

• Provision an Azure AI Services resource
• Identify endpoints and keys
• Use a REST API
• Use an SDK

3 - Secure Azure AI Services

• Consider authentication
• Implement network security

4 - Monitor Azure AI Services

• Monitor cost
• Create alerts
• View metrics
• Manage diagnostic logging

5 - Deploy Azure AI services in containers

• Understand containers
• Use Azure AI Services containers

6 - Extract insights from text with the Language service

• Provision a Language resource
• Detect language
• Extract key phrases
• Analyze sentiment
• Extract entities
• Extract linked entities

7 - Translate text with the Translator service

• Provision a Translator resource
• Specify translation options
• Define custom translations

8 - Create speech-enabled apps with the Speech service

• Provision an Azure resource for speech
• Use the Speech to text API
• Use the text to speech API
• Configure audio format and voices
• Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language

9 - Translate speech with the speech service

• Provision an Azure resource for speech translation
• Translate speech to text
• Synthesize translations

10 - Build a Language Understanding model

• Understand resources for building a language understanding model
• Define intents, utterances, and entities
• Use patterns to differentiate similar utterances
• Use pre-built entity components
• Train, test, publish, and review a Language Understanding model

11 - Publish and use a Language Understanding app

• Understand capabilities of the Language service
• Process predictions
• Use a container

12 - Build a question answering solution

• Understand question answering
• Compare question answering to language understanding
• Create a knowledge base
• Implement multi-turn conversation
• Test and publish a knowledge base
• Use a knowledge base
• Improve question answering performance
• Create a question answering bot

13 - Create a bot with the Bot Framework SDK

• Introduce principles of bot design
• Get started with the Bot Framework SDK
• Implement activity handlers and dialogs
• Deploy a bot

14 - Create a Bot with the Bot Framework Composer

• Understand ways to build a bot
• Get started with the Bot Framework Composer
• Understand dialogs
• Understand adaptive flow
• Design the user experience

15 - Analyze images

• Provision a Computer Vision resource
• Analyze an image
• Generate a smart-cropped thumbnail

16 - Analyze video

• Understand Video Analyzer for Media capabilities
• Extract custom insights
• Use Video Analyzer widgets and APIs

17 - Classify images

• Provision Azure resources for custom vision
• Understand image classification
• Train an image classifier

18 - Detect objects in images

• Understand object detection
• Train an object detector
• Consider options for labeling images

19 - Detect, analyze, and recognize faces

• Identify options for face detection analysis and identification
• Understand considerations for face analysis
• Detect faces with the computer vision service
• Understand capabilities of the face service
• Compare and match detected faces
• Implement facial recognition

20 - Read Text in Images and Documents with the Azure AI Vision Service

• Explore Computer Vision options for reading text
• Use the Read API

21 - Extract data from forms with Azure Document Intelligence

• What is Azure Document Intelligence?
• Get started with Azure Document Intelligence
• Understand prebuilt models
• Train custom models
• Use Azure Document Intelligence models
• Use the Azure Document Intelligence Studio

22 - Create an Azure Cognitive Search solution

• Azure resources
• Search components
• Understand the indexing process
• Search an index
• Apply filtering and sorting
• Enhance the index

23 - Create a custom skill for Azure Cognitive Search

• Create a custom skill
• Add a custom skill to a skillset

24 - Create a knowledge store with Azure Cognitive Search

• Define projections
• Define a knowledge store