Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

At Firebrand, we were awarded the Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) badge in recognition of our expertise in delivering quality solutions in this specialised business area.

On your 3-day accelerated Azure AI Engineer Associate course, you'll get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful AI engineer. This course teaches you how to implement solutions that use Cognitive Services and Bots in Microsoft Azure and also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimising.

Your expert Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) will immerse you in the curriculum with our unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, helping you to build and retain information faster. You'll also have lab access 24/7 at the training centre, so you can test your skills and make the most of your stay.

At the end of the course, you’ll acquire the following skills:

• Select the appropriate Azure AI service
• Plan and configure security for Azure AI services
• Create and manage an Azure AI service
• Deploy Azure AI services
• Create solutions to detect anomalies and improve content
• Analyze images
• Extract text from images
• Implement image classification and object detection by using the Custom Vision service, part of Azure Cognitive Services
• Process videos
• Analyze text
• Process speech
• Translate language
• Build and manage a language understanding model
• Create a question answering solution
• Implement a Cognitive Search solution
• Apply AI enrichment skills to an indexer pipeline
• Design and implement conversation flow
• Build a conversational bot
• Test, publish, and maintain a conversational bot

You'll benefit from the latest, up-to-date Microsoft courseware and practice papers, as Firebrand is a Microsoft Learning Partner.

You'll also be prepared for exam Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution. You'll sit this exam at the Firebrand Training Centre during the course, covered by your Certification Guarantee.

Audience

If you're a developer who builds applications integrated with Cognitive Services and/or Azure Bots, this course is ideal for you. This course requires no previous knowledge of Machine Learning.

• Module 1 - Prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure
• Module 2 - Create and consule Cognitive Services
• Module 3 - Secure Cognitive Services
• Module 4 - Monitor Cognitive Services
• Module 5 - Deploy Cognitive Services in Containers
• Module 6 - Extract insights from text with the Language Service
• Module 7 - Translate text with the Translator service
• Module 8 - Build a Language Understanding Model
• Module 9 - Publish and use a Language Understanding app
• Module 10 - Build a bot with the Bot Framework SDK
• Module 11 - Analyze Images
• Module 12 - Analyze Video
• Module 13 - Classify images
• Module 14 - Detect objects in images
• Module 15 - Detect, analyze and recognise faces
• Module 16 - Read Text in Images and Documents with the Computer Vision Service
• Module 17 - Extract data from forms with Form Recognizer
• Module 18 - Create an Azure Cognitive Search Solution
• Module 19 - Create a customer skill for Azure Cognitive Search
• Module 20 - Create a knowledge store with Azure Cognitive Search

As part of your accelerated course, you'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

• Exam code: AI-102
• Languages: English, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese
• Domains:
  • Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (15–20%)
  • Implement content moderation solutions (10–15%)
  • Implement computer vision solutions (15–20%)
  • Implement natural language processing solutions (30–35%)
  • Implement knowledge mining and document intelligence solutions (10–15%)
  • Implement generative AI solutions (10–15%)

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

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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