Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer (AI-103) Exam Guide (2026) [eBook: PDF + EPUB]

AI-102 has retired. Its successor, Exam AI-103: Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure, earns the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate certification, and it is a different exam. Agents and generative AI are now the largest area, operations and governance carry more weight, and the platform has new names: Microsoft Foundry, Foundry Tools and Azure Content Understanding. Most study material written before 2026 still says Azure AI Studio and Cognitive Services.

This 2026 edition follows Microsoft's current AI-103 study guide (skills measured as of April 16, 2026), in plain language, for developers and engineers who build AI apps and agents on Azure.

• The exam: format, the five skill areas and their weights, a full old-to-new name table, and what changed from AI-102
• Plan and manage: choosing models and Foundry services, deployments, quotas and cost, monitoring, managed identity and private networking
• Responsible AI: content filters, prompt shields, evaluators, tracing, approval flows and agent governance
• Generative apps and agents: RAG, structured output, tool schemas, multi-agent orchestration, safeguards and agent evaluation
• Operations: prompt tuning, self-critique loops, tracing, token analytics and model routing
• Vision, text, speech and information extraction: image and video generation and editing, multimodal understanding, Content Understanding, Azure AI Search with hybrid search and OCR
• The Agent Builder's Playbook: a ten-point production checklist and three approval tiers for agents that act on your company's behalf
• "Exam trap" boxes in every chapter and an exam-day keyword table
• 60 original practice questions, weighted like the exam, with an explanation for every answer
• A two-week hands-on study plan, a glossary and the official resources

Written by Etienne Noumen, P.Eng., creator of the AI Unraveled podcast and the Djamgatech and Machine Learning for Beginners (AI & ML Tutor) exam-prep apps.

Independent publication; not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Practice questions are original and are not actual exam questions.

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