[EXAM GUIDE] Azure AI Fundamentals AI-901 (New AI-900): Skills Measured, 10 Practice Questions & a 2-Week Study Plan

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AI-900 has been replaced by AI-901, and the new Azure AI Fundamentals exam is different: 55–60% of it is now hands-on work in Microsoft Foundry (models, agents, speech, vision and Content Understanding).

In this episode:

• What AI-901 measures and how it differs from AI-900

• The six responsible AI principles, with examples

• A plain-language tour of Microsoft Foundry for the exam

• 10 practice questions with explanations

• A 2-week study plan

Chapters:

00:00 AI-900 is replaced by AI-901: what changed

02:30 Who the exam is for

04:35 The two domains, weights and pass mark

06:15 Responsible AI: the six principles and their keywords

11:35 Tokens, context window, temperature and top-p

17:30 Choosing and deploying the right model

20:40 AI workloads: generative, agentic, text, speech, vision, extraction

22:55 Domain 2: building in Microsoft Foundry

24:35 Keyless authentication, system vs user prompts

27:00 A single agent: define, connect, test, deploy

28:15 Hallucinations, grounding and RAG

31:15 Azure Content Understanding: extract, classify, generate

35:00 10 practice questions with explanations

46:15 Two-week study plan 49:05 Extra time if the exam isn't in your language

51:40 More practice: the AZ AI app

Practise more AI-901 questions, with every answer explained:

AZ AI – Cert Exam Prep (iPhone, iPad): https://apps.apple.com/app/id1611614573

AI & Machine Learning Tutor (41 AI certifications): https://apps.apple.com/app/id1611593573

Get the AI-901 eBook (PDF + EPUB): https://djamgatech.myshopify.com/products/ai-901-azure-ai-fundamentals-exam-guide-2026-ebook-pdf-epub

Official sources: Microsoft Learn certification page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/azure-ai-fundamentals/

AI-901 study guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/resources/study-guides/ai-901

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