AI-102 Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

AI-102 Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

Course Summary

AI-102 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution is intended for software developers who want 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.

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Course Objective

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Describe considerations for AI-based application development
  • Create, configure, deploy and secure Azure Cognitive Services
  • Developing applications that analyze text
  • Developing applications with speech functionality
  • Create applications with natural language understanding features
  • Creating QnA applications
  • Create conversational solutions with bots
  • Using computer vision services to analyze images and videos
  • Create customized computer vision models
  • Developing applications that detect, analyze and recognize faces
  • Develop applications that read and process text in images and documents
  • Creating intelligent search solutions for knowledge mining
Target Audience

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

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

  • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal
  • Knowledge of either C# or Python
  • Knowledge of JSON and REST programming semantics

To gain proficiency in C# or Python, you should take the free Take Your First Steps with C# or Take Your First Steps with Python study path before attending the course.

If you are new to artificial intelligence and want an overview of AI capabilities on Azure, consider completing the Azure AI Fundamentals certification before taking this one.

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Course Details

Module 1: Introduction to AI on Azure

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly at the core of modern apps and services.
In this module, you will learn about some common AI features that you can leverage in your apps and how these features are implemented in Microsoft Azure.
You will also learn about some considerations for designing and implementing AI solutions responsibly.

Lessons

  • Introduction to artificial intelligence
  • Artificial intelligence in Azure

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Describe considerations for creating AI-enabled applications
  • Identify Azure services for AI application development

Module 2: Developing AI apps with Cognitive Services

Cognitive Services are the key building blocks for integrating AI capabilities into your apps.
In this module, you will learn how to provision, secure, monitor, and deploy cognitive services.

Lessons

  • Getting started with Cognitive Services
  • Using cognitive services for business applications

Lab : Getting started with Cognitive Services

Lab : Managing security for Cognitive Services

Lab : Monitoring cognitive services

Lab : Using a Cognitive Services Container

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Providing and using cognitive services in Azure
  • Managing security for cognitive services
  • Monitoring cognitive services
  • Use a container for cognitive services

Module 3: Getting started with natural language processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with extracting insights from written or spoken language.
In this module you will learn how to use cognitive services to analyze and translate text.

Lessons

  • Analyze text
  • Translation of text

Lab : Analyze textLab : Translate text

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the cognitive service Text Analytics to analyze text
  • Use the Translator cognitive service to translate text

Module 4: Building applications with speech support

Many modern apps and services accept spoken input and can respond by synthesizing text.
In this module, you will continue to explore natural language processing capabilities by learning how to build speech-enabled applications.

Lessons

  • Speech recognition and speech synthesis
  • Translation of speech

Lab: Identifying and synthesizing numbers

Lab : Translate numbers

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the Speech cognitive service to recognize and synthesize speech
  • Use the Speech cognitive service to translate speech

Module 5: Creating solutions for language comprehension

To create an application that can intelligently understand and react to natural language input, you need to define and train a language understanding model.
In this module, you will learn how to use the Language Understanding service to create an app that can identify user intent from natural language input.

Lessons

  • Create a language comprehension app
  • Publish and use a language comprehension app
  • Using language comprehension with speech

Lab: Creating a language comprehension app

Laboration : Creating a client application for language understanding

Lab : Using speech and language understanding services

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Create a language comprehension app
  • Create a client application for Language Understanding
  • Integrating language comprehension and speech

Module 6: Building a QnA solution

One of the most common types of interaction between users and AI software agents is that the users submit questions in natural language and the AI agent responds intelligently with an appropriate answer.
In this module, you will explore how the QnA Maker service makes it possible to develop this type of solution.

Lessons

  • Creating a QnA knowledge base
  • Publish and use a QnA knowledge base

Lab: Creating a QnA solution

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use QnA Maker to create a knowledge base
  • Use a QnA knowledge base in an app or bot

Module 7: Conversational AI and Azure Bot Service

Bots are the basis for an increasingly common type of AI application where users engage in conversations with AI agents, often in the same way they would with a human agent.
In this module, you will explore the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Bot Service, which together form a platform for creating and delivering conversational experiences.

Lessons

  • Basics about robots
  • Implementation of a call robot

Lab: Create a bot with the Bot Framework SDK

Lab: Create a bot with Bot Framework Composer

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the Bot Framework SDK to create a bot
  • Use Bot Framework Composer to create a bot

Module 8: Getting started with computer vision

Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence where software applications interpret visual input from images or video.
In this module, you will begin to explore computer vision by learning how to use cognitive services to analyze images and video.

Lessons

  • Analyzing images
  • Analyzing videos

Lab: Analyzing images with computer vision

Lab: Analyzing video with video indexers

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the Computer Vision service to analyze images
  • Use Video Indexer to analyze videos

Module 9: Development of customized vision solutions

There are many scenarios where predefined general computer vision features can be useful, but sometimes you need to train a custom model with your own visual data.
In this module, you will explore the Custom Vision service and how to use it to create custom models for image classification and object detection.

Lessons

  • Classification of images
  • Object detection

Lab: Classifying images with Custom Vision

Lab : Detecting objects in images with Custom Vision

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the Custom Vision service to implement image classification
  • Use the Custom Vision service to implement object detection

Module 10: Detecting, analyzing and recognizing faces

Face detection, analysis and recognition are common scenarios in computer vision.
In this module, you will explore the use of cognitive services to identify human faces.

Lessons

  • Detection of faces using Computer Vision Service
  • Using the face-to-face service

Lab : Detecting, analyzing and recognizing faces

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Discover faces with the Computer Vision service
  • Detect, analyze and recognize faces with the Face service

Module 11: Reading text in images and documents

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is another common scenario for computer vision, where software extracts text from images or documents.
In this module, you will explore cognitive services that can be used to detect and read text in images, documents and forms.

Lessons

  • Reading text with Computer Vision Service
  • Extract information from forms with the Form Recognizer service

Lab : Reading text in imagesLab : Extracting data from forms

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use the Computer Vision service to read text in images and documents
  • Use the Form Recognizer service to extract data from digital forms

Module 12: Creating a knowledge acquisition solution

Ultimately, many AI scenarios are about intelligently searching for information based on users’ queries.
AI-powered knowledge mining is an increasingly important way to build intelligent search solutions that use AI to extract insights from large digital data repositories and enable users to find and analyze those insights.

Lessons

  • Implementing an intelligent search solution
  • Develop customized skills for an enriching pipeline
  • Create a knowledge store

Lab : Creating an Azure Cognitive Search solution

Lab : Create a custom skill for Azure Cognitive Search

Lab : Create a knowledge store with Azure Cognitive Search

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Create an intelligent search solution with Azure Cognitive Search
  • Implement a custom skill in an enrichment pipeline for Azure Cognitive Search
  • Use Azure Cognitive Search to create a knowledge store

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