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AI-103 revision

AI-103 study guide — free revision notes

The complete Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate study library — 14 lessons mapped to every domain and topic in the official exam guide. Free to read, no account needed.

Lessons
14
across 5 domains
Reading time
5 hrs
279 minutes in total
Exam
50 Qs
120 min · pass 700 / 1000
Price
Free
no account required

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The AI-103 blueprint, domain by domain

Microsoft Azure publishes exactly what the AI-103 tests and how much each part is worth. Here it is — every domain, its weight, the topics inside it, and the lessons that cover them.

Domain 1

Plan and manage an Azure AI solution

28%
of the exam

Choosing Foundry models and services, setting up Foundry projects and deployments with CI/CD, managing quotas, monitoring and security, and implementing responsible AI controls across generative and agentic systems. Official weighting 25–30%.

4 topics in this domain
  • Choose the appropriate Foundry services for generative AI and agents
  • Set up AI solutions in Foundry
  • Manage, monitor, and secure AI systems
  • Implement responsible AI across generative AI and agentic systems
4 lessons · 78 min of reading · 156 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 2

Implement generative AI and agentic solutions

33%
of the exam

Building generative applications and agents with Microsoft Foundry: model deployment, RAG, tool-augmented and multi-agent workflows, evaluation, prompt and parameter tuning, and observability. Official weighting 30–35%.

3 topics in this domain
  • Build generative applications by using Foundry
  • Build agents by using Foundry
  • Optimize and operationalize generative AI systems
3 lessons · 68 min of reading · 186 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 3

Implement computer vision solutions

13%
of the exam

Image and video generation and editing, multimodal understanding with Azure Content Understanding, and responsible AI for visual content. Official weighting 10–15%.

3 topics in this domain
  • Design and implement image- and video-generation solutions
  • Design and implement multimodal understanding workflows
  • Implement responsible AI for multimodal content
3 lessons · 55 min of reading · 72 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 4

Implement text analysis solutions

13%
of the exam

Language-model text analysis (entities, summaries, structured JSON, sentiment, translation) and speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech translation for agents. Official weighting 10–15%.

2 topics in this domain
  • Apply language model text analysis
  • Implement speech solutions
2 lessons · 38 min of reading · 72 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 5

Implement information extraction solutions

13%
of the exam

Retrieval and grounding pipelines (ingestion, semantic/hybrid/vector search, enrichment, OCR) and document extraction with Content Understanding. Official weighting 10–15%.

2 topics in this domain
  • Build retrieval and grounding pipelines
  • Extract content from documents
2 lessons · 40 min of reading · 72 practice questionsStart this domain

How to revise for the AI-103

Reading every note front to back is the slowest way to pass. The exam is weighted, so your revision should be too — the blueprint above tells you exactly where the marks are.

Read in weight order, not page order

Implement generative AI and agentic solutions carries the most marks on the AI-103, so it earns the most of your attention. Work down the blueprint from the heaviest domain to the lightest rather than starting at domain 1 and grinding forward.

First pass for coverage, second pass for recall

Read each lesson once without stopping to memorise — you are building a map, not a memory. On the second pass, read only the "what's tested" and key-takeaway blocks. If a takeaway surprises you, that lesson goes back on the pile.

Turn takeaways into questions

Cover a lesson's key takeaways and try to say them out loud from the heading alone. Recall you can produce under your own steam is the only recall that survives a timed exam; recognition on a re-read is not the same thing.

Stop reading when practice, not the page count, says so

Finishing the notes is not the goal — scoring is. Move to AI-103 practice questions early, then come back to the exact lessons your wrong answers point at. That loop is worth far more than a third read-through.

Beyond the AI-103 notes

AI-103 cheat sheetEvery key takeaway from these notes on one page, grouped by domain. For the week of the exam.AI-103 flashcardsThe same key facts one at a time, answer hidden until you commit — recall practice rather than re-reading.AI-103 practice questions558 exam-realistic questions with an explanation on every option. Reading is not the same as knowing.AI-103 mock exams50 questions in 120 minutes, scored like the real thing. Sit one before you book.Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103) exam overviewExam facts, who it is for, cost and how it fits alongside the other certifications.

AI-103 revision notes: your questions

Yes. All 14 AI-103 lessons are readable in full without an account and without payment. Creating a free account adds progress tracking, bookmarks and a readiness score — it does not unlock extra reading.

Source

Exam structure, domain weights and scoring on this page come from the official AI-103 exam guide.