Develop AI Solutions in Microsoft Azure

Course Overview:

Design and build intelligent AI apps and agents on Azure that reason over text, images, and documents.

This course is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Microsoft Foundry. Topics in this course include developing generative AI apps, building AI agents, and solutions that implement knowledge connections or tools in your agentic applications. This course also covers multimodal capabilities and understanding of complex content.

Target Audience:

This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Microsoft Foundry.

Course Objectives:

 By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:

• Develop generative AI applications using Microsoft Foundry on Azure.
• Design and implement AI agents capable of task execution and orchestration.
• Integrate external tools and knowledge sources into agent-based solutions.
• Apply multimodal AI techniques to process diverse data types.
• Build natural language processing solutions for conversational and text-based scenarios.
• Extract, analyse, and reason over visual and complex content.
• Design scalable, production-ready AI systems using Azure services.

Course Content:

Module 1: Introduction to AI applications and agents on Azure

       Overview of AI application architectures

       Introduction to generative AI concepts

       Understanding agent-based systems and their role in modern AI

       Overview of Microsoft Foundry capabilities

       Azure services for AI development

Module 2: Developing generative AI applications

       Working with foundation models

       Prompt engineering techniques

       Designing application workflows with generative AI

       Managing inputs, outputs, and context

       Evaluating and refining model responses

Module 3: Building AI agents on Azure

       Agent architecture and design patterns

       Task planning and execution

       Managing agent state and memory

       Event-driven and autonomous agent behaviours

       Debugging and monitoring agent performance

Module 4: Integrating tools and knowledge into agentic solutions

       Tool integration patterns for agents

       Connecting agents to APIs and external services

       Knowledge grounding and retrieval techniques

       Implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

       Managing data sources and context injection

Module 5: Developing natural language AI solutions

       Natural language processing fundamentals

       Conversational AI design

       Text analysis and classification

       Language generation and summarisation

       Building chat-based interfaces

Module 6: Multimodal AI and complex content understanding

       Working with image and text inputs

       Multimodal model capabilities

       Extracting insights from visual data

       Combining modalities in a single workflow

       Handling complex and unstructured content

Module 7: Building scalable AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry

       Application deployment strategies on Azure

       Scaling AI workloads

       Performance optimisation

       Monitoring and logging

       Security and responsible AI considerations

Module 8: Designing production-ready AI systems

       End-to-end solution design

       Architectural best practices

       Managing lifecycle and updates

       Testing and validation strategies

Real-world use case scenarios

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students must be familiar with Python and have knowledge on using APIs and SDKs to build agents and generative AI solutions on Azure.

Certification / Exam:

This course leads to the exam AI-103: Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure

Further Information:

 For more information or to book this course, please contact our Course Enquiries Team on 0117 370 1970 or send us an email us at enquiries@skilltec.co.uk

This training course provided by Skilltec is accredited through Global Knowledge Training Ltd. Global Knowledge Training Ltd are the authorised learning partner; all trademarks and partner statuses are provided through them.

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