Study Azure AI-900 Generative AI: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter covers the most recent part of the blueprint and also the most likely source of overthinking. AI-900 does not expect advanced prompt engineering or agent design. It expects you to understand when generative AI is the right workload, why grounding matters, and what Microsoft’s Azure generative-AI platform surfaces do at a high level.
Microsoft currently weights this skill area at 20-25% of the exam.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 5.1 Generative AI Scenarios, Grounding and Responsible Use | Learn when the problem is truly generative and how grounding changes answer quality. |
| 5.2 Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and Model Catalog Basics | Learn the Azure generative-AI platform boundaries AI-900 expects. |
| If the question is really about… | Go first to… |
|---|---|
| deciding whether generation is appropriate | 5.1 Generative AI Scenarios, Grounding and Responsible Use |
| choosing the Azure generative-AI platform surface | 5.2 Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and Model Catalog Basics |