Artificial Intelligence, or AI, and the Machine Learning that drives it, is one of the most exciting new frontiers of technology being presented in the Cloud today. Microsoft's AI-100 is a certification path and exam that covers the Azure AI services and products available.

The Certification, as described by Microsoft:

Candidates for this exam analyze the requirements for AI solutions, recommend appropriate tools and technologies, and implements solutions that meet scalability and performance requirements.

Candidates translate the vision from solution architects and work with data scientists, data engineers, IoT specialists, and AI developers to build complete end-to-end solutions. Candidates design and implement AI apps and agents that use Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Service. Candidates can recommend solutions that use open source technologies.

Candidates understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio and the available data storage options.

Candidates implement AI solutions that use Cognitive Services, Azure bots, Azure Search, and data storage in Azure. Candidates understand when a custom API should be developed to meet specific requirements.

The fourth course on the AI-100 covers implementation concepts, monitoring and continuous improvement of an AI design.