Free Practice Questions for Microsoft AI-901 Exam

Use a provisioned deployment when the solution requires a specific allocated amount of throughput.

Microsoft states that provisioned throughput is a deployment type that lets you specify the amount of throughput required for a model deployment. Unlike standard deployments, where capacity is shared and throughput can vary, a provisioned deployment holds a fixed amount of processing capacity for the deployment.

Why the other options are incorrect:

A. global batch is for asynchronous batch processing, not dedicated real-time throughput allocation.

B. data zone standard and D. standard use shared capacity; they do not allocate a fixed, specified amount of throughput to the deployment.

The correct answer is A. transparency . In Microsoft’s Responsible AI framework, transparency requires that people can understand relevant aspects of how an AI system was created, how it operates, what information it relies upon, and why it produces particular outcomes. The current Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals study guide specifically includes “Describe considerations for transparency in an AI solution” under the responsible AI objectives.

Identifying and documenting the source of training data directly supports transparency because it establishes data provenance. Stakeholders can determine where the model’s knowledge originated, assess the appropriateness and limitations of the dataset, investigate potential biases, and better understand factors that may influence model behaviour. Microsoft also describes transparency as helping stakeholders understand how and why AI systems work , with interpretability and information about datasets and model characteristics contributing to trust and auditability.

Privacy and security concerns protecting data and controlling its use. Reliability and safety concerns predictable, robust operation. Fairness focuses on avoiding systematically unequal outcomes across groups. Merely disclosing where training data came from is therefore principally a transparency practice.

Study Guide Reference: Describe principles of responsible AI → Describe considerations for transparency in an AI solution.

To identify the main talking points in customer feedback surveys, use key phrase extraction. This feature identifies important words and phrases in text, which is useful for summarizing themes in feedback.

To send chat prompts to a deployed model, the application needs authentication credentials, the endpoint URL, and the model deployment name. Microsoft’s Foundry SDK guidance shows authentication with credentials, an endpoint, and the model= " model_deployment_name " value when calling a deployed model.

To ensure a vision-enabled model produces a relevant and useful response, the prompt should include a clear description of the task. For example, you should tell the model what to do with the image, such as describe it, identify objects, compare images, extract visible text, or answer a specific question about the visual content.

The other options are incorrect:

B. a dataset ID for the image is not needed in the prompt.

C. the version number of the model is deployment/configuration information, not prompt content.

D. the deployment name of the model is used in the API call to route the request, not inside the prompt.

Requiring human reviewers to oversee AI-generated hiring recommendations and remain responsible for the final hiring decisions is an example of the Microsoft responsible AI principle of accountability.

Accountability means people and organizations remain responsible for AI systems, their decisions, and their effects. In this scenario, the AI system assists with recommendations, but humans retain oversight and responsibility for the final decision.

The correct answer is Creating captions for a video recording. Speech recognition, also called speech-to-text, converts spoken audio into textual output. Microsoft explicitly defines Azure Speech-to-Text as speech recognition technology that transcribes audio streams or prerecorded audio into text.

Caption generation is a direct application of this capability. Microsoft describes captioning as converting the audio content of a video, film, webcast, or other production into text and displaying that text visually. Therefore, creating captions from the spoken content of a video is a canonical speech-recognition workload.

Creating an audio commentary is instead associated with speech synthesis or text-to-speech because the required output is spoken audio. Identifying key phrases in a video transcript is a text-analysis/NLP task performed after the speech has already been transcribed. A voice- activated security system may involve voice authentication, speaker recognition, or command recognition, but it is not as unambiguously a speech-to-text workload as caption generation.

The AI-901 Study Guide specifically requires candidates to distinguish the features and capabilities of speech recognition and speech synthesis.

When using the OpenAI Responses API and a vision-enabled model, you can include an image in a request by providing the image as a base64-encoded image data.

Azure OpenAI / Microsoft Foundry vision requests support image input as an input_image item. The image can be provided by URL or as base64-encoded image data in the request. Microsoft documentation for Azure OpenAI batch examples also lists Base64 encoded image and Image URL as supported input patterns for Responses API requests.

The other options are incorrect:

a CSV file attachment is not an image input format for vision analysis.

an MP4 video stream is video content, not an image format.

a shared access signature (SAS) token is only an access token for a protected resource; it is not the image data itself.

input=[

{

" role " : " user " ,

" content " : [

{ " type " : " input_text " , " text " : " What is in this image? Provide 3 bullet points. " },

{ " type " : " input_image " , " image_url " : image_url},

],

}

]

print(response.output_text)

For a multimodal request that sends both text and an image to an Azure OpenAI model, the input content array uses separate content item types. Text content is sent with type: " input_text " , and image content is sent with type: " input_image " . Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Responses API documentation shows the Responses API supports multimodal inputs and uses structured input content items in the request.

The options output_text and output_image are not used inside the user input content array. In the shown code, response.output_text is used after the response is returned to print the model’s text answer.