AI-102 Flashcards — Free Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102 Study Cards

Use a SequentialPlanner with a stepwise strategy and explicit function parameter constraints

Option A is correct because the SequentialPlanner in Microsoft Semantic Kernel, when configured with a stepwise strategy, evaluates potential steps one at a time and only includes a call to an external API if it is required to satisfy the goal. Explicit function parameter constraints help the planner understand the exact inputs needed, reducing unnecessary exploration and token usage. Options B, C, and D either rely on manual invocation, parallel execution, or automatic invocation without decision-making, which either increases token consumption or does not allow the agent to autonomously decide when to call the API.

The training data does not adequately represent peak-hour scenarios.

The model consistently underestimates customer counts during peak hours, which indicates a distribution shift between the training data and the inference environment. Even after retraining with more data, the issue persists because the additional data likely still lacks sufficient representation of peak-hour scenarios (e.g., high density, occlusion, rapid movement). In Azure Custom Vision, object detection models learn from labeled examples; if the training set does not include diverse peak-hour images with varied lighting, crowd densities, and angles, the model will fail to generalize to those conditions.

Azure AI Document Intelligence

Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer) is the correct choice because it is specifically designed for document analysis and extraction of structured data such as parties, dates, and monetary amounts from PDFs and images. Its prebuilt models (e.g., the 'prebuilt-invoice' or 'prebuilt-contract' model) use optical character recognition (OCR) and deep learning to extract key-value pairs and entities from contracts without requiring custom training.

Retrain the custom object detection model with images of the new products.

The model fails to detect new products because it was never trained on them. Retraining the custom object detection model with labeled images of the new products is the correct first step, as it updates the model's knowledge to recognize the new product line. Pre-built models or threshold adjustments cannot add new object classes.

Add synonyms and phrase list to the custom question answering project.

Option D is correct because adding synonyms and phrase lists to a custom question answering project directly improves the mapping of user utterances to intents by normalizing variations in phrasing. This configuration allows the project to recognize equivalent terms (e.g., 'cost' and 'price') as the same intent, ensuring accurate intent mapping without requiring exact matches.

Use a system message with brand guidelines and apply content filtering.

Option A is correct because using a system message allows you to embed brand guidelines directly into the conversation context, instructing the model on tone, style, and prohibited content. Azure OpenAI's content filtering provides an additional safety layer by automatically detecting and blocking harmful or policy-violating outputs, ensuring compliance with both brand and regulatory requirements.

Use a conversational agent framework like AutoGen with a tool that executes SQL queries, and maintain conversation state.

Option D is correct because AutoGen is a conversational agent framework designed for multi-turn, stateful interactions. It can maintain conversation context across turns and integrate a tool to execute SQL queries, which directly meets the requirement for complex multi-turn conversations with context retention. The other options either lack state management or rely on stateless prompt engineering, which is insufficient for maintaining context in a multi-turn agent.

Key Phrase Extraction skill

The Key Phrase Extraction skill is the correct choice because it is specifically designed to identify and extract the most important phrases from text, which directly supports the requirement to extract key phrases from documents. Azure AI Search's built-in Key Phrase Extraction skill leverages natural language processing to analyze text and return a list of key phrases, making it the appropriate skill for this knowledge mining solution.

Create an Azure AI services resource in a specific EU region and set the data residency option to 'EU'.

Option D is correct because Azure AI services allow you to specify a data residency option when creating the resource in a specific EU region, ensuring that all customer data remains within the European Union as required by GDPR. This configuration explicitly restricts data processing and storage to the chosen geographic boundary, meeting compliance and residency mandates.

Configure a human review team using the Review tool to manually inspect flagged content.

Option C is correct because Azure Content Moderator is designed to work with human review teams via the Review tool to handle edge cases where automated detection fails. By configuring a human review team, flagged images can be manually inspected to catch subtle adult content that the machine learning model misses, without lowering thresholds that would increase false positives. This approach leverages human judgment to improve detection accuracy while maintaining the existing automated moderation settings.