AI-102 Implement computer vision solutions — Timed 20 Questions

Question 1

You are designing a computer vision solution that must detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) from images of ID cards. The solution must comply with GDPR. Which THREE components should you include? (Select three.)

20 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Azure AI Document Intelligence redaction. Correct options: A, C, D. Azure AI Vision OCR (C) extracts text from ID card images. Azure AI Language PII detection (D) identifies PII entities in the extracted text. Azure AI Document Intelligence redaction (A) can redact the identified PII from the document. Option B (Azure AI Custom Vision) is used for custom image classification, not for text-based PII detection. Option E (Azure AI Video Indexer) is for analyzing video content, not static ID cards.

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Azure AI Custom Vision

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Azure AI Video Indexer

Question 2

You need to analyze a video stream from a security camera to count the number of people entering a building. Which Azure AI service is most suitable?

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Azure AI Spatial Analysis. Azure AI Spatial Analysis is the most suitable service because it is purpose-built for real-time spatial analysis of video streams, including counting people entering a building. It can process live camera feeds and detect when people cross a line or enter a zone, providing real-time counts. In contrast, Azure AI Video Indexer is designed for analyzing recorded video files, not live streams, making it less suitable for real-time security camera analysis. Other options like Custom Vision and Computer Vision are for image classification and image analysis, respectively, not optimized for video streams.

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Azure AI Custom Vision

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Azure AI Computer Vision

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Azure AI Video Indexer

Question 3

Your retail company uses Azure AI Face API to identify VIP customers when they enter a store. Due to privacy regulations, you must obtain explicit consent and store minimal biometric data. Which approach meets these requirements?

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Create a PersonGroup with each VIP customer, and use the Identify operation.. The Face API's PersonGroup and Identify operation allow you to create a group of VIP customers with minimal biometric data: each person is represented by a unique person ID derived from their face features, not the actual image. This complies with privacy regulations requiring minimal data storage. Option A is wrong because training a Custom Vision model requires storing and processing images, which retains excessive biometric data. Option B is wrong because Face ID is a temporary identifier that expires after 24 hours, making it unsuitable for long-term VIP identification. Option C is wrong because storing face images in Blob Storage retains the actual image, violating the requirement to minimize biometric data.

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Train a Custom Vision model with images of VIP customers.

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Use the Face API's Face ID returned upon detection and store it in a database.

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Store the customer's face image in Azure Blob Storage and compare using the Face API.

Question 4

Refer to the exhibit. You are configuring an Azure AI Video Indexer job. The exhibit shows a JSON snippet of the job configuration. What will Video Indexer extract from the video?

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OCR text, detected faces, and visual labels. The JSON snippet configures an Azure Video Indexer job with the 'features' array set to include 'ocr', 'faces', and 'labels'. This instructs Video Indexer to extract OCR text (from on-screen text), detected faces (via facial detection and recognition), and visual labels (objects, scenes, and actions). These are the only features specified, so the output will contain exactly those three types of insights.

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Sentiment analysis of spoken content

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Audio transcript and speaker diarization

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Keyframe extraction only

Question 5

Refer to the exhibit. You are configuring the Azure AI Vision Analyze Image API. You need to ensure that the response includes a list of detected objects and brands. Which parameter is missing from the request?

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Add 'model-version' with value '2023-10-01' to specify a stable version.. The Analyze Image API requires a stable model version to reliably return detected objects and brands. Without specifying 'model-version' with a value like '2023-10-01', the API may use a preview or default version that does not support brand detection or may return inconsistent results. Adding this parameter ensures the response includes the 'objects' and 'brands' visual features as expected.

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Add 'smartcrops' to visualFeatures.

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Add 'gender-neutral-caption' parameter set to true.

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Remove 'Language' parameter because it is not supported.

Question 6

A retail company uses Azure AI Vision to analyze in-store video feeds. They want to detect when employees are not wearing required safety vests. The solution must send real-time alerts to store managers. Video feeds are captured from existing CCTV cameras. Which approach should you recommend?

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Train a Custom Vision classification model and deploy it to the edge on CCTV cameras. To detect objects in real-time from live CCTV feeds, the model must run at the edge with low latency. Custom Vision supports object detection models that can be exported to run on edge devices such as cameras or IoT devices. This enables real-time inference without sending video to the cloud. Azure AI Video Indexer is designed for post-processing indexed videos, not live real-time detection. Azure AI Vision Image Analysis works on single images, not live video streams.

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Use Azure AI Vision Image Analysis with a custom model to analyze each frame offline

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Use Azure AI Video Indexer with a custom object detection model to detect vests in video frames

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Use Azure Video Analyzer for Media to index videos and detect vests after recording

Question 7

A museum wants to create an interactive exhibit where visitors take a photo of a painting and the app provides information about the artist and historical period. The solution must use a pre-built AI service and be deployed on Azure. Which approach should you recommend?

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Use Azure AI Vision Image Analysis to generate captions for the paintings. Azure AI Vision Image Analysis is a pre-built AI service that can analyze images and return tags, captions, and descriptions. For famous paintings, it may recognize the artist and period from pre-trained models. Option B requires custom training, which is not pre-built. Option C is for video, and D for documents. Therefore, A is the recommended approach.

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Train a Custom Vision classifier with images of paintings labeled by artist and period

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Use Azure AI Video Indexer to analyze the painting image

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Use Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract text from the painting

Question 8

A logistics company uses Azure AI Vision to analyze images of packages on conveyor belts. They need to detect damaged packages and read tracking numbers. The solution must process high throughput (1000 images per minute) with low latency (<500ms per image). The images are captured by fixed cameras. Which approach should you recommend?

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Use Azure AI Vision OCR Read API for tracking numbers and a separate Custom Vision model for damage detection. It combines Azure AI Vision OCR Read API (for text extraction) with a separate Custom Vision model (for damage detection). This leverages the specialized strengths of each service: the OCR Read API is optimized for text reading with high accuracy, while Custom Vision excels at object detection. The latency requirement (<500ms per image) can be met through parallel processing or edge deployment, and throughput can be achieved by scaling API calls. Option B is incorrect because Custom Vision does not include built-in OCR capability; it cannot read tracking numbers. Options A and C are less suitable: Document Intelligence is designed for structured documents, not real-time package analysis, and Video Indexer is for video streams, not still images.

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Use Azure AI Document Intelligence to process package labels

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Train a single Custom Vision model that detects damage and reads tracking numbers using OCR

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Use Azure AI Video Indexer to analyze the video stream from cameras

Question 9

A retail company uses Azure Computer Vision to analyze customer traffic in stores. They deploy a custom object detection model to count customers and detect occupancy. After deployment, the model consistently underestimates the number of customers during peak hours. The company has retrained the model with more data but the issue persists. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

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.

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The model is not being batch-processed for inference.

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The model is overfitting to the training data.

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The Computer Vision API version is outdated.

Question 10

A hospital uses Azure Custom Vision to classify X-ray images as normal or abnormal. The model achieves 98% accuracy on the test set. However, during deployment, the model misclassifies many abnormal cases as normal, causing missed diagnoses. The hospital has a class imbalance where abnormal cases are only 5% of the data. What should the data scientist do first to address this?

Accepted Answer

Use oversampling or class-weight techniques to balance the training.. The primary issue is class imbalance, where abnormal cases constitute only 5% of the data. Oversampling (e.g., SMOTE) or class-weight techniques adjust the training process to give more importance to the minority class, directly addressing the model's bias toward the majority class and reducing false negatives. This is a standard preprocessing step in Custom Vision and other ML frameworks before tuning hyperparameters or changing algorithms.

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Increase the number of training epochs.

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Add more normal X-ray images to the dataset.

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Switch to a different object detection algorithm.

Question 11

A company uses Azure Face API to verify employee identities for building access. They need to ensure that only live faces are used, not photos or videos. Which feature should they enable?

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Enable liveness detection using session-based verification.. Azure Face API's liveness detection with session-based verification is specifically designed to prevent spoofing attacks using photos, videos, or masks. It analyzes subtle cues such as micro-movements, texture, and depth to confirm the presence of a live person, ensuring that only live faces are accepted for identity verification.

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Set a high confidence threshold for face matching.

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Face identification with a large person group.

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Face detection with attributes such as age and emotion.

Question 12

A developer is building an application to extract text from scanned invoices using Azure Computer Vision's Read API. The invoices contain a mix of printed and handwritten text. The developer needs to ensure the highest accuracy for both types. Which parameter should they set in the API call?

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No special parameter; the Read API automatically handles both.. The Read API in Azure Computer Vision is designed to extract text from images and documents, and it automatically handles both printed and handwritten text without requiring any special parameter. Setting the 'language' parameter to 'en' is optional and only improves accuracy for language-specific text, but it does not enable or disable handwriting recognition. Therefore, no additional parameter is needed to achieve the highest accuracy for both types.

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Set the 'language' parameter to 'en' for English handwriting.

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Specify the 'model-version' as '2022-04-30'

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Use the 'mode' parameter set to 'Handwriting'

Question 13

A company uses Azure Custom Vision to build a classifier for defect detection on a manufacturing line. They have labeled images of products with and without defects. Which TWO actions should they take to improve model performance?

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Use images with balanced numbers of defect and non-defect samples.. Balanced datasets prevent the model from becoming biased toward the majority class (e.g., non-defect images), which is critical for defect detection where defects are rare. Azure Custom Vision uses a weighted loss function during training, and class imbalance can cause the model to predict the majority class for most inputs, reducing recall for defects. Balanced samples ensure the model learns discriminative features for both classes equally.

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Train for more iterations without validation.

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Set the learning rate manually using the Custom Vision API.

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Reduce the number of images per tag to avoid overfitting.

Question 14

You are a data scientist at a healthcare startup. You have deployed a custom object detection model using Azure Custom Vision to detect tumors in MRI scans. The model was trained on 10,000 labeled scans from a single hospital. After deployment, the model performs well on scans from that hospital but poorly on scans from a different hospital with a different MRI machine. The new hospital's scans have slightly different contrast and resolution. The model's precision drops from 0.92 to 0.65, and recall drops from 0.88 to 0.50. You have access to 500 labeled scans from the new hospital. You need to improve the model's performance on the new hospital's data as quickly as possible with minimal effort. What should you do?

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Use the existing model as a starting point and retrain it with the 500 labeled scans from the new hospital.. Azure Custom Vision supports transfer learning, allowing you to take an existing trained model and retrain it with new labeled data. By using the 500 labeled scans from the new hospital as a training set, you can fine-tune the model to adapt to the different contrast and resolution characteristics without starting from scratch. This approach is the fastest and requires minimal effort, leveraging the previously learned features while incorporating domain-specific adjustments.

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Collect more labeled scans from the new hospital and train a new model from scratch.

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Create a new Custom Vision project and train only on the 500 new scans.

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Apply image preprocessing to normalize the new hospital's scans to match the old hospital's style, then use the existing model.

Question 15

A retail company uses Azure Computer Vision to analyze customer traffic in stores. They process images from security cameras using the OCR API to detect product labels. Recently, the OCR accuracy has decreased for images with poor lighting. Which pre-processing step should the company implement to improve OCR accuracy?

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Adjust brightness and contrast of images using image processing.. Poor lighting directly reduces the contrast between text and background, which is critical for OCR accuracy. Adjusting brightness and contrast improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the text regions, making character edges more distinct for the Azure Computer Vision OCR engine. This pre-processing step compensates for the lighting deficiency without altering the fundamental image content that the API relies on.

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Convert images to grayscale before sending to OCR API.

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Increase the image resolution before calling OCR API.

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Reduce image size to decrease noise.

Question 16

Which THREE actions can be performed using the Azure Custom Vision service?

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Export a trained model to ONNX format for offline inference.. Azure Custom Vision allows you to export trained models to ONNX format for offline inference. This enables running the model on edge devices or in environments without continuous internet connectivity, leveraging the ONNX runtime for efficient deployment.

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Extract text from scanned receipts.

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Identify specific individuals in a crowd using facial recognition.

Question 17

Refer to the exhibit. An Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision API call for image captioning is returning only one caption. The developer wants to get three possible captions ranked by confidence. Which parameter should be modified in the request?

Accepted Answer

Set the maxCandidates value to 3.. The `maxCandidates` parameter in the Computer Vision Image Analysis API controls the maximum number of captions returned in the response. By default, this value is 1, so only the top-ranked caption is returned. Setting `maxCandidates=3` instructs the API to return up to three captions, each with its own confidence score, ranked from highest to lowest confidence.

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Use a different API version, such as 2023-04-01.

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Modify the URL to point to a different image.

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Change the language parameter to 'multi'.

Question 18

You are building an application that processes scanned invoices to extract key fields such as total amount, invoice date, and vendor name. The application uses Azure AI Document Intelligence. You need to ensure high accuracy for field extraction without manual labeling. Which feature should you use?

Accepted Answer

Use the General Document model. The General Document model in Azure AI Document Intelligence can extract common fields like total amount, invoice date, and vendor name from invoices without requiring any labeled training data. While a custom neural model would offer higher accuracy, it requires manual labeling of sample documents, which contradicts the requirement of no manual labeling. Therefore, the General Document model is the appropriate choice.

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Use the Read API

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Use a custom neural model

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Use the Layout API

Question 19

A retail company uses Azure AI Vision to analyze store shelf images for product availability. The solution uses an object detection model trained on custom products. Recently, the model's performance dropped significantly due to new packaging designs. You need to improve the model's accuracy with minimal manual effort. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Use Azure AI Vision model customization with active learning. Azure AI Vision model customization with active learning is the correct choice because it allows the model to automatically identify images where it is uncertain (low confidence predictions) and prioritize those for labeling and retraining. This minimizes manual effort while directly addressing the performance drop caused by new packaging designs, as the model iteratively improves on the specific data distribution shift without requiring a full retraining from scratch.

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Adjust the confidence score threshold to reduce false negatives

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Use the Image Analysis 4.0 dense captioning feature

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Collect a new set of images and retrain the model from scratch

Question 20

A healthcare organization uses Azure AI Health Insights to extract medical insights from unstructured clinical notes. The solution must comply with HIPAA. Which configuration is required?

Accepted Answer

Configure the Azure AI services resource to use a private endpoint and disable public network access. HIPAA compliance for Azure AI Health Insights requires network isolation to prevent unauthorized access to protected health information (PHI). A private endpoint assigns the Azure AI services resource a private IP address within the customer's virtual network, and disabling public network access ensures all traffic stays within the Microsoft backbone, eliminating exposure to the public internet. This configuration meets the HIPAA Security Rule's requirement for technical safeguards, specifically access control and transmission security.

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Store the clinical notes in Azure Storage with Azure AD authentication only

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Enable public network access but use a firewall rule to restrict IP addresses

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Use a system-assigned managed identity for authentication