AI-102 Plan and manage an Azure AI solution Practice Test 9 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Your team is building an AI-powered search application using Azure AI Search with semantic ranking. During testing, the search results are not showing the expected relevance improvements. What should you check first?

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Confirm that the search service is at least Standard S1 and semantic ranking is enabled. Semantic ranking in Azure AI Search requires a service tier of at least Standard S1 (or higher) and the feature must be explicitly enabled on the index. Without meeting these prerequisites, the search results will not benefit from semantic reranking, regardless of other configurations. Therefore, confirming the service tier and semantic ranking enablement is the first and most critical check.

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Verify that CORS is enabled for your application

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Check that your index has an RBAC role assignment for semantic search

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Ensure the search service is on the Free tier

Question 2

You are responsible for managing costs for multiple Azure AI services in your organization. You notice that provisioned throughput units (PTUs) for Azure OpenAI are not fully utilized. What is the most cost-effective action to optimize spending?

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Reduce the number of provisioned PTUs or switch to pay-as-you-go. Option D is correct because provisioned throughput units (PTUs) represent a fixed capacity commitment. If PTUs are underutilized, the most cost-effective action is to reduce the number of PTUs or switch to the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model, which charges only for tokens consumed. This directly aligns with cost optimization by eliminating the fixed cost of unused capacity.

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Configure auto-scaling to reduce PTUs during low usage

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Move the resource to a different region with lower pricing

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Stop the Azure OpenAI service when not in use

Question 3

You are using Azure AI Content Safety to moderate user-generated content in a social media app. The solution must detect and block hate speech and self-harm content in real time. Which Content Safety feature should you use?

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Text moderation. Text moderation is the correct choice because Azure AI Content Safety's text moderation API is specifically designed to detect and block hate speech and self-harm content in real time. It analyzes text for severity levels across multiple categories, including hate and self-harm, and returns a severity score to trigger blocking actions. This directly meets the requirement for real-time detection of these specific content types in user-generated text.

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Custom category management

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Severity analysis

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Image moderation

Question 4

A company is deploying a solution using Azure AI Vision to analyze images of products on a retail website. They need to ensure that the image analysis is performed within a specific geographic boundary for data residency compliance. What should they configure?

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Deploy the Azure AI Vision resource in the desired Azure region. Azure AI Vision resources are regional Azure resources, meaning all data processing and storage occur within the Azure region where the resource is deployed. By deploying the resource in the desired geographic region, you ensure that image analysis and any derived data remain within that boundary, satisfying data residency compliance requirements. This is the fundamental mechanism for controlling data location in Azure AI services.

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Create a private endpoint for the Vision resource

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Enable multi-region replication on the Vision resource

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Use the Free tier of Azure AI Vision

Question 5

You are developing a bot using Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure AI Language. The bot must handle user intents that change mid-conversation. Which feature should you implement?

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Adaptive dialogs. Adaptive dialogs are designed for dynamic, event-driven conversations where user intents can change mid-conversation. They use a trigger-based model (e.g., onIntent, onTurn) that allows the bot to react to new intents at any point, unlike linear dialog models. This makes them ideal for handling mid-conversation intent shifts without requiring predefined dialog flows.

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Prompt dialogs

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Waterfall dialogs

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QnA Maker knowledge base

Question 6

Your organization needs to monitor Azure AI services for unusual activity patterns that might indicate a security threat. Which Microsoft security solution should you use?

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Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration Automated Response (SOAR) solution. It is specifically designed to ingest logs from Azure AI services, apply analytics to detect unusual activity patterns, and generate alerts for potential security threats, making it the correct choice for monitoring AI services for security anomalies.

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Microsoft Intune

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Microsoft Defender XDR

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Microsoft Purview

Question 7

Which TWO actions are recommended to secure an Azure AI Language resource?

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Use managed identities for authentication from Azure services. Managed identities allow Azure AI Language resources to authenticate to other Azure services (like Azure Storage or Azure Key Vault) without storing credentials in code or configuration. This eliminates the risk of access key leakage and aligns with the principle of least privilege, as the identity is tied to the resource lifecycle and can be granted granular RBAC permissions.

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Enable local authentication with access keys

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Allow all Azure services through the firewall

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Enable anonymous access for public APIs

Question 8

You are designing a solution that uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract data from invoices. The solution must handle high throughput and process documents in batch. Which TWO configuration options should you use?

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Provision a standard (S0) tier Document Intelligence resource. The standard (S0) tier is required for production-grade throughput because it offers higher transactions per second (TPS) and better scalability compared to the free (F0) tier. For batch processing of invoices, the async document analysis API is the correct choice because it supports submitting multiple documents in a single call and returns results via a polling mechanism, which is designed for high-volume scenarios.

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Use the synchronous API for each invoice

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Train a custom model for invoice extraction

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Store output directly in Azure Blob Storage without API calls

Question 9

A company is planning to use Azure AI services. They require the ability to audit all API calls for compliance. Which THREE components should they enable?

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Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor is correct because it provides a centralized platform for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry data from Azure resources, including API call logs. By enabling diagnostic settings for the AI service, you can route audit logs (such as all REST API requests and responses) to Azure Monitor, which then integrates with Log Analytics for querying and alerting. This triad—Azure Monitor, Log Analytics workspace, and diagnostic settings—forms the complete pipeline required to audit all API calls for compliance.

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Azure RBAC roles for the service

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Managed identity for the service

Question 10

You see the exhibit in an Azure AI Search skillset definition. The custom skill is not executing as expected. What is the most likely cause?

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The skill is missing the 'uri' property to specify the endpoint. The custom skill is not executing because the 'uri' property, which specifies the endpoint URL for the web API, is missing from the skill definition. Azure AI Search requires this property to route requests to the external service; without it, the skill cannot be invoked and will fail silently or return errors.

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The input source path is incorrect

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The JSON is malformed and will not parse

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The type should be 'Microsoft.Skills.Custom.WebApiSkill' with dots

Question 11

You see the exhibit representing an Azure Bot resource configuration. The bot is not responding to user messages. What should you verify first?

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Check that the endpoint URL is correct and the web app is running. The most common reason a bot fails to respond to user messages is that the endpoint URL configured in the Azure Bot resource does not match the actual URL of the running web app, or the web app itself is stopped or unresponsive. Without a correct and reachable endpoint, the Bot Framework Service cannot forward messages to the bot's message handler, causing a complete communication breakdown.

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Ensure that LUIS app IDs are provided

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Verify that the Application Insights key is valid

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Confirm that the msaAppId is a valid GUID

Question 12

You see the exhibit from an Azure OpenAI chat completion request. The assistant is not calling the get_weather function when asked about the weather. What is the most likely reason?

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The function is defined in the system message but not in the 'tools' array. Option D is correct because the function definition must be included in the 'tools' array of the request, not in the system message. The system message can describe functions, but the actual definition must be in the 'tools' parameter. Option A is wrong because function calling is supported. Option B is wrong because there is a required parameter. Option C is wrong because the definition looks correct.

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The required parameter 'location' is missing from the user message

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Function calling is not supported in the current Azure OpenAI version

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The function definition is malformed

Question 13

You are deploying an Azure AI Language service custom text classification model. After training, the model achieves 95% accuracy on the test set but only 60% on a held-out validation set. What is the most likely cause?

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Overfitting to the training data. A 95% accuracy on the test set but only 60% on a held-out validation set is a classic sign of overfitting. The model has memorized patterns specific to the training and test sets (which may share distribution or preprocessing artifacts) but fails to generalize to unseen data. In Azure AI Language custom text classification, overfitting often occurs when the model is too complex relative to the amount of training data or when hyperparameters like learning rate or number of epochs are not tuned properly.

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Data leakage between training and test sets

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Insufficient training data

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Label imbalance in the training data

Question 14

You need to implement content moderation for a social media platform using Azure AI Content Safety. The solution must block hate speech and self-harm content while allowing mild profanity. Which configuration should you use?

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Enable hate speech and self-harm with severity threshold 4; enable profanity with severity threshold 6. Option D is correct because Azure AI Content Safety allows you to set severity thresholds per category (0-6). By enabling hate speech and self-harm with a threshold of 4, you block content at severity level 4 or higher (e.g., severe hate speech and self-harm), while enabling profanity with a threshold of 6 means only the most extreme profanity (level 6) is blocked, allowing mild profanity through. This matches the requirement to block hate speech and self-harm but allow mild profanity.

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Enable all categories with severity threshold 0 (block all)

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Enable all categories with severity threshold 2

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Enable hate speech and self-harm categories; disable profanity

Question 15

Your Azure AI Search index stores customer support tickets. You need to implement a search feature that returns semantically similar results even if the query uses different wording. Which configuration should you enable?

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Enable semantic search and configure a semantic configuration. Semantic search in Azure AI Search uses deep neural networks to understand the intent and context of a query, returning results that are semantically similar even when the wording differs. By enabling semantic search and configuring a semantic configuration, you define which fields are used for summarization and ranking, which directly addresses the requirement for meaning-based matching rather than keyword matching.

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Use simple query parsing with searchMode=any

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Add a synonym map with custom entries

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Enable fuzzy search on the index