AI-900 Practice Test 9 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A building management company develops an AI system that uses temperature and humidity sensors to automatically adjust the HVAC system. They want to ensure that the system does not inadvertently cause uncomfortable temperature swings for occupants. Which Microsoft responsible AI principle is most directly relevant to this requirement?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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Reliability and safety. The requirement to avoid uncomfortable temperature swings directly relates to the system's ability to operate reliably and safely under expected conditions. Microsoft's Reliability and safety principle ensures that AI systems perform consistently, fail gracefully, and do not cause physical harm or discomfort to users. In this HVAC scenario, the AI must be robust to sensor noise and environmental changes to maintain stable temperature control.

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Fairness

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Transparency

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Privacy and security

Question 2

A hospital collects patient feedback forms in text format. They want to automatically identify whether each feedback is positive, negative, or neutral, and also extract specific recurring phrases like 'waiting time' and 'staff attitude'. Which Azure AI Language feature should they use to determine the overall tone of the feedback?

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C) Sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is the correct Azure AI Language feature because it is specifically designed to determine the overall tone (positive, negative, or neutral) of text. The question asks for identifying the tone of feedback, which is exactly what sentiment analysis provides by scoring each document and its sentences for sentiment polarity.

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A) Key phrase extraction

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B) Entity recognition

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D) Language detection

Question 3

What is 'AI democratisation' and how do Azure AI services support it?

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Making AI capabilities accessible to all organisations and developers through pre-built APIs and low-code tools. AI democratisation refers to making AI capabilities accessible to a broad range of users, not just experts. Azure AI services support this by offering pre-built APIs (e.g., Computer Vision, Language Understanding) and low-code tools like Azure Machine Learning designer and Power Platform AI Builder, enabling developers and organisations with limited AI expertise to integrate AI into their applications without building models from scratch.

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Making AI governance decisions through a democratic voting process within organisations

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Ensuring AI companies are publicly listed so retail investors can participate in AI growth

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Open-sourcing all AI models so any developer can use them without licensing fees

Question 4

A quality inspection system uses cameras to examine metal parts for surface defects. The system must identify the exact location and shape of each scratch, dent, or crack. Which Azure Computer Vision capability is best suited for this?

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Semantic Segmentation. Semantic segmentation is the correct choice because it classifies every pixel in an image, allowing the system to precisely delineate the exact location, shape, and boundaries of surface defects like scratches, dents, or cracks on metal parts. This pixel-level granularity is essential for quality inspection where the geometry of each defect must be measured and analyzed.

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Image Classification

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Object Detection

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Dense Captioning

Question 5

What is 'AI enrichment' in the context of Azure AI Search (Cognitive Search)?

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Applying AI cognitive skills during search indexing to extract and enrich content with metadata. AI enrichment in Azure AI Search refers to the process of applying built-in or custom cognitive skills during the indexing pipeline to extract, transform, and enrich unstructured data (e.g., images, text, PDFs) with additional metadata. This enables capabilities such as OCR, entity recognition, key phrase extraction, and language detection, turning raw content into searchable, structured information without requiring separate ML training.

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Adding premium features to an Azure AI subscription

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Training custom ML models to improve search result ranking

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Encrypting indexed search content with AI-managed keys

Question 6

What is 'multi-modal AI' and how does Azure AI Vision support it?

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AI that processes and relates multiple data types (text, images, audio) together. Multi-modal AI refers to systems that can process and relate multiple types of data—such as text, images, and audio—simultaneously. Azure AI Vision supports this by providing pre-built models and APIs that extract information from images and video, which can then be combined with text or audio data in a multi-modal pipeline, enabling richer analysis like image captioning or visual question answering.

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AI that processes data in multiple programming languages simultaneously

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Deploying AI models across multiple Azure regions for global availability

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Using multiple AI models in sequence where each model processes a different step

Question 7

A social media platform wants to automatically review user-uploaded images to flag any that contain explicit or suggestive adult content, as well as violent imagery. Which Azure Computer Vision feature should they use?

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Image Analysis - Moderate content. The 'Moderate content' feature of Azure Computer Vision is specifically designed to detect adult, suggestive, and violent content in images. It returns a binary flag and confidence scores for categories like adult, racy, and gory, making it the appropriate choice for automatically flagging explicit or violent user-uploaded images.

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

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Image Analysis - Tags

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Face Detection

Question 8

What is an endpoint in Azure Machine Learning?

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A deployed ML model accessible via REST API for making predictions. In Azure Machine Learning, an endpoint is a REST API endpoint that exposes a deployed machine learning model for real-time inference. When you deploy a model to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances (ACI) cluster, Azure ML creates a scoring URI that clients can call with HTTP POST requests containing input data, and the endpoint returns predictions. This enables applications to integrate model predictions via standard HTTPS protocol.

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A visual dashboard for monitoring model performance

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The final training step that produces a saved model file

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A data storage location for training datasets

Question 9

A company develops an AI system to recommend personalized news articles to users. The system uses collaborative filtering, suggesting articles that similar users have read. Which type of machine learning does this approach primarily rely on?

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Unsupervised learning. Collaborative filtering identifies patterns in user-item interactions without labeled outcomes, grouping users or items based on similarity. This is a classic unsupervised learning task because the system discovers hidden structures (e.g., user clusters) from unlabeled data, rather than being trained on explicit input-output pairs.

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Supervised learning

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Reinforcement learning

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Semi-supervised learning

Question 10

What is 'extractive vs abstractive summarisation' and which does Azure AI Language's document summarisation feature support?

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Azure AI Language supports both extractive (key sentences) and abstractive (generated synthesis) summarisation. Azure AI Language's document summarization feature supports both extractive summarization (selecting key sentences from the original text) and abstractive summarization (generating a new, condensed summary that rephrases the content). Option B is correct because the service provides both capabilities, allowing users to choose based on their needs.

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Azure AI Language only supports extractive summarisation — abstractive requires Azure OpenAI

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Azure AI Language only supports abstractive summarisation because it is more advanced

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Extractive is for short texts; abstractive is required for documents longer than 10,000 words