AI-103 Practice Test 2 — 25 Questions

Question 1

You are implementing an agentic workflow where an agent needs to search a vector database, inspect the retrieved results, and if the results are insufficient, reformulate the query and search again before answering. What agent design pattern are you implementing?

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

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Self-Correction / Reflection pattern. Self-Correction / Reflection pattern allows agents to evaluate their intermediate outputs, detect gaps or failures, and take corrective action (like query re-writing) before finalizing their response.

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Static zero-shot generation pattern

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Direct REST API proxy pattern

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Database indexing batch pattern

Question 2

You are designing an image analysis solution using Azure AI Vision 4.0. Which TWO visual features can be requested in a single Image Analysis API analyze request? (Choose two.)

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tags. Image Analysis 4.0 supports combining multiple features such as 'tags', 'objects', 'read', 'caption', 'denseCaptions', 'smartCrops', 'people', and 'brands' in one analyze call.

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Custom Vision Classification

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Azure AI Face Analyze

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Azure AI Document Intelligence Layout

Question 3

Which TWO factors directly influence the embedding quality and retrieval relevance in an Azure AI Search vector retrieval pipeline? (Choose two.)

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The choice of embedding model (e.g., text-embedding-3-large vs text-embedding-3-small) and its dimensionality.. Embedding model choice and chunking strategy are primary determinants of vector retrieval quality.

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The background color of the source documents in blob storage.

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The font family used in the original PDF documents.

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The client browser version used by the end user.

Question 4

Your enterprise requires strict security and governance over your Azure AI Vision resources. Which THREE security configurations should you implement? (Choose three.)

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Configure Azure Private Endpoints to restrict access to your Virtual Network.. Enterprise security for Azure AI Services includes Private Endpoints, disabling local authentication in favor of Microsoft Entra ID (RBAC), and Key Vault integration for secrets.

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Store API keys in plain text configuration files on public GitHub repositories.

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Disable TLS encryption to improve API response latency.

Question 5

You are integrating Azure AI Vision into a serverless Azure Functions architecture. A batch of 500 high-resolution images needs to be processed. To prevent function timeouts and optimize throughput, how should you architect the function triggers?

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Use a Blob Storage trigger to enqueue image messages onto an Azure Storage Queue, and configure Queue-triggered functions to process image analysis asynchronously.. Using Azure Blob Storage triggers combined with Azure Queue Storage and queue-triggered functions allows decoupled, scalable, asynchronous processing without function timeout bottlenecks.

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Use Azure Logic Apps with a synchronous batch loop.

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Trigger a single synchronous Azure Function that loops through all 500 images sequentially within a single HTTP request.

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Configure an Azure Event Grid subscription to directly invoke Azure AI Vision REST endpoints without compute logic.

Question 6

You are optimizing an application that calls Azure AI Vision Read API. Which THREE techniques help reduce latency and improve overall throughput? (Choose three.)

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Resize extremely large images to optimal dimensions while maintaining readability.. Throughput and latency improvements include resizing excessively large images before upload, using asynchronous polling efficiently without tight busy-wait loops, and co-locating resources.

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Send uncompressed RAW bitmap data to bypass image decoding overhead.

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Disable SSL/TLS verification to speed up TCP handshakes.

Question 7

Your enterprise application uses Azure AI Vision. Security policies require that all API keys are rotated every 30 days without causing application downtime. How should you manage the key rotation?

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Switch client applications to Key 2, regenerate Key 1 in the Azure portal, switch clients to Key 1, and then regenerate Key 2.. Azure AI Services resources provide two keys (Key 1 and Key 2). To rotate keys without downtime, update applications to use Key 2, regenerate Key 1, update applications to use Key 1, and then regenerate Key 2.

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Restart the Azure App Service hosting the client application.

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Delete the Azure AI service resource and create a new one every 30 days.

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Disable authentication on the resource during the rotation window.

Question 8

A user asks a question that triggers a 'Blocked' response from Azure AI Content Safety, even though the query seems harmless. What is the best step to investigate this?

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Check the Content Safety logs in the Azure AI Foundry portal.. Viewing the logs in the Content Safety dashboard identifies which specific policy was triggered.

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Change the system prompt to ignore safety.

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Increase the model temperature.

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Disable Content Safety for the deployment.

Question 9

You are developing a .NET application that interacts with Azure AI Vision Read API. Which TWO objects or properties would you inspect in the asynchronous response to retrieve extracted text lines and their confidence scores? (Choose two.)

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text. The Read API response contains `analyzeResult.readResults` or `readResult.blocks`/`lines`, where each line has `text`, `boundingBox`, and `confidence` (in older versions) or text content.

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dominantColors

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adultScore

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smartCrops

Question 10

You want to extract gender and age attributes from human faces in photos. While Azure AI Face service handles facial analysis, which base Azure AI Vision 4.0 feature detects the presence and bounding boxes of people?

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features=people. The 'people' feature in Image Analysis 4.0 detects humans and returns their bounding boxes.

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features=objects

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features=tags

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features=read

Question 11

You are implementing a multi-turn conversational agent in Azure AI Foundry. As the conversation grows longer, API latency and costs increase significantly. Which strategy should you implement to manage the conversation history effectively?

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Implement a sliding window history buffer combined with periodic summarization of older dialogue turns.. Summarizing older conversation turns or maintaining a sliding window of recent messages keeps token counts manageable.

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Increase max_tokens to accommodate infinite history growth.

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Disable the chat history array entirely and treat every turn as a standalone prompt.

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Truncate the entire conversation history after every single user turn.

Question 12

Which TWO image file formats are natively supported by Azure AI Vision for image analysis? (Choose two.)

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JPEG. Azure AI Vision supports standard web formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, and TIFF (for Read).

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MP3

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MKV

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WAV

Question 13

You are testing a Custom Vision model via the REST API. You receive an HTTP 400 Bad Request error with the message 'InvalidProjectId'. What is the most likely cause?

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The project ID GUID in the request URL is incorrect or does not exist in this Custom Vision account.. The project ID GUID provided in the URL path is malformed, does not exist, or belongs to a different region/resource.

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The image file format is invalid.

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The subscription has reached its monthly quota limit.

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The prediction key header was omitted.

Question 14

You are designing an agentic workflow in Azure AI Agent Service where multiple specialized agents need to collaborate to solve complex, multi-step financial analysis tasks. One agent manages the workflow state and decides which sub-agent to invoke next. What architectural pattern is best suited for this implementation?

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Orchestrator-workers pattern, where a central agent dynamically assigns sub-tasks to specialized worker agents based on intermediate results.. The orchestrator-workers (or router) pattern uses a central orchestrator agent to manage state, evaluate progress, and delegate tasks to specialized worker agents.

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Single monolithic prompt pattern, where all instructions are combined into one massive system prompt without multi-agent handoffs.

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Map-reduce batch processing pattern, where all sub-agents execute independently in parallel without communication.

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Static sequential pipeline, where agents execute strictly in a predefined linear order without conditional branching.

Question 15

Your team is implementing 'Human-in-the-loop' (HITL) for an agent that performs account updates. Which mechanism should you use to pause the agent and wait for approval?

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Use a Prompt Flow 'Pause' node or custom state management logic.. In agentic workflows, an interruption or 'callback' mechanism allows the system to pause execution until human input is received.

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Set a long timeout in the API call.

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Increase the model's 'stop_sequences'.

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Use an infinite loop in Python.

Question 16

You are designing a RAG solution in Azure AI Foundry where sensitive enterprise documents must be retrieved. Users should only see search results corresponding to their security clearance level. How should you implement document-level access control in Azure AI Search?

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Store user security groups in document metadata and apply OData filter expressions during search queries. Security trimming in Azure AI Search is implemented by adding user security identifiers (IDs or group memberships) as metadata fields on each document and applying OData filter expressions at query time.

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Configure Microsoft Entra ID authentication on the Azure OpenAI endpoint

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Encrypt the search index using customer-managed keys (CMK) in Azure Key Vault

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Use Azure AI Content Safety to redact sensitive keywords before indexing

Question 17

You are implementing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical image processing application that relies on Azure AI Vision. If the primary Azure region experiences an outage, how should you configure failover?

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Deploy a secondary Azure AI Vision resource in a paired Azure region and configure your application to fail over to the secondary endpoint if errors occur.. Deploying a secondary Azure AI Vision resource in a paired region and updating the application configuration (or using Azure Front Door / Traffic Manager) enables regional failover.

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Use geo-replication on the Azure Blob Storage account to automatically fail over the AI service endpoints.

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Configure Azure Site Recovery to replicate the Azure AI Vision service backend VMs.

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Rely on automatic synchronous replication of Custom Vision models across all global Azure datacenters without application changes.

Question 18

You are integrating Azure OpenAI into an enterprise application. You need to prevent prompt injection attacks where users attempt to override the system instructions. Which approach provides the most robust defense?

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Implement an input guardrail using Azure AI Content Safety to detect and block jailbreak attempts before they reach the model.. Using dual-prompt architectures or Azure AI Content Safety groundedness checks provides robust detection and mitigation against prompt injections.

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Set the model frequency penalty to 2.0 to penalize repeated malicious phrases.

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Append 'Ignore previous instructions' at the end of every user message.

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Encode all user input in Base64 before sending it to the model.

Question 19

You are implementing indirect prompt injection defenses in a RAG application where documents are ingested from public web pages. Which THREE mitigation strategies should you deploy? (Choose THREE)

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Use strict structural delimiters (like XML tags) to isolate retrieved context from system instructions. Prompt shields in Content Safety, strict prompt delimiters separating data from instructions, and content validation filters protect against indirect prompt injection.

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Trust all incoming web page text unconditionally without inspection

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Disable all content moderation filters to maximize processing speed

Question 20

You are orchestrating a multi-agent system in Microsoft Foundry where Agent A generates code and Agent B reviews it. Agent B frequently gets stuck in a loop trying to optimize minor syntax formatting. How should you design the agentic workflow to prevent this infinite refinement loop?

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Configure a maximum turn counter and state transition condition in the orchestrator workflow to terminate the loop after a set threshold.. Establishing a strict iteration limit or state machine check within the orchestrator prevents agents from looping indefinitely.

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Disable function calling for Agent B so it can only output text responses.

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Increase the model's presence penalty so Agent B is forced to generate novel review comments.

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Use a smaller model for Agent B to reduce the quality of its reviews.