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Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

The Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) certification is retired. Move your team to Microsoft training and plan the transition with a CBT Nuggets demo.

Microsoft has retired the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) certification as of . See current Microsoft training: all Microsoft certifications.

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Microsoft Azure / 365 admin team at workstations with PowerShell and identity consoles
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Exam code
  • AI-900

Exam datasheet

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) path takes AI-900.

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Skills your team builds

AI workloadsMachine learningComputer visionNatural language processingConversational AI

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

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    Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

    Business units are already asking IT about AI, but many teams lack a shared vocabulary for what Azure AI services do, what they cost, and how to use them responsibly. This Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training gives IT Directors and Team Leads a common baseline before AI projects reach production. The early skills cover machine learning workloads, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and Microsoft's six responsible AI principles. These suit managers, non-developers, and cloud or operations staff. Later skills are hands-on. Practitioners work in Azure Machine Learning Studio and AutoML, build no-code regression and classification pipelines in the Designer, and train Custom Vision models. They also call Cognitive Services with Python, PowerShell, and SDKs, run services in Docker containers, and consume a custom Form Recognizer model through its REST API. Governance is built in. Content on responsible AI, handling facial and other sensitive data, and Form Recognizer billing helps teams set guardrails and anticipate costs before adopting AI tools. The course runs about 19 hours across 20 skills. Plan for developers to take the full path while non-coders focus on concepts and Designer pipelines. Unlimited AI-900 practice exams let Team Leads confirm readiness before scheduling exams, and team reporting tracks progress and completion. To see how AI-900 fits your team's training plan, Book a Demo.

    Trevor Sullivan, Knox Hutchinson
    125 videos19h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

Microsoft career ladder

Where Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) sits in your team's Microsoft progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

Customer outcome

Build AI-900 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

Team capability

Make AI-900 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AI-900 gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Exam
  • AI-900

Frequently asked questions about Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training for their team.

How does Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion and certification coverage for internal governance or external audit conversations. Pair the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) path with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal compliance mapping your framework requires.

Who on the team should hold Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900), and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders typically frame Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) in operational terms — which roles and systems a certified engineer can own, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding, and audit-ready training documentation. The measures that matter are time to resolve, time to productivity for new Microsoft hires, and certification coverage by role rather than seat time.

What does CBT Nuggets Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)?

It depends on the team's starting baseline and how much time each engineer can give the linked courses each week. Most teams plan the training as an assigned playlist with a target date, and the team report shows who has finished the courses and the practice exams before anyone books the exam.

What if Microsoft updates the Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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