Microsoft Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate
The AI-103 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Copilot & AI. It validates your ability to plan and manage an Azure AI solution, implement generative AI and agentic solutions, implement computer vision solutions, implement text analysis solutions, and implement information extraction solutions.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate
- Exam code
- AI-103
- Level
- Associate
- Duration
- Approximately 120 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $165 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Languages
- English (additional languages may be available)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (25–30%)
- Choose Foundry services, models, retrieval methods, and memory or tool integrations for agents.
- Set up infrastructure, deployments, and CI/CD for AI apps and agents.
- Manage cost, security, monitoring, safety filters, and responsible AI controls.
Implement generative AI and agentic solutions (30–35%)
- Build generative apps with RAG, multi-step workflows, evaluation, and Foundry SDKs.
- Build agents with roles, tools, memory, multi-agent orchestration, and safeguards.
- Optimise generation, tracing, token analytics, and hybrid model orchestration.
Implement computer vision solutions (10–15%)
- Generate and edit images and video from prompts and reference media.
- Build multimodal understanding for captions, visual question answering, and object detection.
- Apply responsible AI filters and policy rules to visual content.
Implement text analysis solutions (10–15%)
- Extract entities, summaries, sentiment, and structured output with language models and Foundry Tools.
- Translate text and customise outputs for domain tasks.
- Implement speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and audio reasoning for agents.
Implement information extraction solutions (10–15%)
- Ingest and index documents, images, audio, and video for grounding.
- Configure semantic, hybrid, and vector search for RAG and agent tools.
- Extract structured content with OCR, layout analysis, and Content Understanding.
Study resources & practice tests
Frequently asked questions
Who should take AI-103?
AI-103 is for Azure AI engineers, AI application developers, and software engineers. Most work in product engineering, at Microsoft partners, or on enterprise AI programmes in technology, financial services, and professional services.
What is the average salary for an Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer?
This job title is still forming in 2026. Closest published bands are Azure developers and AI engineers: about $120,000 to $165,000 in the United States, about £67,500 median for advertised Azure developer roles in the UK, and about €70,000 to €100,000 in Germany for comparable cloud and AI developers. There is no single published EMEA average.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real AI-103 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. Microsoft publishes a free Practice Assessment for AI-103 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
Does the exam include official labs I can use to practice?
Microsoft does not publish a stable list of which certification exams include labs, and a lab can be dropped for a candidate if the live environment is unavailable. Role-based Azure and security exams such as AI-103 may include performance-based labs in a live cloud environment. You only find out at the start of your sitting. For practice, Microsoft Learn modules for this exam often include a free Azure sandbox, and official instructor-led AI-103T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. Applied Skills assessment labs are a separate Microsoft credential, not AI-103 exam labs. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.