Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate Certification, AI-100 VS AI-102

1. Question Set 1

HOTSPOT

You are designing an application to parse images of business forms and upload the data to a database. The upload process will occur once a week. You need to recommend which services to use for the application. The solution must minimize infrastructure costs.

Which services should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

2. HOTSPOT

You plan to deploy an Azure Data Factory pipeline that will perform the following:

- Move data from on-premises to the cloud.

- Consume Azure Cognitive Services APIs.

You need to recommend which technologies the pipeline should use. The solution must minimize custom code.

What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

3. HOTSPOT

You need to build an interactive website that will accept uploaded images, and then ask a series of predefined questions based on each image.

Which services should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

4. You are designing an AI solution that will analyze millions of pictures.

You need to recommend a solution for storing the pictures. The solution must minimize costs.

Which storage solution should you recommend?

5. You are configuring data persistence for a Microsoft Bot Framework application. The application requires a structured NoSQL cloud data store.

You need to identify a storage solution for the application. The solution must minimize costs.

What should you identify?

6. You have an Azure Machine Learning model that is deployed to a web service.

You plan to publish the web service by using the name ml.contoso.com. You need to recommend a solution to ensure that access to the web service is encrypted.

Which three actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

7. Your company recently deployed several hardware devices that contain sensors.

The sensors generate new data on an hourly basis. The data generated is stored on-premises and retained for several years. During the past two months, the sensors generated 300 GB of data. You plan to move the data to Azure and then perform advanced analytics on the data. You need to recommend an Azure storage solution for the data.

Which storage solution should you recommend?

8. You plan to design an application that will use data from Azure Data Lake and perform sentiment analysis by using Azure Machine Learning algorithms.

The developers of the application use a mix of Windows- and Linux-based environments. The developers contribute to shared GitHub repositories.

You need all the developers to use the same tool to develop the application.

What is the best tool to use? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal.

9. You have several AI applications that use an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. The cluster supports a maximum of 32 nodes.

You discover that occasionally and unpredictably, the application requires more than 32 nodes.

You need to recommend a solution to handle the unpredictable application load.

Which scaling method should you recommend?

10. You deploy an infrastructure for a big data workload.

You need to run Azure HDInsight and Microsoft Machine Learning Server. You plan to set the RevoScaleR compute contexts to run rx function calls in parallel.

What are three compute contexts that you can use for Machine Learning Server? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

11. Your company has 1,000 AI developers who are responsible for provisioning environments in Azure.

You need to control the type, size, and location of the resources that the developers can provision.

What should you use?

12. You are designing an AI solution in Azure that will perform image classification.

You need to identify which processing platform will provide you with the ability to update the logic over time. The solution must have the lowest latency for inferencing without having to batch.

Which compute target should you identify?

13. You have a solution that runs on a five-node Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. The cluster uses an N-series virtual machine.

An Azure Batch AI process runs once a day and rarely on demand.

You need to recommend a solution to maintain the cluster configuration when the cluster is not in use. The solution must not incur any compute costs.

What should you include in the recommendation?

14. HOTSPOT

You are designing an AI solution that will be used to find buildings in aerial pictures.

Users will upload the pictures to an Azure Storage account. A separate JSON document will contain for the pictures.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

- Store metadata for the pictures in a data store.

- Run a custom vision Azure Machine Learning module to identify the buildings in a picture and the position of the buildings’ edges.

- Run a custom mathematical module to calculate the dimensions of the buildings in a picture based on the metadata and data from the vision module.

You need to identify which Azure infrastructure services are used for each component of the AI workflow. The solution must execute as quickly as possible.

What should you identify? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

15. Your company has recently deployed 5,000 Internet-connected sensors for a planned AI solution.

You need to recommend a computing solution to perform a real-time analysis of the data generated by the sensors.

Which computing solution should you recommend?

16. HOTSPOT

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You plan to deploy an application that will perform image recognition. The application will store image data in two Azure Blob storage stores named Blob1 and Blob2.

You need to recommend a security solution that meets the following requirements:

- Access to Blob1 must be controlled by using a role.

- Access to Blob2 must be time-limited and constrained to specific operations.

What should you recommend using to control access to each blob store? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

17. You deploy an application that performs sentiment analysis on the data stored in Azure Cosmos DB.

Recently, you loaded a large amount of data to the database. The data was for a customer named Contoso, Ltd.

You discover that queries for the Contoso data are slow to complete, and the queries slow the entire application.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes for the queries to complete. The solution must minimize costs.

What is the best way to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.

18. You have an AI application that uses keys in Azure Key Vault. Recently, a key used by the application was deleted accidentally and was unrecoverable. You need to ensure that if a key is deleted, it is retained in the key vault for 90 days.

Which two features should you configure? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

19. DRAG DROP

You are designing an AI solution that will analyze media data. The data will be stored in Azure Blob storage.

You need to ensure that the storage account is encrypted by using a key generated by the hardware security module (HSM) of your company.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

20. You plan to implement a new data warehouse for a planned AI solution.

You have the following information regarding the data warehouse:

- The data files will be available in one week.

- Most queries that will be executed against the data warehouse will be ad-hoc queries.

- The schemas of data files that will be loaded to the data warehouse will change often.

- One month after the planned implementation, the data warehouse will contain 15 TB of data.

You need to recommend a database solution to support the planned implementation.

What two solutions should you include in the recommendation? Each correct answer is a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

21. You need to build a solution to monitor Twitter.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

- Send an email message to the marketing department when negative Twitter messages are detected.

- Run sentiment analysis on Twitter messages that mention specific tags.

- Use the least amount of custom code possible.

Which two services should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

22. HOTSPOT You need to configure security for an Azure Machine Learning service used by groups of data scientists.

The groups must have access to only their own experiments and must be able to grant permissions to the members of their team.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

23. You plan to build an application that will perform predictive analytics. Users will be able to consume the application data by using Microsoft Power BI or a custom website.

You need to ensure that you can audit application usage.

Which auditing solution should you use?

24. HOTSPOT

You need to build a sentiment analysis solution that will use input data from JSON documents and PDF documents. The JSON documents must be processed in batches and aggregated.

Which storage type should you use for each file type? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

25. You are developing a mobile application that will perform optical character recognition (OCR) from photos.

The application will annotate the photos by using metadata, store the photos in Azure Blob storage, and then score the photos by using an Azure Machine Learning model.

What should you use to process the data?

26. You create an Azure Cognitive Services resource.

A data scientist needs to call the resource from Azure Logic Apps by using the generic HTTP connector.

Which two values should you provide to the data scientist? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

27. You plan to deploy an AI solution that tracks the behavior of 10 custom mobile apps. Each mobile app has several thousand users.

You need to recommend a solution for real-time data ingestion for the data originating from the mobile app users.

Which Microsoft Azure service should you include in the recommendation?

28. You plan to deploy Azure IoT Edge devices that will each store more than 10,000 images locally and classify the images by using a Custom Vision Service classifier.

Each image is approximately 5 MB.

You need to ensure that the images persist on the devices for 14 days.

What should you use?

29. Your company is building custom models that integrate into microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).

The model is built by using Python and published to AKS.

You need to update the model and enable Azure Application Insights for the model.

What should you use?

30. You are designing an AI solution that will analyze millions of pictures by using Azure HDInsight Hadoop cluster. You need to recommend a solution for storing the pictures. The solution must minimize costs.

Which storage solution should you recommend?

31. You deploy an application that performs sentiment analysis on the data stored in Azure Cosmos DB.

Recently, you loaded a large amount of data to the database. The data was for a customer named Contoso, Ltd. You discover that queries for the Contoso data are slow to complete, and the queries slow the entire application.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes for the queries to complete. The solution must minimize costs.

What should you do? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. (Choose two.)

32. Your company has several AI solutions and bots. You need to implement a solution to monitor the utilization of the bots. The solution must ensure that analysts at the company can generate dashboards to review the utilization.

What should you include in the solution?

33. Your plan to design a bot that will be hosted by using Azure Bot Service.

Your company identifies the following compliance requirements for the bot:

- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)

- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

- ISO 27001

You need to identify which compliance requirements are met by hosting the bot in the bot service.

What should you identify?

34. HOTSPOT

You plan to use Azure Cognitive Services to provide the development team at your company with the ability to create intelligent apps without having direct AI or data science skills.

The company identifies the following requirements for the planned Cognitive Services deployment:

- Provide support for the following languages: English, Portuguese, and German.

- Perform text analytics to derive a sentiment score.

Which Cognitive Service service should you deploy for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

35. HOTSPOT

You plan to deploy the Text Analytics and Computer Vision services. The Azure Cognitive Services will be deployed to the West US and East Europe Azure regions. You need to identify the minimum number of service endpoints and API keys required for the planned deployment.

What should you identify? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

36. Your company plans to create a mobile app that will be used by employees to query the employee handbook.

You need to ensure that the employees can query the handbook by typing or by using speech.

Which core component should you use for the app?

37. You have an existing Language Understanding (LUIS) model for an internal bot.

You need to recommend a solution to add a meeting reminder functionality to the bot by using a prebuilt model. The solution must minimize the size of the model.

Which component of LUIS should you recommend?

38. You have an on-premises repository that contains 5,000 videos. The videos feature demonstrations of the products sold by your company.

The company’s customers plan to search the videos by using the name of the product demonstrated in each video.

You need to build a custom search tool for the customers.

What should you do first?

39. Your company manages a sports team.

The company sets up a video booth to record messages for the team.

Before replaying the messages on a video screen, you need to generate captions for the messages and check the sentiment of the video to ensure that only positive messages are played.

Which Azure Cognitive Services service should you use?

40. HOTSPOT

You plan to build an app that will provide users with the ability to dictate messages and convert the messages into text.

You need to recommend a solution to meet the following requirements for the app:

- Must be able to transcribe streaming dictated messages that are longer than 15 seconds.

- Must be able to upload existing recordings to Azure Blob storage to be transcribed later.

Which solution should you recommend for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

41. Your company plans to monitor twitter hashtags, and then to build a graph of connected people and places that contains the associated sentiment.

The monitored hashtags use several languages, but the graph will be displayed in English.

You need to recommend the required Azure Cognitive Services endpoints for the planned graph.

Which Cognitive Services endpoints should you recommend?

42. HOTSPOT

You plan to create an intelligent bot to handle internal user chats to the help desk of your company.

The bot has the following requirements:

- Must be able to interpret what a user means.

- Must be able to perform multiple tasks for a user.

- Must be able to answer questions from an existing knowledge base.

You need to recommend which solutions meet the requirements.

Which solution should you recommend for each requirement? To answer, drag the appropriate solutions to the correct requirements. Each solution may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

43. You are developing a mobile application that will perform optical character recognition (OCR) from photos.

The application will annotate the photos by using metadata, store the photos in Azure Blob storage, and then score the photos by using an Azure Machine Learning model.

What should you use to process the data?

44. You are designing an AI solution that will analyze millions of pictures by using Azure HDInsight Hadoop cluster.

You need to recommend a solution for storing the pictures. The solution must minimize costs.

Which storage solution should you recommend?

45. You are designing a real-time speech-to-text AI feature for an Android mobile app. The feature will stream data to the Speech service.

You need to recommend which audio format to use to serialize the audio. The solution must minimize the amount of data transferred to the cloud.

What should you recommend?

46. Testlet 2

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. has an office in New York to serve its North American customers and an office in Paris to serve its European customers.

Existing Environment

Infrastructure

Each office has a small data center that hosts Active Directory services and a few off-the-shelf software solutions used by internal users.

The network contains a single Active Directory forest that contains a single domain named contoso.com. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect is used to extend identity management to Azure.

The company has an Azure subscription. Each office has an Azure ExpressRoute connection to the subscription. The New York office connects to a virtual network hosted in the US East 2 Azure region. The Paris office connects to a virtual network hosted in the West Europe Azure region.

The New York office has an Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) deployment that is used for development and testing.

Current Business Model

Contoso has a web app named Bookings hosted in an App Service Environment (ASE). The ASE is in the virtual network in the East US 2 region. Contoso employees and customers use Bookings to reserve hotel rooms.

Data Environment

Bookings connects to a Microsoft SQL Server database named hotelDB in the New York office.

The database has a view named vwAvailability that consolidates columns from the tables named Hotels, Rooms, and RoomAvailability. The database contains data that was collected during the last 20 years.

Problem Statements

Contoso identifies the following issues with its current business model:

- European users report that access to Booking is slow, and they lose customers who must wait on the phone while they search for available rooms.

- Users report that Bookings was unavailable during an outage in the New York data center for more than 24 hours.

Requirements

Contoso identifies the following issues with its current business model:

- European users report that access to Bookings is slow, and they lose customers who must wait on the phone while they search for available rooms.

- Users report that Bookings was unavailable during on outage in the New York data center for more than 24 hours.

Business Goals

Contoso wants to provide a new version of the Bookings app that will provide a highly available, reliable service for booking travel packages by interacting with a chatbot named Butler.

Contoso plans to move all production workloads to the cloud.

Technical requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

- Data scientists must test Butler by using ASDK.

- Whenever possible, solutions must minimize costs.

- Butler must greet users by name when they first connect.

- Butler must be able to handle up to 10,000 messages a day.

- Butler must recognize the users' intent based on basic utterances.

- All configurations to the Azure Bot Service must be logged centrally.

- Whenever possible, solutions must use the principle of least privilege.

- Internal users must be able to access Butler by using Microsoft Skype for Business.

- The new Bookings app must provide a user interface where users can interact with Butler.

- Users in an Azure AD group named KeyManagers must be able to manage keys for all Azure Cognitive Services.

- Butler must provide users with the ability to reserve a room, cancel a reservation, and view existing reservations.

- The new Bookings app must be available to users in North America and Europe if a single data center or Azure region fails.

- For continuous improvement, you must be able to test Butler by sending sample utterances and comparing the chatbot's responses to the actual intent.

- You must maintain relationships between data after migration.

You need to recommend a data storage solution that meets the technical requirements.

What is the best data storage solution to recommend? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.

47. Question Set 1

Your company has a data team of Scala and R experts.

You plan to ingest data from multiple Apache Kafka streams.

You need to recommend a processing technology to broker messages at scale from Kafka streams to Azure Storage.

What should you recommend?

48. You are designing an AI application that will use an azure Machine Learning Studio experiment.

The source data contains more than 200 TB of relational tables. The experiment will run once a month.

You need to identify a data storage solution for the application. The solution must minimize compute costs.

Which data storage solution should you identify?

49. HOTSPOT

You are designing a solution that will analyze bank transactions in real time. The transactions will be evaluated by using an algorithm and classified into one of five groups. The transaction data will be enriched with information taken from Azure SQL Database before the transactions are sent to the classification process. The enrichment process will require custom code. Data from different banks will require different stored procedures.

You need to develop a pipeline for the solution.

Which components should you use for data ingestion and data preparation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

50. DRAG DROP

You are designing an Azure Batch AI solution that will be used to train many different Azure Machine Learning models.

The solution will perform the following:

- Image recognition

- Deep learning that uses convolutional neural networks.

You need to select a compute infrastructure for each model. The solution must minimize the processing time.

What should you use for each model? To answer, drag the appropriate compute infrastructures to the correct models. Each compute infrastructure may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.