AI-901 Study Hub
A study hub for AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, the exam for the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals certification. AI-901 replaced AI-900 on June 30, 2026, and it is far more hands-on: more than half of the exam is about building AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry. This hub is organized around the two official exam domains, because that is how the exam is scored.
Built from official Microsoft sources. Domains, weightings, and skills come from the Microsoft Learn study guide. Training and exercises come from the official AI-901T00 course. Every exam simulator question is original and has been fact-checked against current Microsoft Learn documentation.
Microsoft Learn: Study guide for Exam AI-901 · skills measured as of April 15, 2026. Certification page.
The exam#
| Certification | Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals |
| Level | Fundamentals, for people at the beginning of a career in AI solution development. Job role: AI engineer |
| Duration | 45 minutes of exam time, the standard for Microsoft Fundamentals exams, proctored through Pearson VUE |
| Question format | Multiple choice: choose one, choose two, or choose three |
| Passing score | 700 or greater, on a scale of 1 to 1000 |
| Languages | English, Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish |
| Retakes | 24 hours after a first failure, then 14 days between attempts, up to 5 attempts in 12 months |
| Renewal | None needed. Fundamentals certifications do not expire |
| Price | Based on the country or region where the exam is proctored |
| Replaces | AI-900, retired June 30, 2026. AI-901 is now the only exam for this certification |
What Microsoft expects you to know
The audience profile describes a candidate at the beginning of a career in AI solution development, with conceptual knowledge of AI solutions in Azure and the foundational technical skills to work with them. It also asks for knowledge of Python syntax and programming techniques and familiarity with Azure resources. Code in the exam and in this simulator is Python.
Take the free official practice assessment too
Microsoft's free AI-901 practice assessment is on AI Skills Navigator (sign in to launch it), and the exam sandbox shows the real exam interface. Use them alongside the exam simulator here.
Watch first: John Savill’s AI-901 study cram#
John Savill is a colleague here at Microsoft and one of the most generous contributors to the Azure community. His study crams have helped a generation of candidates prepare for Microsoft certifications, and his AI-901 cram covers the entire exam in just over an hour, pairing whiteboard explanations with live demos in the Foundry portal. Watch it once at the start to see the whole landscape, and again the week before your exam.
The video guide breaks the cram into study sections with the key points of each, mapped to the exam objectives. Every timestamp jumps the player straight to that part.
The two domains#
Weightings are official. Implement AI solutions by using Microsoft Foundry is the heavier domain at 55–60%, so hands-on time in the Foundry portal and with the Foundry SDK pays off directly.
Identify AI concepts and capabilities
Responsible AI principles, how generative AI models work, choosing and configuring models, and recognizing text, speech, vision, and information extraction workloads. 48 practice questions.
40–45% Domain 2Implement AI solutions by using Microsoft Foundry
Building with Microsoft Foundry: prompts, model deployments, chat clients and agents, Azure Language and Azure Speech, vision and image generation, and Azure Content Understanding. 64 practice questions.
55–60%Study material#
Exam simulator
112 original, fact-checked multiple choice questions (choose one, two, or three) across every skill in the study guide. Exam or practice mode, an optional 45-minute timer, and a PDF of every question.
WatchVideo guide
John Savill's AI-901 study cram, section by section, with key points, exam objectives, and timestamps that jump the player.
Hands-onOfficial exercises
All 14 hands-on exercises from the official AI-901T00 course, grouped by exam domain.
Official and communityResources
The study guide, the certification page, the official course and learning paths, the practice assessment, the exam sandbox, and recommended community courses.
A study plan that works#
- Read the study guide. It is short, and it defines exactly what the exam measures.
- Watch John Savill’s study cram to see the whole exam in one sitting.
- Work through the official training listed on the domain pages. Domain 1 builds the concepts; Domain 2 puts them to work in Microsoft Foundry.
- Do the hands-on exercises. The Domain 2 exercises are where the Foundry portal and SDK questions stop being abstract.
- Practice one domain at a time in the exam simulator in Practice mode, and read the explanation for every miss.
- Take a full timed run in Exam mode with the 45-minute timer, then the official practice assessment. When you pass both comfortably, book the exam.