Overview

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Learn how to design, build, and evaluate intelligent AI agents using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. This hands-on course introduces the foundations of AI agent development and guides you through creating practical agents that can respond to real-world scenarios using modern Azure AI services. You’ll begin by exploring how AI agents differ from traditional automation systems and how reactive, deliberative, and hybrid agents operate in different use cases. Using Azure AI Foundry, you’ll learn to configure models, deploy AI services, and create effective system prompts that improve agent behavior and response quality. As the course progresses, you’ll build a portfolio-ready hotel information agent capable of handling guest inquiries, managing conversations, and integrating knowledge sources. You’ll also enhance agent capabilities using Azure AI services including language understanding, search, translation, sentiment analysis, and multimodal AI tools. The course concludes with testing, deployment, and portfolio development strategies that help you understand how AI agents operate in production environments. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build, evaluate, and deploy intelligent AI agents using Azure AI Foundry and related Azure AI services.

Syllabus

Understanding AI agents and Azure AI Foundry

Discover what makes AI agents different from traditional automation through hands-on exploration of real-world examples and Azure AI Foundry's powerful interfaces. You'll set up your development environment, test diverse AI capabilities across chat, vision, and speech, and create your first customized AI interaction.

Building your hotel information agent

Transform from AI explorer to agent builder as you design and develop a fully functional hotel information assistant using professional development practices. Use configuration settings, prompt engineering techniques, and conversation management to create an agent that handles real guest inquiries with accuracy and appropriate boundaries.

Enhancing your agent with AI services

Elevate your hotel agent from basic Q&A to intelligent assistant by integrating Azure's language understanding, knowledge search, and multi-service capabilities. You'll implement intent recognition, connect knowledge bases for accurate information retrieval, and design workflows that combine translation, sentiment analysis, and vision services.

Professional agent development

Prepare your agent for the real world by implementing comprehensive testing strategies, understanding deployment options, and building your professional portfolio. You'll create test suites, explore API integration approaches, and compile a GitHub repository that showcases your journey from AI novice to capable agent developer.