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AI agent fundamentals with Azure AI Foundry

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.

Status: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Status: Prompt Engineering Tools
IntermediateCourse17 hours

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HB

Reviewed Dec 13, 2025

Well designed course with enough detail in the explanation.

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