Azure AI-900 Certification: My Personal Experience
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I am happy to share that I passed the AI-900 exam recently with a score of 928/1000. Here are some inputs from my experience, that might be helpful to anyone planning for the same.
The below materials helped with my exam preparation:
Microsoft Official Documentation - good material with all basics & hands-on labs on Azure. A must-read for everyone.
AI-900 full course by ExamPro - available on YouTube - 4hrs video - some of the concepts are outdated, due to service name changes in Azure. But gives a detailed outlook in a short time.
Cheat-sheet from Whizcards for a quick refresher before the exam - some of the concepts are outdated, due to service name changes in Azure.
Practice tests:
Official practice tests from MS ~200+ questions (tried multiple times, with some repeated questions though)
Practice questions from ExamTopics ~120 questions with a free account - some of these appeared in the actual exam!
Exam experience:
I chose to attempt from a test center near where I live.
There are a total of 42 questions that need to be answered in 45 minutes. We need to manage time effectively. Got different question types - selecting a single answer, multiple answers, drag-drop, etc.
The first 5-6 questions were very tricky, with lengthy descriptions & images - which will waste our time. Though there are very simple questions at the end of the exam!
Minimum 3-4 questions from Responsible AI in Azure - very important topic.
Some questions around - OpenAI/AzureOpenAI/ChatGPT/Github Co-pilot/LLM models from OpenAI.
As usual, we can mark any question for review and check later - the best option is to cover all the questions at least once in the given time frame.
Given my preparation, I felt the test was of medium complexity.
Here is my certificate
All the best with your preparation!