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18 min readAI-200 Exam: Audience, Skills, and the AZ-204 Replacement
Who the exam is for, expected experience, current domains, the transition from AZ-204, and why AI-103—not AI-200—replaced AI-102.
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70 min readAzure Container Registry: ACR Tasks, Image Tags, and Versioning
Organize OCI artifacts, build in Azure, automate triggers, pin digests, version releases, lock production images, and manage registry retention.
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75 min readDeploy Containers to Azure App Service: Runtime, Settings, and Diagnostics
Deploy private images with managed identity, configure ports, storage, health and slots, protect secrets, and troubleshoot with Kudu and Azure Monitor.
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70 min readAzure Container Apps: Environments, YAML, Secrets, Private Images, and Logs
Design environment boundaries, deploy with CLI and YAML, externalize configuration, pull private images with identity, and verify revisions, replicas, and logs.
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75 min readOperate Container Apps: Revisions, Health Probes, Logs, and Scaling
Release immutable images, control revisions and traffic, use lifecycle actions, diagnose with logs, tune health probes, and balance resources with KEDA scaling.
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90 min readAutoscale Container Apps: KEDA, Compute Profiles, Revisions, and Traffic
Configure HTTP, TCP, resource, queue, stream, schedule, and custom metric triggers; right-size compute and deliver with revision-aware traffic control.
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80 min readDeploy AI APIs to AKS: Kubernetes Manifests, Services, and Diagnostics
Create Deployments and Services, set replicas and resources, publish with LoadBalancer, apply with kubectl, verify endpoints, and troubleshoot failures.
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85 min readConfigure AKS Apps: ConfigMaps, Secrets, Key Vault, PVs, and PVCs
Externalize settings, protect credentials, integrate Key Vault, dynamically provision durable storage, choose CSI classes, and prove data survives Pod replacement.
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85 min readMonitor and Troubleshoot AKS: Logs, Metrics, Pods, and Services
Correlate Azure Monitor and kubectl evidence, diagnose Pod states, inspect EndpointSlices, validate Services, and test ingress and load-balancer paths.
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95 min readAzure Cosmos DB for NoSQL: Partitions, SDK, CRUD, Queries, and RAG
Model resources and partition keys, provision RU/s, authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID, implement Python SDK operations, optimize SQL queries, and build a RAG store.
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105 min readCosmos DB Vector Search: Embeddings, DiskANN, Hybrid Search, and Change Feed
Store and index embeddings, query with VectorDistance, combine metadata and RRF hybrid ranking, and refresh vectors through Azure Functions and the change feed.
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115 min readCosmos DB Indexing Performance: Composite and Vector Indexes, RU, and Consistency
Design selective range, composite, tuple, and vector indexes, measure query efficiency and RU cost, and select consistency guarantees for AI search.
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125 min readAzure Database for PostgreSQL: Secure Connections, SQL, JSONB, and psycopg
Choose compute and recovery options, connect with Microsoft Entra ID and TLS, design schemas and queries, and build persistent AI agent memory with Python.
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130 min readPostgreSQL Vector Search: pgvector, HNSW, IVFFlat, and RAG
Store embeddings, tune ANN indexes, maintain evolving vectors, combine semantic and lexical retrieval, and ground RAG answers with citations.
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125 min readPostgreSQL Vector Performance: Tuning, Indexes, Scaling, and Pooling
Tune memory and planning, choose and maintain ANN indexes, optimize metadata filters, scale reads, cache results, and pool connections safely.
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105 min readAzure Managed Redis: Client Libraries, Caching, and Data Operations
Design cache-aside, content and session caching, select tiers and cluster-aware clients, connect with Microsoft Entra ID, and implement TTL and invalidation.
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110 min readAzure Managed Redis: Pub/Sub, Streams, Events, and Task Queues
Broadcast real-time events, coordinate durable work with consumer groups, recover pending deliveries, scale workers, and combine Pub/Sub with Streams.
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120 min readAzure Managed Redis Vector Search: HNSW, FLAT, Hash, and JSON
Index embeddings, run KNN and range queries, filter metadata, choose metrics and numeric types, tune HNSW, and model vectors in Hash or JSON.
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125 min readAzure Service Bus: Queues, Topics, Subscriptions, and Reliable AI Messaging
Decouple inference with load leveling, competing consumers, filtered fan-out, structured messages, Peek-Lock, idempotency, lock renewal, and DLQ recovery.
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125 min readAzure Event Grid: CloudEvents, Filters, Retries, and Custom AI Events
Route system and custom events with CloudEvents, filtered subscriptions, push or pull delivery, retries, dead-lettering, batching, monitoring, and secure publishing.
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130 min readAzure Functions for AI: Hosting, Scaling, Triggers, Bindings, Security, and MCP
Choose Flex Consumption or Premium, build HTTP and Service Bus flows, develop locally, secure configuration and identity, and expose MCP tools.
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125 min readAzure Key Vault: Secrets, SDK Access, Rotation, and Caching
Choose secrets, keys, or certificates, authorize with RBAC and managed identity, use SecretClient, rotate versions without downtime, and cache safely.
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120 min readAzure App Configuration: Python, Labels, Feature Flags, and Key Vault References
Load and compose settings with the Python provider, refresh through a sentinel, evaluate feature flags, resolve Key Vault references, and classify configuration safely.
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125 min readOpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor: Traces, Spans, Application Insights, and KQL
Instrument distributed AI services, propagate W3C context, control sampling, export resilient telemetry, and diagnose RAG latency with maps, transactions, and KQL.
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120 min readKQL and Azure Monitor: Logs, Dashboards, Workbooks, and Alerts
Query and correlate Application Insights telemetry, analyze tail latency, build operational dashboards and interactive Workbooks, and configure actionable alerts.
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