Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate (beta)

Published weight ~20-25%. Host container apps: Azure Container Registry, App Service, Container Apps (revisions, KEDA scaling), and AKS, plus monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Implement container application hosting
• Manage container images with Azure Container Registry and ACR Tasks
• Deploy containers to Azure App Service
• Deploy to Azure Container Apps (revisions, KEDA event-driven scaling)
• Deploy and manage applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Monitor and troubleshoot AKS and Container Apps

Published weight ~25-30%. Build AI/RAG solutions with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (vectors, change feed), Azure Database for PostgreSQL (pgvector), and Azure Managed Redis.

• Develop AI solutions with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (SDK, queries, RU/indexing)
• Store/retrieve embeddings and run vector similarity search in Cosmos DB
• Implement the change feed processor for new/updated items
• Develop AI solutions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL (pgvector, RAG)
• Run vector similarity search and metadata-filtered retrieval in PostgreSQL
• Integrate Azure Managed Redis for caching and vector indexing

Published weight ~20-25%. Event- and message-driven integration with Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure Functions (triggers and bindings).

• Queue and process operations with Azure Service Bus (topics, subscriptions, dead-letter queues)
• Implement event-driven workflows with Azure Event Grid
• Build serverless APIs with Azure Functions triggers and bindings
• Configure and deploy function apps

Published weight ~20-25%. Secrets and configuration with Key Vault and App Configuration; observability with OpenTelemetry and KQL.

• Secure secrets with Azure Key Vault (rotation and retrieval)
• Store and retrieve app configuration with Azure App Configuration
• Trace distributed systems using OpenTelemetry SDKs
• Write KQL queries to analyze logs and metrics