Microsoft Azure AI Engineer AI-102 retirement guide exam help

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) is the exam for candidates who build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that use Azure AI. Microsoft lists the current skills measured as of December 23, 2025 and warns that AI-102 retires on June 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time, so candidates should verify scheduling timelines before committing to this exam path. The exam page lists a 100-minute assessment and Microsoft requires a score of 700 or greater to pass. The current outline covers Plan and manage an Azure AI solution (20-25%), Implement generative AI solutions (15-20%), Implement an agentic solution (5-10%), Implement computer vision solutions (10-15%), Implement natural language processing solutions (15-20%), and Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions (15-20%). Preparation should include Microsoft Foundry services, Azure AI resources, responsible AI, Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, prompt flow, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, Azure AI Vision, Speech, Language, Translator, Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence, Content Understanding, SDKs, REST APIs, monitoring, security, and cost management.