AI-103 exam map

Five skill areas, sized by their real share of the exam. Work left to right — heaviest first. Highlighted = a term or number the exam tests — if you only remember the marks, you pass.

Plan 25–30% GenAI 30–35% Vision 10–15% Text 10–15% Extract 10–15%

Share of exam questions per area (midpoint of Microsoft's published range).

Plan & manage an Azure AI solution 25–30%

Foundry platform, service choice, deployment, security, monitoring, responsible AI.

Generative AI & agentic solutions 30–35%

Build gen-AI apps and agents: RAG, tools, MCP, multi-agent, optimization. Heaviest area.

Computer vision solutions 10–15%

Image/video generation, multimodal understanding, visual responsible AI.

Text analysis solutions 10–15%

Azure Language, translation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, Voice Live.

Information extraction solutions 10–15%

AI Search pipelines, RAG ingestion, Content Understanding, Document Intelligence.

Score ≥ 700 passes. Plan & manage + GenAI & agents ≈ 60% of the exam — master those two first.