Lab 8: Final Readiness Drill
The last lab: solve topic-wise practice sets against the clock, attempt Mock Exam 3 aiming above 80%, fill in the readiness scorecard for every exam skill, and pick and book your AI-901 exam date on Pearson VUE.
Time: 2–3 hours · You need: the AI-901 Exam Practice page.
Outcome. Exam-ready confidence and a booked exam date.
Step 1: Timed topic sets
On Topic practice, switch to timed mode and complete every topic set. Give yourself about 50 seconds per question. Record each score.
Step 2: Mock Exam 3
Take Mock Exam 3 in exam mode and target 80%+ (the equivalent of 800/1000). Review it fully.
Step 3: Readiness scorecard
Rate each skill from the official outline: ✅ confident (≥ 80% and done hands-on), 🟡 nearly (60–79%), ❌ not yet.
| Domain | Skill (official outline) | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Responsible AI: fairness, reliability & safety, privacy & security, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability | ||
| 1 | How generative AI models work | ||
| 1 | Choosing a model based on capabilities | ||
| 1 | Deployment options and configuration parameters | ||
| 1 | Common AI workload scenarios (generative, agentic, text, speech, vision, extraction) | ||
| 1 | Text analysis techniques | ||
| 1 | Speech recognition and synthesis | ||
| 1 | Computer vision and image-generation capabilities | ||
| 1 | Extracting information from text, images, audio and video | ||
| 2 | Effective system and user prompts | ||
| 2 | Deploy a model and use it in the Foundry portal | ||
| 2 | Chat client with the Foundry SDK | ||
| 2 | Create and test a single agent in the portal | ||
| 2 | Client application for an agent | ||
| 2 | App with text analysis | ||
| 2 | Responding to spoken prompts with a multimodal model | ||
| 2 | App with Azure Speech in Foundry Tools | ||
| 2 | Visual input in prompts | ||
| 2 | Creating images with generative models | ||
| 2 | App with vision capabilities | ||
| 2 | Content Understanding: documents and forms | ||
| 2 | Content Understanding: images | ||
| 2 | Content Understanding: audio and video | ||
| 2 | App with information extraction |
Any ❌ → revise that lesson and redo its lab step before booking.
Step 4: Book your exam
- On the AI-901 exam page on Microsoft Learn, select Schedule exam and sign in with your personal Microsoft account.
- Check that your profile name matches your ID.
- Choose Pearson VUE (online or test centre), pick a date within the next 2–3 weeks, while everything is fresh, and complete payment.
- Add the date to your calendar along with the last-week plan from Session 14.
Step 5: Earn your EasyLearnSpace certificate
Finish the course lessons and labs (press Mark as done on each page) and pass Mock Exam 3 on the practice page. Then open Certificates to download your Azure AI-901 Exam Ready certificate and add it to LinkedIn.