3. Plan and Manage an Azure AI Solution (25-30%)

This is the second-heaviest domain, and it's the foundation everything in Phase 2 runs on. Every agent and completion you build sits on top of decisions made here: which model deployed how, secured by what, costing how much, filtered by which safety policy, and watched by what monitoring. The exam frames these as planning and operations questions — "given this requirement, what do you provision and configure?" — and the recurring trap is choosing a real, working option that doesn't fit the stated constraint (the wrong deployment type, key auth where identity belongs, a budget control that doesn't stop the actual failure mode).