4. Generative AI Apps and Agents in Microsoft Foundry

This is where the exam's center of gravity sits. Microsoft Foundry is the unified platform you use to deploy models, build chat applications, and create agents — and more than half the exam is about doing exactly that. The good news: at fundamentals level you don't need to write production code. You need to recognize the shape of the workflow — deploy a model, get a client, send a prompt, read the response — and know the difference between a plain chat app and an agent. This phase builds that recognition with short, current code patterns.