Microsoft Operationalizing Machine Learning and Generative AI Solutions : AI-300 Exam

Case Study 1 - Fabrikam Inc.
Background
Fabrikam Inc. is a mid-sized healthcare analytics company that provides population health dashboards and predictive insights to regional hospital systems across the United States.
Fabrikam Inc. customers rely on near real time analytics to monitor patient flow, staffing needs, and readmission risks. They use multiple traditional forecasting machine learning models for predictions.
Fabrikam Inc. has an established Microsoft Azure footprint. The company uses Jupyter Notebooks that run on a local server as the primary development environment. The data science team is experiencing scalability, asset management and code management issues with the current development platform. Fabrikam Inc. plans to migrate to a cloud-based development environment to mitigate the issues.
Additionally, the company plans to implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based chat application for client support. Leadership requires the application to be developed and deployed with a low operational risk.
Current Environment
Fabrikam Inc. operates a single Azure subscription that has the following components:
* Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that contains de-identified clinical and operational datasets
* Azure AI Search indexing curated analytical documents and reference materials
* A small set of Python-based training scripts maintained by data scientists
* Azure OpenAI Service with deployed foundational models
* A Microsoft Foundry resource for building a RAG-based solution
Evaluation data has manually defined expected responses.
The current challenges faced by the data science team include the following:
* Model training jobs are run manually from notebooks.
* Experiment tracking is inconsistent
* Model versions are registered without standardized metadata.
* Deployment is performed manually by data scientists, with limited rollback capability.
* The team has no standardized evaluation process for generative AI outputs.
The environment currently allows public network access. Authentication relies on user accounts rather than managed identities. Compute targets are manually created and shared across experiments. This has led to resource contention during peak usage.
Business Requirements
Fabrikam Inc. has the following business requirements for the modernization initiative:
* Provide a conversational interface that answers analytics questions by using internal documents and datasets.
* Ensure that sensitive healthcare-related data is not exposed outside the Fabrikam Inc. Azure tenant.
* Enable repeatable and auditable model training and deployment processes.
* Support experimentation to compare prompt strategies and fine-tuned models.
* Align the model with the ranked preferences and optimize behavior for the long term.
* Minimize disruption to existing analytics workloads during rollout.
Technical Requirements
To support the business goals, Fabrikam Inc. identifies these technical requirements:
* Use Azure Machine Learning workspaces to centrally manage data assets, models, and environments.
* Implement experiment tracking and model versioning for all training jobs.
* Orchestrate training and evaluation by using pipelines rather than manually running notebooks.
* Deploy traditional machine learning models with support for staged rollout and rollback.
* Improve RAG-based solution output quality.
* Use the existing evaluation datasets that are based on real data with input-output pairs.
* Apply advanced fine-tuning techniques only when prompt engineering is insufficient Issues and Constraints Fabrikam Inc. must comply with internal security policies that require the company to restrict network access and avoid long-lived secrets. The data science team has limited Azure DevOps experience, so solutions must favor managed services and automation over custom infrastructure.
Cost predictability is important. Leadership prefers serverless or managed compute options where possible but is willing to approve dedicated compute for stable production workloads.
Problem Statement
Fabrikam Inc. must design and implement an Azure-based AI operations solution that enables reliable training, evaluation, deployment, and iteration of generative AI models. The solution must support experimentation and gradual rollout while ensuring governance, security, and operational stability. The data science and platform teams must collaborate to deliver this solution by using Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Foundry capabilities.
Hotspot Question
You need to configure an optimization method to meet Fabrikam Inc.'s technical requirements.
Which strategy should you apply first? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your model requires access to external APIs using sensitive credentials during inference. You must ensure credentials are not exposed in code, logs, or environment variables. What should you implement?

• A. Store in config files
• B. Encrypt credentials locally
• C. Use Azure Key Vault with managed identity
• D. Hardcode credentials

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Hotspot Question
You manage a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that retrieves internal policy documents from a vector index.
Recent analysis shows that:
- Retrieved results frequently include duplicated content from the same document.
- Retrieved chunks sometimes span unrelated policy sections.
You review the following retrieval and ingestion configurations:

You need to reduce duplicated retrieval results and improve chunk relevance across policy sections. For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A team uses a hosted Git repository to store training code and pipeline definitions of a machine learning experiment.
The team must ensure that access to the repository is granted without requiring each developer to store personal access tokens on their machines.
Repository access must be secure and centrally managed to reduce credential spread.
You need to enable secure access between an Azure Machine Learning workspace and the repository.
What should you do?

• A. Generate a personal access token and store it in a pipeline variable.
• B. Share a repository deploy key across all developers on the team.
• C. Configure the workspace to use a managed identity for repository access.
• D. Require each developer to authenticate locally before every pipeline run.

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An organization runs a customer-facing generative AI application built by using Microsoft Foundry. The application uses multiple prompts linked to multiple workflows to generate responses in production.
The application occasionally returns incomplete responses. The model call succeeds, but the final message sometimes stops early.
The issue cannot be reproduced reliably in development.
You need to identify where and why response generation is terminating early in production.
Which approach should you use?

• A. Replace the deployed model with a smaller model to reduce variability across responses.
• B. Run a pre-release evaluation workflow to score groundedness and relevance on a test dataset.
• C. Increase max_tokens and temperature to reduce the chance of early termination.
• D. Enable tracing and logging so that each workflow can be inspected.

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