Microsoft AI-200 plus the official Claude certification, in one live program
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AI-200 is the developer credential for the people who build and run the services behind AI products. Tap any card below to see why it fits you.
Azure developers holding or studying AZ-204
Tap to learn moreAZ-204 retires on 31 July 2026 and cannot be renewed after that. Roughly two thirds of what you know carries straight over. This program covers the rest, which is the vector and AI service work worth learning anyway.
Backend and full stack engineers moving into AI
Tap to learn moreYour systems instincts are most of the job. You add embeddings, vector stores, retrieval and the AI service surface, then wire them into containerized services that scale and stay observable.
Data and platform engineers who want the app layer
Tap to learn moreYou already own pipelines and storage. Here you learn how AI applications consume them: vector similarity search in Cosmos DB, pgvector and Redis, plus the messaging patterns that keep it all asynchronous.
Developers who want Microsoft and Anthropic credentials
Tap to learn moreEnterprises run on Azure and are adopting Claude fast. Holding a current credential on both sides is rare, defensible and exactly what hiring managers are screening for in 2026.
Curriculum
Eight modules taught live across 8 weekends. The four AI-200 domains carry unusually flat weighting, with none below 20 percent, so the schedule gives each of them real class time instead of front loading the easy material. Python is the working language throughout, exactly as the exam assumes.
Every scenario question on this exam starts with a business requirement and ends with a service choice. Module 1 builds the vocabulary and the working environment you will use for the next seven weekends.
This is the domain most candidates underestimate. It is pure implementation and it rewards hands on repetition.
The exam does not ask which database is best. It gives you a constraint and asks which one satisfies it, which is why we teach the trade offs rather than the feature lists.
Vector work is the part of AI-200 that did not exist in AZ-204, and it is the part hiring managers care about most.
AI-200 leans on back end services rather than model theory. This module covers the AI surface you are expected to integrate and operate.
AI calls are slow, rate limited and occasionally fail. The exam tests whether you know how to build around that reality.
The final domain is where scenario questions get decided, and it is also what separates a demo from a system somebody trusts in production.
The Anthropic side of the program. You rebuild part of your Azure work on Claude, which is the fastest way to understand where each platform actually wins.
Portfolio
Each project, drawn as the system you build: the real tools, and the data moving through them. Scroll; they animate.
One image, built with ACR Tasks, deployed two ways — Container Apps and AKS — so you can argue the trade-off from experience.
The same corpus in Cosmos DB, Postgres with pgvector and Managed Redis, measured on latency, recall and cost.
Hybrid search over a real document set, citations, freshness handling, and an eval that scores groundedness instead of assuming it.
Service Bus and Event Grid feeding Document Intelligence, with retries, dead-lettering, idempotent handlers and a human review queue.
Your capstone shipped on Azure AI Foundry and rebuilt on the Claude API, instrumented and cost-tracked on both sides.
Skills Covered
Tools & Frameworks Covered
Azure AI FoundryAzure AI SearchAzure Container AppsAzure Container RegistryAzure Kubernetes ServiceDockerAzure FunctionsDurable FunctionsAzure Service BusEvent GridEvent HubsCosmos DBPostgreSQL and pgvectorAzure Managed RedisAzure Key VaultApplication Insights
OpenTelemetryEntra IDPython
FastAPI
GitHub ActionsGPT and Foundry ModelsClaude APIClaude Code
Certification & Partnerships
Modules 1 to 7 follow the published AI-200 skills outline in blueprint proportion, and Module 8 prepares you for the official Claude certification. Every module is delivered live by trainers authorized by the partners below.
Authorized Training & Technology Partners
Anthropic's official, proctored credential at the architecture level. It validates your ability to design and ship production ready Claude applications, covering agentic architecture, MCP integration, Claude Code workflows and context reliability.
Validates your ability to plan, build and deploy generative AI and agentic solutions on Azure using Microsoft Foundry, including grounding, tool integration and responsible AI practices.
Certification exams are administered independently by Anthropic and Microsoft and are not included in program tuition.
Program Creators
Six trainers authorized by industry partners run this program live. Hover any card for their full background.
Johan
Certified Trainer
D365 Customer Service Lead, Power Platform School Founder
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D365 Customer Service Lead – Europe at Avanade, and founder of the Power Platform School. A Microsoft Business Applications MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer based in London, specializing in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Power Platform.
Akim Nyamande
Certified Trainer
Microsoft, CompTIA, Juniper and Cisco Certified Trainer.
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IT training facilitator with over five years of experience and certifications across Microsoft, CompTIA, Juniper, and Cisco. Previously a Network Administrator before moving into technical training, now delivering hands-on courses in networking, systems administration, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
Ali El Khatib
Certified Trainer
Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI), Microsoft Certified Trainer
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Infrastructure Engineer at RHUH with 13 years in the training field, holding CCSI, MCSE, CCNP Routing and Switching, CCNP Security, CompTIA and Microsoft Azure certifications.
Arshad Ahmad
Certified Trainer
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Cybersecurity & Power Platform Expert
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Technology Trainer with 15 years in strategic client delivery, holding MCT, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Cybersecurity Architect Expert and Power BI Data Analyst credentials, with 200+ trainings delivered.
Florian Garcia Compte
Certified Trainer
Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI)
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Partner Director at AVAANZA FORMACION, a Cisco Learning Partner based in Madrid. Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CCSI No. 21053) specializing in Cisco Data Center (ACI/SDN), Nexus, and Wireless, delivering official Cisco certification courses including CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, and CCNP Data Center.
Shantanu Pandey
Certified Trainer
Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA and HPE Certified Trainer
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Director of Engineering at Meteoros Automation, ranked in Microsoft's Top 100 Trainers of 2025, holding MCT, Google Cloud, NVIDIA and PeopleCert credentials, with 500+ trainings delivered since 2011.
Deep
Certified Trainer
Anthropic Authorized Instructor and AI Cloud Specialist
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Seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience across AI, cloud computing, and enterprise training. Known for simplifying complex ideas and delivering practical, real world learning.
Sid
Certified Trainer
Anthropic Authorized Instructor and Azure Data Engineer
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Dynamic corporate trainer and consultant with more than 10 years of experience across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Engineering, and modern cloud platforms. Focused on clear, practical learning that sticks.
Sravia
Certified Trainer
NVIDIA Authorized Instructor and AI Data Specialist
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Passionate AI and data evangelist with over 10 years of experience across machine learning, MLOps, and cloud native technologies. Dedicated to delivering impactful, engaging enterprise training programs.
Vikas Mittal
Certified Trainer
Google and Anthropic Authorized AI Instructor
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Veteran technology trainer with more than 25 years of rich industry experience spanning Google, Microsoft, and emerging AI platforms. An exceptional mentor recognized for proven teaching excellence.
Bipeen
Certified Trainer
AWS, Microsoft, and Anthropic Certified Trainer
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AI, machine learning, and cloud transformation expert with more than 25 years of experience. A renowned global corporate trainer and conference speaker known for practical, outcome driven sessions.
Student Voices
Coordinates HR operations and talent strategy across territorial branches at UMANA SPA in Veneto, Italy, with over eight years of experience in organizational development.
Eric Mandviwala
HR Operations & Talent Strategy, UMANA SPA
Works as a Senior Spatial Data Analyst at HERE Technologies, specializing in GIS, Python, SQL, and FME, with a track record of building automation processes for large-scale mapping data.
Siriporn Ariyadilak
Senior Spatial Data Analyst, HERE Technologies
Works as a Senior Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, with nearly three years of QA experience testing e-learning web apps across functional, UI, accessibility, and API testing.
Nihar Gawde
Senior Software Engineer, HERE Technologies
Your Certificate
A verifiable, portfolio-ready certificate that signals real, project-tested skill, not just seat time.
Fees & Batch
AI Cloud Developer Program (AI-200 + CCFA)
EMI options available · Corporate/team batches, contact us
Enroll NowPut it in perspective: the recorded AI-200 courses on the market sell a video library and a practice test for a similar price. This is 60 plus hours of live mentor led class time, five shipped applications in your own subscription, a full length domain scored mock, and an Anthropic Claude certification track that nobody else bundles.
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Where This Takes You
AZ-204 was the most widely held Azure developer credential in the market and it disappears in July 2026. Everyone who held it needs a replacement, and the ones who move first set the rate.
Azure AI Cloud Developer 🔥 Replaces AZ-204
The direct successor role to Azure Developer Associate, rebuilt around AI workloads.
Build and operate the back end services behind AI products: containers, vector stores, event driven pipelines and the monitoring that keeps them honest.
AI Application Engineer ⚡ Fastest Growing
The engineer who turns a model into a product feature customers rely on.
Own retrieval quality, structured output, safety gates and cost per request across the full request path.
Platform Engineer for AI Workloads
Where container skills and AI infrastructure meet.
Run the Container Apps and AKS estate the AI teams deploy onto, with scaling, quotas, observability and cost governance as your remit.
Solutions Engineer, AI Products
Client facing, and paid accordingly.
Scope and build AI systems inside customer environments, which is exactly the ground our Forward Deployed Engineer program takes further.
Next credentials: AI-103 and AI-300
The rest of the 2026 Microsoft AI ladder.
AI-103 goes deeper on agents, AI-300 covers MLOps and GenAIOps. AI-200 is the broad base both of them build on.
Live, online, Saturday–Sunday · Limited seats · AZ-204 retires in July 2026, so certify on its successor first.
Reserve Your SeatFAQ
AI-200, Developing AI Cloud Solutions on Azure, earns the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate credential. It is the replacement for AZ-204, which Microsoft retires on 31 July 2026 along with its renewal assessments. Anyone holding AZ-204 needs a new credential, and AI-200 is it.
AI-103 goes deep on building AI apps and agents on Azure AI Foundry. AI-200 is broader and more back end: containers, data and vector stores, messaging, security and monitoring across the whole solution lifecycle. Choose AI-200 for platform range, AI-103 for agent depth. We run both programs, so we will help you pick.
Roughly two thirds. Containers, messaging, security and monitoring all remain, and the genuinely new material is the vector database and AI service work, which is the part worth learning regardless of the exam.
Python is the assumed language on this exam, so we teach the patterns you need in Module 1 and use them all the way through. Working experience in any language is enough to start.
A dedicated module preparing you for the official Anthropic Claude certification, covering the platform, the Claude API and Claude Code, with practice questions and a cross platform capstone. Exam registration is done with Anthropic separately, as are Microsoft exam vouchers.
Every session is recorded and you keep lifetime access, plus the option to re attend any future batch at no extra cost.
