Chapter 3 of 4 · Microsoft AI-200
Connect to and Consume Azure Services
Queuing back-end work with Service Bus, event-driven workflows with Event Grid, and building serverless APIs with Functions.
- 2topics
- 9 minfast track
- 1diagrams and exhibits
- 20–25%of the exam
Topics in this chapter
Take them in order, or jump to the one you need.
- 1Azure Service Bus and Azure Event GridAI-200 messaging and events: Service Bus queues, topics, subscriptions and dead-letter queues, and Event Grid custom events…Diagram5 min
- 2Developing and Deploying Azure FunctionsAI-200 Azure Functions: triggers and bindings, building serverless APIs, the Python programming model, hosting plans, app…4 min
About this chapter
What this chapter covers
Connect to and Consume Azure Services is 20 to 25% of the AI-200 exam. It has two skill groups: developing event- and message-based AI solutions, and developing and implementing Azure Functions.
AI workloads are often slow and bursty: generating embeddings, calling models, processing documents. Messaging and events let you decouple that work from the user's request, and Functions run code when a message or event arrives.
How the topics fit together
Service Bus carries messages that must be processed reliably, in order if needed. Event Grid delivers notifications that something happened. Azure Functions run small pieces of code in response to both.
Message versus event is a common exam distinction. A message is a command or data the receiver must process. An event is a notification that something happened.
How to use these pages
Each topic page has the same shape, so you can skim for what you need.
- What it is: the idea in plain words.
- How it works: the mechanism, with tables and examples.
- What to remember for the exam: the facts to memorise and how questions are phrased.
- Common mistakes: the classic traps.
- Check yourself: three questions to test your understanding.
Ready for more practice?
The full Microsoft AI-200 question bank has 650 questions, with timed practice exams and an explanation for every answer.
This study guide is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft. Vendor names, certification names and exam codes are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.