Plan and configure agent solutions — Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate

Official references for this objective

• Microsoft — Semantic Kernel to Microsoft Agent Framework Migration Guide | Microsoft Learn

  Decorate the function with a @kernel_function decorator. Have a Plugin class or use the kernel plugin factory to wrap the function. Have a Kernel

• Microsoft — Use the agent design framework - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

  Use a Jobs-To-Be-Done format: As a <user> I need to <job to be done> So that <outcome>

• Microsoft — Apply the structured design framework to an autonomous email support agent - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

  Agent is permitted to read and update tickets, create new tickets, reply to emails. Agent isn't permitted to close tickets and modify sensitive fields.

• Microsoft — Azure Cosmos DB | Microsoft Learn

  Use the managed-identity extension to attach CosmosChatHistoryProvider to ChatClientAgentOptions .

• Microsoft — Azure AI Search | Microsoft Learn

  Agentic mode uses an Azure AI Search Knowledge Base for query planning and multi-hop retrieval.

• Microsoft — Best practices for working in Agent Library in Copilot Agent Kit - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

  One instance per environment. Components are shared across all agents in an environment.

• Microsoft — Microsoft Azure integrations | Microsoft Learn

  Analyze documents, images, audio, and video before sending content to an agent. Azure Content Understanding

• Microsoft — Microsoft Foundry Toolbox | Microsoft Learn

  Set load_tools=False when only skills should be model-visible, then add the Toolbox as a tool so its MCP session connects and use as_skills_provider() as a

• Microsoft — Add Azure AI Search as a knowledge source - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

  When the metadata_storage_path field is included in the index, Copilot Studio interprets that field as the citation.

• Microsoft — Azure AI Search in Microsoft Security Copilot | Microsoft Learn

  The text field must be searchable. The title field must be filterable. The vector field must use text-embedding-ada-002 .

• Microsoft — Design effective agents using a structured design framework - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

  The agent accesses enterprise or sensitive data. The agent takes actions, not just answers questions. Multiple teams or stakeholders are involved.

• Microsoft — Security Copilot Agent Manifest Best Practices | Microsoft Learn

  If a skill is defined in the same manifest YAML, it must be referenced under ChildSkills .