I didn’t sign up for AI-102 certification because I love exams.
I did it because one night, around 11:30 pm, my Azure OpenAI pipeline broke in production… again.

Latency spikes, hallucinated outputs, and a client asking a question I couldn’t confidently answer:
“Are we even using Azure AI the right way?”

That moment hurt my pride more than any failed build.

I’ve worked on Azure AI projects for over five years. I thought experience alone was enough.
Turns out, it wasn’t.

So I booked the exam. One month later, I passed 2026 AI-102 on the first try.
Here’s the honest version of how that happened — no marketing talk, no hero story.

Why I Suddenly Decided to Take AI-102 Last Year

The Project That Exposed My Blind Spots

The project itself wasn’t small.
Enterprise client. GenAI-powered internal assistant. Azure OpenAI + Cognitive Search + Functions.

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