Microsoft AI Agents: From Foundations to Applications Professional Certificate
A certificate path for teams on Azure: Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen, ending in multi-agent systems. Only worth it if you deploy on Microsoft's stack, and budget for Azure costs on top.
Go to the course on Coursera- Provider
- Microsoft on Coursera
- Price
- Paid
- Certificate
- Paid certificateMicrosoft Professional Certificate after all 4 courses; needs paid enrollment or Coursera Plus.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Time
- 8 weeks at 8 hours/week (about 64 hours)
- Format
- 4-course online series with hands-on projects
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
Included with Coursera Plus; financial aid available. Coursera estimates $40-$200+ in extra Azure and API usage costs. Check current pricing.
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What you will learn.
- 01Azure AI Foundry
- 02Agent workflows
- 03Semantic Kernel
- 04AutoGen
- 05Multi-agent systems
- 06Docker and Kubernetes
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Before you enroll.
From the course page, checked 2026-11-05.
- Who it is for
- Developers with solid programming basics who want to move into an AI agent developer role.
- You need
- Programming basics in any language and cloud computing concepts
- Python with async programming and REST APIs for the advanced courses
- A Microsoft Azure account
- What you build
- A hotel information agent for guest inquiries
- A medical information agent for a regulated domain
- A multi-agent system for a business problem
- Good to know
- Most Azure costs land in courses 3 (OpenAI) and 4 (multi-agent systems)
- Learner rating was 3.3/5 from 36 reviews when checked
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