Case Study 1 - Fabrikam Inc.
Background
Fabrikam Inc. is a mid-sized healthcare analytics company that provides population health dashboards and predictive insights to regional hospital systems across the United States.
Fabrikam Inc. customers rely on near real time analytics to monitor patient flow, staffing needs, and readmission risks. They use multiple traditional forecasting machine learning models for predictions.
Fabrikam Inc. has an established Microsoft Azure footprint. The company uses Jupyter Notebooks that run on a local server as the primary development environment. The data science team is experiencing scalability, asset management and code management issues with the current development platform. Fabrikam Inc. plans to migrate to a cloud-based development environment to mitigate the issues.
Additionally, the company plans to implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based chat application for client support. Leadership requires the application to be developed and deployed with a low operational risk.
Current Environment
Fabrikam Inc. operates a single Azure subscription that has the following components:
* Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that contains de-identified clinical and operational datasets
* Azure AI Search indexing curated analytical documents and reference materials
* A small set of Python-based training scripts maintained by data scientists
* Azure OpenAI Service with deployed foundational models
* A Microsoft Foundry resource for building a RAG-based solution
Evaluation data has manually defined expected responses.
The current challenges faced by the data science team include the following:
* Model training jobs are run manually from notebooks.
* Experiment tracking is inconsistent
* Model versions are registered without standardized metadata.
* Deployment is performed manually by data scientists, with limited rollback capability.
* The team has no standardized evaluation process for generative AI outputs.
The environment currently allows public network access. Authentication relies on user accounts rather than managed identities. Compute targets are manually created and shared across experiments. This has led to resource contention during peak usage.
Business Requirements
Fabrikam Inc. has the following business requirements for the modernization initiative:
* Provide a conversational interface that answers analytics questions by using internal documents and datasets.
* Ensure that sensitive healthcare-related data is not exposed outside the Fabrikam Inc. Azure tenant.
* Enable repeatable and auditable model training and deployment processes.
* Support experimentation to compare prompt strategies and fine-tuned models.
* Align the model with the ranked preferences and optimize behavior for the long term.
* Minimize disruption to existing analytics workloads during rollout.
Technical Requirements
To support the business goals, Fabrikam Inc. identifies these technical requirements:
* Use Azure Machine Learning workspaces to centrally manage data assets, models, and environments.
* Implement experiment tracking and model versioning for all training jobs.
* Orchestrate training and evaluation by using pipelines rather than manually running notebooks.
* Deploy traditional machine learning models with support for staged rollout and rollback.
* Improve RAG-based solution output quality.
* Use the existing evaluation datasets that are based on real data with input-output pairs.
* Apply advanced fine-tuning techniques only when prompt engineering is insufficient Issues and Constraints Fabrikam Inc. must comply with internal security policies that require the company to restrict network access and avoid long-lived secrets. The data science team has limited Azure DevOps experience, so solutions must favor managed services and automation over custom infrastructure.
Cost predictability is important. Leadership prefers serverless or managed compute options where possible but is willing to approve dedicated compute for stable production workloads.
Problem Statement
Fabrikam Inc. must design and implement an Azure-based AI operations solution that enables reliable training, evaluation, deployment, and iteration of generative AI models. The solution must support experimentation and gradual rollout while ensuring governance, security, and operational stability. The data science and platform teams must collaborate to deliver this solution by using Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Foundry capabilities.
Hotspot Question
You need to deploy the RAG-based chat application that meets Fabrikam Inc.'s business and technical requirements.
Which configuration should you use for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Drag and Drop Question
A team runs training jobs by using multiple Azure Machine Learning pipelines.
The team must ensure that all runs use the same Python packages and system libraries. The solution must allow dependency updates to be versioned without modifying training code.
You need to configure the workspace so that runtime dependencies are consistent and reusable.
Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

Hotspot Question
You manage a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that uses Azure AI Search to retrieve documents from an indexed knowledge base.
The system must support the following retrieval requirements:
- Queries that include exact policy identifiers must return matching
documents even when semantic similarity is low.
- Natural-language questions must prioritize semantically relevant
documents even when keywords are not an exact match.
You need to configure the retrieval approach to meet the requirements.
How should you configure the retrieval behavior for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You have an Azure Machine Learning workspace. You connect to a terminal session from the Notebooks page in Azure Machine Learning studio.
You plan to add a new Jupyter kernel that will be accessible from the same terminal session.
You need to perform the task that must be completed before you can add the new kernel.
Solution: Delete the Python 3.8 - AzureML kernel.
Does the solution meet the goal?

A pipeline step fails intermittently due to transient compute issues. You need to improve reliability without modifying core logic or increasing cost significantly. What is the BEST approach?