Interactive Scenario Simulations

Welcome! These interactive simulations provide hands-on practice to reinforce concepts from Microsoft Learn modules. Each simulation takes approximately 15 minutes and guides you through realistic scenarios with decision points.

Available Simulations

Select and deploy a model for an agent

Duration: ~15 minutes | Topic: Azure AI Foundry

Experience the complete journey of an AI engineer selecting, deploying, and evaluating models for a customer support agent. Navigate through realistic scenarios including:

  • Reviewing Azure DevOps kanban boards
  • Understanding project requirements
  • Evaluating models in the Foundry catalog
  • Deploying an AI agent
  • Observing customer interactions
  • Analyzing performance metrics
  • Making data-driven optimization decisions

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore the Microsoft Foundry model catalog
  • Select models using benchmarks and requirements
  • Deploy models to endpoints
  • Evaluate model performance with real metrics

Define an agent specification

Duration: ~15 minutes | Topic: AI agent design

Step into the role of an AI engineer at Tailwind Traders who writes the specification for a customer support agent before building it. Work one section at a time in agent-spec.md in VS Code, grounding each decision in real input:

  • Reviewing an Azure DevOps backlog of specification work items
  • Capturing user intent from a customer support dashboard
  • Defining suggested prompts from real chat transcripts
  • Scoping capabilities and guardrails from an engineering email
  • Designing evaluation (rubric and shadow rating) from QA input
  • Planning test data with a deliberate coverage mix

Learning Objectives:

  • Write an agent specification that answers the five key questions
  • Ground user intent, prompts, and capabilities in real data
  • Define a rubric and shadow rating to judge quality before building
  • Build a test-data coverage mix that surfaces edge cases and refusals

Contributing

Interested in creating a simulation? Review the Technical Specification for guidelines and requirements.