Azure Cognitive Services Flashcards
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What are Azure Cognitive Services (now Azure AI Services)?
Answer: Pre-built AI APIs and models accessible via REST endpoints without requiring ML expertise
Azure Cognitive Services (rebranded as Azure AI Services) are pre-built AI capabilities exposed as REST APIs that developers can consume without deep machine learning knowledge.
Which pricing tier for Azure Cognitive Services allows you to use the APIs for free within monthly usage limits?
Answer: Free (F0) tier
The Free (F0) tier of Azure Cognitive Services provides limited API calls per minute and per month at no cost, suitable for development and testing.
How do you authenticate API calls to Azure Cognitive Services?
Answer: Using a subscription key (API key) passed in the request header
Azure Cognitive Services authenticate API calls using a subscription key passed in the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header, or via an Azure AD token.
What is an Azure Cognitive Services 'endpoint'?
Answer: The unique URL used to send API requests to a provisioned Cognitive Services resource
The endpoint is the base URL unique to your Cognitive Services resource, used to route API requests to the correct service instance.
Which category of Azure AI Services focuses on understanding and processing human language?
Answer: Azure AI Language
Azure AI Language (part of Azure AI Services) provides NLP capabilities including sentiment analysis, NER, key phrase extraction, and conversational language understanding.
What is the Azure AI Services 'multi-service' resource?
Answer: A single Azure resource that provides access to multiple Cognitive Services APIs under one key and endpoint
A multi-service resource lets you access multiple Azure AI Services (Vision, Language, Speech, etc.) using a single API key and endpoint, simplifying management.