Microsoft AI-103 Exam - Topic 5 Question 4 Discussion

The correct answer is A. Implement image moderation. Azure AI Content Safety provides image analysis that classifies uploaded images for harmful content, including harm categories such as hate, sexual content, violence, and self-harm. Microsoft's Content Safety overview states that the Analyze Image API scans images for harmful content with multi-severity levels, which directly matches the requirement to automatically classify uploaded photos and block content based on configured severity thresholds.

Prompt Shields are intended to detect prompt injection and jailbreak-style attacks against generative models, not to classify image harm categories. Keyword scanning OCR output would only detect visible text extracted from the image and would miss visual harm in the image itself. Blocklists can help match known words or custom patterns, but they are not a complete image safety classifier and do not provide the built-in severity-based image harm classification required here. Image moderation is therefore the correct control for user-uploaded photos. Reference topics: Azure AI Content Safety, image moderation, harm categories, severity levels, Foundry guardrails, and responsible AI controls.