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AI-103 Practice Question 68: Background Removal Retired

Microsoft Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103) · Test 7 · question 8 of 10

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Eighteen months ago, a developer built a product-photo pipeline that called the Image Analysis 4.0 Segment API's background removal operation to cut product photos onto transparent backgrounds before they went into the online catalog. The pipeline, unchanged since launch, now fails on every call with the same error and produces no output at all, not intermittently, and not for particular images.

What is the most likely cause, and what should the team do?

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Answer:

  • C. The Image Analysis 4.0 Segment API and background removal service were retired on March 31, 2025, and all calls now fail; migrate to an alternative such as the Florence 2 model's segmentation feature or a third-party tool

Microsoft's documentation for this feature now leads with a retirement notice: "This feature is now retired. On March 31, 2025, the Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Segment API and background removal service were retired. API calls to these services will fail." A pipeline that ran unmodified since launch and now fails uniformly, on every call, matches a hard service retirement far better than a partial or intermittent fault, and the same page names the replacement paths: the open-source Florence 2 model's segmentation feature (which returns an alpha map but doesn't edit the image itself) or a third-party utility for full background removal.

- A is wrong because a size-limit violation would fail only for oversized images, not uniformly across every call, and it wouldn't explain why a pipeline unchanged for 18 months suddenly broke. - B is wrong because Azure doesn't revoke a resource's regional allocation for a feature out from under a customer without a service-wide event; the uniform, total failure matches a retirement, not a region capacity issue. - D is wrong because a stale key produces an authentication error on *every* call to *every* operation on the resource, not a failure isolated to the background removal operation specifically while presumably other calls on the same resource would also need to be affected identically.

Reference: Background removal - Image Analysis

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