diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/CHANGELOG.md
index d8e02de2692e..b0ac4a4e7f86 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 * Model property `AnswerSpan.confidence_score` has been renamed to `AnswerSpan.confidence`
 * Model property `TextAnswer.confidence_score` has been renamed to `TextAnswer.confidence`
 * Model property `TextAnswer.answer_span` has been renamed to `TextAnswer.short_answer`
-* Enums `LogicalOperationKind` and `RankerType` have been removed.
+* Enums `LogicalOperationKind` and `RankerType` have been removed
+* The `operations` and `aio.operations` namespaces are no longer public
 
 ### Bugs Fixed
 
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/operations/__init__.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_operations/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/operations/__init__.py
rename to sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_operations/__init__.py
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/operations/_operations.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_operations/_operations.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/operations/_operations.py
rename to sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_operations/_operations.py
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_question_answering_client.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_question_answering_client.py
index 69dca9f806e8..931d0dbb099a 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_question_answering_client.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/_question_answering_client.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 from . import models
 from ._configuration import QuestionAnsweringClientConfiguration
-from .operations import QuestionAnsweringClientOperationsMixin
+from ._operations import QuestionAnsweringClientOperationsMixin
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     # pylint: disable=unused-import,ungrouped-imports
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/operations/__init__.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_operations/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/operations/__init__.py
rename to sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_operations/__init__.py
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/operations/_operations.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_operations/_operations.py
similarity index 99%
rename from sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/operations/_operations.py
rename to sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_operations/_operations.py
index ae74f554036a..89249c65d413 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/operations/_operations.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_operations/_operations.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from azure.core.tracing.decorator_async import distributed_trace_async
 
 from ... import models as _models
-from ...operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request, build_get_answers_request
+from ..._operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request, build_get_answers_request
 from ..._patch import (
     _validate_text_records,
     _get_positional_body,
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_question_answering_client.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_question_answering_client.py
index 600020c18cd8..a294ac8c68ea 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_question_answering_client.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/azure/ai/language/questionanswering/aio/_question_answering_client.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 from .. import models
 from ._configuration import QuestionAnsweringClientConfiguration
-from .operations import QuestionAnsweringClientOperationsMixin
+from ._operations import QuestionAnsweringClientOperationsMixin
 
 
 class QuestionAnsweringClient(QuestionAnsweringClientOperationsMixin):
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase.py
index 8f627b4915ea..ed32bdddc3e5 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 )
 
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering import QuestionAnsweringClient
-from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.operations._operations import build_get_answers_request
+from azure.ai.language.questionanswering._operations._operations import build_get_answers_request
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.models import (
     AnswersOptions,
     KnowledgeBaseAnswerContext,
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase_async.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase_async.py
index 4dee969204c1..3879ea3e0081 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase_async.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_knowledgebase_async.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     MetadataFilter,
 )
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.aio import QuestionAnsweringClient
-from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.operations._operations import build_get_answers_request
+from azure.ai.language.questionanswering._operations._operations import build_get_answers_request
 
 
 class QnAKnowledgeBaseTestsAsync(AsyncQuestionAnsweringTest):
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text.py
index 863083bc614c..8c77a64c3610 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 )
 
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering import QuestionAnsweringClient
-from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request
+from azure.ai.language.questionanswering._operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.models import (
     AnswersFromTextOptions,
     TextDocument
diff --git a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text_async.py b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text_async.py
index 829bc32dcd3b..bd2c35fddf52 100644
--- a/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text_async.py
+++ b/sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/tests/test_query_text_async.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 )
 
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.aio import QuestionAnsweringClient
-from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request
+from azure.ai.language.questionanswering._operations._operations import build_get_answers_from_text_request
 from azure.ai.language.questionanswering.models import (
     AnswersFromTextOptions,
     TextDocument