Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer (MB-500) Practice Exam

Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer (MB-500)

About Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer MB-500 Certification

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: plan architecture and solution design; apply developer tools; design and develop AOT elements; develop and test code; implement reporting; integrate and manage data solutions, and implement security and optimize performance.

Skills Acquired

• Candidates for this exam are developers who work with Finance and Operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to implement and extend applications that meet the requirements of a business.
•  Candidates provide fully realized solutions by using standardized application coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.
• Candidates develop business logic by using X++, create and modify Finance and Operations reports and workspaces, customize user interfaces, provide endpoints and APIs to support Power Platform apps and external systems, perform testing, monitor performance, analyze and manipulate data, create technical designs and implementation details, and implement permission policies and security requirements.

Who should take the exam?

Candidates should have deep knowledge and experience using the underlying framework, data structures, and objects associated with the Finance and Operations solutions. Candidates should have experience with products that include Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools, and SQL Server Management Studio.

Prerequisite for the Exam

• Candidates for this exam should have a deep knowledge and experience using the underlying framework, data structures, and objects associated with the Finance and Operations solutions.
• Candidates should have experience with products that include Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, LCS tools, or SQL Server Management Studio.
• Candidates should have experience in developing code by using object-oriented programming languages, analyzing and manipulating data by using Transact-SQL code, and creating and running Windows PowerShell commands and scripts.

Course Structure

The Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer (MB-500) exam covers the latest exam updates and topics

MODULE 1 - Plan architecture and solution design (10-15%)

Identify the major components of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps

• identify the Finance and Operations app modules required for a solution based on business requirements
• identify architectural differences between the cloud and on-premises versions of Finance and Operations apps
• identify components of the application stack
• differentiate the purposes and interrelationships between packages, projects, models, and elements

Design and implement a user interface

• describe the Finance and Operations user interface layouts and components
• design the workspaces
• design and personalize user interface elements including grids, forms, and pages configure filtering options

Implement Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Lifecycle Services (LCS)

• describe the capabilities of the Environment Monitoring Tool within Lifecycle Services (LCS)
• select the purpose and appropriate uses of LCS tools and components
• research and resolve issues by using Issue Search
• identify activities that require asset libraries
• prepare deployment packages and deploy packages

MODULE 2 - Apply Developer Tools (10-15%)

Customize Finance and Operations apps by using Visual Studio

• create extension models
• design and build projects
• manage metadata using Application Explorer
• synchronize data dictionary changes with the application database
• create elements by using the Element Designer

Manage source code and artifacts by using version control

• create, check out, and check in code and artifacts
• branch and merge code
• compare code and resolve version conflicts

Implement Finance and Operations app framework functionality

• implement the SysOperation framework
• implement the asynchronous framework
• implement the workflow framework
• implement the unit test framework
• identify the need for and implement the Sandbox framework

MODULE 3 - Design and develop AOT Elements (20-25%)

Create forms

• add a new form to a project and apply a pattern (template)
• configure a data source for the form
• add a grid and grid fields, groups, and other controls to a form
• create and populate menu items
• test form functionality and data connections
• add a form extension to a project for selected standard forms

Create and extend tables

• add tables to a project
• add table fields and field properties to a table
• add a table extension to a project for a table
• add fields groups, relations, delete actions, and indices

Create Extended Data Types (EDT) and enumerations

• add an EDT to a project and populate EDT properties
• add an enumeration to a project
• add or update enumeration elements and enumeration element properties
• add an extension of EDT and enumerations

Create classes and extend AOT elements

• add a new class to a project
• create a new class extension and add new methods
• add event handler methods to a class

MODULE 4 - Develop and test code (10-15%)

Develop X++ code

• identify and implement base types and operators
• implement common structured programming constructs of X++
• create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) data
• identify and implement global functions in X++
• implement table and form methods

Develop object-oriented code

• implement X++ variable scoping
• implement inheritance and abstraction concept
• implement query objects and the QueryBuilder class
• implement attribute classes
• implement chain of command

MODULE 5 - Implement reporting (10-15%)

Describe the capabilities and limitations of reporting tools in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps 

• create and modify report data sources and supporting classes
• implement reporting security requirements
• describe the report publishing process
• describe the differences between using Entity store and Bring your own database (BYOD) as reporting data stores

Design, create, and revise Dynamics reports

• create and modify reports in Finance and Operations apps that use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• create and modify Finance and Operations apps reports by using Power BI
• create and modify Finance and Operations apps reports FO by using Microsoft Excel

Design, create, and revise Dynamics workspaces

• design KPIs
• create drill-through workspace elements
• implement built-in charts, KPIs, aggregate measurement, aggregate dimension, and
• other reporting components

MODULE 6 - Integrate and manage data solutions (10-15%)

Identify data integration scenarios

• select an appropriate data integration API
• identify differences between synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns
• Implement data integration concepts and solutions
• develop a data entity by using Visual Studio
• develop, import, and export composite data entities
• identify and manage unmapped fields in data entities
• consume external web services by using OData and RESTful APIs
• integrate Finance and Operations apps with Microsoft Excel by using OData
• develop and integrate Power Automate and Power Apps

Implement data management

• import and export data using entities between Finance and Operations apps and other systems
• monitor the status and availability of entities
• enable Entity Change Tracking
• set up a data project and recurring data jobs
• design entity sequencing
• generate field mapping between source and target data structures
• develop data transformations

MODULE 7 - Implement security and optimize performance (10-15%)

Implement role-based security policies and requirements

• create or modify duties, privileges, permissions, and roles
• enforce permissions policies
• implement record-level security by using Extensible Data Security (XDS)

Apply fundamental performance optimization techniques

• identify and apply caching mechanisms for forms and tables
• implement the global cache
• create or modify temporary tables for optimization purposes
• determine when to use set-based queries and row-based queries
• modify queries to optimize performance
• modify variable scope to optimize performance
• analyze and optimize concurrency

Optimize user interface performance

• capture traces by using TraceParser and analyze traces
• diagnose and optimize client performance by using Microsoft Edge F12 Developer tools, Fiddler, and other common tools
• diagnose and optimize client performance by using Performance Timer

Exam Pattern 

• Exam Name: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer
• Exam Code: MB-500
• Number of Questions: 40-60
• Length of Time:  120 Minutes
• Registration Fee: $165.00
• Passing Score: 700 (on a scale of 1-1000)
• Exam Language English

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