MB-500 study guide
MB-500 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate is an intermediate-level credential for developers who implement and extend finance and operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Candidates build business logic in X++, customize the UI, create and modify reports and workspaces, expose endpoints and APIs to support Power Platform apps and external systems, perform testing, monitor performance, analyze and manipulate data, and manage implementations with application lifecycle management. The MB-500 study guide has 7 sections and about 2,103 words.
01Plan the Architecture and Solution Design
Architecture questions usually ask where something lives rather than how to code it. Learn the layers: an LCS project holds environments and assets; a Tier-1 development VM carries Visual Studio and a local database; cloud-hosted dev/test and sandbox environments are Tier-2 and above; production is managed through the Microsoft service.
297 words, about 1 min02Apply Developer Tools
Development happens in Visual Studio with the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations tools extension. Application Explorer is a read/write view of the entire AOT; Solution Explorer shows only your project.
282 words, about 1 min03Design and Develop AOT Elements
Design tables with proper extended data types rather than base types, a narrow clustered primary-key index (usually surrogate RecId plus a unique alternate key), relations, delete actions, and field groups that drive form layouts and lookups. A table extension adds fields, indexes, field groups and relations to an existing table; it cannot change properties of existing fields.
320 words, about 2 min04Develop and Test Code
Know X++ classes, interfaces, inheritance with extends and implements, access modifiers, static members, delegates and events. Know select syntax: while select with joins, firstonly, forupdate, order by and aggregates, plus the set-based statements insert recordset, update recordset and delete from that replace row-by-row loops.
299 words, about 1 min05Implement Reporting
SSRS covers operational reports and business documents delivered inside the application. Electronic Reporting covers configurable, regulation-driven formats such as e-invoices and tax files, where the format is a configuration a functional consultant can change without a deployment.
291 words, about 1 min06Integrate and Manage Data Solutions
A data entity is a business-oriented, de-normalised view over one or more tables used for import, export, OData and integration. It must be public to be exposed and enabled for data management to appear in the Data management workspace.
285 words, about 1 min07Implement Security and Optimize Performance
Permissions are granted at four levels: entry point, form control, table and field. Privileges bundle permissions, duties bundle privileges, roles bundle duties, and users are assigned roles.
329 words, about 2 min