MB-800 study guide
MB-800 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Exam MB-800 is the requirement for the Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate credential, an intermediate-level certification for people who implement Dynamics 365 Business Central in small and medium businesses. Functional consultants configure the core application, create companies, migrate data, and collaborate with an implementation team so the system stays manageable and easy to use. The role spans financial management, sales, purchasing, inventory and fixed assets; candidates also configure role centers (insights, cues, action tiles, reports and charts), extend functionality with extensions, and work with Copilot capabilities and integrations to Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Dynamics 365. The exam is proctored and may include interactive components, and Microsoft allows 100 minutes to complete the assessment. The MB-800 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,578 words.
01Set up Business Central
Business Central runs in environments created and managed in the Business Central admin center: a production environment plus sandboxes used for testing, training and safe posting experiments. A Microsoft 365 license is assigned in the Microsoft 365 admin center, but access inside the product is controlled by permission sets on the user card, while a profile controls the role center and which UI elements the user sees.
409 words, about 2 min02Configure financials
G/L account types determine behavior: Posting accounts receive entries and need Direct Posting for journal lines, while Heading, Total, Begin-Total and End-Total accounts only structure reports and cannot be posted to. Account categories and subcategories drive financial reporting layouts.
384 words, about 2 min03Configure sales and purchasing
Sales & Receivables Setup and Purchases & Payables Setup control number series, Prices Including VAT, Allow Line Disc., Invoice Discount Calculation, default location and credit warnings. Location cards decide warehouse behavior with Require Receive, Require Shipment, Require Put-away and Require Pick.
410 words, about 2 min04Perform Business Central operations
Day-to-day operations revolve around posting documents and journals. Before posting, use Preview Posting (or a test report) to see the G/L, tax and inventory entries, and use batch posting for groups of orders.
375 words, about 2 min