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MB-500 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics

The MB-500 exam measures Plan the architecture and solution design, Apply developer tools, and Design and develop AOT elements. Use this page to review the current official syllabus, major domains, and source links before exam day.

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Skills measured by domain

Use the weighting table to decide where to spend the most study time.

Domain Weight
Plan the architecture and solution design 5–10%
Apply developer tools 5–10%
Design and develop AOT elements 15–20%
Develop and test code 20–25%
Implement reporting 10–15%
Integrate and manage data solutions 15–20%
Implement security and optimize performance 10–15%

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Audience profile

  • As a candidate for this exam, you’re a developer who works with finance and operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to implement and extend applications that meet the requirements of a business. You provide fully realized solutions by using:
  • Standardized application coding patterns
  • Extensible features
  • External integrations
  • As a candidate for this exam, you do the following:
  • Develop business logic by using X++.
  • Create and modify finance and operations app reports and workspaces.
  • Customize the UI.
  • Provide endpoints and APIs to support Microsoft Power Platform apps and external systems.
  • Perform testing.
  • Monitor performance.
  • Analyze and manipulate data.

Detailed outline

Scan each section as a working study checklist instead of one long wall of text.

Plan the architecture and solution design (5–10%)

  • Differentiate between the cloud and on-premises versions of finance and operations apps
  • Extend the functionality of finance and operations apps into the Microsoft ecosystem
  • Manage environments by using Lifecycle Services tools and components
  • Research and resolve issues by using Issue Search
  • Perform activities that require asset libraries
  • Manage package deployments between environments
  • Manage Unified Developer Experience (UDE) developer environments in Power Platform admin center
  • Manage environments by using the Implementation portal

Apply developer tools (5–10%)

  • Create and manage extension models
  • Manage metadata by using Application Explorer
  • Synchronize data dictionary changes with the application database
  • Create elements by using element designers
  • Perform debugging activities
  • Create, check out, review, and check in code
  • Maintain project artifacts
  • Branch and merge code
  • Compare code and resolve version conflicts
  • Choose a version control system
  • Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Design and develop AOT elements (15–20%)

  • Create and extend forms
  • Create and extend menus and menu items
  • Create and use label files
  • Create and extend tables
  • Create and extend views, queries, and maps
  • Create and extend data entities
  • Create and extend classes
  • Add event handler methods to a class
  • Add attributes or modifiers to a class

Develop and test code (20–25%)

  • Implement common structured programming constructs of X++
  • Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) data
  • Implement global functions in X++
  • Resolve best practice warnings
  • Implement variable scoping
  • Implement inheritance and abstraction concept
  • Implement query objects and the QueryBuilder class
  • Implement attribute classes
  • Implement Chain of Command (CoC)
  • Assess the extensibility of code and avoid breaking changes
  • Implement event handler classes and delegates
  • Implement the SysOperation framework