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MB-800 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics

The MB-800 exam measures Set up Business Central, Configure financials, and Configure sales and purchasing. 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
Set up Business Central 25–30%
Configure financials 30–35%
Configure sales and purchasing 10–15%
Perform Business Central operations 25–30%

What to know before you study

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Purpose of this document

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Audience profile

  • As a candidate for this exam, you’re a functional consultant who implements Business Central including the configuration of the core application, creating companies, and migrating data for small and medium businesses. You configure the application in collaboration with the implementation team to provide the business with manageability and ease of use by setting up modules, including:
  • Financial management
  • Sales
  • Purchasing
  • Inventory
  • Fixed Assets
  • You have applied knowledge of meeting business needs by specializing in one or more feature sets of Business Central.
  • As a candidate, you may configure role centers including adapting insights, cues, action tiles, reports, charts, and utilize copilots inside Business Central. You also may expand functionality by using extensions.
  • You understand how to connect and use technologies with Business Central, including:
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Detailed outline

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

Set up Business Central (25–30%)

  • Create a company in Business Central
  • Create a company by using Assisted Setup
  • Create a configuration worksheet
  • Create and use a configuration package
  • Create journal opening balances
  • Migrate data to and within Business Central
  • Create and manage user profiles
  • Set up a new user
  • Create permissions and permission sets
  • Apply security filters
  • Assign user permissions by using security groups and permission sets
  • Configure and use security auditing in Business Central

Configure financials (30–35%)

  • Configure general ledger setup
  • Configure accounting periods
  • Set up payment terms
  • Set up deferrals
  • Configure currencies including exchange rates
  • Set up payment methods
  • Set up general ledger accounts
  • Create account categories and subcategories
  • Prepare financial reporting with financial data and account categories
  • Create specific posting groups including bank, customer, vendor, and inventory
  • Create general posting groups
  • Configure the general posting setup

Configure sales and purchasing (10–15%)

  • Configure inventory set up
  • Configure core item settings, including item categories, item attributes, units of measure, and item variants
  • Create locations
  • Assess the relationship between items, item ledger entries, value entries, and general ledger entries
  • Differentiate between costing methods
  • Configure stock keeping units
  • Configure core customer settings including shipping agents, locations, and shipping addresses
  • Configure core vendor settings including order address, lead time, and locations
  • Manage vendor purchase prices
  • Manage purchase line and invoice discounts
  • Manage customer sales prices
  • Manage sales line and invoice discounts

Perform Business Central operations (25–30%)

  • Differentiate between designing, customizing, and personalizing pages
  • Customize pages
  • Apply and save filters
  • Find documents and related entries
  • Use the Inspect pages and data feature
  • Perform data updates by using the Edit in Excel feature
  • Manage files by using Microsoft OneDrive and drag and drop
  • Configure and use data analysis mode
  • Manage quotes
  • Create a purchase order
  • Receive items for a purchase order
  • Utilize the over-receipt feature