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

• Plan Architecture and Solution Design (10-15%)

  Identify the major components of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation

  • Select application components and architecture based on business components
  • Identify architectural differences between the cloud and on-premises versions of Dynamics FO
  • Prepare and deploy the deployment package
  • Identify components of the application stack and map them to the standard models
  • Differentiate the purpose and interrelationships between packages, projects, models, and elements

  Design and implement a user interface

  • Describe the Dynamics 365 FO user interface layout and components
  • Design the workspace and define navigation
  • Select page options
  • Identify filtering options

  Implement Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

  • Create overlayered and extension models
  • Configure the DevOps source control process
  • 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 using Issue Search
  • Identify activities that require asset libraries
• Apply Developer Tools (10-15%)

  Customize Dynamics 365 FO by using Visual Studio

  • 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, checkout, and check-in code and artifacts
  • Compare code and resolve version conflicts

  Implement D365 FO framework functionality

  • Implement the SysOperation framework
  • Implement asynchronous framework
  • Implement a workflow framework
  • Implement the unit test framework
  • Identify the need for and implement the Sandbox framework
• 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 and groups
  • 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 and table fields to a project
  • Populate table and field properties
  • Add a table extension to a project for a table
  • Add fields, field groups, relations, 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
  • Add or update 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
• 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 using embedded SQL code
  • Identify and implement global functions in X++
  • Ensure correct usage of Display Fields
  • Implement table and form methods

  Develop object-oriented code

  • Implement X++ variable scoping
  • Implement inheritance and abstraction concept
  • Implement query objects and QueryBuilder
  • Implement attribute classes
  • Implement a chain of command
• Implement Reporting (10-15%)

  Describe the capabilities and limitations of reporting tools in Dynamics 365 FO

  • Create and modify report data sources and supporting classes
  • Implement reporting security requirements
  • Describe the report publishing process

  Design, create and revise Dynamics Reports

  • Create and modify reports in Dynamics 365 FO that use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • Create and modify reports in Dynamics 365 FO by using Power BI
  • Create and modify reports in Dynamics 365 FO by using Microsoft Excel

  Design, create and revise Dynamics workspace

  • Design KPIs
  • Create drill-through workspace elements
  • Implement built-in charts, KPIs, aggregate measurement, aggregate dimension, and other reporting components
• Integrate and Manage Data Solutions (10-15%)

  Identify data integration scenarios

  • Select appropriate data integration capabilities
  • Identify differences between synchronous asynchronous scenarios

  Implement data integration concepts and solutions

  • Develop a data entity in 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 Dynamics 365 FO with Excel using OData
  • Develop and integrate Microsoft Flow and Power Apps

  Implement data management

  • Import and export data using entities between D365 FO and other systems
  • Monitor the status and availability of entities
  • Enable Entity Change Tracking
  • Set up a data project and recurring data job
  • Design entity sequencing
  • Generate field mapping between source and target data structures
  • Develop data transformations
• Implement Security and Optimize Performance (10-15%)

  Implement role-based security policies and requirements

  • Create or modify duties, privileges, and permissions
  • Enforce permissions policy
  • Implement record-level security by using Extensible Data Security (XDS)

  Apply fundamental performance optimization techniques

  • Identify and apply caching mechanisms
  • Create or modify temp tables for optimization
  • Determine when to use set-based queries and row-based queries
  • Modify queries for optimization
  • Modify variable scope to optimize performance
  • Analyze and optimize concurrency

  Optimize user interface performance

  • Diagnose and optimize client performance by using browser-based tools
  • Diagnose and optimize client performance by using Performance Timer