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Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
AB-100
advanced
11 uncovered
Microsoft Copilot
Power Apps
Power Automate
Microsoft Dataverse
1
25–30%
Plan AI-powered business solutions — 25–30% · 3 covered, 4 doc only, 13 uncovered
2
25–30%
Design AI-powered business solutions — 25–30% · 13 covered, 1 doc only, 16 uncovered
3
40–45%
Deploy AI-powered business solutions — 40–45% · 8 covered, 5 doc only, 11 uncovered
module + doc
doc only
nothing
circle size = share of the exam
Where the marks are
Skills measured as of 14 October 2026 · re-read nightly
25–30%
25–30%
40–45%
Plan AI-powered business solutions
20 objectives · 12h 7m
Design AI-powered business solutions
30 objectives · 15h 45m
Deploy AI-powered business solutions
24 objectives · 11h 11m
Stage 1
Plan AI-powered business solutions
25–30% · 12h 7m
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
Assess the use of agents in task automation, data analytics, and decision-making
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
·
KB: From mining to automation
Review data for grounding, including accuracy, relevance, timeliness, cleanliness, and availability
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
·
KB: Grounding Strategy
Organize business solution data to be available for other AI systems
Weak match
No module
Configure Business Central for Excel and Power BI
1h 8m
Design overall AI strategy for business solutions
Implement the AI adoption process from the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
No module
Design overall AI strategy for business solutions
2h 45m
Design the strategy for building AI and agents in business solutions
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Environment strategy
Design a multi-agent solution by using platforms such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry
No module
Introduction to building AI agents
path
2h 2m
Develop the use cases for prebuilt agents in the solution
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 2026 · 107 days, no module
·
KB: Dataverse Plugin for AI Coding Agents
Define the solution rules and constraints when building AI components with Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Foundry Tools
Weak match
No module
Solution architect series: Explore Microsoft Copilot Studio
46m
Determine the use of generative AI and knowledge sources in agents built with Copilot Studio
Covered
Build intelligent agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio
45m
·
KB: Generative answers from knowledge sources
Determine when to build custom agents or extend Microsoft 365 Copilot
Covered
Build your first declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot by using Copilot Studio
1h 7m
·
KB: Custom Skills in Declarative Agents
Determine when custom AI models should be created
No module
GA Jun 2026 · 107 days, no module
Provide guidelines for creating a prompt library
Weak match
Doc only
GA May 4, 2026 · 135 days, no module
·
KB: Prompt actions and custom prompts
Develop the use cases for customized small language models for the solution
No module
GA Jun 2026 · 107 days, no module
Provide prompt engineering guidelines and techniques for AI-powered business solutions
Weak match
No module
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
Include the elements of the Microsoft AI Center of Excellence
No module
Get started with Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence
53m
Design AI solutions that use multiple Dynamics 365 apps
No module
Design the Dynamics 365 deployment
1h 23m
Evaluate the costs and benefits of an AI-powered business solution
Select ROI criteria for AI-powered business solutions, including the total cost of ownership
Weak match
No module
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
Create an ROI analysis for the proposed AI solution for a business process
Weak match
No module
Transform a business process to a model-driven app
19m
Analyze whether to build, buy, or extend AI components for business solutions
No module
Evaluate costs and benefits of AI solutions
34m
Implement a model router to intelligently route requests to the most suitable model
No module
GA Jun 5, 2026 · 103 days, no module
Stage 2
Design AI-powered business solutions
25–30% · 15h 45m
Design AI and agents for business solutions
Design business terms for Copilot in Dynamics 365 apps for customer experience and service
No module
Orchestrate configuration of prebuilt agents and apps
57m
Design customizations of Copilot in Dynamics 365 apps for customer experience and service
Covered
Orchestrate configuration of prebuilt agents and apps
57m
·
KB: Copilot in Power Apps
Design connectors for Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales
No module
Configure forecasts in Dynamics 365 Sales
46m
Design agents for integration with Dynamics 365 Contact Center channels
No module
Get started with Dynamics 365 Contact Center
56m
Design task agents
Weak match
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Custom Skills in Declarative Agents
Design autonomous agents
Weak match
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Autonomous agents (triggers, instructions, guardrails)
Design prompt and response agents
Weak match
No module
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
Propose Microsoft Foundry Tools for a given requirement
No module
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
Propose code-first generative pages and the use of an agent feed for apps
Doc only
GA May 8, 2026 · 131 days, no module
·
KB: Generative Pages
Design topics for Copilot Studio, including fallback
Weak match
Covered
Take action from agent conversations using topics and tools in Microsoft Copilot Studio
42m
·
KB: Copilot Studio integration
Design data processing for AI models and grounding
Weak match
No module
Design data models for Dynamics 365 solutions
1h 1m
Design a business process to include AI components in a Power Apps canvas app
Covered
Write data in a Power Apps canvas app
53m
·
KB: Business process flows in model-driven apps
Apply the Microsoft Power Platform Well-Architected Framework to intelligent application workloads
Weak match
No module
Introduction to Copilot in Microsoft Power Platform
39m
Determine when to use standard natural language processing, conversational language understanding, or generative AI orchestration in Copilot Studio
No module
GA Oct 30, 2025 · 321 days, no module
Design agents and agent flows with Copilot Studio
Covered
Take action from agent conversations using topics and tools in Microsoft Copilot Studio
42m
·
KB: Agent flows
Design prompt actions in Copilot Studio
Weak match
No module
Govern data policies in Power Platform
1h 22m
Design extensibility of AI solutions
Design AI solutions by using custom models in Microsoft Foundry
Weak match
Covered
Design data models for Dynamics 365 solutions
1h 1m
·
KB: Custom pages
Design agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Dataverse security and Copilot access
Design agent extensibility in Copilot Studio
Covered
Design multi-agent solutions in Microsoft Copilot Studio
35m
·
KB: Agent flows
Design agent extensibility with Model Context Protocol in Copilot Studio
Weak match
No module
Integrate agents with external systems via MCP in Microsoft Copilot Studio
53m
Design agents to automate tasks in apps and websites by using Computer Use in Copilot Studio
Covered
Automate tasks and workflows in Microsoft Copilot Studio
path
2h 40m
·
KB: Computer use
Design agent behaviors in Copilot Studio, including reasoning and voice mode
Weak match
Covered
Design multi-agent solutions in Microsoft Copilot Studio
35m
·
KB: Copilot Studio integration
Optimize solution design by using agents in Microsoft 365, including Teams and SharePoint
Weak match
No module
Analysis and solution design for Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management
50m
Orchestrate configuration for prebuilt agents and apps
Orchestrate AI features in Dynamics 365 apps for finance and supply chain
No module
Orchestrate configuration of prebuilt agents and apps
57m
Orchestrate AI features in Dynamics 365 apps for customer experience and service
No module
Orchestrate configuration of prebuilt agents and apps
57m
Propose Microsoft 365 agents for business scenarios
No module
Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
40m
Orchestrate the configuration of Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales and Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service
Covered
Deploy and configure Sales in Microsoft 365 Copilot
1h 8m
·
KB: Microsoft Security Copilot: Overview
Propose Microsoft Power Platform AI features, including AI hub
Covered
Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
40m
·
KB: Copilot across the Power Platform: start here
Design interoperability of the finance and operations agent chats to use additional knowledge sources
Weak match
No module
Configure your data in finance and operations apps
16m
Recommend the process of adding knowledge sources to in-app help and guidance for Dynamics 365 Finance or Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management apps
No module
Set up Inventory Visibility in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
1h 2m
Stage 3
Deploy AI-powered business solutions
40–45% · 11h 11m
Analyze, monitor, and tune AI-powered business solutions
Recommend the process and tools required for monitoring agents
No module
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
Analyze backlog and user feedback of AI and agent usage
No module
GA Jun 5, 2026 · 103 days, no module
Apply AI-based tools to analyze and identify issues and perform tuning
No module
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
Monitor agent performance and metrics
Weak match
Covered
Qualify leads using the Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales
44m
·
KB: Analytics & agent performance
Interpret telemetry data for performance and model tuning
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
·
KB: Query performance and indexes
Manage the testing of AI-powered business solutions
Recommend the process and metrics to test agents
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 5, 2026 · 103 days, no module
·
KB: Security Copilot: Agents
Create validation criteria of custom AI models
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 2026 · 107 days, no module
·
KB: Prompt actions and custom prompts
Validate effective Copilot prompt best practices
Weak match
Covered
Build effective agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
56m
·
KB: Copilot prompt gallery & prompt best practice
Design end-to-end test scenarios of AI solutions that use multiple Dynamics 365 apps
Weak match
No module
Deploy Dynamics 365 Project Operations scenarios
1h 55m
Build the strategy for creating test cases by using Copilot
Weak match
Covered
Get started with Microsoft Copilot Studio
1h
·
KB: Environment strategy
Design the ALM process for AI-powered business solutions
Design the ALM process for data used in AI models and agents
Weak match
No module
Design ALM process for AI-powered business solutions
46m
Design the ALM process for Copilot Studio agents, connectors, and actions
Covered
Govern data policies in Power Platform
1h 22m
·
KB: Copilot Studio integration
Design the ALM process for Microsoft Foundry Agents Service
Weak match
No module
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
Design the ALM process for custom AI models
Weak match
Covered
Design ALM process for AI-powered business solutions
46m
·
KB: Business process flows
Design the ALM process for AI in Dynamics 365 apps for finance and supply chain
No module
Configure formulas for process manufacturing in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
2h 23m
Design the ALM process for AI in Dynamics 365 apps for customer experience and service
No module
Create custom apps for Dynamics 365 Customer Service
42m
Design responsible AI, security, governance, risk management, and compliance
Design security for agents
Weak match
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Dataverse security and Copilot access
Design governance for agents
Weak match
Covered
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
25m
·
KB: Governing agents that read and write Dataverse
Design model security
Weak match
Covered
Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions
58m
·
KB: Designing a Dataverse security model
Analyze solution and AI vulnerabilities and mitigations, including prompt manipulation
Weak match
Doc only
GA Jun 5, 2026 · 103 days, no module
·
KB: AI columns, prompt columns and AI functions
Review solution for adherence to responsible AI principles
No module
GA Jan 5, 2026 · 254 days, no module
Validate data residency and movement compliance
Doc only
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
·
KB: Data residency and regions
Design access controls on grounding data and model tuning
No module
GA Jun 8, 2026 · 100 days, no module
Design audit trails for changes to models and data
No module
GA Apr 15, 2026 · 154 days, no module