You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
The Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect certification validates your expertise in designing AI-driven business solutions. It is aimed at solution architects responsible for creating scalable, secure, and integrated solutions using Microsoft services. Earning it demonstrates your ability to transform business processes and foster innovation.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions463
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AB-100 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
3domains
10objectives
87concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect certification validates your ability to design and deliver AI-driven business solutions that transform business processes and foster innovation. It targets accomplished solution architects experienced in creating scalable, secure, and integrated solutions using multiple Microsoft services.
Earning this certification demonstrates your expertise in architecting solutions that use AI, including generative AI and various AI services, to meet business objectives. You will lead the transformation of enterprise operations by envisioning and implementing AI-powered architecture, driving innovation, and ensuring impactful AI-powered solutions.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for experienced solution architects responsible for planning, designing, and guiding AI-powered business solutions using Microsoft platforms. It is best suited for those who want to deepen their architectural judgment and design decision-making for agentic AI solutions.
Recommended experience
Experience in designing and delivering AI-driven business solutions using Microsoft services. Expertise in architecting AI solutions, including generative AI.; Skills in designing multi-agent orchestrated solutions.; Experience with Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure AI services.
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Plan AI-powered business solutions
- Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions
- Design overall AI strategy for business solutions
- Evaluate the costs and benefits of an AI-powered business solution
Design AI-powered business solutions
- Design AI and agents for business solutions
- Design extensibility of AI solutions
- Orchestrate configuration for prebuilt agents and apps
Deploy AI-powered business solutions
- Analyze, monitor, and tune AI-powered business solutions
- Manage the testing of AI-powered business solutions
- Design the ALM process for AI-powered business solutions
- Design responsible AI, security, governance, risk management, and compliance
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
One of the following certifications is required: MB-280, PL-200, MB-330, PL-400, MB-230, MB-310, MB-500, MB-800, MB-820, AI-300, AI-103, AB-620, AB-210, AB-410, AB-250.
Exam codeAB-100
CertificationAgentic AI Business Solutions Architect
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
PricingUS $165
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
PrerequisiteOne of the following certifications is required: MB-280, PL-200, MB-330, PL-400, MB-230, MB-310, MB-500, MB-800, MB-820, AI-300, AI-103, AB-620, AB-210, AB-410, AB-250.
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect Certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew eligible Certifications annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
Is any part of the AB-100 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. In addition to multiple-choice items, AB-100 includes a performance-based lab section where you complete tasks in a live Microsoft environment.
If I fail AB-100, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as AI solution architect, enterprise architect, and digital transformation lead.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
Yes. Earning a higher-level Microsoft certification can automatically renew this credential without taking the AB-100 renewal assessment.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 463 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
3domains
10objectives
87concepts
97free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Plan AI-powered business solutions135 questions
2Design AI-powered business solutions138 questions
3Deploy AI-powered business solutions190 questions
Analyze, monitor, and tune AI-powered business solutions8 concepts · 10 pagesOpen →Manage the testing of AI-powered business solutions6 concepts · 9 pagesOpen →Design the ALM process for AI-powered business solutions6 concepts · 10 pagesOpen →Design responsible AI, security, governance, risk management, and compliance8 concepts · 10 pagesOpen →
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Analyze requirements for AI-powered business solutions11 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
51 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
463 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
463questions
97pages
10objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Plan AI-powered business solutions135 questions
2Design AI-powered business solutions138 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
87concepts
463free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
1official link
87concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 10 objectives, 87 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
10objectives on the outline→87concepts written→463free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.