You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:AI Agent Builder Associate
The Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate certification validates your ability to design and build integrated AI solutions using Copilot Studio. It is aimed at developers and IT professionals who create scalable AI solutions. Earning it demonstrates your expertise in integrating custom agents for enterprise-grade solutions.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration120 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions287
Content last reviewed 21 April 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AB-620 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
9objectives
54concepts
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: AI Agent Builder Associate certification validates your skills in designing and building integrated AI agent solutions using Copilot Studio. This certification targets developers and IT professionals who are responsible for creating scalable AI solutions for organizations.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to integrate custom agents with enterprise systems, configure agent solutions, and manage AI-driven processes. It highlights your proficiency in using Microsoft technologies to build advanced AI solutions.
Who it’s for
This certification is for professional developers and advanced builders who focus on creating scalable AI solutions. You typically work as an IT application developer, consultant, or independent software vendor (ISV) partner. You should be familiar with Power Fx, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Power Platform environments, and have intermediate knowledge of generative AI concepts. Experience with prompt engineering, REST APIs, and integration patterns is also recommended.
Recommended experience
Intermediate knowledge of generative AI concepts and experience with Microsoft technologies. Familiarity with Power Fx and Microsoft Dataverse; Experience with Microsoft Power Platform environments; Knowledge of generative AI concepts and orchestration; Experience with REST APIs and integration patterns
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 21 April 2026 · See the source
Plan and configure agent solutions
- Plan an agent solution
- Create and monitor agent flows in Copilot Studio
- Configure topics
Integrate and extend agents in Copilot Studio
- Connect to enterprise knowledge sources
- Add tools to agents
- Configure multi-agent collaboration from Copilot Studio
- Integrate agents with Azure
Test and manage agents
- Evaluate agent performance
- Implement application lifecycle management (ALM) for agents in Copilot Studio
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeAB-620
CertificationAI Agent Builder Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration120 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
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: AI Agent Builder Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate Associate level 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-620 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. In addition to multiple-choice items, AB-620 includes a performance-based lab section where you complete tasks in a live Microsoft environment.
If I fail AB-620, 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 AI Agent Builder Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as IT application developer, consultant, and ISV partner focused on AI solutions.
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-620 renewal assessment.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-04-21 Up to date
Practice free questions 287 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
9objectives
54concepts
60free 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 21 April 2026 · See the source
1Plan and configure agent solutions106 questions
2Integrate and extend agents in Copilot Studio109 questions
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.
Plan an agent solution10 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
50 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
287 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.
287questions
60pages
9objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Plan and configure agent solutions106 questions
2Integrate and extend agents in Copilot Studio109 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.
54concepts
287free 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.
2official links
54concepts 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 — 9 objectives, 54 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
9objectives on the outline→54concepts written→287free 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.