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 Transformation Leader
The Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader certification validates your ability to guide AI transformation and innovation using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI, and Microsoft Foundry. It is designed for business decision-makers who lead AI adoption and drive innovation without requiring coding skills.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration45 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700 out of 1000
Free questions247
Content last reviewed 22 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AB-731 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
6objectives
49concepts
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 Transformation Leader certification validates your ability to recognize opportunities for AI transformation, identify the right AI tools, and plan for AI adoption. It targets business decision-makers responsible for guiding transformation and innovation within their teams or organizations.
Earning this certification demonstrates your AI fluency, strategic vision, and ability to lead AI adoption across teams and functions. You will learn to evaluate AI opportunities, champion responsible AI practices, and align AI investments with business goals.
Who it’s for
This certification is for business decision-makers at all levels who are responsible for guiding AI transformation and innovation within their teams or organizations. Candidates should demonstrate AI fluency, strategic vision, and the ability to lead AI adoption across teams and functions.
Recommended experience
Experience leading adoption or change management in a business context, familiarity with Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Foundry, and general AI capabilities. Leading adoption or change management in a business context; Familiarity with Microsoft 365 services; Understanding of Microsoft Foundry and general AI capabilities
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 22 July 2026 · See the source
Identify the business value of generative AI solutions
- Identify the foundational concepts of generative AI
- Identify benefits and capabilities of generative AI solutions
Identify benefits, capabilities, and opportunities for Microsoft’s AI apps and services
- Identify benefits and capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot
- Identify benefits and capabilities of Foundry Tools
Identify an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft’s AI apps and services
- Align an AI strategy with Microsoft responsible AI policies
- Plan for AI adoption across the organization
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-731
CertificationAI Transformation Leader
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration45 minutes
Passing score700 out of 1000
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: AI Transformation Leader
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader 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
If I fail AB-731, when can I retake it?
You can retake the exam 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the waiting period varies.
What job roles does the AI Transformation Leader credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as business decision-makers responsible for AI transformation and innovation.
Is any part of the AB-731 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes, the exam may include interactive components.
How do I schedule the AB-731 exam?
You can schedule the exam through Pearson VUE using a personal MSA account.
Are there any testing accommodations available?
Yes, a variety of accommodations are available to support candidates with disabilities.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-22 Up to date
Practice free questions 247 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.
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6objectives
49concepts
52free 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 22 July 2026 · See the source
1Identify the business value of generative AI solutions75 questions
2Identify benefits, capabilities, and opportunities for Microsoft’s AI apps and services80 questions
3Identify an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft’s AI apps and services92 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.
Identify the foundational concepts of generative AI6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
28 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
247 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.
247questions
52pages
6objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Identify the business value of generative AI solutions75 questions
2Identify benefits, capabilities, and opportunities for Microsoft’s AI apps and services80 questions
3Identify an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft’s AI apps and services92 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.
49concepts
247free 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
49concepts 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 — 6 objectives, 49 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
6objectives on the outline→49concepts written→247free 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.