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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate certification validates your ability to implement and extend finance and operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365. It is designed for developers who provide fully realized solutions using standardized coding patterns and extensible features. Earning this certification demonstrates your expertise in developing business logic, customizing the UI, and integrating external systems.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions730
Content last reviewed 30 January 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What MB-500 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.
7domains
21objectives
159concepts
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: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate certification validates that you can implement and extend applications in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to meet business requirements. It targets developers responsible for creating solutions using standardized coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to develop business logic using X++, customize the UI, provide endpoints and APIs, perform testing, and manage implementations using application lifecycle management. You should have deep knowledge of the underlying framework, data structures, and objects associated with finance and operations solutions.
Who it’s for
This certification is for developers who work with finance and operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to implement and extend applications that meet business requirements. You provide fully realized solutions using standardized application coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations. You should have experience with products and services such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure, Power Platform, Azure DevOps, Lifecycle Services tools, and SQL Server Management Studio.
Recommended experience
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps, and familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure, and Power Platform. Developing business logic using X++; Customizing the UI and creating reports; Integrating external systems and providing APIs; Managing implementations using ALM
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 January 2026 · See the source
Plan the architecture and solution design
- Plan for the major components of finance and operations apps
- Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)
Apply developer tools
- Customize finance and operations apps by using Visual Studio
- Manage source code and artifacts by using Microsoft Azure DevOps version control
Design and develop AOT elements
- Create and extend UI elements
- Create and extend the data model
- Create classes and extend AOT elements
Develop and test code
- Develop X++ code
- Develop object-oriented code
- Implement finance and operations app framework functionality
- Perform testing
Implement reporting
- Select reporting tools in finance and operations apps
- Design, create, and revise Dynamics 365 reports
- Design, create, and revise Dynamics 365 workspaces
Integrate and manage data solutions
- Evaluate data integration patterns and scenarios
- Implement data integration concepts and solutions
- Implement data management
- Integrate with Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure
Implement security and optimize performance
- Implement security policies and requirements
- Apply fundamental performance optimization techniques
- Optimize performance
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 codeMB-500
CertificationDynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese
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: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
The certification is valid for one year. Renew annually at no cost by completing an 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 MB-500 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam includes interactive components that require practical application of skills.
If I fail MB-500, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt.
What job roles does the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as Dynamics 365 developer, backend developer, and application manager.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No. You must complete the online renewal assessment specific to this certification.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-01-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 730 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.
7domains
21objectives
159concepts
155free 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 January 2026 · See the source
1Plan the architecture and solution design74 questions
2Apply developer tools79 questions
3Design and develop AOT elements92 questions
4Develop and test code143 questions
5Implement reporting86 questions
6Integrate and manage data solutions133 questions
7Implement security and optimize performance123 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 for the major components of finance and operations apps7 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
34 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
730 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.
730questions
155pages
21objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Plan the architecture and solution design74 questions
2Apply developer tools79 questions
3Design and develop AOT elements92 questions
4Develop and test code143 questions
5Implement reporting86 questions
6Integrate and manage data solutions133 questions
7Implement security and optimize performance123 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.
159concepts
730free 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
159concepts 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 — 21 objectives, 159 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
21objectives on the outline→159concepts written→730free 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.