Microsoft Certified Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert (MB310-700)

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant (MB-310T00)

Module 1: Configure chart of accounts in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Plan your chart of accounts
• Multiple chart of accounts
• Set up chart of accounts
• Main account categories
• Main account information
• Allocation terms
• Main account validation options
• Main account closing options
• Accounts for automatic transactions
• Define and configure financial dimensions
• Create a custom financial dimension
• Create an entity-backed financial dimension
• Activate and delete financial dimensions
• Default dimension values
• Derived dimensions
• Configure financial dimension templates and sets
• Define and configure account structures and advanced rules

Module 2: Explore general ledger in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

• Identify charts of accounts
• Explore financial dimensions and dimension set concepts
• Explore periodic financial processes demo: Month end closing

Module 3: Configure ledger allocations and accruals in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure and apply accrual schemes
• Configure ledger allocation rules

Module 4: Create fiscal calendars, years, and periods in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Fiscal calendars, fiscal years, and periods
• Create fiscal calendars, years and periods
• Select a fiscal calendar
• Define budget cycle time spans
• Maintain periods for your organization
• Create date intervals

Module 5: Perform general ledger daily procedures in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Using balance control accounts
• Process a journal entry
• Work with general ledger processes
• Ledger settlements
• Create voucher templates
• Set up journal controls

Module 6: Configure ledgers and journals in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Understand the different types of journals and their setup
• Describe use cases for periodic journals
• Configure ledger and journal setup
• Describe options for implementing voucher numbers in journals
• Describe and configure journal approvals
• Configure and use journals
• Reverse journal posting
• Set up batch transfer rules

Module 7: Intercompany accounting in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Set up intercompany accounting
• Post intercompany journals
• Trace an intercompany entry

Module 8: Configure currencies in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Set up currencies and conversions
• Configure and import currency exchange rates

Module 9: Configure cash and bank management in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Understand bank transaction types and groups
• Set up cash and bank management parameters
• Set up the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) direct debit mandate
• Set up International Bank Account Number (IBAN) structures
• Configure banks and bank check layout
• Deposit and refund checks
• Understand cash flow forecast and reports
• Configure cash flow forecasting

Module 10: Configure accounts receivable in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Payment schedule
• Terms of payment and payment days
• Cash discounts
• Payment fees
• Set up the credit card payment service
• Methods of payment and payment control
• Set up a payment calendar and payment calendar rules
• Create and maintain customers
• Set up customer posting profiles
• Configure accounts receivable charges

Module 11: Configure electronic reporting in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure electronic reporting
• Use barcode data sources to generate bar code images

Module 12: Configure and perform periodic processes in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Set up the Financial period workspace and closing schedule
• Bank reconciliations
• Year-end 1099 reporting
• Run foreign currency revaluation processes
• Process end of year close
• Perform financial consolidations

Module 13: Configure taxes in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure ledger posting groups
• Configure sales tax authorities
• Configure sales tax settlement periods
• Create sales tax codes
• Configure sales tax groups and item sales tax groups
• Withholding tax
• Sales tax exemption
• Conditional sales tax
• Sales tax on transactions
• Set up sales tax reporting codes
• Prepare periodic filings

Module 14: Get started with cost accounting in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure the Cost control workspace
• Cost objects
• Work with the Cost accounting Get started wizard
• Set up cost accounting

Module 15: Configure and work with inventory management in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Inbound operations
• Outbound operations
• Configure inventory dimensions
• Configure storage dimensions
• Configure tracking dimensions
• Configure serial and batch numbers
• Allocate batch and serial numbers
• Configure sites
• Configure warehouses
• Transfer orders
• Set up bar codes
• Set up default order settings
• Inventory journals
• Work with journals
• Inventory journal approval workflows
• Work with reason codes
• Work with consignment inventory
• Configure item groups and item model groups
• Inventory cost methodologies
• Configure inventory policies
• Inventory closing and adjustment
• Archive inventory transactions
• Work with reason codes for inventory counting

Module 16: Work with the costing sheet in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Costing versions
• Cost groups
• Calculation groups
• Costing sheets
• BOM calculations
• BOM Measurements
• BOM Reports

Module 17: Configure Accounts payable in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure the payment schedule
• Configure terms of payment and payment days
• Configure cash discounts
• Set up payment fees
• Create vendor groups
• Set up accounts payable posting profiles
• Create vendors
• Set up methods of payment for vendors
• Configure accounts payable charges
• Configure and use positive pay

Module 18: Perform Accounts payable daily procedures in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Understand invoice types in Accounts payable
• Understand incoming invoice payments
• Record vendor invoices
• Modify due dates and discount dates
• Work with cash discounts from vendors
• Create vendor payments
• Reverse a vendor payment
• Manage prepayments and prepayment invoices

Module 19: Work with accounting distributions, invoice validations and settlements in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Settle transactions and undo settlements
• Distribute funds by using accounting distributions
• Configure invoice validation policies
• Three-way matching policies
• Accounts payable invoice matching
• Invoice totals matching
• Two-way, price totals matching
• Two-way, net unit price matching
• Three-way matching
• Vendor invoice workflow
• Charges matching

Module 20: Configure and manage vendor collaboration in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Purchase order statuses with vendor collaboration
• Configure vendor collaboration
• Maintain vendor certification
• Set up vendor collaboration security roles
• Use the Vendor collaboration invoicing workspace
• Define purchase order response information
• Work with purchase orders when vendor collaboration is used
• Purchase order statuses and versions
• Sharing information about consignment inventory
• Work with request for quotes
• Purchase order confirmation workspace
• Accessing vendor master data in the Vendor information workspace

Module 21: Configure and manage the order to cash process in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Sales and marketing overview
• Create and confirm sales quotations
• Create and process sales orders
• Sales order entry scenarios
• Sales order picking processes
• Configure order promising
• Configure order hold codes
• Process customer returns
• Sales order reservations
• Configure and use commissions
• Configure customer and item search

Module 22: Perform accounts receivable daily procedures in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Create free text invoices
• Recurring free text invoices
• Create and handle payments of customer invoices for sales orders
• Settle transactions and undo settlements
• Revenue recognition overview
• Define revenue schedules
• Define revenue prices
• Set up bundle items

Module 23: Configure and process postdated checks in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Set up postdated checks
• Process a postdated check

Module 24: Configure credit and collections in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure accounts receivables for credit and collections
• Configure credit and collections components
• Set up interest rates for an interest code
• Waive, reinstate, or reverse interest fees
• Set up and manage collection letters

Module 25: Process credit and collections in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Customer account statement
• Working with collections
• Manage customer credit and collections
• Credit management

Module 26: Get started with Expense management in Dynamics 365 Project Operations

• Plan expense management
• Intercompany expenses
• Financial management
• Per diems
• Journals and accounts
• Payment methods
• Taxes
• Policies
• Expense categories and shared categories

Module 27: Create and process expense reports in Dynamics 365 Project Operations

• Create an expense report
• Intercompany expenses
• Itemize expenses by line
• Distribute an expense
• Add guests
• Attach receipts and documents to an expense report
• Submit an expense report to a workflow
• Approve an expense report
• Delegate an expense report
• Post an expense report
• Reporting options

Module 28: Set up and configure Expense management in Dynamics 365 Project Operations

• Expense management workspace
• Expense management parameters
• Expense management workflows
• Expense report policies and per diem rules
• Evaluate policies by using Audit workbench cases
• Set up mileage expense options
• Intercompany expenses
• Personal expenses on an expense report
• Set up credit card transaction processing and import credit transactions
• Expense receipt processing
• VAT recovery

Module 29: Work with travel requisitions in Dynamics 365 Project Operations

• Create a travel requisition
• Approve a travel requisition
• Create a cash advance
• Update a cash advance

Module 30: Get started with work management in Dynamics 365 Project Operations

• Create and submit time entries
• Expense deployment models
• Basic expense entries
• Full expense deployment

Module 31: Configure fixed assets management in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Fixed assets and current assets
• Accounting for fixed assets
• Relationships between fixed assets components
• Configure fixed assets components
• Derived books
• Enable fixed asset integration
• Fixed asset transaction options
• Demonstration - Create a fixed asset

Module 32: Manage fixed assets in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Scenario - customer requirements for fixed assets
• Set up and create fixed assets
• Set up acquisitions
• Acquire assets through procurement
• Manual and automatic methods to create fixed assets
• Transfer a fixed asset
• Set up fixed asset groups
• Split a fixed asset
• Update fixed asset information
• Fixed assets roll forward report
• Depreciation
• Dispose and lend fixed assets
• Sell a fixed asset by using a free text invoice
• Dispose of fixed assets as scrap
• Estimate and eliminate a project to a fixed asset
• Asset budgeting

Module 33: Configure and use basic budgeting and budget control in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Planning for basic budgeting and budget control
• Budgeting methodologies
• Basic budgeting overview
• Configure basic budgeting
• Use workspaces and inquiry pages to track budget vs. actuals
• Budget control overview
• Configure budget control
• Configure budget control (cont.)
• Create and manage budget register entries
• Use inquires and reports for budget analysis

Module 34: Configure and use budget planning in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Configure budget planning components

Module 35: Work with analytics and reporting in finance and operations apps

• Understand different types of reports and inquiries
• Financial reporting
• Find inquiries and reports
• Generate and consume inquiries and reports
• Configure finance and operations apps for Microsoft Power Platform

Module 36: Get started with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Benefits of Supply Chain Management
• Overview of Supply Chain Management
• Cost accounting
• Cost management
• Inventory management and Warehouse management
• Master planning
• Procurement and sourcing
• Vendor collaboration
• Sales and marketing
• Customer portal
• Product information management
• Production control
• Intercompany trade
• Warehouse management
• Transportation management

Module 37: Explore accounts payable and accounts receivable in Dynamics 365 Finance

• Explore core accounts payable components
• Explore vendor payments and settlements
• Explore core accounts receivable components
• Explore credit and collection processes

Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect (MB-700T00)

Module 1: Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

• Existing product and platform skills
• Expectations of a solution architect
• Solution architect role during project phases
• Pillars of a great architecture

Module 2: Discover customer needs as a Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

• Initial customer discovery
• Customer discovery meetings
• Customer communication strategy

Module 3: Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Identify solution components
• Develop and validate a demo
• Identify potential third-party components
• Recognize strengths and weaknesses in a solution

Module 4: Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Lead requirement capture sessions
• Identify functional requirements
• Identify non-functional requirements
• Confirm and finalize requirements

Module 5: Perform fit gap analysis

• Determine feasibility of requirements
• Refine requirements from proof of concept insights
• Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analysis
• Evaluate Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform apps

Module 6: Get started with Lifecycle Services for finance and operations apps

• Understand the functionality and tools of Lifecycle Services
• Lifecycle Services security
• Reuse existing assets, copy, and share data
• Perform actions in the Asset library
• Work with the Task recorder
• Business process modeler (BPM)
• Issue search and support
• Get product updates from Lifecycle Services

Module 7: Design and plan an implementation of finance and operations apps

• Use implementation methodologies for a successful implementation
• Cloud implementation - analysis
• Cloud implementation - design and develop
• Cloud implementation - test
• Cloud implementation - deploy and operate
• On-premises implementation - analysis
• On-premises implementation - design and develop
• On-premises implementation - test, deploy, and operate
• Gathering and analyzing the requirements
• Create functional design documents (FDD)

Module 8: Translate Dynamics 365 apps and documentation with Dynamics 365 Translation Service

• Access Dynamics 365 Translation Service
• Types of requests
• Reuse translations (recycling)
• Custom-trained machine translation system

Module 9: Prepare data for migration to finance and operations apps

• Select a data integration (import/export) strategy
• Common migration scenarios and tools
• Bring your own database (BYOD)
• Test a data migration and validate output

Module 10: Work with data management in finance and operations apps

• Data management concepts
• Use data entities for data management and integration
• Work with the Data management workspace
• Using Standard and Enhanced views for tiles
• Use templates in data management
• Export, import, and copy data into a legal entity
• Database movement operations
• Data sharing framework

Module 11: Perform user acceptance testing in finance and operations apps

• Create user acceptance test libraries
• Record test cases and save to BPM
• Synchronize and configure your test plan in Azure DevOps
• Run user acceptance tests
• Data task automation

Module 12: Get started with a finance and operations implementation project

• Roles in a Dynamics 365 implementation
• Project phases
• Implementation planning and architecture
• Combining tools and solutions for impactful implementations

Module 13: FastTrack Customer Success Program for finance and operations

• FastTrack engagement across the phases
• Solution blueprint review
• Become a FastTrack recognized solution architect

Module 14: Implement application lifecycle management in finance and operations aALM methodologies

• Design and create models
• Plan the build, test, and quality control processes
• Plan the release, change, and risk management processespps

Module 15: Explore extensions and the extension framework in finance and operations apps

• Customization models
• Extension points for frameworks
• Develop code to extend a framework
• Implement the SysOperationSandbox framework

Module 16: Consume business events in finance and operations apps

• Business event framework
• Create a new business event
• Activate business events
• Role-based security for business events
• Business events in Microsoft Power Automate

Module 17: Identify data integration patterns and scenarios in finance and operations apps

• Select an integration API
• Synchronous and asynchronous patterns
• Data integration scenarios

Module 18: Data integrations with finance and operations apps

• Set up a data project and recurring data job
• Implement authorization to support integration
• Monitor status and availability of entities
• Develop data transformation
• Microsoft Dataverse integrations
• Work with composite data entities
• Azure Data Lake and Entity Store
• Change data in Azure Data Lake
• Power Platform convergence

Module 19: Work with analytics and reporting in finance and operations apps

• Understand different types of reports and inquiries
• Financial reporting
• Find inquiries and reports
• Generate and consume inquiries and reports
• Configure finance and operations apps for Microsoft Power Platform

Module 20: Describe the business value of the Microsoft Power Platform

• Explore Microsoft Power Platform
• Describe the business value of the Power Platform
• Explore connectors and Microsoft Dataverse
• Describe how Power Platform works with Microsoft 365 apps and services
• Explore how Power Platform works with Microsoft Teams
• Describe how Power Platform works with Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps
• Describe how Power Platform solutions consume Microsoft Azure services
• Explore how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together

Module 21: Identify foundational components of Microsoft Power Platform

• Describe Power Platform administration
• Describe Power Platform security and governance
• Explore Microsoft Dataverse
• Examine Power Platform connectors
• Exercise - Build a basic Dataverse data model

Module 22: Design and build mobile apps for finance and operations apps

• Overview of the Dynamics 365 Unified Operations mobile app
• Page design guidelines
• Action design guidelines
• Form design requirements
• Design considerations
• Understand use cases for mobile apps
• Get the Dynamics 365 Unified Operations mobile app

Module 23: Updates and upgrades for finance and operations apps

• Upgrade from finance and operations version 7.x to version 10
• Update from finance and operations version 8.x to version 10.0.x
• Data upgrade
• Upgrade from AX 2012
• Migrate from AX 2009

Module 24: Work with performance and monitoring tools in finance and operations apps

• Diagnose performance issues by using Trace parser
• Load testing by using the Performance SDK
• Monitor performance by using SQL Insights
• Create a SQL trace by using the SQL Profiler
• Monitor server health metrics in Lifecycle Services
• Exercise - Use the Environment monitoring tool in Lifecycle Services

Module 25: Plan and implement security in finance and operations apps

• Understand the security architecture
• Encryption in finance and operations apps
• Manage users and security
• Set up and apply segregation of duties
• Run security reports
• Stay compliant with user licensing requirements
• Security diagnostics for task recordings
• Extensible data security policies

Module 26: Implement role-based security in finance and operations apps

• Create and modify duties, privileges, and permissions
• Enforce permissions policy
• Extensible data security framework
• Apply security permissions

Module 27: Prepare to go-live with finance and operations apps

• Understand the go-live process
• Complete the Lifecycle Services methodology
• Perform user acceptance testing (UAT) for your solution
• FastTrack go-live assessment
• Request a production environment

Module 28: Feature management in finance and operations apps

• Feature management workspace
• Feature states
• Enable a feature
• Reschedule a feature
• Disable a feature
• Features that must be enabled
• Enable all features
• Check for updates
• Assign roles
• Features that use configuration keys
• Data entities

Module 29: Get started with Success by Design for Dynamics 365

• Overview of Success by Design
• Reasons to use Success by Design
• Success by Design phases
• Implement Success by Design
• Track Success by Design activities and progress

Module 30: Create a solution blueprint for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Solution blueprint review workshop overview
• Prepare for the Solution blueprint review
• Solution blueprint review participants
• Conduct the Solution blueprint review workshop
• Solution blueprint follow-up

Module 31: Plan a testing strategy for your Dynamics 365 solution

• Overview of the Test strategy review workshop
• Prepare for the workshop
• Workshop implementation and follow-up

Module 32: Design data models for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Entity relationship diagram
• Out-of-the-box vs. custom tables
• Table configuration

Module 33: Business intelligence and analytics design for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Business intelligence and analytics design workshop overview
• Prepare for the Business intelligence and analytics design workshop
• Conduct the Business intelligence and analytics design workshop
• Business intelligence and analytics design follow-up

Module 34: Gap solution design for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Gap solution design workshop overview
• Prepare for the Gap solution design workshop
• Conduct the Gap solution design workshop
• Gap solution design follow-up

Module 35: Create a data migration strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Data migration strategy overview
• Prepare for the Data migration workshop
• Conduct the Data migration strategy workshop

Module 36: Review the security model for your Dynamics 365 solutions

• Security workshop topics

Module 37: Integration design for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Integration design review workshop overview
• Prepare for the Integration design review
• Conduct the Integration design review
• Integration design review workshop follow-up

Module 38: Dual-write implementation for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Dual-write implementation workshop overview
• Prepare for the workshop
• Workshop implementation and follow-up

Module 39: Implement a performance strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Solution performance workshop topics
• Define performance benchmarks and success criteria
• Timing of the Solution performance review
• Prepare for the workshop
• Workshop implementation and follow-up

Module 40: Cutover strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Purpose of the Cutover strategy workshop
• Timing of the Cutover strategy review
• Cutover strategy workshop overview
• Prepare for the workshop
• Workshop implementation and follow-up

Module 41: Post go-live strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions

• Timing of the Post go-live workshop
• Post go-live workshop overview
• Prepare for the workshop
• Post go-live workshop implementation and follow up

Module 42: Get started with configuration and personalization in Finance and Operations apps

• Set up your environment
• Explore personalization functionality

Module 43: Configure your user interface in Finance and Operations apps

• Manage menus: Favorites
• Manage menus: Dashboards by role
• Manage menus: Key performance indicators
• Manage forms: Fields
• Manage forms: Filters and ranges
• Configure reports

Module 44: Configure your data in Finance and Operations apps

• Create entities
• Manage security
• Integrate with Microsoft Office