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10 things you should know to earn MB-700 F&O Solution Architect certification

10 things you should know to earn MB-700 F&O Solution Architect certification

This is the certification that does not test you only on your knowledge on the ERP product but also other products & tools required for a successful implementation of Microsoft D365. I spent some time to prepare for this exam in September, 2020 and my experience as a solution architect helped me a lot to earn this certification easily but I experienced some of the topics do not fall under the solution architect in the real world, were also covered in this exam.

Probably, Microsoft expects you as a Solution Architect to know these topics (at least on a high level) but in my experience either Project Manager or technical leads should be handling some of these areas (e.g. LCS, Server architecture, Testing strategy, Integration strategy, reporting tools). Fortunately, in Hitachi Solutions, all Solution Architects were also supposed to handle project management role (with help of a project coordinator), I found these questions easy to handle and I am always grateful to Hitachi management and their approach that I had such a wide range of experience.

So, I will strongly recommend you go to go through following list before attempting this exam- (Points 2, 3, 4 and 10 were a bit challenging for me where I had to focus more for this exam)

  1. How well you can map an end to end scenario (some case studies are asked in the exam). You should be a person who can see the big picture in a project instead of just focusing on a feature/functionality
  2. Integration strategy & Tools (Dual Write, Odata, Batch Data API, Custom Service, Web service call, JSON, Excel Integration)
  3. Synchronous vs Asynchronous integration
  4. Testing Strategy (including performance testing) and how to best utilize the tools available in MS eco- system (RSAT, PerfSDK, Task Recorder)
  5. Different tiers of servers (Tier1, Tier2, ……) and their relevance for Production, UAT, Build etc.
  6. Environment Management using LCS, continuous updates from Microsoft, feature management workspace in D365
  7. Training Tools (Task Recorder, BPM)
  8. Upgrade from AX2009 to D365 & Upgrade from AX2012 to D365 (Data and Code)- Data Migration Tool, DIXF, Data Management Workspace
  9. Tracking of work progress using Azure DevOps
  10. Reporting tools (SSRS, Power BI, Embedded BI, Financial Reports, Excel) PowerApps, LogicApp ( Basic of power platform will be asked in this exam)

Also as you see in the link above, you need MB-300 and any of the four functional certifications available right now.

This is the official link of the certification from Microsoft. Please note that the this is still in preview and MS will be changing it from October onward but I believe the content will remain more or less same. Moreover, there are some questions floating around on internet which can give you some sense of the exam but this exam will really test you on your real life experience which is the beauty of this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/mb-700

If you have any question on the exam, feel free to comment and ask. Happy to help. My email ID is skejriwal@paretodata365.com