Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect (MB-700)
Candidates for this certification are Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Commerce professionals who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
Study the core features and capabilities of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps to help you prepare for the MB-700 exam and obtain the official certification.
2 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026
2:30 pm
7:30 pm
Live on MS Teams
£1.240.00
Training Overview
The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect is a trusted advisor who consults with organisations and implementation team members to refine business needs into a well-defined and cost-effective solution.
The architect is accountable for the integrity and successful delivery of the complete solution design. The architect provides critical guidance and support from pre-sales throughout the remainder of the project lifecycle.
They have a great breadth of knowledge and experience designing solutions that meet business needs. The solution architect may have a technical, functional, or industry background. The solution architect must demonstrate knowledge of all Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform.
They must have a deep understanding of Finance and Operations apps. In addition, they have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This course is designed to prepare those who aspire to be solution architects and those who are new to this role to learn more about the technical information that solution architects will be dealing with during implementation.
Audience Profile
The audience for this course should have previous experience with a functional or technical focus in Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Applications. Primarily for those who aspire to take a solution architect role
Why Study with Us
Live Classes on MS Teams
Learn with a senior Consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer
Shorter Sessions of Max 5 hours
Short, hyper-focused lessons for training that does not feel like a burden
Access to Official Microsoft Labs
Retain access to the Microsoft labs for 90 days
Exam Vouchers Included
Exam vouchers are included in all our instructor-led courses
Maximum Four Attendeed per Class
For a better learning experience
Pre-Exam Revision with Your Tutor
1-hour session before the exam to maximise Your success rate
Course Agenda
Day 1: Foundations and FastTrack Interactions
1: The Solution Architect Role
- Understand the skill set needed for solution architects.
- Refresh the knowledge obtained from online content for solution architects.
- Refresh the knowledge obtained from online content for solution architects.
2: Manage Interactions with FastTrack
- Identify the value proposition of FastTrack.
- Identify FastTrack engagement types and personnel roles.
- Describe FastTrack workshop scoping and inputs for each workshop.
- Make the most of solution blueprint templates.
- Learn to complete the go-live checklist.
- Gather information on the final stakeholder.
- How to become a FastTrack recognised solution architect.
Day 2: Solution Blueprint and Project Governance
3: Solution Blueprint
- Understand the solution blueprint definition.
- Describe the solution blueprint purpose.
- Identify the main solution blueprint components.
- Describe solution scope, goals, and challenges.
- List implementation team members and project roles.
- Describe project timeline for implementation and rollouts.
- Describe change management, risks, and escalation paths.
- Describe overall solution architecture.
- Describe organisation.
- Provide details about the organisation.
- Describe business processes in scope of the solution.
- Understand functional and non-functional requirements.
- Document product gaps and their solutions.
Day 3: Environments, Tools, and Data Management
4: Define Environments, Tools, and Deployment Strategy
- Describe general concepts for cloud deployments.
- Environment planning main concepts and types.
- Understand the process of provisioning production and sandbox environments.
- Describe developing an environment plan.
- Develop the deployment strategy.
- Define application lifecycle management (ALM).
- ALM methodologies.
- Define a deployment strategy.
- Understand extensibility options.
- Learn about upgrade scenarios and tools.
- Adopt One Version – Continuous updates.
- Utilise Azure DevOps.
- Utilise Lifecycle Services.
- Disaster recovery strategy.
5: Determine Data Management Strategy
- Describe data management overview.
- Understand data management framework.
- Utilise data task automation.
- Describe database movement operations.
- Utilise data sharing framework.
- Develop data migration strategy.
- Develop cutover plan.
- Develop a data retention plan.
- Develop data migration strategy.
Day 4: Integration and Security
6: Determine Integration and Interfaces Strategies
- Describe integration strategy.
- Understand architecture integration components.
- Understand integration patterns.
- Describe integration with Dataverse.
- Utilise Data Integrator.
- Understand dual-write and virtual entities.
- Utilise business events.
- Describe Azure integration services.
- Integration with Microsoft 365.
- Batch data API.
- Understand OData.
- Describe custom services.
- Consume external web services.
7: Define the Security Architecture
- Learn about cloud security.
- Describe main aspects of Azure datacenter security.
- Data residency and data ownership.
- Authentication and authorisation.
- Compliance requirements.
- Encryption.
- Describe security architecture.
- Understand role-based security.
- Describe authentication.
- Describe authorisation.
- Prepare for auditing in security context.
- Describe database logging.
- Describe user activity monitoring.
- Describe external user setup.
- Describe working with Network Security Group (NSG) for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
- Describe Azure ExpressRoute.
- Main security design considerations.
- Develop security strategy.
Day 5: Testing and Performance
8: Define Testing Strategy
- Understand testing scope.
- Solution testing lifecycle and defect management.
- Identify types of testing.
- Develop a testing strategy.
- Describe testing tools.
- Testing roles, responsibilities, and test management.
- Perform test planning.
- Understand One Version and adopt regression testing strategy.
- Define performance goals and scenarios.
- Define performance benchmarks and success criteria.
- Define performance testing strategy.
- Identify tools for performance testing.
- Identify tools for performance monitoring.
10: Business Intelligence and Reporting
- Outline reporting and analytics overview.
- Describe native reporting options.
- Describe business intelligence reporting options.
- Identify analytics reporting options.
- Develop reporting and analytics strategies.
- Reporting and business intelligence overview.
- Develop an intelligence strategy.
Day 6: Licensing, Support, and Go-Live Preparation
11: Determine Licensing and Support Needs
- Estimate the number of licenses.
- Stay compliant with user licensing requirements.
- Understand support options during and post-implementation.
- Define support strategy.
12: Prepare for Go-Live
- Complete the solution blueprint.
- Develop a training strategy.
- Develop a training plan.
- Understand the go-live readiness assessment process.
- Understand completing and submitting the go-live checklist.
- Describe the process of provisioning the production environment.
- Define cutover activities and go-live.