Candidates for this exam are developers who work with Finance and Operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to implement and extend applications that meet the requirements of a business. Candidates provide fully realized solutions by using standardized application coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.

Candidates develop business logic by using X++, create and modify Finance and Operations reports and workspaces, customize user interfaces, provide endpoints and APIs to support Power Platform apps and external systems, perform testing, monitor performance, analyze and manipulate data, create technical designs and implementation details, and implement permission policies and security requirements.

Candidates should have a deep knowledge and experience using the underlying framework, data structures, and objects associated with the Finance and Operations solutions.

Candidates should have experience with products that include Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools, and SQL Server Management Studio.

As a developer working with Finance and Operations apps, it's important to have a firm grasp of the main architecture components of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and Finance and Operations apps. Knowledge of core developer concepts, including technical capabilities, source code, testing frameworks, and reporting tools, will support your further efforts in building development skills that you can apply to Finance and Operations apps.