| Plan architecture and solution design |
10-15% |
Identify the major components of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps
- identify the Finance and Operations app modules required for a solution based on business requirements
- identify architectural differences between the cloud and on-premises versions of Finance and Operations apps
- identify components of the application stack
- differentiate the purposes and interrelationships between packages, projects, models, and elements
Design and implement a user interface
- describe the Finance and Operations user interface layouts and components
- design the workspaces
- design and personalize user interface elements including grids, forms, and pages
- configure filtering options
Implement Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Lifecycle Services (LCS)
- describe the capabilities of the Environment Monitoring Tool within Lifecycle Services (LCS)
- select the purpose and appropriate uses of LCS tools and components
- research and resolve issues by using Issue Search
- identify activities that require asset libraries
- prepare deployment packages and deploy packages
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| Apply Developer Tools |
10-15% |
Customize Finance and Operations apps by using Visual Studio
- create extension models
- design and build projects
- manage metadata using Application Explorer
- synchronize data dictionary changes with the application database
- create elements by using the Element Designer
Manage source code and artifacts by using version control
- create, check out, and check in code and artifacts
- branch and merge code
- compare code and resolve version conflicts
Implement Finance and Operations app framework functionality
- implement the SysOperation framework
- implement the asynchronous framework
- implement the workflow framework
- implement the unit test framework
- identify the need for and implement the Sandbox framework
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| Implement reporting |
10-15% |
Describe the capabilities and limitations of reporting tools in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps
- create and modify report data sources and supporting classes
- implement reporting security requirements
- describe the report publishing process
- describe the differences between using Entity store and Bring your own database (BYOD) as reporting data stores
Design, create, and revise Dynamics reports
- create and modify reports in Finance and Operations apps that use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- create and modify Finance and Operations apps reports by using Power BI
- create and modify Finance and Operations apps reports FO by using Microsoft Excel
Design, create, and revise Dynamics workspaces
- design KPIs
- create drill-through workspace elements
- implement built-in charts, KPIs, aggregate measurement, aggregate dimension, and other reporting components
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| Design and develop AOT Elements |
20-25% |
Create forms
- add a new form to a project and apply a pattern (template)
- configure a data source for the form
- add a grid and grid fields, groups, and other controls to a form
- create and populate menu items
- test form functionality and data connections
- add a form extension to a project for selected standard forms
Create and extend tables
- add tables to a project
- add table fields and field properties to a table
- add a table extension to a project for a table
- add fields groups, relations, delete actions, and indices
Create Extended Data Types (EDT) and enumerations
- add an EDT to a project and populate EDT properties
- add an enumeration to a project
- add or update enumeration elements and enumeration element properties
- add an extension of EDT and enumerations
Create classes and extend AOT elements
- add a new class to a project
- create a new class extension and add new methods
- add event handler methods to a class
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| Develop and test code |
10-15% |
Develop X++ code
- identify and implement base types and operators
- implement common structured programming constructs of X++
- create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) data
- identify and implement global functions in X++
- implement table and form methods
Develop object-oriented code
- implement X++ variable scoping
- implement inheritance and abstraction concept
- implement query objects and the QueryBuilder class
- implement attribute classes
- implement chain of command
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| Integrate and manage data solutions |
10-15% |
Identify data integration scenarios
- select an appropriate data integration API
- identify differences between synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns
Implement data integration concepts and solutions
- develop a data entity by using Visual Studio
- develop, import, and export composite data entities
- identify and manage unmapped fields in data entities
- consume external web services by using OData and RESTful APIs
- integrate Finance and Operations apps with Microsoft Excel by using OData
- develop and integrate Power Automate and Power Apps
Implement data management
- import and export data using entities between Finance and Operations apps and other systems
- monitor the status and availability of entities
- enable Entity Change Tracking
- set up a data project and recurring data jobs
- design entity sequencing
- generate field mapping between source and target data structures
- develop data transformations
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| Implement security and optimize performance |
10-15% |
Implement role-based security policies and requirements
- create or modify duties, privileges, permissions, and roles
- enforce permissions policies
- implement record-level security by using Extensible Data Security (XDS)
Apply fundamental performance optimization techniques
- identify and apply caching mechanisms for forms and tables
- implement the global cache
- create or modify temporary tables for optimization purposes
- determine whento use set-based queries and row-based queries
- modify queries to optimize performance
- modify variable scope to optimize performance
- analyze and optimize concurrency
Optimize user interface performance
- capture traces by using TraceParser and analyze traces
- diagnose and optimize client performance by using Microsoft Edge F12 Developer tools, Fiddler, and other common tools
- diagnose and optimize client performance by using Performance Timer
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