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

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Course Overview

The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect is a trusted advisor who consults with organizations 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 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 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 are aspired 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 implantation.

Who Should Attend

The audience for this course should have previous experience with functional or technical focus in Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Applications. Primarily for those who are aspired to be solution architect role.

Course Outline

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 - Get started with Lifecycle Services for finance and operations apps

  • Understand the functionality and tools of Lifecycle Services
  • Determine licensing requirements
  • 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)
  • Support options
  • Get product updates from Lifecycle Services

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)

8 - 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

9 - 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

10 - 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

11 - Get started with a finance and operations implementation project

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

12 - Implement application lifecycle management in finance and operations apps

  • ALM methodologies
  • Design and create models
  • Plan the build, test, and quality control processes
  • Identify upgrade scenarios and appropriate tools
  • Plan the release, change, and risk management processes

13 - Explore extensions and the extension framework in finance and operations apps

  • Customization models
  • Extension points for frameworks
  • Develop code to extend a framework
  • Create pre-event and post-event handler classes
  • Implement the SysOperationSandbox framework
  • Implement the workflow framework

14 - Consume business events in finance and operations apps

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

15 - Identify data integration patterns and scenarios in finance and operations apps

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

16 - 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
  • Integrate Dataverse by using virtual entities
  • Work with composite data entities
  • Azure Data Lake and Entity Store
  • Connect to Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Change data in Azure Data Lake
  • Power Platform convergence

17 - 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

18 - 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
  • Use Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity
  • Explore the business value of the Power Fx
  • 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
  • Explore how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together
  • Describe how Power Platform solutions consume Microsoft Azure services

19 - Identify foundational components of Microsoft Power Platform

  • Describe Power Platform administration
  • Describe Power Platform security and governance
  • Explore Microsoft Dataverse
  • Examine Power Platform connectors

20 - Set up and build mobile experiences for finance and operations apps

  • Virtual entities
  • Set up Dataverse virtual entities
  • Integration setup
  • Enable virtual entities
  • Build a mobile experience
  • Access mobile experiences

21 - 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

22 - 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

23 - 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?

24 - 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
  • Microsoft Entra ID and OAuth 2.0 authentication

25 - 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

26 - 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

27 - 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

28 - 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

29 - 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

30 - Design data models for Dynamics 365 solutions

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

31 - 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

32 - 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

33 - 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

34 - Review the security model for your Dynamics 365 solutions

  • Security workshop topics

35 - 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

36 - Dual-write implementation for Dynamics 365 solutions

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

37 - 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

38 - 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

39 - 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

40 - Get started with configuration and personalization in finance and operations apps

  • Set up your environment
  • Explore personalization functionality

41 - 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

42 - Configure your data in finance and operations apps

  • Create entities
  • Manage security
  • Integrate with Microsoft Office

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