Development, Extensions and Deployment for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (MCSA Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations) Exam Syllabus

- Describe the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance architecture

• Describe the development environment
• Describe the components in the application stack
• Identify cloud architecture components
• Explain the server architecture
• Describe the layer architecture

- Describe the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce architecture

• Identify components of the retail solutions and their purpose
• Describe differences and uses for the Retail Server and the Retail Store Scale Unit (RSSU)
• Describe hardware components
• Describe and create components for the Modern Point of Sale (MPOS) and the Cloud Point of Sale (Cloud POS)

- Manage development with Microsoft Visual Studio and Lifecycle Services (LCS)

• Identify the windows and basic navigation of Visual Studio
• Describe differences between and uses for projects, models, solutions, and packages
• Describe and perform the build process
• Describe the features of LCS
• Use LCS to deploy hotfixes, manage assets, and complete the build process

- Create and manage labels and resources

• Create new label files
• Create and use labels
• Describe elements and uses for labels
• Identify best practices for labels
• Identify uses for resources

- Create and manage data types

• Describe uses for base enumerations
• Create new base enumerations
• Identify best practices for base enumerations
• Describe primitive and extended data types
• Create new extended data types
• Identify key properties for extended data types
• Implement best practices for extended data types

- Create and manage tables

• Identify the components of a table
• Describe various types of table relationships
• Describe various types of table indexes
• Implement best practices for tables, relationships, and indexes

- Describe the X++ environment

• Identify the characteristics of X++
• Use the code editor to write X++
• Describe the features of IntelliSense
• Identify basic syntax for X++
• Describe the use of common key words in X++
• Describe the features of the debugger
• Use the comparison tool
• Use the best practice checker

- Work with X++ control statements

• Work with variables, operators, conditional statements, and loops
• Use built-in functions
• Use communication tools

- Work with classes

• Create new classes
• Describe scoping events and parameters
• Describe inheritance
• Identify key best practices when writing X++

- Manipulate data with X++

• Identify techniques for data retrieval
• Explain uses for transaction integrity checking
• Insert, update, and delete records using X++
• Identify best practices for manipulating data with X++

- Manage exceptions in X++

• Identify exception types
• Use try/catch statements
• Describe the features of optimistic concurrency control
• Describe best practices for exception handling with X++

- Manage the user interface

• Identify components of various form patterns
• Identify common form patterns and sub patterns
• Identify key properties for form elements
• Apply and validate form patterns
• Describe uses for tiles
• Describe how to join data in forms
• Implement best practices for form development

- Manage the user navigation

• Identify types of menu items
• Create menu items and menus
• Identify key properties for menu items
• Describe uses for menu items
• Implement best practices for menus and menu items

- Manage security in the development environment

• Describe the security architecture
• Describe the components of role-based security
• Create new privileges, duties, and roles in the application explorer
• Describe the extensible data security framework

- Modify retail components

• Describe the components of the Commerce Runtime (CRT) and how to extend the CRT
• Describe the components of the Commerce Data Exchange (CDX) and how to extend the CDX
• Identify components of the retail architecture that can be extended
• Describe how to extend various components of the retail architecture.

- Deploy retail modifications

• Describe how to package and deploy retail modifications into a source environment
• Review and apply retail hot fixes
• Create and deploy packages for retail
• Resolve conflicts and rebuild packages

- Monitor retail components

• Identify, use and extend diagnostics and monitoring tools for retail components
• Identify, setup, and monitor data distribution and offline databases
• Understand hot, warm, and cold paths for diagnostics and monitoring
• Use events logs, and LCS to monitor and diagnose issues with retail components