MB-820: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Training

• Create a Business Central account
• Sign in to Business Central
• Use a demo database
• Start a trial with your own data
• Extend your trial and subscribe or unsubscribe your organization from Business Central
• Lab: Sign in to Business Central

• Why Business Central is a cloud end-to-end business solution
• The core Business Central functionalities by browsing application areas
• Lab: Create a customer and a new office furniture item

• Understand the high-level technical architecture of Business Central
• Know the available options to tailor Business Central to specific needs

• Understand upgrade responsibilities and best practices
• Create proper installation and upgrade codeunits

• Know how to sign up for the Cloud Solution Provider program
• Use the administration center to manage environments
• Set up tenant notifications and inspect environment telemetry
• Manage support requests for customers
• Export a database
• Enable features ahead of time

• Define the difference between regular OData web services and the API
• Work around API limits
• Create new APIs
• Read, update, and create through the API
• Implement OData bound actions
• Lab: Connect to the API

• Create new XMLports
• Configure the important XMLport properties
• Define nodes in an XMLport
• Work with the different formats
• Use an XMLport in AL code
• Lab: Create an XMLport to export XML data

• Learn about the differences between SOAP and OData
• Enable access to the different web services
• Create your own SOAP and OData web services
• Use OData and SOAP to read and update records
• Handle UI interaction
• Lab: Create and connect to an OData web service

• Learn about Azure Functions
• Create a basic Azure function
• Use an existing .NET DLL in an Azure function
• Use an Azure function in Business Central
• Lab: Create an Azure function

• Use HTTP data types
• Connect to external REST services and read data
• Connect to external REST services and post data
• Read JSON data in Business Central
• Get JSON from an external REST service
• Lab: Connect to external REST services

• Identify what Power Automate is and how it can be used with Business Central
• Identify existing Business Central actions and triggers available in Power Automate
• See how to create an independent flow in Business Central that automates business processes
• Create a flow that runs on a schedule or to create a button flow to send a reminder
• Lab: Create a flow for sending emails when a new item is created in Power Automate

• Learn how to write test code in AL with Test Codeunits
• Install and run the Test Toolkit in Docker containers
• Run standard Business Central tests

• Create an Azure DevOps organization
• Create an Azure DevOps project
• Know about the different services in Azure DevOps
• Connect via a Personal Access Token
• Know the difference between GitHub and Azure DevOps
• Lab: Create an Azure DevOps organization and project

• Configure Git
• Know the structure of Git repositories
• Create a new local Git repository
• Add and remove files from Git
• Link and clone a remote Git Repository
• Work with the .gitignore file
• Lab: Source control with Git

• Prepare your application for optimal performance
• Get essential application insights

• Work with variables and define them in AL code
• Use the different data types
• Use options and enums
• Work with collections
• Use the different types of expressions
• Lab: Discover the intrinsic data types
• Lab: Use logical and relational expressions

• Learn the difference between all available table types
• Discover the correct primary key for each table type
• Use the correct naming for tables
• Create the associated pages

• Add objects to the search dialog
• Create page customizations
• Define profiles that are linked to a Role Center and page customizations
• Create custom views
• Extend the application areas in Business Central

• Learn about control add-ins
• Build a control add-in
• Send data from Business Central to JavaScript
• Send data from JavaScript to Business Central
• Connect a control add-in with an Azure function
• Lab: Build a control add-in object

• Create a new Query object
• Join, filter, and aggregate data in a Query object
• Access queries from AL
• Publish queries as a web service

• Learn about entitlements and how to use them in Business Central
• Learn about permission sets and how they are used
• Create or extend entitlement and permission set objects by using AL

• Learn about codeunits
• Create new codeunits
• Access functions within a codeunit

• Learn about the different report components
• Create the data items for a report
• Add columns to the dataset of a report
• Order, link, and indent data items

• Identify the different page types
• Discover the different page properties
• Learn how to build the layout of new pages
• Link pages with page parts
• Use snippets to create pages in Visual Studio Code
• Enable end users to search for a page
• Define actions on a page and set its properties
• Lab: Create a Card page
• Lab: Create a List page

• Learn how to work with the Visual Studio Code debugger
• Use Debug and Attach configuration files
• Work with the Rapid Application Development (RAD) feature
• Deploy your extensions to a production tenant
• Lab: Create a page extension

• Use the Microsoft Visual Studio Code development environment
• Create a basic new AL Language extension
• Design the different configuration files in an AL extension
• Manage multiple AL extensions in one workspace
• Lab: Create and run an AL extension

• Manage users and user groups
• Implement and configure security
• Setup profiles, and role centers
• Audit changes to data
• Lab: Add a new user

Being a Dynamics 364 Business Central Developer one is responsible for developing, testing, designing, and maintaining solutions based on the Business Central.

This exam is 2 hours long.

This course is considered to be of moderate difficulty due to its technical nature.