MB-500 practice test

The major components and how the cloud and on-premises versions differ, extending the apps into the wider Microsoft ecosystem, and application lifecycle management: managing environments through Lifecycle Services, Issue Search, asset libraries, package deployment between environments, Unified Developer Experience environments in the Power Platform admin centre, and the Implementation portal.

Visual Studio: creating and managing extension models, Application Explorer and metadata, synchronising the data dictionary with the database, the element designers and debugging, and Azure DevOps version control: checking code in and out, project artifacts, branching and merging, comparing and resolving conflicts, choosing between version control systems, and continuous integration and delivery.

Creating and extending user interface elements: forms, menus and menu items, and label files, the data model: tables, views, queries, maps and data entities, and classes: extending them, adding event handler methods, and adding attributes and modifiers.

X++ itself: structured constructs, creating, reading, updating and deleting data, global functions and best practice warnings, object-oriented code: variable scoping, inheritance and abstraction, query objects and the QueryBuilder class, attribute classes, Chain of Command, extensibility and breaking changes, event handler classes and delegates, the SysOperation, workflow and SysExtensionSerializer frameworks, and testing with the SysTest framework, Task recorder and Test Explorer.

Choosing among the reporting tools and datastores, report data sources and their supporting classes, reporting security, building and deploying reports with SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI, Excel and Electronic reporting, and workspaces: key performance indicators, drill-through elements and Power BI visualisations.

Integration patterns and choosing an API, synchronous against asynchronous, consuming external services over REST and SOAP, Electronic reporting integrations, custom services and the batch OData API, data management: importing and exporting through entities including composite and aggregate ones, entity status and change tracking, data projects with entity sequencing and recurring jobs, and field mapping between source, staging and target, and integration with the wider platform: dual-write, virtual entities, Power Platform, Excel over OData, business events and Azure Key Vault.

Duties, roles, privileges and permissions, security policies and Extensible Data Security, and performance: table and form caching, the global cache and singletons, temporary tables, set-based against row-based queries, query and variable scope optimisation, concurrency, trace capture and analysis with Trace Parser, optimising entities, data source queries, batch processes and reports, the Async and Sandbox frameworks, and indexes on tables and views.