MB-800 Practice Test

Skills this practice test covers

• Create a company with Assisted Setup or a configuration package, and create journal opening balances.
• Give users access with permission sets, security groups and security filters.
• Set up global, shortcut and default dimensions, and block dimension combinations.
• Configure specific and general posting groups so each sale and purchase reaches the right G/L accounts.
• Set up fixed assets with depreciation books and classes, then post acquisitions and depreciation.
• Process sales and purchase documents from quote to posted invoice, including corrections.

4 domains · 25 topics · 220 of 226 questions sorted by domain

Requirements

• No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
• Recommended: basic knowledge of financial management and common business processes.
• Recommended: experience with Business Central or Dynamics NAV, though it is not required.
• Recommended: confident use of Excel, Word and Outlook.

About the MB-800 exam

How to earn the certification

Earns

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant AssociateAssociate

The certification expires each year. Holders renew it with a free online assessment on Microsoft Learn.

Before

• MB-920 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP)

  Optional. A fundamentals exam on the Dynamics 365 ERP apps, Business Central among them.

How to prepare for MB-800

1. 1

   Open a sandbox with demo data

   Use a Business Central sandbox or trial company with demo data. Then create a second company from scratch with Assisted Setup and a configuration package, and post its opening balances.

2. 2

   Follow one invoice into the ledgers

   Post a sales invoice and trace it to customer ledger entries, detailed customer ledger entries and G/L entries. Repeat it for an item, through item ledger entries and value entries.

3. 3

   Give the financials the most time

   Configure financials is the largest domain. Set up General Ledger setup, accounting periods, currencies, deferrals and posting groups in one company, then add a fixed asset with a depreciation book.

4. 4

   Rehearse corrections and reversals

   Correct a posted sales invoice, undo a shipment and a receipt, reverse a posted journal and undo an applied entry. These operations tasks are easy to confuse under time pressure.

5. 5

   Test one domain at a time

   Work through the MB-800 practice test in Study Mode one domain at a time, then take a full run in Timed Mode. When a posting answer is unclear, ask Brainy AI Assistant which setup decided the G/L account.

   Start a timed MB-800run

Microsoft's instructor-led course for this exam is MB-800T00-A: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant. Microsoft Learn also has free learning paths, such as Configure Sales and Purchasing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Who MB-800 is for

• Implementation consultants who take small and medium businesses onto Business Central.
• Business Central administrators who manage companies, users and setup after go-live.
• Business analysts who turn finance, sales and purchasing processes into Business Central setup.

Typical job titles: Business Central functional consultant · ERP implementation consultant · Business application consultant · Business Central administrator · Business process analyst

MB-800 glossary

18 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.

Assisted Setup

Guided pages in Business Central that walk a user through setting up a company or a feature, step by step.

Configuration package

A file of chosen tables, fields and records that moves setup and master data into a Business Central company.

Configuration worksheet

A Business Central page for planning which tables go into a configuration package, and in what order.

Costing methods

Rules such as FIFO, Average and Standard that decide how Business Central values inventory and the cost of goods sold.

Data analysis mode

A mode on list pages that groups, totals and pivots data without exporting it to Excel.

Default dimensions

Dimension values set on a customer, vendor, item or account that fill in automatically on new entries.

Deferrals

Settings that spread revenue or expense over several accounting periods instead of posting it all at once.

Dimension Correction Tool

A feature that changes the dimension values on posted G/L entries without reversing and posting them again.

General posting setup

The table that pairs general business and product posting groups with the G/L accounts that sales, purchases and inventory post to.

Global dimensions

The two dimensions stored on every entry, so they can filter almost any list or report.

Job queues

The Business Central scheduler that runs reports and codeunits in the background at set times.

Number series

Rules that give documents and cards their unique numbers, such as the next invoice or customer number.

Permission sets

Named groups of permissions that decide which objects and data a user can read, insert, modify, delete or run.

Prepayment invoices

Invoices for an advance payment on a sales or purchase order, posted before the goods ship or arrive.

Recurring journals

Journals that keep their lines after posting, for entries that repeat, such as monthly rent.

Security filters

Filters on a permission that limit a user to certain records in a table, such as one region's customers.

Shortcut dimensions

Dimensions that users can enter directly on journal and document lines instead of opening a separate page.

Specific posting groups

Posting groups for customers, vendors, inventory or bank accounts that link each record to its balance accounts in the general ledger.