Domain 1: Set up Business Central
- Creating a company with Assisted Setup and migrating data with the configuration worksheet and configuration packages (RapidStart).
- Setting up core functionality: report layouts, job queues, and number series.
- Enabling Copilot and agent capabilities.
- Security: user profiles, users, permissions and permission sets, security filters, and security groups.
- Dimensions: dimension values, global versus shortcut dimensions, default dimensions, blocking combinations, and dimension priorities.
- Managing approvals with native workflows, notifications, and approval user groups.
Domain 2: Configure financials
- General Ledger Setup, accounting periods, payment terms versus payment methods, and deferrals.
- Currencies, exchange rates, and currency revaluation posting.
- The chart of accounts, account categories and subcategories, and general ledger allocations.
- Posting groups: specific and general posting groups, the General Posting Setup, and inventory posting setup.
- Journals and bank accounts: templates, batches, number series, and recurring journals.
- Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed-asset setup (depreciation books, classes, and methods).
Domain 3: Configure sales and purchasing
- Inventory setup: item cards, item categories and attributes, units of measure, and variants.
- Locations and stockkeeping units (SKUs).
- Costing methods (FIFO, LIFO, Average, Specific, Standard) and their impact on valuation.
- The relationship between items, item ledger entries, value entries, and general ledger entries.
- Master data for customers and vendors (shipping agents, order address, lead time).
- Pricing and discounts: purchase and sales prices, and line and invoice discounts.
Domain 4: Perform Business Central operations
- Basic tasks: designing versus customizing versus personalizing pages, filters, Edit in Excel, and data analysis mode.
- Processing purchases: quotes, purchase orders, receiving (including over-receipt), and posted invoices.
- Processing sales: quotes to orders and invoices, item availability, shipping, and recurring and blanket orders.
- Financial documents: invoices and credit memos, combining shipments and receipts, corrections, and prepayments.
- Journals and payments: payment journals, cash receipts, applying entries, bank reconciliation, and exchange-rate adjustment.
- Fixed-asset transactions (acquisition, depreciation, disposal) and inventory transactions (receipts, transfers, counts, reclassification).
MB-800 exam tips
- Configure financials and Perform Business Central operations are the two heavyweight areas at 30-35% each. Master posting groups (how they resolve the G/L accounts used when a transaction posts), journals and bank reconciliation, and the full purchase-to-payment and sales-to-receipt document flows.
- Know the distinction Microsoft tests: payment terms (due date and discount calculation) versus payment methods (how a payment is made), and general posting groups versus specific posting groups.
- Watch the domain split: Configure sales and purchasing is setup and master data and pricing only (items, costing, prices, discounts), while the transactional processing of sales and purchase documents lives in Perform Business Central operations. Tag your practice by that split.
- Understand the ledger-entry chains cold: item to item-ledger to value entries to G/L, and customer/vendor to ledger entries to detailed entries to G/L. Many questions hinge on what posts where.
- Be ready for the newer content: enabling Copilot and agent capabilities, and inventory transaction processing (receipts, shipments, transfers, physical counts, reclassification) are explicit current objectives.
Study guide FAQ
How long is the exam and what score do I need to pass?
MB-800 is 100 minutes and requires a score of 700 out of 1000 to pass. It is proctored through Pearson VUE (online or at a test center) and may include interactive or case-study components. Microsoft does not publish an exact question count.
Do I need to write code?
No. MB-800 is a functional-consultant exam focused on configuring Business Central through setup pages, configuration packages, dimensions, posting groups, and journals. The developer topics (AL programming) are covered by a separate exam, MB-820.
Is there a prerequisite?
No formal prerequisite. Microsoft recommends hands-on experience implementing and configuring Business Central and a working understanding of accounting principles and core business processes such as sales, purchasing, and inventory.
How is MB-800 different from MB-820?
MB-800 is the functional consultant exam (configuring Business Central, no code). MB-820 is the developer exam covering the AL programming language, objects, events, and extensions. Together they cover the functional and technical sides of Business Central.
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