Course Description: MB-700: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect

The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Solution Architect is a trusted advisor who consults with organizations and implementation team members to refine business needs into a well-defined, cost-effective solution. The architect is responsible for the integrity and correct delivery of the complete solution design. The architect provides critical guidance and assistance before the sale and throughout the remainder of the project life cycle. He has extensive knowledge and experience in designing solutions that meet business needs. The solutions architect may have technical, functional, or industry experience. The solutions architect must demonstrate knowledge of all Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. They must have a deep understanding of Finance and Operations applications. Additionally, they must have extensive knowledge of one or more vertical market segments. This course is designed to prepare those who aspire to be Solutions Architects and those who are new to this role to learn more about the technical data that Solutions Architects will work with during implementation.

Audience profile

The audience for this course should have prior experience with a functional or technical focus on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations applications. It is primarily intended for those who aspire to play the role of a solutions architect.

Items in this collection

• Become a solutions architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
• Discover customer needs as a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
• Propose a solution as a solution architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
• Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
• Conduct suitability/gap analysis
• Introduction to Lifecycle Services for Finance and Operations Applications
• Design and planning an implementation of finance and operations applications
• Translate Dynamics 365 documentation and applications with Dynamics 365 Translation Service
• Prepare data for migration to finance and operations applications
• Work with data management in finance and operations applications
• Perform user acceptance testing on finance and operations applications
• Introduction to the finance and operations implementation project
• FastTrack Customer Success Program for Finance and Operations
• Implement application lifecycle management in finance and operations applications
• Explore extensions and the extension framework in finance and operations applications
• Consume business events in finance and operations applications
• Identify data integration patterns and scenarios in finance and operations applications
• Data integrations with finance and operations applications
• Work with analytics and reporting in finance and operations applications
• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform
• How to create a canvas app
• Introduction to Dataverse
• Creating a dashboard
• How to create an automated solution
• Design and create mobile applications for finance and operations applications
• Updates and improvements for finance and operations applications
• Work with performance and monitoring tools in finance and operations applications
• Plan and implement security in finance and operations applications
• Implement role-based security in finance and operations applications
• Prepare to go live with finance and operations applications
• Managing features in finance and operations applications
• Introduction to Success by Design for Dynamics 365
• Create a solution blueprint for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Plan a testing strategy for your Dynamics 365 solution
• Design data models for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Design analytics and business intelligence for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Gap Solution Design for Dynamics 365 Solutions
• Create a data migration strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Review the security model of your Dynamics 365 solutions
• Integration design for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Double Write Implementation for Dynamics 365 Solutions
• Implement a performance strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Handover strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Post-go-live strategy for Dynamics 365 solutions
• Introduction to configuration and customization in finance and operations applications
• Configure the user interface in finance and operations applications
• Set up data in finance and operations applications

Course outline

Module 1: The architect role

This module will introduce you to the solution architect role. It will help you understand the major skills needed to perform on this role.

lesson

• The solution architect role

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | group exercise
• Exercise | Individual exercise

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Refresh the knowledge obtained from the online content for solution architect
• List the skills needed for a solution architect

Module 2: Manage interactions with Fast

Track This module will introduce to FastTrack and how to interact with them during Dynamics implementation.

lesson

• Get to know FastTrack
• Make the most of FastTrack templates

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Identify the value proposition of FastTrack
• Identify FastTrack engagement types and personnel roles
• Describes FastTrack workshop scoping and inputs for each workshop
• Make the most of solution blueprint template
• Learn to complete go-live checklist
• know how to become FastTrack recognized solution architect

Module 3: Solution blueprint

This module will help you give you an overview of solution blueprint in general. Also, this module serves as the foundation for the rest of the modules as you will be doing several activities to build your very first solution blueprint during this class.

lesson

• Solution blueprint definition and components
• Project governance and timeline
• Solution architecture and organizational structure
• Working with business process catalog

Lab: Classroom exercise

• Exercise | what is solution blueprint?
• Exercise | solution blueprint components

Lab : Case study - student Activity

• Case study artifact distribution
• Student activity 1 | Program Strategy
• Student activity 2 | Program Strategy
• Student activity 3 | describes overall solution architecture
• Student activity | describes business processes in scope of the solution

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Understand solution blueprint definition
• Describe solution blueprint purpose
• Identify main solution blueprint components
• Describe solution scope, goals and challenges
• List implementation team members and project roles
• Describes project timeline for implementation and rollouts
• Describes change management, risks, and escalation path
• Describe overall solution architecture
• Describe organization
• Provide details about the organization
• Describes business processes in scope of the solution
• Understand functional and non-functional requirements
• Document product gaps and their solutions

Module 4: Define environments, tools, and deployment strategy

His module will explain to you the different environment and deployment options. It will allow empower you to define a basic environment strategy for Dynamics implementation.

lesson

• Understand environment planning
• Application lifecycle management and deployment strategy
• Using LCS and Azure DevOps

Lab: Exercise

• Exercise | adopt One version – continuous updates
• Exercise | use Lifecycle services

Lab: Student activity

• Student activity | develop environment plan

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Describes general concepts for cloud deployments
• Environment planning main concepts and types
• Understand process of provisioning production and sandbox environments
• Describes developing an environment plan
• Understand development of the deployment strategy
• Defines application lifecycle management
• ALM methodologies
• Define a deployment strategy
• Understand extensibility options
• Learn about upgrade scenarios and tools
• Adopt One version – continuous updates
• Use Azure Devops
• Use Lifecycle Services
• Disaster recovery strategy

Module 5: Determine data management strategy

This module will empower you to understand the data related topics within Dynamics implementation. It will help you define data migration strategy.

lesson

• Data management overview
• Develop data migration strategy

Lab: Classroom exercise

• Exercise | data management overview
• Exercise | develop data migration strategy

Lab : Case study - student activity

• Student activity 4 | develop data migration strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Describes data management overview
• Understand data management framework
• Use data task automation
• Describes database movement operations
• Use data sharing framework
• Develop data migration strategy
• Develop cutover plan
• Develop data retention plan

Module 6: Determine integration and interfaces strategies

This module will cover the integration and interface topics. It should help you to understand the available options and tools to use. It will help you define your integration and interface strategy for Dynamics implementations.

lesson

• Develop integration strategy
• Integration options

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | develop integration strategy
• Exercise | integration options

Lab : Case study - student activity

• Student activity 5 | develop integration strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Engage a customer in conversation about the benefits of engaging a FastTrack architect or team
• Describe the benefits of having the project team compare and evaluate the functional requirements
• Discuss and explain the different forms of architecture involved when creating a solution blueprint

Module 7: Define security architecture

This module will help you understand the important security aspects for Dynamics implementations.

lesson

• Important security aspects
• security framework
• Define security strategy

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | important security aspects
• Exercise | security framework

Lab : Case study - student activity

• Student activity 6 | develop security strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Define cloud security
• Describes main aspects of Azure datacenter security
• understand authentication and authorization
• understand compliance requirements
• Understand encryption

Module 8: Define testing strategy

This module should help you define testing strategy and develop testing plan. It will interduce you to the various testing types and tools.

lesson

• Testing strategy overview
• Testing planning and execution

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | testing strategy overview
• Exercise | testing planning and execution

Lab : Case study - student activity

• Student activity 7 | develop testing strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Understand testing scope
• Solution testing lifecycle and defect management
• Describes testing tools
• Testing roles, responsibilities and test management
• Perform test planning
• Understand One version and adopt regression testing strategy

Module 9: Define performance testing strategy

This module will focus more on the performance topics. It will help you to know the importance of performance topic and will empower you to know how to address these topics with your customer.

lesson

• Prepare for performance topics
• Use performance testing tools

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | prepare for performance topics
• Exercise | use performance testing tools

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Define performance goals and scenarios
• Defines performance benchmarks and success criteria
• Define performance testing strategy
• Identify tools for performance testing
• Identify tools for performance monitoring

Module 10: Business intelligence and reporting

This module will address the key topics for reporting and intelligence needed by the solution architect.

lesson

• Implement business intelligence and reporting

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | reporting and business intelligence overview

Lab : Case study - student activity

• Sudent activity 8 | develop intelligence strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Outline reporting and analytics overview
• Describe native reporting options
• Describes business intelligence reporting options
• Identify analytics reporting options
• Develop reporting and analytics strategies

Module 11: Determine licensing and support

This module is designed to help you understand the basics of licensing and support. It is not meant to make you an expert on this topic. However, it will enable you to know where to find the information when you need it.

lesson

• Understand licensing estimation
• Understand support options

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | understand licensing estimation
• Exercise | understand support options

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Estimated number of licenses
• Stay compliant with user licensing requirements
• Understand support options during and post implementations
• Define support strategy

Module 12: Prepare for go-live

This module is to put everything together and prepare for go-live. It will help you get familiar with go-live checklist. This module will also recap major learnings from this class and you will be asked to give a class feedback.

lesson

• Complete solution blueprint
• Prepare for go-live
• Class recap
• Develop a training strategy

Lab: Classroom exercises

• Exercise | prepare for go-live
• Exercise | Develop a training strategy

After completing this module, the students should be able to

• Complete solution blueprint
• Understand go-live readiness assessment process
• Understand completing and submitting go-live checklist
• Describe the process of provisioning production environment
• Defines cutover activities and go-live
• Provide class feedback
• Understand how to develop training strategy

Previous requirements

You must complete the following learning paths before participating in this instructor-led course:

• Solution design for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - 3 h, 57 min
• Using Success by Design for Unified Operations application solutions - 3 hrs, 30 mins

Language

• English course