MB-700 Sample Questions & Answers
Choosing a deployment and ALM strategy makes up well over a third of the exam, ahead of gathering requirements and documenting the architecture blueprint, managing FastTrack interactions, licensing and support, and defining a testing plan.
Launch the full MB-700 simulator →Showing 10 of 20 free samples.
- Question 1Intermediate
Define solution strategies · Define the business intelligence and reporting architecture
A large retail organization is implementing Dynamics 365 SCM and requires a solution for printing thousands of shelf labels daily across 500 retail stores. Each store has local network printers. The corporate headquarters, where the Dynamics 365 cloud instance is managed, has no direct network access to the store printers. The solution must be reliable and minimize administrative overhead. What should the solution architect recommend for the printing architecture?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
The Document Routing Agent (DRA) is designed specifically for this scenario. It acts as a local proxy that polls the cloud-hosted Dynamics 365 for print jobs and directs them to locally accessible network printers. By deploying a DRA within each store's local network, the organization can securely and reliably print documents without exposing store printers to the internet or building a complex VPN infrastructure. For high availability, multiple DRAs can be installed in each store and grouped.
- Question 2IntermediateSelect 3
Define solution strategies · Determine a data management strategy
A manufacturing company is preparing for go-live. The data migration plan involves importing 1 million open production orders using the Data Management Framework (DMF). The initial test migration took over 12 hours, which exceeds the 8-hour downtime window for cutover. The solution architect needs to recommend actions to optimize the import performance. Which three actions should be prioritized?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answers: A, B, D
- Question 3Advanced
Define solution strategies · Define the security architecture
An architect is reviewing a security design for a multi-national corporation that uses a single legal entity to represent its European operations, with multiple business units representing different countries. The company has a strict requirement that Accounts Payable managers in one country (e.g., Germany) must NOT be able to view or process vendor invoices from another country (e.g., France). Which security mechanism is the most appropriate and maintainable way to enforce this?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Since the operations are within a single legal entity, standard legal entity-based security cannot be used. The requirement is to segregate data within one legal entity based on an organizational structure (business units). Extensible Data Security (XDS) is the designed framework for this exact purpose. An XDS policy can apply a filter to tables based on a user's context, such as their default business unit, ensuring they only see data relevant to them without creating dozens of country-specific roles.
- Question 4Beginner
Manage implementations · Determine licensing requirements
A non-profit organization is implementing Dynamics 365 Finance. They have a large number of volunteers who need very limited, task-specific access to the system, such as entering expense reports for reimbursement. The organization wants to minimize licensing costs. What type of license should the solution architect recommend for these volunteers?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
The Dynamics 365 Team Member license is designed for users who are not tied to a particular function but require basic Dynamics 365 functionality. This license provides read access across all Dynamics 365 apps and limited write access for specific tasks like expense entry or time tracking. It is the most cost-effective option for users like volunteers with minimal, task-specific needs.
- Question 5Intermediate
Manage testing · Define a testing strategy
A project is in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase. The project manager reports that business users are creating many duplicate bug reports in Azure DevOps for the same underlying issue. This is causing confusion and wasting developer time. The solution architect needs to recommend a process improvement within the testing strategy. What is the best recommendation?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
A formal triage process is a standard best practice in test management. Instead of having all testers log bugs directly into the developer backlog, a triage team (often composed of test leads, business analysts, and developer leads) reviews new issues first. Their role is to reproduce the bug, check for duplicates, ensure the report has sufficient detail, and prioritize it. This adds a quality gate that significantly reduces noise for the development team.
- Question 6Beginner
Architect solutions · Gather requirements
A solution architect is evaluating business requirements during a fit-gap analysis workshop for a prospective client. The client, a service-based company, has a critical requirement to manage complex, multi-year service contracts with specific revenue recognition schedules based on project milestones. The client also needs to track resource utilization and project profitability. Which Microsoft application should the architect identify as the primary fit for these requirements?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Dynamics 365 Project Operations is specifically designed to unify operational workflows for service-based businesses. It provides end-to-end capabilities for project sales, planning, resourcing, execution, and financial analysis, including complex contract management and revenue recognition rules that are essential for project-centric organizations. The requirements described align perfectly with the core value proposition of Project Operations.
- Question 7Advanced
Architect solutions · Define the solution architecture
A company is migrating from a legacy ERP to Dynamics 365 Finance. The legacy system contains 10 years of detailed general ledger transactions, totaling over 500 million records. The business requires access to this historical data for auditing and year-over-year analysis but does not need it for daily transaction processing. The architect must propose a solution that provides access to the data without impacting the performance of the new Dynamics 365 production environment. What is the most cost-effective and performant solution?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Importing a massive volume of historical transactional data into a live ERP system is a poor practice that severely degrades performance and increases database size and cost. The best practice is to migrate only the necessary data for ongoing operations (like opening balances) into Dynamics 365. The historical data, which is needed only for analysis, should be moved to a low-cost, high-performance storage solution like Azure Data Lake. Power BI can then connect to both the live Dynamics 365 data (via connectors) and the historical data in the lake to provide comprehensive reporting without affecting transactional performance.
- Question 8Beginner
Define solution strategies · Select a deployment strategy
In the context of the Dynamics 365 One Version strategy, what is the primary purpose of the 'Pause windows' configurable in Lifecycle Services (LCS)?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
The One Version strategy ensures customers stay current with continuous service updates. However, Microsoft recognizes that customers may have critical business cycles (e.g., year-end closing, peak sales season) where they cannot take an update. The pause functionality in LCS allows customers to skip a limited number of consecutive updates (e.g., up to 3) to accommodate these periods. It is a temporary postponement, not a permanent opt-out.
- Question 9Intermediate
Architect solutions · Describe and document the solution blueprint
A solution architect is documenting the solution blueprint for a new implementation. The client is a holding company with three distinct subsidiaries that operate in different industries and have completely separate financial reporting and regulatory requirements. However, they want to centralize procurement and share a master vendor list. What is the correct way to model this organizational structure in Dynamics 365?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
The fundamental unit for financial and regulatory separation in Dynamics 365 is the legal entity. Since the subsidiaries have distinct requirements, they must be set up as separate legal entities. To meet the requirement for centralized procurement and a shared vendor list, Dynamics 365 provides standard features for centralized payments and intercompany trade, allowing one legal entity to process payments on behalf of others and for master data like vendors to be shared across them.
- Question 10Intermediate
Architect solutions · Define the solution architecture
A project requires a complex, multi-stage approval workflow for purchase requisitions that involves dynamic routing based on the requisition's financial dimensions and total amount. A senior developer suggests building the entire logic in an X++ class because it offers maximum flexibility. The solution architect is concerned about maintainability. What is the best-practice alternative?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
While X++ offers flexibility, it creates a rigid customization that is difficult for business users to maintain. The modern, best-practice approach is to use the standard, configurable workflow framework for the main structure. For the complex, dynamic parts, the workflow can be configured to emit a business event. A Power Automate flow can subscribe to this event, execute the complex logic using its rich set of connectors and conditions (which can be maintained by power users), and then call back into Dynamics 365 to advance the workflow. This hybrid approach maximizes configurability and reduces technical debt.
Ready for the real thing?
The full MB-700 simulator has every exam-style question, timed mode, and instant scoring.