Study guide for Exam AB-410: Building Intelligent Applications

Purpose of this document

This study guide should help you understand what to expect on the exam and includes a summary of the topics the exam might cover and links to additional resources. The information and materials in this document should help you focus your studies as you prepare for the exam.

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About the exam

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Note

The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. Related topics may be covered in the exam.

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Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.

Skills measured

Audience profile

As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a professional who builds AI-powered solutions in Microsoft Power Platform by using Microsoft Copilot, natural language prompts, and low-code tools. You create apps, data models, and flows that connect to agents, AI models and prompts, and visualizations to enrich these experiences.

In this role, your responsibilities include:

  • Developing Dataverse data models, model-driven apps, and canvas apps.

  • Integrating agents and Copilot features into canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages sites.

  • Creating cloud flows and business logic.

You collaborate with:

  • Environment and security administrators for policies, roles, identity, and authentication.

  • Governance teams on responsible AI principles, application lifecycle management (ALM), solutions, pipelines, and monitoring.

  • Agent developers, solution architects, and other app builders for business solution building.

  • Business stakeholders to gather requirements, iterate business solutions, and promote user adoption.

For this exam, you should have experience with:

  • Using natural language to create solution assets.

  • Dataverse modeling.

  • Power Automate cloud flows.

  • AI capabilities in Microsoft Power Platform.

  • Power Apps development.

  • Power Pages sites.

Prerequisites for the exam include:

  • Familiarity with using Copilot in Power Apps, Copilot in Power Automate, Copilot in Power Pages, and Copilot in Dataverse.

  • Awareness of creating agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.

  • Foundational knowledge of AI models and prompts in AI Hub.

  • Ability to map business processes to flows, agents, or app capabilities.

  • Ability to work with Dataverse as a core data platform.

  • Familiarity with low-code automation, including Power Fx.

  • Awareness of environment governance, roles, policies, and solution lifecycle steps.

Skills at a glance

  • Create a foundation for intelligent applications (25–30%)

  • Create intelligent applications (25–30%)

  • Build business application logic and automation (40–45%)

Create a foundation for intelligent applications (25–30%)

Design Microsoft Power Platform solutions by using AI-enabled tools

  • Analyze requirements to identify components and options for implementation

  • Evaluate built-in agents to include in the business solution

  • Recommend extensibility options

  • Recommend environment types

  • Apply a Microsoft Power Platform solution and ALM strategy

Build data models

  • Create and edit tables in the data workspace

  • Create and modify standard tables

  • Configure table properties

  • Create and modify columns

  • Configure table relationships

  • Configure prompt columns

  • Configure row summaries

  • Configure public views

  • Configure main forms

  • Configure security

Create intelligent applications (25–30%)

Create model-driven apps

  • Create and configure forms for model-driven apps

  • Create and configure views for model-driven apps

  • Create generative pages by using natural language

  • Compose a model-driven app

  • Configure access to forms and views for model-driven apps

  • Configure access to model-driven apps

  • Create and configure model-driven app charts and dashboards

Create canvas apps

  • Create a canvas app using data

  • Design apps for accessibility, performance, responsiveness, and usability

  • Automate business processes from canvas apps

  • Create reuseable components, including named formulas, user-defined functions, and component libraries

  • Manage variables and collections

  • Implement error handling

  • Test canvas apps, including using Monitor

  • Create a Copilot Studio agent from a canvas app

Build business application logic and automation (40–45%)

Create cloud flows

  • Recommend cloud flow triggers

  • Evaluate and recommend connectors

  • Manage approvals by using cloud flows

  • Configure cloud flow actions

  • Implement flow control with conditions and loops

  • Test and troubleshoot cloud flows

Create prompts and models in AI Hub

  • Build prompts from templates or from blank

  • Consume a prompt in apps

  • Consume a prompt in cloud flows

  • Add knowledge to a prompt

  • Customize prompt settings, including models

  • Add inputs to a prompt

  • Consume an AI model in apps

  • Consume an AI model in cloud flows

Implement business and process logic

  • Configure business rules

  • Configure business process flows

  • Configure calculated, rollup, and formula columns

  • Evaluate use cases for business logic

Study resources

We recommend that you train and get hands-on experience before you take the exam. We offer self-study options and classroom training as well as links to documentation, community sites, and videos.

Study resources Links to learning and documentation
Get trained Choose from self-paced learning paths and modules or take an instructor-led course
Find documentation What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation
Microsoft Power Platform documentation
Ask a question Microsoft Q&A | Microsoft Docs
Get community support Microsoft 365 Copilot - Community Hub
Power Platform Communities
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