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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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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 developer or advanced builder who builds, extends, and integrates custom agents for enterprise-grade solutions. You typically work as an IT application developer, consultant, or independent software vendor (ISV) partner focused on creating scalable AI solutions for organizations or customers.
For this exam, you should be familiar with Power Fx, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Power Platform environments and components, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and adaptive cards.
You need intermediate knowledge of generative AI concepts, including models, orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, and more. You should also have experience with prompt engineering and with REST APIs and integration patterns. Additionally, you need experience configuring agents with basic knowledge sources, instructions, tools, and topics in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
As a developer who works in Copilot Studio, you:
Integrate agents with Microsoft Foundry.
Integrate agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Integrate agents with custom connectors.
Integrate agents with APIs.
Integrate agents with Microsoft Fabric.
Automate tasks with computer use.
Integrate agents with connectors.
You create:
Multi-agent solutions.
Agents with enterprise knowledge sources (such as ServiceNow, SAP, and others).
Advanced agent topics and tools.
Computer-using agents.
Agents that perform advanced actions via APIs.
You collaborate with Microsoft 365 administrators, Microsoft Power Platform administrators, Microsoft Copilot administrators, Copilot Studio agent builders, Copilot Studio administrators, Foundry administrators, agentic AI business solutions architects, and Copilot Studio architects.
Skills at a glance
Plan and configure agent solutions (30–35%)
Integrate and extend agents in Copilot Studio (40–45%)
Test and manage agents (20–25%)
Plan and configure agent solutions (30–35%)
Plan an agent solution
Plan integration with enterprise systems
Plan identity strategy
Plan channels and deployment
Plan responsible AI strategy
Evaluate security and governance considerations
Plan reuseable agent components
Design agents for internal or external audiences
Create and monitor agent flows in Copilot Studio
Create an agent flow
Create a human-in-the-loop agent flow
Configure actions and connectors
Monitor agent flows
Add input and output parameters
Implement error handling in agent flows
Configure topics
Add agent flows to a topic
Configure agent response formatting
Add tools to a topic
Configure advanced agent responses with custom prompts
Configure advanced agent responses with custom knowledge sources
Configure advanced agent responses with API and Send HTTP requests
Configure generative answers node
Configure adaptive cards
Manage variables
Integrate and extend agents in Copilot Studio (40–45%)
Connect to enterprise knowledge sources
Connect to Copilot connectors
Connect to Microsoft Power Platform connectors
Connect to Azure AI Search
Add tools to agents
Configure and monitor computer use for an agent
Configure MCP tools
Add a tool by using an existing custom connector
Add REST APIs to an agent
Configure multi-agent collaboration from Copilot Studio
Design multi-agent solutions in Copilot Studio
Integrate a Foundry agent
Integrate an existing agent in Copilot Studio
Integrate a Fabric data agent
Create a multi-agent solution by using A2A protocol
Integrate agents with Azure
Configure generative answers by using Azure AI Search with Foundry
Configure custom prompts to use the Foundry model catalog
Monitor agents by using Application Insights
Test and manage agents (20–25%)
Evaluate agent performance
Create a test set
Choose an evaluation method
Review test results
Implement application lifecycle management (ALM) for agents in Copilot Studio
Create a solution
Add existing agents to a solution
Create and use environment variables
Implement and extend Microsoft Power Platform Pipelines
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 | Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation Microsoft 365 Copilot overview Microsoft Power Platform documentation Microsoft Foundry documentation |
| Ask a question | Microsoft Q&A | Microsoft Docs |
| Get community support | Microsoft Power Platform Community Forum Thread Microsoft 365 Copilot Community Hub |
| Follow Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Learn - Microsoft Tech Community |
| Find a video | The AI Show Browse other Microsoft Learn shows |
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 | Artificial Intelligence overview Microsoft 365 Copilot documentation Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation Azure AI Foundry documentation |
| Ask a question | Microsoft Q&A | Microsoft Docs |
| Get community support | Microsoft 365 Copilot community hub Azure AI Foundry community hub |
| Follow Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Learn - Microsoft Tech Community |
| Find a video | Exam Readiness Zone Browse other Microsoft Learn shows |