Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
The AB-100 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Copilot & AI. It validates your ability to plan AI-powered business solutions, design AI-powered business solutions, and deploy AI-powered business solutions.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
- Exam code
- AB-100
- Level
- Expert
- Duration
- Approximately 100 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $165 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- An associate-level Dynamics 365, Power Platform or Azure AI certification
- Languages
- English (additional languages may be available)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Plan AI-powered business solutions (25–30%)
- Analyse requirements, grounding data, and use cases for agents in automation and decision-making.
- Design the overall AI strategy, including multi-agent solutions, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry.
- Evaluate costs and benefits, including ROI, build versus buy, and model routing.
Design AI-powered business solutions (25–30%)
- Design agents, prompts, and AI components for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform workloads.
- Design extensibility with Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Model Context Protocol.
- Orchestrate prebuilt agents and AI features across finance, supply chain, sales, and service apps.
Deploy AI-powered business solutions (40–45%)
- Monitor, test, and tune agents, including telemetry, validation criteria, and prompt quality.
- Design application lifecycle management for agents, models, connectors, and Dynamics 365 AI features.
- Design responsible AI, security, governance, access controls, and audit trails.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take AB-100?
AB-100 is for solution architects, AI solution architects, and senior Dynamics or Power Platform architects. Most work at Microsoft partners or in large enterprise IT, in professional services, manufacturing, and financial services. You must already hold an associate-level Dynamics 365, Power Platform, or Azure AI certification.
What is the average salary for an Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect?
AB-100 is new in 2026, so recruiters do not yet publish a dedicated salary band for this exact job title. Comparable solution architect and AI architecture roles in 2026 typically pay about $170,000 to $230,000 in the United States, about £85,000 to £110,000 in the United Kingdom, and about €95,000 to €138,000 in western continental Europe (Germany and similar EU markets). There is no single published EMEA average. Pay varies with seniority and whether the role is a Microsoft partner architect or an in-house lead.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real AB-100 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. Microsoft publishes a free Practice Assessment for AB-100 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. MeasureUp also sells the official practice test linked in the study resources on this page. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
Does the exam include official labs I can use to practice?
AB-100 is a design and architecture exam. It is typically assessed with case studies and traditional questions rather than a hands-on lab you can reuse afterwards. Microsoft still expects job-role experience. Practise in a subscription or trial, and official instructor-led AB-100T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.