Microsoft AI Business Professional
The AB-730 exam is designed for anyone getting started with Copilot & AI. It validates your understanding of generative AI fundamentals, manage prompts and conversations by using AI, and draft and analyze business content by using AI.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft AI Business Professional
- Exam code
- AB-730
- Level
- Fundamentals
- Duration
- Approximately 45 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $99 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Languages
- English (additional languages may be available)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Not required (Fundamentals certifications do not expire)
Skills measured
Understand generative AI fundamentals (25–30%)
- Describe how Copilot uses context, keeps organisational data private, and differs across Microsoft 365 apps.
- Distinguish chat experiences from agent experiences and when to create your own agent.
- Identify responsible AI risks, verification steps, and data protection limits on prompt results.
Manage prompts and conversations by using AI (35–40%)
- Create, save, schedule, and share effective prompts with the right referenced resources.
- Find, rename, delete, and add Copilot conversations to a notebook.
- Create and share agents from templates, including knowledge, instructions, and suggested prompts.
Draft and analyze business content by using AI (25–30%)
- Draft documents and communications from prompts or existing files, including management summaries.
- Move data and insights between Microsoft 365 apps.
- Use Copilot for meetings, Pages, memory, and instructions.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take AB-730?
AB-730 is for business users, analysts, managers, and knowledge workers who already use Microsoft 365 Copilot. That includes people in professional services, the public sector, retail, and corporate headquarters.
What is the average salary for an AI Business Professional?
AB-730 is a professional credential, not a job title, so it has no published salary of its own. People who use Microsoft 365 Copilot in 2026 work in existing business, analyst, or knowledge-worker roles. Related UK business and data analyst pay is often about £32,000 to £45,000; US business intelligence analyst medians are around $80,000; German data analyst medians are around €50,000. The certification does not set pay.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real AB-730 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-730 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-730 is a knowledge exam. Microsoft does not provide official exam labs you can use to practise this credential. Some Microsoft Learn modules include short exercises, and official instructor-led AB-730T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. Hands-on practice, if you want it, is in a free Azure, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, or trial tenant rather than an exam lab. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.