Microsoft AI Transformation Leader
The AB-731 exam is designed for anyone getting started with Copilot & AI. It validates your understanding of the business value of generative AI solutions, benefits, capabilities, and opportunities for Microsoft's AI apps and services, and an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft's AI apps and services.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft AI Transformation Leader
- Exam code
- AB-731
- 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
Identify the business value of generative AI solutions (35–40%)
- Describe generative AI concepts, models, costs, ROI, and when solutions add business value.
- Identify prompt engineering, grounding, RAG, data quality, and security considerations.
- Recognise challenges including fabrications, reliability, bias, and machine learning lifecycle needs.
Identify benefits, capabilities, and opportunities for Microsoft's AI apps and services (35–40%)
- Map business processes to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Graph, Researcher, and Analyst.
- Decide when to build, buy, or extend, including the Copilot extensibility framework.
- Identify Foundry Tools capabilities and match AI models to a business need.
Identify an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft's AI apps and services (20–25%)
- Align AI strategy with responsible AI policies, governance, and an AI council.
- Plan adoption, champions, barriers, and impacts on data, security, privacy, and cost.
- Understand Copilot licence types and Foundry Tools subscription models.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take AB-731?
AB-731 is for business leaders, transformation leads, heads of digital, and practice managers. They work in corporate strategy, operations, and Microsoft partner leadership, in professional services, manufacturing, and the public sector.
What is the average salary for an AI Transformation Leader?
AI Transformation Leader is a Microsoft credential, not a standard vacancy title. In 2026, people who lead AI adoption are usually digital, change, or practice leads. UK transformation and practice-lead roles in the Microsoft ecosystem often earn about £90,000 to £130,000. US solution and delivery leads are commonly $170,000 and up. Western European lead roles are typically lower than US pay in euro terms, often around €95,000 to €130,000 in Germany. There is no single published EMEA average.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real AB-731 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-731 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-731 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-731T00 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.