Introduction
Microsoft offers a range of exams and certifications that test your abilities in specific apps, technologies and skills. Microsoft is introducing in early 2026 a new certification, the “Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect”. In this blog article, we’ll have a look at its corresponding AB-100 exam, including who it is for and what it requires.
What is the Microsoft AB-100 Exam?
The AB-100 Exam, also known as the “Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect” exam, is an expert-level exam which validates your known around AI-driven business solutions. The exam measures your knowledge in being able to create solutions which use Microsoft services. These solutions should be integrated, secure and scalable, and should be able to address difficult company needs.
Who should take the AB-100 Agentic AI Exam?
This is for you if you lead, or want to lead, your company’s AI-powered architecture, by designing it and then implementing it. You would use multiple AI apps and services, including Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, and Azure OpenAI.
What topics does the Microsoft AB-100 Agentic AI Exam test?
This exam tests your knowledge of the following:
- Architecting agentic-first, orchestrated AI-solutions to meet business needs, including generative AI (gen AI).
- Designing your AI solution to be secure and scalable, including vulnerability detection, data residency and access control enforcement, protecting model tuning, tracking changes, maintaining audit trails, and prompt manipulation protection.
- Working with Copilot Studio agents, AI prompts, Azure AI Foundry, and multiple language models.
- Adopting frameworks and delivering measureable outcomes measured by success metrics.
- Working with open standards and protocols, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A), using responsible AI practices.
- Monitoring agent performance and understanding telemetry data.
- Creating a ROI analysis (Return on Investment) of your AI-powered solution.
What are the detailed requirements for the Microsoft AB-100 Exam?
Please see our other blog post which lists the detailed requirements for the AB-100 exam.
Are there any other requirements to get the Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect certification?
Yes, this is one of a few Microsoft certifications which require you to pass another exam. To earn (and keep) this certification, you will need an active Associate-level Certification in another AI Business solution topic. Because it needs to be active, you will need to renew it annually.
The other Associate-level certifications that you will need to have one active certification are:
- MB-230: Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate
- MB-240: Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant Associate
- MB-280: Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Analyst Associate
- MB-310: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate
- MB-330: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate
- MB-500: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate
- MB-800: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate
- MB-820: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate
- PL-200: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
- PL-400: Power Platform Developer Associate
- PL-500: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate
Conclusion
The AB-100 exam is an expert level exam that showcases your Solution Architect skills with regard to AI-solutions. To get the certification, you will also need to pass another certification, as detailed above. By mastering the topics shown in this blog article, you can improve your chances of passing this Agentic AI exam, and validate your skills with regard to AI-solutions. Good luck!
