Welcome to the AB-730: AI Business Professional Exam Prep Hub!
Welcome to the one-stop hub with information for preparing for the AB-730: AI Business Professional certification exam. The content for this exam helps you to demonstrate that you “have experience using generative AI–powered productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Researcher, and Analyst. You take advantage of AI to improve daily work, drive business outcomes, and make informed decisions in business contexts—without building AI apps or writing code”. And also, that you “have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and should be comfortable navigating core apps, such as Outlook, Word, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. You should also be familiar with common business processes, including drafting emails, creating presentations, generating images, and managing documents.”.
Upon successful completion of the exam, you earn the Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional certification.
This hub provides information directly here (topic-by-topic as outlined in the official study guide), links to a number of external resources, tips for preparing for the exam, practice tests, and section questions to help you prepare. Bookmark this page and use it as a guide to ensure that you are fully covering all relevant topics for the AB-730 exam and making use of as many of the resources available as possible.
Audience profile (from Microsoft’s site)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have experience using generative AI–powered productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Researcher, and Analyst. You take advantage of AI to improve daily work, drive business outcomes, and make informed decisions in business contexts—without building AI apps or writing code.
You should have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and should be comfortable navigating core apps, such as Outlook, Word, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. You should also be familiar with common business processes, including drafting emails, creating presentations, generating images, and managing documents.
Skills at a glance (as specified in the official study guide)
- Understand generative AI fundamentals (25–30%)
- Manage prompts and conversations by using AI (35–40%)
- Draft and analyze business content by using AI (25–30%)
Topic-by-Topic Exam Content
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Understand generative AI fundamentals (25–30%)
Understand generative AI capabilities across Microsoft 365 experiences
- Understand how Copilot works to keep your organization’s information private and secure
- Understand how the context, like your work files, web data, or the app you’re using, can affect Copilot responses
- Understand the difference between a chat experience and an agent experience
- Understand the use case for creating your own agent
- Understand the differences in features and capabilities of the Copilot experience in various Microsoft 365 apps
Identify responsible AI and data protection practices
- Identify common risks, including fabrications, prompt injection, and over-reliance
- Select verification steps appropriate to the task, including citation checks and human review
- Recognize and mitigate risks to sensitive data
- Understand how data protection restricts prompt results
Manage prompts and conversations by using AI (35–40%)
Create and manage prompts in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Understand how to create an effective prompt
- Select appropriate resources to reference in a prompt
- Save a prompt
- Schedule a prompt
- Share a prompt
Manage conversations in Copilot
- Understand how to find previous conversations
- Delete a chat
- Rename a chat
- Add a conversation to a notebook
Create and manage Microsoft 365 Copilot agents
- Understand when to use Agent Store versus creating a new agent
- Create an agent by using a template
- Configure an agent that has knowledge
- Configure agent settings such as instructions, capabilities and suggested prompts
- Share an agent with team members
Draft and analyze business content by using AI (25–30%)
Draft business documents and communications
- Create a new document from a prompt
- Generate a document from an existing document
- Generate a management summary based on a document
- Move data and insights between Microsoft 365 apps
Manage meetings and collaboration
- Describe how to use Copilot for meetings
- Describe how to use Copilot Pages for collaboration
- Describe how Copilot uses memory and instructions
AB-730 Practice Exams
- AB-730 Practice Exam #1 (30 questions)
- AB-730 Practice Exam #2 (30 questions)
- AB-730 Practice Exam #3 (30 questions)
- AB-730 Practice Exam #4 (30 questions)
Important AB-730 Resources
Link to the free, comprehensive, self-paced course on Microsoft Learn:
The course has 1 Learning path with 6 modules:
Introduction page to the course, titled “Transform business workflows with generative AI”: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/courses/ab-730t00
The course has 1 learning path, “Transform business workflows with generative AI”, with the content starting at the below link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/transform-business-workflows-with-ai/
And the learning path has 6 modules:
- (1) What is generative AI?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/what-generative-ai/ - (2) Employ Copilot Chat as your AI assistant
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/employ-copilot-assistant/ - (3) Draft and refine business content using Microsoft 365 Copilot
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/draft-refine-business-content/ - (4) Analyze and visualize data using Microsoft 365 Copilot
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/analyze-visualize-data-copilot/ - (5) Manage meetings and collaboration using Microsoft 365 Copilot
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/manage-meetings-collaboration/ - (6) Define the role you want Microsoft 365 Copilot to play in your business workflow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/define-copilot-role-business-workflow/
Link to certification page and study guide:
- Link to the “Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional” Certification page:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/ai-business-professional/?practice-assessment-type=certification
- Link to the Study Guide for Exam AB-730: AI Business Professional:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/resources/study-guides/ab-730
YouTube resources:
- Microsoft Learn series for the AB-730: Course Preview | AB-730 | Transform business workflows with generative AI
Two highly rated courses for AB-730 on Udemy:
- AB-730 prep: AI Business Professional: Microsoft 365 Copilot
- AB-730 Microsoft AI Business Professional Practice Exams
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