Your comprehensive guide to the Associate-level AB-410 certification, Building Intelligent Applications. Covers designing Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Microsoft Dataverse data models, building model-driven and canvas apps in Power Apps, and creating cloud flows, prompts and AI models that carry the largest share of the marks.
Low-code makers, functional consultants and Power Platform developers who build AI-powered business apps with Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps and Power Automate.
120 minutes, delivered in English, passing score 700 out of 1000. Three domains, no formal prerequisite, and the exam may include interactive components.
Solution design and ALM, Microsoft Dataverse data models, model-driven and canvas apps, Power Automate cloud flows, and prompts and AI models in AI Hub.
Building business application logic and automation is 40 to 45 percent of the exam, the single largest domain. Hands-on time in a developer environment beats reading.
AB-410 arrived in 2026 alongside a certification retirement, so it is worth being precise about what it is and what it is not:
The Microsoft AB-410 exam, officially titled Building Intelligent Applications, leads to the Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate certification. It is aimed at professionals who build AI-powered solutions on Microsoft Power Platform using natural language, Copilot and low-code tools, creating the apps, data models and flows that connect to agents, prompts and AI models.
The certification validates the whole build, not just the AI on top of it. You analyse requirements and choose environment types and an application lifecycle management strategy, model data in Microsoft Dataverse including prompt columns and row summaries, compose model-driven and canvas apps in Power Apps, automate the business with Power Automate cloud flows, and create and consume prompts and AI models in AI Hub. The exam runs for 120 minutes, is delivered in English, and the passing score is 700 out of 1000. It has been generally available since July 2026, has no formal prerequisite, and may include interactive components as well as questions.
Consultants who worked to the PL-200 skill set and need a current Associate credential now that certification has retired.
Makers shipping model-driven and canvas apps in Power Apps who want proof they can build accessible, performant, AI-infused solutions.
People who live in Power Automate cloud flows, business process flows and Microsoft Dataverse security, and are now asked to add AI.
Candidates working towards the Expert-level agentic AI architect credential who need a qualifying Associate certification first.
AB-410 has no formal prerequisite, but it is written for people already working on Microsoft Power Platform. The exam does not stop to teach any of the following:
AB-410 covers three domains, named here exactly as Microsoft names them. Building business application logic and automation carries the most weight by a clear margin, and it is also where the AI content concentrates.
Microsoft notes that the bullets under each skill illustrate how it is assessed and that related topics may also appear, and that most questions cover generally available features, with Preview features possible where they are commonly used.
AB-410 lives entirely inside Microsoft Power Platform. Concentrate your hands-on study on these six areas, ideally in a free developer environment of your own.
The data layer: the data workspace, standard tables, table properties, columns, relationships, public views, main forms and security, plus prompt columns and row summaries.
Forms, views, charts and dashboards, composing an app, controlling access to it, and creating generative pages by using natural language.
Named formulas, user-defined functions and component libraries, variables and collections, error handling, accessibility and performance, and testing with Monitor.
Choosing triggers and connectors, configuring actions, approvals, conditions and loops, and testing and troubleshooting a flow that misbehaves.
Prompts from templates or from blank, adding knowledge and inputs, customising prompt settings including the model, and consuming prompts and AI models in both apps and cloud flows.
Evaluating built-in agents for a business solution and creating a Copilot Studio agent from a canvas app, the bridge between app building and agent building.
Microsoft has not published an official practice assessment for AB-410 yet, so documentation plus hands-on building plus full-length practice tests is the strongest combination available today.
Free study guide, learning paths, documentation and a developer environment
Built for the official AB-410 objectives and domain weights
Test your knowledge with 280 exam-style scenario questions written for the AB-410 objectives, with detailed explanations and progress tracking.
This four-week plan tracks the official domain weights, giving a week and a half to business application logic and automation because that is where most of the marks sit.
Solution design and Dataverse
Analysing requirements, recommending environment types and extensibility options, evaluating built-in agents, and applying a Microsoft Power Platform solution and ALM strategy.
Build a data model from scratch in the data workspace: tables, properties, columns, relationships, public views, main forms and security, then add a prompt column and a row summary.
Building the applications
Compose a model-driven app end to end with forms, views, charts and dashboards, configure access to it, and create a generative page by using natural language.
Build a canvas app with named formulas, a user-defined function and a component library, add error handling, test it with Monitor, then create a Copilot Studio agent from it.
The core of the exam
Cloud flow triggers and connectors, actions, approvals, conditions and loops, then break a flow deliberately so that testing and troubleshooting become familiar.
AI Hub: build a prompt from a template and one from blank, add knowledge and inputs, customise the model, then consume a prompt and an AI model in both an app and a cloud flow.
Logic, then rehearsal
Business rules, business process flows, and calculated, rollup and formula columns, plus judging which of them beats a cloud flow for a given requirement.
Full-length practice tests and case studies, targeted review of weak areas, and a final honest pass through the official skills outline bullet by bullet.
Everything you need to know about sitting AB-410, how it relates to PL-200 and how to prepare for it.
AB-410, officially titled Building Intelligent Applications, leads to the Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate certification. It is an Associate-level exam for low-code makers who build AI-powered business applications on Microsoft Power Platform, and it covers three domains: creating a foundation for intelligent applications, creating intelligent applications, and building business application logic and automation. The exam runs for 120 minutes, is delivered in English, and the passing score is 700 out of 1000.
PL-200 and the Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate certification behind it retired on 31 August 2026, so that credential can no longer be earned or renewed. AB-410 is the Power Platform maker path forward for anyone certifying now, and it covers the same functional consultant ground plus the AI capability the role has picked up, including prompt columns, row summaries, generative pages and AI Hub. A PL-200 certification you already hold is not cancelled by the retirement: it remains valid until its own expiry date, but it cannot be renewed after it, which is the practical argument for sitting AB-410 instead.
There is no formal prerequisite exam or certification. Microsoft does, however, assume a working Power Platform background and lists it explicitly: familiarity with Copilot in Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Microsoft Dataverse, awareness of creating agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio, foundational knowledge of AI models and prompts in AI Hub, the ability to map business processes to flows, agents or app capabilities, comfort with Microsoft Dataverse as a core data platform, familiarity with low-code automation including Power Fx, and awareness of environment governance, roles, policies and solution lifecycle steps.
The passing score is 700 out of 1000, in line with other Microsoft role-based certifications. That is a scaled score rather than a straight 70 percent, because Microsoft weights the result according to the difficulty of the questions on the form you receive across the three domains. Treat 700 as the floor rather than the target, and aim to score comfortably above it on full-length practice tests before you book.
If you already build apps and cloud flows on Microsoft Power Platform every week, four weeks of consistent study is a realistic target, with the largest block spent on business application logic and automation. If Microsoft Dataverse modelling or AI Hub is newer to you, allow six weeks and spend more of it inside a developer environment rather than reading. The four-week plan on this page tracks the official domain weights so your revision time matches where the marks actually sit.
Not at the time of writing. Microsoft publishes free practice assessments for many certifications on Microsoft Learn, usually within about eight weeks of an exam becoming generally available, but the AB-410 certification page still states that the practice assessment is not currently available. Until Microsoft publishes one, the strongest preparation is hands-on building in a free Power Platform developer environment, working through the Microsoft Learn documentation for each objective, and sitting full-length practice tests to rehearse question formats and pacing.
Microsoft policy grants in-exam Microsoft Learn access on Associate and Expert role-based exams, and AB-410 is an Associate role-based exam, so the policy covers it by category. The AB-410 exam page does not repeat that in AB-410-specific wording, so confirm it on the booking screen rather than assuming. Treat the access as a quick lookup for a specific detail, never as a substitute for preparation, because 120 minutes does not leave room to research an unfamiliar topic. Note too that the exam may include interactive components, so plan for a task as well as questions.
Microsoft Power Platform is the whole of the exam. Microsoft Dataverse is the data layer, including the data workspace, standard tables, relationships, security, prompt columns and row summaries. Power Apps covers both model-driven apps, with forms, views, generative pages, charts and dashboards, and canvas apps, with Power Fx named formulas, user-defined functions, component libraries, variables, collections and Monitor. Power Automate cloud flows carry the automation, and AI Hub carries the AI, with prompts and models consumed in both apps and cloud flows. Microsoft Copilot Studio appears where you evaluate built-in agents and create an agent from a canvas app. Microsoft Foundry and the Azure AI services are not on this exam.
Prepare for the Intelligent Applications Builder Associate exam with 280 exam-style scenario questions, seven full-length practice tests, 14 case studies, and detailed explanations across all three domains.
Or start a timed sit against the official 120-minute clock