AB-330 Study Guide 2026: Beta Exam Prep and Plan

The heaviest domain. It covers procurement categories, charge codes and purchasing policies, procurement workflows, vendor details and vendor collaboration, purchase agreements, over and under deliveries and delivery schedules, requisitions, requests for quotation, purchase orders and vendor returns.

Study move: Learn the four purchase agreement commitment types and what each one fixes (quantity, value, category value, or any value). Then walk one request for quotation from case to accepted bid, noting that the RFQ purchase type decides whether acceptance creates a purchase order or a purchase agreement.

Warehouse setup (sites, warehouses, locations, zones, work policies), location directives, wave, load and work templates, labels, receiving and shipping, inventory status, replenishment and movements, journals, transfer orders, cycle counting, load planning, cross docking and the full quality chain from nonconformance to quarantine order.

Study move: Build a one-page map of which setup object answers which question: wave templates decide when work is released, work templates decide what work looks like, location directives decide where, and work classes decide who can run it. Add the reservation hierarchy rule that dimensions above location are strict picking requirements.

Order promising with ATP, CTP and sales lead time, unified pricing management, sales agreements, quotations, orders, reservations, returns, sales groups and commissions, intercompany orders and the supply chain fields on customer records.

Study move: Pair each delivery date control method with the kind of item it suits, then practice the unified pricing vocabulary: price attributes, attribute groups with header or line scope, price component codes, price structures and concurrency modes.

Product strategy and master data: category hierarchies, lifecycle states, product attributes, storage, tracking and product dimension groups, item model groups, reservation hierarchies, unit sequence groups, product release, BOM versions, trade agreements, formulas, filter codes and standard cost activation.

Study move: Small weight, but this is where later domains inherit their traps. Know which dimension groups can still be changed once transactions exist and which cannot, and what an item model group controls.

Forecast models, supply chain calendars, coverage groups and item coverage, master planning parameters, positive and negative days, action messages, time fences, safety margins, intercompany planning, running master planning and processing planned orders.

Study move: Memorize the coverage codes and be able to compute a Min/Max replenishment quantity by hand. One question here is worth less than one question anywhere else, so cap the time.

Production strategy (resources, routes, scheduling, costing sheets, co-products, by-products, scrap), planning production operations, production order lifecycle stages, batch reservations, production floor execution, picking list and job card journals, subcontracting and the Warehouse Management mobile app for production.

Study move: Learn the production order status ladder from Created to Ended and what reversing a status removes at each step. The bullet list is long, but the weight is the lowest on the exam.

Is AB-330 a beta exam?

Yes. Microsoft's credential page for the Supply Chain Management AI Consultant Associate carries the beta label, checked 2026-10-26, and states that beta exams are not scored immediately because Microsoft is gathering data on the quality of the questions and the exam. The passing score is 700.

Is there an official practice assessment for AB-330?

Not currently. The credential page says the practice assessment is not available and that practice assessments are usually available within 8 weeks of the exam leaving beta and becoming generally available. Until then, study from the skills-measured list and Dynamics 365 documentation.

What is the difference between AB-330 and MB-330?

Both target the Functional Consultant role at the Intermediate level. AB-330 organizes its skills around six end-to-end process areas and lists Microsoft Copilot as a product on its credential page. MB-330 is the Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant credential, whose overview also names asset management, transportation management and landed cost.

Which AB-330 domain carries the most weight?

Source to pay, at 30-35% of the exam. Inventory to deliver and order to cash follow at 20-25% each, so those three process areas account for roughly three quarters of the weighting at the midpoints.

Do I need to know master planning and production in depth?

Less than the length of their objective lists suggests. Forecast to plan and plan to produce are each weighted 1-5%. Learn the coverage codes and the production order status ladder, then spend the saved hours on source to pay and warehouse topics.

What do the exam price, length and question count look like?

Microsoft's AB-330 study guide and credential page do not state a price, duration or question count (checked 2026-10-26). Confirm all three on Microsoft Learn before you schedule.

How long should I study for AB-330?

Our baseline is about 30 hours, split across the table in this guide. Candidates who configure Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management daily can often trim the warehouse and procurement hours; candidates new to the product should add hands-on lab time before the scenario practice.