- Module 1: Dynamics 365 offers a large range of cloud-driven applications that help organizations optimize their business so they can reach their full potential. This module explores the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and how the apps work together to help your organization reach its fullest potential. Additionally, this module describes the major components of Finance and Operations apps that are important for you to know before you begin developing.
- Explore the Dynamics 365 ecosystem.
- Learn about the main components of Finance and Operations apps.
- Learn about on-premises and cloud deployment options.
- Explore the development and deployment process for Finance and Operations apps.
- Module 2: To begin developing for Finance and Operations, you must understand the core concepts of development, including packages, models, and elements. Additionally, as a developer, you will need to understand metadata management and source control tools and processes by using Azure DevOps. Last, this module will also discuss the purpose of Lifecycle Services (LCS), deployable packages and their importance throughout development, and implementation of Finance and Operations apps.
- Differentiate between on-premises and cloud architecture of Finance and Operations.
- Learn about the purposes and relationships between packages, models, and elements.
- Detail metadata management and source control processes.
- Use and understand the purpose of Lifecycle Services (LCS).
- Module 3: Identifying design and deployment processes that conform to organizational policies will help you in developing for Finance and Operations apps, and ensure that code is deployed to the correct environments to avoid issues in production.
- Learn about design patterns and process for code deployment.
- Identify code deployment strategies.
- Learn about post-deployment tasks and activities.
- Module 4: Lifecycle Services helps you host Finance and Operations apps environments. It provides repeatable processes to support consistent success with each delivery. Lifecycle Services is available to customers and partners as part of their support plans.
- Performing support tasks.
- Provisioning and managing environments.
- Managing asset libraries.
- Managing the code upgrade process between versions of Finance and Operations apps.
- Module 5: Learn how to use performance tools and Lifecycle Services (LCS) environment monitoring tools to enhance your validation and testing experience in Finance and Operations apps.
- Diagnose performance issues by using Trace parser.
- Explore load testing by using the Performance SDK.
- Monitor performance by using the SQL Insights dashboard.
- Monitor server Health metrics in LCS.
- Module 6: When you are collaborating with other developers, it's important to manage your source code by using version control. For Finance and Operations apps, this means using Azure DevOps within Visual Studio.
- Configure Visual Studio to connect to Azure DevOps.
- Use best practices for version control.
- Manage and perform code reviews.
- Module 7: In Finance and Operations apps, the test framework helps to alleviate risks and provides a system to manage a clean record of testing.
- Capabilities and benefits of the unit test framework.
- Capabilities and benefits of Task Recorder.
- Benefits of the Best Practices tool.
- Module 8: A report is a structured presentation of data. Reporting presents data in a way that lets you make informed decisions by using data visualizations, dashboards, financial reporting, and structured documents. Finance and Operations apps provide several reporting tools that you can use to meet different reporting needs. This module will help you become familiar with the various reporting options that are available with Finance and Operations apps.
- Learn about the capabilities of various reporting tools in Finance and Operations apps.
- Determine which types of reports should be used.
- Create and modify a report data source.
- Learn about reporting and security requirements.
- Deploy reports with PowerShell.
- Deploy reports with Visual Studio.
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