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AI Business Professional

Standardize your team on AI Business Professional with a structured Microsoft training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

1
Course
1
Practice exam
8
Core skills
$99
Exam fee (Microsoft)
Microsoft Azure / 365 admin team at workstations with PowerShell and identity consoles
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (Microsoft)
$99
Courses on path
1
Exam code
  • AB-730

Exam datasheet

Format
The exam is proctored and may include interactive components.
Recommended experience
Experience using generative AI-powered productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents such as Researcher and Analyst, to improve daily work, drive business outcomes, and make informed decisions without building AI apps or writing code.
Recertification
1 year

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$99

exam — Required

Every engineer on the AI Business Professional path takes AB-730.

  1. AB-730AI Business ProfessionalPractice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $99
    Exam length
    45 minutes
    Questions
    40-60
    Passing score
    700/1000

    Exam blueprint: AB-730

Skills your team builds

Generative AI FundamentalsMicrosoft 365 Copilot ProductivityPrompt and Conversation ManagementBusiness Content DraftingData Analysis and VisualizationCopilot Pages and NotebooksCopilot in Outlook and TeamsCopilot Agent Management

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

Microsoft career ladder

Where AI Business Professional sits in your team's Microsoft progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

Customer outcome

Build AI capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AI Business Professional course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

Team capability

Make AI a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AI gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AI Business Professional

Exam
  • AB-730

Frequently asked questions about AI Business Professional training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AI Business Professional training for their team.

How does AI Business Professional fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams cite AB-730 when documenting that staff working in Microsoft 365 Copilot have been trained on prompt and conversation management, business content drafting, and creating and managing Copilot agents. Your auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion, and completion exports for audit evidence.

Who on the team should hold AI Business Professional, and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders typically assign AB-730 to the business and IT staff who lead or support a Copilot rollout, from adoption champions to the people fielding day-to-day Copilot questions. A certified team can own everyday Copilot work in Outlook and Teams, shared collaboration in Copilot Pages and Notebooks, drafting and refining business content, analyzing and visualizing data, and creating and managing Copilot agents.

What does CBT Nuggets AI Business Professional training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AI Business Professional courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AI Business Professional training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AI Business Professional courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AI Business Professional?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 6 hours of video, covering generative AI and Copilot fundamentals through Copilot agents. Overall time to certify depends on each team member's starting point with Microsoft 365 and Copilot, and Training Managers can track per-learner progress and completion as the team works through the course.

What if Microsoft updates the AI Business Professional exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to AI Business Professional-certify your team?

Build AI Business Professional capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track AI Business Professional training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.