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AB-620 — Designing and Building Integrated AI Agent Solutions in Copilot Studio

Agents that do real work in Copilot Studio: topics and triggers, connecting them to live systems, and testing them before anyone else does.

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Who takes AB-620

Makers and consultants building agents for the business. The natural next step after the Copilot Studio courses.

Level: Intermediate · Official credential: Designing and Building Integrated AI Agent Solutions in Copilot Studio

About the course

What AB-620 actually covers

The builder's exam for Copilot Studio. It starts with planning and configuring an agent, then spends its largest share on the part that separates a demo from a tool — wiring an agent into real systems with knowledge, tools and workflows, and getting several agents to cooperate. The closing fifth is testing, publishing and managing them, which is exactly where most first agents come apart.

Assumed knowledge: Comfortable in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. No Copilot Studio experience assumed.

3 days · AB-620T00Course length
IntermediateTechnical level
5 labsHands-on labs

The problems it answers

Why people in this role end up sitting AB-620

  1. Getting an agent past the demo — answering from live data instead of something typed in.
  2. Choosing between knowledge, tools and workflows for a given job, rather than reaching for whichever one was learned first.
  3. Making several agents cooperate without quietly duplicating each other's work.
  4. Testing something non-deterministic well enough to put it in front of a customer.
  5. Owning it after launch: versions, changed source data, and the questions it has started getting wrong.

Hands-on labs

5 hands-on labs

Five labs that build one agent up in stages, plus an environment setup. Design and configure it, add workflows, integrate knowledge and tools, extend it into a multi-agent solution, then evaluate, publish and manage it.

For training partners

Selling AB-620

Everything a partner needs to put this course in front of the right customer. Lift any of it straight into a proposal.

“Copilot Studio is already in their licence. This is the course that turns it from a chatbot into something that does the work.”

When to bring it up

  • Makers have built agents that answer questions but cannot actually do anything.
  • Every department wants its own agent and IT can see the sprawl coming.
  • Their first agent is live and already giving answers somebody had to correct.
  • They are carrying Power Virtual Agents habits into Copilot Studio.
  • An architect has produced an agent design and nobody can build it.

Who signs: Head of Power Platform or the automation lead; sometimes the business unit that owns the process being automated.
Who attends: Power Platform makers, app makers, and developers extending Copilot. Low-code people, not necessarily developers.

What to sell next

  • AB-650 for whoever governs the agents once there are twenty of them
  • AB-100 if they need the architecture layer above the build
  • PL-7008 as a fast Applied Skills win for the same people
  • A build day on one of their real processes

Pushbacks you will hear

And a straight answer for each

Copilot Studio is low-code — our people will pick it up.

They will pick up topics in an afternoon. Tools, connectors, multi-agent design and evaluation are where self-taught makers stall, and those are three fifths of this exam.

We would rather wait until the product settles.

It is not going to settle. The skills that carry over regardless — grounding, tools, evaluation — are the ones this course is built on.

Can they not just watch the Learn modules?

The five labs are the course: build an agent, connect it, break it, publish it. Watching somebody else do that does not transfer.

Our agents only need to answer HR questions.

That is the first lab. The value is in the four that follow it.

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