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MB-310 deep review — September 28, 2026

The complete guide was reviewed against all 96 published objectives in 16 groups. Eight worked examples, ten labs and 48 original answered checks now connect configuration to expected accounting results. This is a same-context AI review; independent human review and tenant execution remain pending.

Objective and lifecycle evidence

The official study guide still presents the August 14, 2026 baseline without a newer announcement. The credential lists 100 minutes, English/Japanese and annual renewal, with no listed retirement.

The old hand-authored snapshot condensed the objectives into 89 rows. Cash/bank, receivables, collections and payables included merged bullets; other wording was paraphrased. The canonical extraction has 96 rows across groups of 7/6/8/8/5/5/11/8/7/11/2/3/2/2/6/5. This repair does not establish seven newly announced objectives. Previous objective/status bytes and historical audit/review references are preserved under the September 1 archive.

The receipt ADLC_Docs/operations/2026-09-28-mb-310-deep-review.json records each objective hash and guide-section mapping, original records, fetch evidence, source-reading limits, article decisions and validation.

Repairs and learning value

  • Current financial-tag documentation distinguishes ordinary lists from fixed lists with entry validation. Procurement support has version and feature requirements. The September dimension-service deprecation concerns an optional import optimization, not core dimensions.
  • Revaluation guidance separates GL delta adjustments from subledger behavior and prevents duplicate control-account adjustment. The repeat-rate example explains why cumulative gain is not the next journal amount.
  • Bank matching now addresses ambiguity and partial import results. Netting precedes payment-journal creation and leaves a traceable residual and reversal.
  • Matching separates price from selected receipt quantity; deferral examples state period, cutoff and posting assumptions.
  • Budget control requires both active configuration and enforcement turned on. A PO-to-invoice example shows reservation relief without double counting.
  • Derived depreciation copies an amount rather than computing a different method. Asset disposal and consolidation examples require balanced, explainable source evidence.

The eight examples also cover allocation totals and an intercompany mismatch. Their arithmetic and catalog counts passed 35 local assertions. No financial records, bank messages, tax filings or tenant configuration were created.

Useful articles

Kristi Slininger’s April 2023 financial-tag article contributes a design-decision exercise; original-release statements yield to current documentation. Sameer Verma’s September 23 ERP update contributes a Finance exception-review worksheet, without converting plans through March 2027 into present availability or exam scope.

Richard Riley’s roadmap-transition article explains the September disclosure change and planned November 15 Release Planner retirement. This source was already known to the repository; this review adds Finance-specific follow-up and makes the shared review instructions explicit. Historical Learn plans are insufficient for discovering all new features. Roadmap estimates still require product documentation and tenant confirmation. No RSS/CSV ingestion is claimed.

Learning catalogs and limits

Five official paths expose 37 distinct modules: 16 financial, eight receivables, six payables, three budgeting and four assets. Their public module descriptions were read; linked lesson units were not. Current pages lack aggregate runtimes, so the old 48h30 total was removed. Cost management and Project Operations material require blueprint-aware selection. The renamed official course remains four days in English.

Pluralsight publishes six broad Dynamics courses totaling 303 minutes, with a rounded five-hour header; a Finance/Project Operations course is still listed as coming soon. Indexed Udemy metadata shows D365 Studio, November 2024, ten sections, 24 lectures and 4h08; direct access remains blocked. MeasureUp lists 103 questions and a February 2023 update, so it is not a current objective checklist. Paid lessons and questions were not accessed. The practice endpoint returned no substantive body and the partner hub remained a shell. O’Reilly and Whizlabs were not comprehensively searched again.

Validation and follow-up

Required gates are repository tests, repository validation, learning-resource consistency, strict MkDocs build, generated-site validation and diff checks; the receipt records their actual completion. Product documentation was read in the specific sections identified in the receipt, not exhaustively across every linked matrix or locale. The scheduled October 26 review checks product/catalog drift; November 16 checks the planned roadmap retirement. Live labs and independent human review remain outstanding.