MB-310 Manage Budgeting Practice Question
A Contoso finance specialist is configuring budget control for a new fiscal year. The company wants to ensure that when a purchase requisition is submitted, the system checks whether sufficient budget remains. The budget manager selects the budget control rule and the budget funds available definition. However, when a test purchase requisition is submitted, no budget check occurs. What is the most likely cause?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that configuring budget control rules and funds-available definitions is sufficient, while overlooking the need to enable budget control for the legal entity.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Budget control is not enabled for the legal entity.
Budget control in Dynamics 365 Finance is enabled at the legal entity level via the Budget control configuration page. Enabling this parameter activates the budget check for all applicable source documents, including purchase requisitions. Without it, no validation occurs regardless of rules or funds-available definitions. Therefore, the missing activation is the root cause.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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The budget funds available definition does not include the correct budget model.
Why it's wrong here
While the funds available definition must reference the correct budget model to calculate available amounts, a missing or incorrect budget model would typically result in a budget check that fails or shows zero available funds, not a complete absence of budget checking. The symptom described is no check at all, which points to a more fundamental configuration issue.
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Budget control is not enabled for the legal entity.
Why this is correct
Budget control must be activated for the legal entity in the Budget control configuration page. Even if rules and funds-available definitions exist, the overall budget control flag must be turned on. Without this, no transactions, including purchase requisitions, are checked against budget, which explains why the test submission passed without validation.
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The purchase requisition workflow is not configured to include a budget check task.
Why it's wrong here
Budget checking for purchase requisitions is not performed by a workflow task; it is triggered automatically by the budget control framework when the document is submitted, provided budget control is enabled. Adding a workflow task would not enforce budget checking and is not the standard mechanism, so this is not the cause.
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The purchase requisition was created with a budget-checking override.
Why it's wrong here
A budget-checking override would usually require specific permissions and would still record a budget check result, often with a warning or error. The scenario states that no budget check occurred, not that it was overridden. Overrides are logged and would not silently bypass the check without a trace, making this an unlikely cause.
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