PL-400T00: Microsoft Power Platform Developer
The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes.
Description
In this course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.
Course Outline
Becoming a Solution Architect/Getting to know your customer
- Define a Solution Architect
- Role of a Solution Architect on projects
- Project Methodology
- Getting to know your customer
- Group exercise - Getting to know your customer
Create a model-driven application in Power Apps
- This module introduces you to creating a model-driven app in Power Apps that uses Common Data Service.
Get started using Common Data Service
- This module will explain the concepts behind and benefits of Common Data Service. Creating an environment, entities, fields and options sets are also discussed.
Conceptualizing the design from requirements
- How to lead the requirement collection effort
- Using fit gap analysis
- Pillars of good architecture
- Blueprinting the solution architecture
- Group exercise - Design from requirements
Project governance and working as a team
- Solution Architect's role in project governance
- Techniques for keeping a project on track
- Scenarios that could cause a project to fail
- Group exercise - Project governance and working as a team
Create a canvas app in Power Apps
- This module introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it. It will also show you how to provide the best app navigation, and build the best UI using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.
Power Platform Architecture
- Key Power Platform architecture components
- Understand how platform design and limits influence solution architectures
- Updates and feature releases
- Understand how to communicate how the platform meets customer needs
Automate a business process using Power Automate
- This module introduces you to Power Automate, teaches you how to build workflows, and how to administer flows.
Create a business process flow in Power Automate
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This module introduces you to creating business process flows in Power Automate
Data Modeling
- Data model influences
- Data model strategy
- Data types
- Data relationships
- Group exercise - Data modeling
Analytics and artificial intelligence
- Planning and evaluating requirements
- Operational reporting
- Power BI
- Enterprise BI
- Pre-built insights and custom AI
Introduction to developing with Power Platform
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This module is the first step in learning about platform, tools, and the ecosystem of the Power Platform
Extending the Power Platform user experience Model Driven apps
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This module describes how to create client scripting, perform common actions with client script, and automate business process flow with client scrip. Learn about what client script can do, rules, and maintaining scripts. Discover when to use client script as well as when not to use client script.
Power Apps Architecture
- Discuss options for apps and how to choose where to start
- Discuss app composition options
- Using components as part of your app architecture
- Considerations for including Portals as an app in your architecture
- Group exercise - Power Apps Architecture topics
Create components with Power Apps Component Framework
- This module describes how to get started with Power Apps Component Framework with an introductory module on the core concepts and components. Then it shows you how to build a component and work with advanced Power Apps Component Framework features.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Microsoft vision and Solution Architect's role in ALM
- Environment strategies
- Defning a solution structure for your deliverable
Extending the Power Platform Common Data Service
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This module looks at the tools and resources needed for extending the Power Platform. We'll start with looking at the SDKs, the extensibility model, and event framework. This learning path also covers when to use plug-ins. Configuration of plug-ins as well as registering and deploying plug-ins.
Power Automate Architecture
- Discuss options for automation and custom logic
- Review considerations for using triggers and common actions
- Explore using Business Process Flows (BPF) to guide users through business processes
- Group Exercise - Evaluate scenarios for Power Automate usage
Security Modeling
- Solution Architect's role in security modeling
- Discovery and learning your client's environment
- Controlling access to environments and resources
- Controlling access to CDS Data
- Group Exercise - Security Modeling
Integrate with Power Platform and Common Data Service
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This module describes how to integrate with Common Data Service using code by learning about Common Data Service API. Get an in-depth overview of options available with Common Data Service to integrate data and events to Azure.
Extend Power Apps portals
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This module describes how to transform a content portal into a full web app interacting with Common Data Service. We will also cover the options available to customizers and developers to extend the portal functionality and integrate with Office 365, Power Platform, and Azure components.
Integration
- Solution Architects role in Integrations
- What is an integration and why do we need it
- Platform features that enable integration
- CDS Event Publishing
- Scenarios for group discussion
Dynamics 365 Applications Architecture
- Solution Architect's role when deploying Dynamics 365 apps
- Architecture Considerations for primary apps
- Group Exercise - App specific working groups evaluate requirements
Power Virtual Agents architecture
- Introduction
- Chatbot options
- Chatbot concepts
- Best practices
- Integrate chatbots
- Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams
Robotic Process Automation
- Introduction
- Power Automate Desktop
- Recording and editing tasks
- Running desktop flows
- Process advisor
Testing and Go Live
- Solution Architect's role with testing and go live
- Planning for testing
- Planning for go live