Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate

• This list contains the skills measured on the exam associated with this certification. For information about upcoming or recent changes, see the associated exam details page.
• Create a technical design
• Configure Microsoft Dataverse
• Create and configure Power Apps
• Configure business process automation
• Extend the user experience
• Extend the platform
• Develop integrations

Course Outline

Create a technical design (10-15%)

Validate requirements and design technical architecture

• design and validate the technical architecture for a solution
• design authentication and authorization strategy
• determine whether you can meet requirements with out-of-the-box functionality
• determine when to use Logic Apps versus Power Automate flows
• determine when to use serverless computing, plug-ins, or Power Automate
• determine when to build a virtual entity data source provider and when to use connectors

Design solution components

• design a data model
• design Power Apps reusable components
• design custom connectors
• design server-side components

Describe Microsoft Power Platform extensibility points

• describe Power Virtual Agents extensibility points including Bot Framework skills and Power Automate flows
• describe Power BI extensibility points including Power BI APIs, custom visuals, and embedding Power BI apps in websites and other applications
• describe Power Apps portal extensibility points including CRUD APIs and custom styling
• describe Web Resources and their uses

Configure Microsoft Dataverse (15-20%)

Configure security to support development

• troubleshoot operational security issues
• create or update security roles and field-level security profiles
• configure business units and teams

Implement tables and columns

• configure tables and table options
• configure columns
• configure relationships and types of behaviors

Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)

• create solutions and manage solution components
• import and export solutions
• manage solution dependencies
• create a package for deployment
• automate deployments
• implement source control for projects including solutions and code assets

Create and configure Power Apps (15-20%)

Create model-driven apps

• configure a model-driven app
•  configure forms
• configure columns
• configure visualizations
• configure commands and buttons

Create canvas apps

• create and configure a canvas app
• implement complex formulas to manage control events and properties
• analyze app usage by using App Insights
• build reusable component libraries

Manage and troubleshoot apps

• troubleshoot app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools
• interpret results from App Checker and Solution Checker
• identify and resolve connector and API errors
• optimize app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation

Configure business process automation (5-10%)

Configure Power Automate

• create and configure a flow
• configure steps to use Dataverse connector actions and trigger
• implement complex expressions in flow steps
• implement error handling
• troubleshoot flows by analyzing JSON responses from connectors

Implement processes

• create and configure business process flows
• create and configure business rules
• create, manage, and interact with business process flows by using server-side and clientside code
• troubleshoot processes

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