PL-100 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft Power Platform App Maker)
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Preparing for the PL-100 Microsoft Power Platform App Maker Certificate exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the PL-100 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).
I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the PL-100 exam. I hope this article will help you to achieve the PL-100 Microsoft Power Platform App Maker Associate Certification. Also, please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Design Solutions (10-15%)
- Create Solutions (55-60%)
- Analyze and Visualize Data (5-10%)
- Implement and Manage Solutions (15-20%)
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Design Solutions (10-15%)
Create a High-level Design
- Collect business requirements
- Brainstorm & gather your Power Apps business requirements
- Gathering requirements for building a Power App
- Identify data sources
- Power Apps data sources
- Checking data sources for Power Apps
- Power Apps multiple data sources
- Describe real-world objects as entities
- Create a custom table that has components in Power Apps
- Describe the user experience
- Enhanced user experience for apps
- Building the UI in a canvas app
- Create a high-level data model
- Data modeling: Designing your data structure
Identify Required Power Platform Components
- Determine required Power Apps
- How do I find and run apps?
- Identify existing resources and licenses
- Licensing overview for Microsoft Power Platform
- Understand Power Platform licensing
- Identify gaps between existing functionality and requirements
- Perform fit gap analysis
- Map problem domain to Power Platform tools
- Microsoft Power Platform build tools
- Identify required business processes
- Work with business processes
- Evaluate accelerators, Microsoft apps and services, and third-party solutions
- Overview of industry accelerators
- What ‘Microsoft apps and services’ is?
- Describe connectors including standard, premium, and custom connectors
- Standard connectors
- Premium connectors
- Custom connectors
Design Data Models
- Determine required entities
- Microsoft Dataverse entities
- Customer entities (account, contact, customer address)
- Identify relationships
- Table relationships overview
- About table relationships
- Identify fields and data types
- Columns overview
- Column data types
- Determine requirements for offline access
- Implement offline capability in your app
- Build offline apps with Power Apps capabilities
Design User Interface
- Identify opportunities for component reuse
- Share your reusable components
- 10 reusable components
- Apply user interface (UI) standards
- Enhanced user experience with Unified Interface
- Design for accessibility
- Create accessible apps in Power Apps
- Design for localization
- Translate localizable text
- Building multilingual apps
Design Output
- Define data output requirements
- Defining inputs and outputs
- Define requirements for visualizations
- What is data visualization?
- Visualizations in Power BI reports
- Identify repositories for analytical data
- Power Platform repositories
Design Security, Privacy, and Compliance
- Identify data that must be protected or requires special handling
- Data protection in Power BI
- Identify tools that help ensure compliance with applicable government regulations
- Compliance and data privacy
- Implement GDPR in your Power Apps portals
Understand Power Platform Environments
- Understand how to get started building apps
- Ways to build Power Apps
- Power Apps building blocks
- Get started building apps using the Power Platform
- Describe the different types of environments
- Types of environments
- Describe Common Data Service solutions
- Introduction to solutions
- Describe other environment creation options
- Create and manage environments
Create Solutions (55-60%)
Manage Power Platform Development Environments
- Create a solution
- Introduction to solutions
- Solutions overview
- Add existing apps and flows to a solution
- Link an existing canvas app to a solution
- Add a Power Automate Flow into a solution
- Add existing flows to Solutions
- Run Solution Checker and interpret results
- Use a solution checker to validate your apps
- Make higher quality apps with Solution checker
Create Model-driven Apps
- Create model-driven apps
- Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps
- Build your first model-driven app from scratch
- Create a site map
- Create a site map using the site map designer
- Create and configure Common Data Service entity forms
- Customize entity forms
- Create and configure Common Data Service entity views
- Customize entity views
- Embed model-driven app records in Microsoft Teams channels
- Embed a model-driven app as tab app in Teams
Create Canvas Apps
- Create canvas apps within a solution
- Create a canvas app from within a solution
- Connect to data sources in canvas apps
- Understand data sources for canvas apps
- Add a data connection to a canvas app
- Build canvas apps screens
- Add a screen to a canvas app
- Create responsive layouts in canvas apps
- Configure apps for offline access
- Develop offline-capable canvas apps
- Implementing offline capability in your app
- Use formulas
- Get started with canvas-app formulas
- Use basic formulas to make better canvas apps
- Formula reference for Power Apps
- Use collections and variables
- Create and update a collection
- Understand canvas-app variables
- Intro to Power Apps variables
- Describe the implications of design choices on app performance
- Tips to improve canvas app performance
- Common canvas app performance issues & resolutions
- Tips & tricks for building high-performance canvas apps
- Interpret App Checker results
- App checker results for canvas apps
Create and Use Controls
- Add canvas app assets and components to screens
- Add a component to a screen
- Build canvas app components
- Create a component for canvas apps
- Introducing canvas components
- Canvas Apps components samples
Create and Configure Data Stores
- Create a Common Data Service database
- Add a Microsoft Dataverse database
- Get started with Dataverse
- Configure a connection
- Connect to Microsoft Dataverse
- Create Common Data Service entities based on a data model
- Microsoft Dataverse entities
- Create a custom table
- Link entities by using Common Data Service entity relationships
- Table relationships
- Create a relationship between entities in Dataverse
- Load or create data records for testing and development
- Create and manage records in Common Data Service
Create Business Logic
- Create Common Data Service business rules
- Create a business rule for a table
- Define business rules
- Define the components of a business rule
- Create Common Data Service business process flows
- Business process flows overview
- Create a business process flow to standardize processes
- Create Common Data Service classic workflows
- Classic Common Data Service background workflows
- Create business logic using Power Automate flows
- Create custom business logic through processes
- Create Canvas app formulas and events
- Get started with canvas app formulas
- Behavior formulas for components
Create Power Automate Flows
- Create flows in a solution
- Create a cloud flow in Power Automate
- Create a Power Automate Desktop flow
- Configure triggers
- Get started with triggers
- Trigger a cloud flow based on email properties
- Build scheduled, automated, and instant flows
- Run flows on a schedule
- Introducing instant flows
- Create a flow from your phone
- Configure flow steps
- Create a cloud flow in a solution
- Interpret Flow Checker results
- Flow checker results for Flows in solutions
- Find and fix errors with Flow Checker
- Test a flow
- Testing strategy
- Tools to test your automation
- Test your flows with real example data
- Implement common expressions and loops
- Use expressions to check multiple values
- Use expressions in flow actions
- Loops
- Loops in Power Automate
- Using loops
- Create adaptive cards for Microsoft Teams
- Overview of Adaptive Cards for Microsoft Teams
- Create your first adaptive card
Analyze and Visualize Data (5-10%)
Create Power BI Reports
- Create Power BI report by using Power BI Desktop
- Create and share your first Power BI report
- From Excel workbook to stunning report in Power BI Desktop
- Create Power BI report by using Power BI service
- Create quick reports in the Power BI service
- Create a report from an Excel file in the Power BI service
Implement Other Reports
- Merge data from a data source into a Microsoft Word or Excel template
- Use a table as a mail-merge data source
- Prepare your Excel data source for a Word mail merge
- Create model-driven dashboards
- Create or edit model-driven app dashboards
- Create a dashboard (Model-driven)
- Create model-driven charts
- Create a model-driven app system chart
- Create a visualization (chart)
- Add existing Power BI tile or dashboard to a model-driven dashboard
- Add Power BI visualizations on your dashboard
- Embed a Power BI report in a model-driven form
- Power BI embedded as a dashboard in model-driven apps
Describe AI Builder Models
- Identify model types including prebuilt and custom models
- Model types
- Overview of prebuilt AI models
- Describe the process for preparing data and training models
- Data preparation
- Create a prediction model
- Train and publish your prediction model
- Use a model from within Power Automate or Power Apps
- AI Builder in Power Automate overview
- Use a custom model in Power Automate
- Use a prebuilt model in Power Automate
- AI Builder in Power Apps overview
- Use your prediction model in Power Apps
Implement and Manage Solutions (15-20%)
Configure Common Data Service Security
- Configure security roles
- Get started with security roles in Dataverse
- Configure user security to resources in an environment
- Security concepts in Microsoft Dataverse
- Configure field security
- Field-level security to control access
Test Apps and Flows
- Describe the testing process
- Testing phase
- Power Apps test framework
- Implement Power Platform testing tools
- Testing tools for client-side development
- Testing tools for server-side development
- Introducing Test Studio for building end-to-end tests
- Test Studio overview
- Validate accessibility
- Review a canvas app for accessibility in Power Apps
Secure a Solution
- Manage data security
- Security concepts in Microsoft Dataverse
- Security in Microsoft Dataverse
- Security and data access
- Enhance security by encrypting your data
- Manage app security
- Securing the app and data
- Configure user security to resources in an environment
- Share flows
- Share a cloud flow
- Share desktop flows
- Share your flows with Office 365 groups & SharePoint Lists
- Sharing Flows with business users
- Share Power BI reports
- Ways to collaborate and share in Power BI
- Share Power BI dashboards and reports with coworkers
Deploy the Solution
- Export solutions
- Export solutions
- Move individual apps and flows between environments
- Export & import your apps across environments
- Export and import your flows across environments
- Use Power Apps solution packager to move apps to new environments
- Support deployment of solutions to testing and production environments
- Deploy to test environment
- Deploy to the production environment
Manage Versions of Canvas Apps
- Create new versions of an app
- Create and share a version of the app
- Restore a previous version of an app
- Restore a canvas app to a previous version
- Publish a new version of an app
- Publish an app
- Save and publish a canvas app in Power Apps
This brings us to the end of the PL-100 Microsoft Power Platform App Maker Study Guide.
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