PL-600 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect)
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Preparing for the PL-600 Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Certificate exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the PL-600 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-600 exam. I hope this article will help you to achieve the Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Certification. Also, please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Perform Solution Envisioning and Requirement Analyses (35-40%)
- Architect a Solution (40-45%)
- Implement the solution (15-20%)
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Perform Solution Envisioning and Requirement Analyses (35-40%)
Initiate Solution Planning
- Evaluate business requirements
- Identify functional requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements
- Confirm and finalize requirements
- Identify Power Platform solution components
- Identify the core components of Power Platform
- Identify other components including existing apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISV)
- AppSource apps
- Publish your app on AppSource
- Identify and estimate migration effort
- Prepare to migrate to Power BI
Identify Organization Information and Metrics
- Identify desired high-level organizational business processes
- Identifying the business problem to solve (the use case)
- Identify business process automation opportunities
- Business process flows overview
- Automating business processes with Power Automate
- Assess an organization’s risk factors
- Identifying the risks
- Review key success criteria
- Project management pattern
Identify Existing Solutions and Systems
- Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture
Identify data sources needed for a solution
Define use cases and quality standards for existing data
Identify and document an organization’s business processes
Capture Requirements
- Refine high-level requirements
Identify functional requirements
Identify non-functional requirements
Confirm that requirements meet an organization’s goals
Perform Fit/Gap Analyses
- Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
Determine the scope for a solution
Architect a Solution (40-45%)
Lead the Design Process
Design the solution topology
Design customizations for existing apps
Design and validate user experience prototypes
Identify opportunities for component reuse
Communicate system design visually
Design application lifecycle management (ALM) processes
Design a data migration strategy
Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task
Design a data visualization strategy
Design an automation strategy that uses Power Automate
Design the Data Model
- Design entities and fields
Design reference and configuration data
Design relationships and relationship behaviors
Determine when to connect to external data versus import data
Design data models to address complex sets of requirements
Design Integrations
- Design collaboration integrations
Design integrations between Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems
Design third-party integrations
Design an authentication strategy
Design a business continuity strategy
Identify opportunities to integrate and extend Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azure
Design the Security Model
- Design the business unit and team structure
Design security roles
Design field security
Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
Determine security model management policies and processes
Identify Azure Active Directory groups and app registrations required to support a solution
Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
Determine how external users will access a solution
Implement the solution (15-20%)
Validate the Solution Design
- Evaluate detail designs and implementation
Validate security
Ensure that the solution conforms to API limits
Resolve automation conflicts
Resolve integration conflicts
Support Go-live
- Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
- Diagnosing performance issues
- Optimize Power apps performance
- Common sources of slow performance for a canvas app
- Canvas app performance issues and resolutions
- Troubleshoot data migration
- Troubleshoot configuration data migration issues
- Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
- Troubleshoot on-premises deployments
- Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues
- Evaluate go-live readiness
This brings us to the end of the PL-600 Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Study Guide.
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