PL-900 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals)
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Preparing for the PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Certificate exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the PL-900 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-900 exam. I hope this article will help you to achieve the PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Certification. Also, please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Describe the Business Value of Power Platform (15-20%)
- Identify the Core Components of Power Platform (15-20%)
- Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power BI (15-20%)
- Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Apps (15-20%)
- Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Automate (15-20%)
- Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Virtual Agents (10-15%)
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Describe the Business Value of Power Platform (15-20%)
Describe the Business Value of Power Platform Services
- Analyze data by using Power BI
- Analyze data with Power BI
- Act with Power Apps
- Learning about Power Apps?
- Build solutions that use Microsoft Dataverse
- What is Microsoft Dataverse?
- Create flows by using Power Automate
- Create a flow in Power Automate
- Use connectors to access services and data
- Overview of canvas-app connectors for Power Apps
- Create powerful chatbots by using a guided, no-code graphical interface
- Create & deploy a Power Virtual Agents bot online
Describe the Business Value of Extending Business Solutions by Using Power Platform
- Describe how Dynamics 365 apps can accelerate delivery of Power Platform business solutions
- Watch video on Microsoft Power Platform + Dynamics 365
- Describe how Power Platform business solutions can be used by Microsoft 365 apps including Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Power Apps and Microsoft Teams integration
- Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume Microsoft 365 services
- An Introduction to the Microsoft Power Platform
- Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume Microsoft Azure services including Azure Cognitive Services
- Use Cognitive Services in Power Apps
- Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume third-party apps and services
- How does the Power Platform fit with the wider Microsoft strategy?
Describe Power Platform Administration and Security
- Describe how Power Platform implements security including awareness of Microsoft Dataverse security roles, Azure Identity Services, and Access Management (IAM)
- Security concepts in Microsoft Dataverse
- Configure user security to resources in an environment
- Describe how to manage apps and users
- Manage Power Apps
- Create users & assign security roles
- Describe environments
- Environments overview
- Describe where to perform specific administrative tasks including Power Platform Admin center, Microsoft 365 admin center
- Describe Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies
- Data loss prevention (DLP) policies
- Describe how the platform supports privacy and accessibility guidelines
- Compliance and data privacy
- PowerApps canvas app accessibility guidelines
Identify the Core Components of Power Platform (15-20%)
Describe Microsoft Dataverse
- Describe the Power Apps user experience
- The PowerApps UX/UI Design Guidelines & UI Components Library
- Describe tables, columns, and relationships
- Tables in Dataverse
- Columns overview
- Table relationships
- Describe use cases for solutions
- Real-world use cases: PowerApps, Microsoft Flow & Common Data Service
- Describe use cases and limitations of business rules
- Create a business rule for a table
- Known limitations
- Describe the Common Data Model (CDM)
- Common Data Model
- Describe how to use common standard tables to describe people, places, and things
- Tables & metadata in Microsoft Dataverse
- Customer tables
Describe Connectors
- Describe the native Dataverse connection experience
- Connect to Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Dataverse & the improved data source experience
- Describe triggers including trigger types and where triggers are used
- What are the connectors & triggers in Power Automate?
- Use a webhook as a trigger for Azure Logic Apps & Power Automate
- Use a polling trigger for Microsoft Power Automate
- Describe actions
- Monitoring the Power Platform
- Describe licensing options for connectors including standard or premium tier
- Understanding Power Platform Licensing
- What are Flow Premium Connectors?
- Identify use cases for custom connectors
- Custom Connectors
Describe AI Builder
- Identify the business value of AI Builder
- Introducing AI Builder for Power Platform
- Describe models including a business card reader, detection model, form processing model, and prediction model
- Automate contact creation with a business card reader
- Build your object detection model
- Overview of the form processing model
- Overview of the prediction model
- Describe how the Power Apps and Power Automate can consume AI Builder data
- Use the business card reader prebuilt model in Power Automate
- Use the business card reader component in model-driven apps
Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power BI (15-20%)
Identify Common Power BI Components
- Identify and describe uses for visualization controls including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots and KPIs
- When to use a Pie Chart?
- When to use a Bar Chart?
- Pie and Doughnut Charts
- A Complete Guide to Scatter Plots
- Measure your performance against key business objectives
- Describe types of filters
- Types of filters in Power BI reports
- Describe the Power BI Desktop Reports, Data, and Model tabs
- Work with Report view in Power BI Desktop
- Work with Data view in Power BI Desktop
- Work with Modeling view in Power BI Desktop
- Describe uses for custom visuals including charts or controls
- Create custom visuals for Power BI
- Compare and contrast dashboards and workspaces
- Dashboards in the Power BI service
- Workspaces in Power BI
- Compare and contrast Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service
- Comparing Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service
- Compare and contrast dashboards, workspaces, and reports
- Power BI Dashboards
- Power BI Workspaces
- Power BI reports
Connect to and Consume Data
- Combine multiple data sources
- Shape and combine data in Power BI Desktop
- Clean and transform data
- Power BI: Data Cleaning
- Transform, shape, and model data in Power BI
- Describe and implement aggregate functions
- Work with aggregates in the Power BI service
- Identify available types of data sources including Microsoft Excel
- Power BI data sources
- Describe use cases for shared datasets and template apps and how to consume each
- Share a dataset
- What are Power BI template apps?
Build a Basic Dashboard Using Power BI
- Design a Power BI dashboard
- What are Power BI template apps?
- Design data layout and mapping
- Layouts in Power BI
- Tips and tricks for Power BI map visualizations
- Publish and share reports and dashboards
- Publish and share in Power BI
Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Apps (15-20%)
Identify Common Power Apps Components
- Describe differences between canvas apps and model-driven apps
- Watch video on PowerApps Canvas vs Model-Driven Applications
- Describe portal apps
- PowerApps Portals
- Identify and describe types of reusable components including canvas component libraries and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) components
- Component library
- Power Apps component framework overview
- Describe use cases for formulas
- Get started with canvas-app formulas in Power Apps
Build a Basic Canvas App
- Describe types of data sources
- Understand data sources for canvas apps in Power Apps
- Connect to data by using connectors
- Add a data connection to a canvas app in Power Apps
- Combine multiple data sources
- Watch video on PowerApps Combining Multiple Data Sources
- Use controls to design the user experience
- Use & understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
- Describe the customer journey
- Democratizing application development with the Power Platform
- Publish and share an app
- Save and publish a canvas app in Power Apps
- Share a canvas app with your organization
Describe Power Apps Portals
- Create a portal by using a template
- Create a Dataverse starter portal
- Describe common portal customizations
- Create a custom page template
- Identify differences in portal behavior based on whether a user is authenticated
- Overview of authentication in Power Apps portals
- Local authentication, registration & other settings
- Apply a theme to a portal
- Overview of themes in Power Apps portals
Build a Basic Model-driven App
- Add tables to app navigation
- Add model-driven app form navigation for related tables
- Modify forms and views
- Edit a form in Power Apps
- Create & edit public or system model-driven app views
- Publish and share an app
- Validate & publish a model-driven app using the app designer
- Share a model-driven app using Power Apps
Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Automate (15-20%)
Identify Common Power Automate Components
- Identify flow types
- Get started with Power Automate
- Describe use cases for flows and available flow templates
- Power Automate case study
- Power Automate templates
- Describe how Power Automate uses connectors
- Connectors in Power Automate
- Describe loops and conditions including switch, do until, and apply to each
- Watch video on Microsoft Flow: Switch Control
- Watch video on Microsoft Flow: Do Until
- Apply to each action in Power Automate to process a list of items
- Describe expressions
- Use expressions in conditions to check multiple values
- Describe approvals
- Approvals in workflows
- Create & test an approval workflow with Power Automate
Build a Basic Flow
- Create a flow by using the button, automated, or scheduled flow template
- Introducing instant flows
- Create a cloud flow in Power Automate
- Run flows on a schedule
- Modify a flow
- Edit Windows recorder (V1) flows
- Use flow controls to perform data operations
- Use data operations with Power Automate
- Run a flow
- Run attended and unattended UI flows
- Modify a flow
- Editing Windows recorder (V1) flows
Demonstrate the Capabilities of Power Virtual Agents (10-15%)
Describe Power Virtual Agents Capabilities
- Describe use cases for Power Virtual Agents
- Power Virtual Agents overview
- Describe where you can publish chatbots
- Integrate a Power Virtual Agents chatbot with Microsoft Teams
- Describe topics, entities, and actions
- Create and edit topics in your Power Virtual Agents bot
- Use entities & slot filling in Power Virtual Agents bots
- Add actions to a bot using Power Automate
- Describe message nodes, question nodes, conditions, trigger phrases, and the authoring canvas
- All the terms mentioned and used in creating topics
- Identify common pre-built entities
- Prebuilt entities in Power Virtual Agents
Build and Publish a Basic Chatbot
- Create a chatbot
- Create and delete Power Virtual Agents bots
- Create a topic
- Create & edit topics in your Power Virtual Agents bot
- Call an action
- Add actions to a bot using Power Automate
- Test a chatbot
- Watch video on How to test your bot with Power Virtual Agents
- Publish a chatbot
- Watch video on How to publish a chatbot with Power Virtual Agents
- Monitor chatbot usage
- Analyze bot performance & usage in Power Virtual Agents
- Analyze topic usage in Power Virtual Agents
- Monitor chatbot performance
- Analyze bot performance & usage in Power Virtual Agents
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