PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

Overview

Transform business processes by harnessing the full capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform. Build, test, and enhance custom solutions that go beyond low-code limitations, using traditional code where needed to tackle complex scenarios. Automate tasks, streamline workflows, and connect data seamlessly across your organisation. Gain hands-on experience designing and troubleshooting solution components through real-world use cases, unlocking the platform’s powerful extension points to drive efficiency, innovation, and agility at scale.

Key Takeaways

• Discover the value and key features of Dataverse
• Explore sample model-driven template apps
• Create a model-driven app
• Types of tables that are available in Dataverse
• Enabling attachments within a table
• Learn what a column is in Dataverse
• Add a column to a table
• Identify restrictions that are associated with columns
• Create an alternate key
• Explore the standard choices
• Why should you segment data that is used by your solutions into many tables
• How to build relationships between tables
• Define business rules in Dataverse
• Learn about security roles and apply them to users in an environment
• Understand security concepts in Dataverse
• Create a custom role
• Learn how to configure Dataverse teams for security
• Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient
• Learn about the different ways to build an app in Power Apps
• Change the layout of a gallery
• Change the order in which fields appear
• Explore controls on each screen of an app
• Colour prices based on their values
• Learn how to view and restore app versions
• Learn about what environments are, how to create them, and how to manage security
• Understand how navigation works in a canvas app
• Understand the different ways these functions can be invoked
• Use personalisation in a canvas app
• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
• Understand how Galleries and Forms related to controls
• Identify and discuss optimisation tools and performance tuning
• Understand imperative vs. declarative development
• Understand when to utilise each of the three different types of variables
• Use the Concat function to combine text from multiple records
• Perform math operations on data in a table
• Understand how the Defaults function is used to create new records with Patch
• Determine whether to use Clear and Collect or ClearCollect in their scenario
• Use relational data to improve an app user's experience in Power Apps
• Understand and use action-based connectors
• Use Power Automate with Power Apps
• Understand the custom connector lifecycle
• Create a flow that automatically saves email attachments
• Create and process approval requests
• Create a business process flow with conditions
• Learn about the difference between a workflow and a business process
• Learn about branching logic
• Discover how to use instant flows with business process flows
• Use one or more functions to create expressions
• Explain what solution components exist within Microsoft Power Platform
• Explain what Azure solution elements relate to Microsoft Power Platform
• Navigate the Developer Guide successfully in support of their Microsoft Power Platform development efforts
• Work with the Configuration Migration tool
• Leverage Solution Packager to isolate features
• Identify which elements architecturally comprise Microsoft Power Platform
• Discover different approaches to common business scenarios with respect achieving extensibility through configuration versus code
• Perform basic operations against Microsoft Power Platform, such as create/read/update/delete operations
• Write a client script to perform common actions as listed in the module units
• Learn about Power Apps component framework architecture
• Create a custom Power Apps component
• Test and debug a code component
• Use the formatting API in a Power Apps component
• Discover the portal components that are available to display and interact with Dataverse data on the portal
• Display a list of data and an associated drill-down for details
• Trigger classic Dataverse workflows from the portal
• Employ portal application lifecycle management for Power Apps portals
• Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to address specific portal development requirements
• Discover how custom web templates can be built by using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Liquid, and JavaScript
• Learn how to embed custom CSS and JavaScript into web templates
• Interact with the Dataverse Web API by using Postman.
• Use OData to query data
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Dataverse events
• Learn about the value and key features of model-driven apps
• Learn about model-driven app design
• Tables in Dataverse
• Creating a custom table
• Which licensing requirements apply to use each type of table
• Learn about the types of columns that are available in Dataverse
• Learn what a primary name column is in Dataverse
• Create an auto-numbering column
• Learn about choices
• Create a new choice or modify an existing one
• Why you need to relate one table to another
• How to select the proper relationship type when you are building solutions with Dataverse
• Create and manage business rules in Dataverse
• Create a rollup column
• Create a calculation column
• Learn how to add users to an environment
• Identify default security roles
• Create a custom security role and assign it to entities and users
• Learn how to configure Dataverse group teams for security
• Learn how to use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps
• Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook
• Change the data that a control will show
• Change the control with which a user provides information
• Format a number as a price
• Explore formulas in a generated app
• Explore how to share an app, including permissions and notifications.
• Find more information about Power Apps
• Use the Navigate and Back functions
• Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customisation, and images
• Understand the differences between the Tablet and Mobile form factors
• Use the different types of controls
• Learn about the different types of test plans and components of a good test plan
• Learn about the benefits of documenting your application
• Understand the variables in Power Apps
• Utilise formulas that process multiple records
• Utilise the Countrows, CountIf and ForAll
• Use the Patch function to update your data
• Utilise the Remove and RemoveIf functions to delete records
• Understand relational data
• Understand how to use relational data in Microsoft Dataverse
• Integrate user information and user-profile information into a canvas app
• Understand custom connectors and the basics of how to build one
• Use Postman with a custom connector
• Learn how to create a button flow to send yourself a reminder
• Build a flow that runs at recurring time intervals
• Discover why standardizing business process flows is important and valuable to an organisation.
• Find out about how business process flows are used within Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse
• Create additional fields and a main form to enhance the business process flow
• Enhance immersive business process flows by using advanced techniques
• Use functions to retrieve data, change data, evaluate data, and more
• Explain key components of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model
• Explain what AI Solutions exist as they relate to Microsoft Power Platform
• Install NuGet packages available for Microsoft Power Platform development
• Work with Package Deployer
• Run the Plugin Registration Tool
• Learn about the areas of extensibility that are available to customise Microsoft Power Platform through code
• Explain what functions can be executed against Microsoft Power Platform via Microsoft Power Platform SDKs.
• Learn how to extend plug-ins.
• Automate business process flow actions by using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods.
• Learn about Power Apps component tooling.
• Create a code component solution package.
• Learn key concepts of Dataverse auditing
• Use Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component.
• Identify the various features of the portal components.
• Configure a table form to access individual records.
• Discover where software development can resolve particular portal feature requirements.
• Apply JavaScript code to portal assets
• Learn about the relationship between web templates, page templates, and webpages
• Use Liquid template language to build and structure web templates
• Learn how to reference other web templates in a web template
• Authorize against Dataverse with OAuth
• Publish Dataverse events to Microsoft Azure Service Bus

Who Should Attend

• Please refer to the job roles section.
• The PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer certification is designed for individuals with existing software development experience, particularly those working with .NET technologies like C#, JavaScript, JSON, and TypeScript, who are looking to build and extend solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform. It's suitable for developers, IT professionals, and technical consultants who need to create, configure, and customise Power Apps, automate processes with Power Automate, and integrate with other services like Azure. 

Prerequisites

As a participant, you must have previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript. You must also have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and have hands-on experience with the following:

• Developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse
• Creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse
• Building Power Apps canvas apps
• Building Power Apps model-driven apps
• Building Power Automate cloud flows
• In this programme, you will learn to build solutions using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that include the following: Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure