Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate In Houston, UK England, Saudia, Australia

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate

If you have a passion for designing, developing, securing, and extending Microsoft Power Platform solutions, this certification could be for you. To earn this certification, you must be able to create solution components, including application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. You need a strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform services and a basic understanding of DevOps practices for Microsoft Power Platform. Plus, your background should include development experience using JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful web services, ASP.NET, and Power BI.

Skills measured

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

About The Exam

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: create a technical design; configure Microsoft Dataverse; create and configure Power Apps; configure business process automation; extend the user experience; extend the platform; and develop integrations.