Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert

As a candidate for the Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification, you work with stakeholders and focus on solutions that affect your organization’s broad business and technical needs. You have functional and technical knowledge of Power Platform, Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps, related Microsoft cloud solutions, and third-party technologies. For this certification, you need a minimum of 1 to 3 years as a Power Platform solution architect or 7 to 10 years as a senior consultant or developer, along with deep knowledge of Power Platform architecture.

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.
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses
Architect a solution
Implement the solution

Course Outline

Identify organization information and metrics

identify desired high-level organizational business processes
identify business process automation opportunities
assess an organization’s risk factors
review key success criteria

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

Design the data model

design entities and fields
design reference and configuration data
design relationships and relationship behavior
determine when to connect to external data versus import data
design data models to address complex sets of requirements

Design integrations

design collaboration integration
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

Support go-live

identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
troubleshoot data migration
resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues

About The Exam

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses; architect a solution; and implement the solution.