Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL400)

In this five-day Microsoft certified course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

his training is a comprehensive preparation for the PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer exam to earn the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate certification.

Module 1: How to build your first model-driven app with Dataverse

• Introduction to Dataverse
• Introduction to model-driven apps
• Model-driven apps, powered by Microsoft Dataverse
• Explore sample apps

Module 2: Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

• Introducing model-driven apps
• Components of model-driven apps
• Design model-driven apps
• Incorporate business process flows

Module 3: Manage tables in Dataverse

• Identify tables and table types in Dataverse
• Create a custom table
• Enable attachments within a table
• Licensing requirements for each table type

Module 4: Create and manage columns within a table in Dataverse

• Define columns in Microsoft Dataverse
• Column types in Microsoft Dataverse
• Add a column to a table
• Create a primary name column
• Restrictions that apply to columns in a table
• Create an auto numbering column
• Create an alternate key

Module 5: Working with choices in Dataverse

• Define choice column
• Standard choices column

Module 6: Create a relationship between tables in Dataverse

• Relate one or more tables - Introduction
• Relationship types that are available in Microsoft Dataverse
• Create a one-to-many relationship between tables
• Create a many-to-many relationship between tables
• Edit or delete relationships

Module 7: Define and create business rules in Dataverse

• Define business rules - Introduction
• Define the components of a business rule
• Create a business rule

Module 8: Create and define calculation or rollup columns in Dataverse

• Introduction to rollup columns
• Create a rollup column
• Introduction to calculation columns
• Create a calculation column

Module 9: Get started with security roles in Dataverse

• Introduction to environment roles
• Understand environment roles
• Adding or disabling an environment user
• Understand security concepts in Dataverse
• Understand user security roles and security role defaults
• Check the roles that a user belongs to
• Configure Dataverse teams for security
• Configure Dataverse group teams for security

Module 10: Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

• Introduction to Power Apps
• Power Apps building blocks
• Ways to build Power Apps
• Power Apps related technologies
• Additional Power Apps related technologies
• Designing a Power Apps app

Module 11: Customize a canvas app in Power Apps

• Improve apps by making basic customizations in Power Apps
• Create a navigation model for your canvas app
• Explore screens and controls in Power Apps

Module 12: Manage apps in Power Apps

• Power Apps review

Module 13: Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Understanding navigation
• The navigation and back function
• More ways to use the navigation function

Module 14: How to build the UI in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Use themes to quickly change the appearance of your app
• Branding a control
• Icons
• Images
• Personalization
• Using the tablet or phone form factors

Module 15: Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Introduction to controls
• Core properties of controls
• Entering and displaying data with text controls
• Additional controls for enhancing your app's usability
• Media

Module 16: Document and test your Power Apps application

• Create test plans
• User interface testing
• Performance optimization
• Diagnostics and analytics
• Documentation and the customer

Module 17: Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps

• Imperative versus declarative development
• The three types of variables in Power Apps
• Global variables
• Contextual variables
• Collections
• Additional variable concepts

Module 18: Create formulas that use tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Formulas that process multiple records
• Math operations on tables
• Combine and separate records
• The ForAll function

Module 19: Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app

• Sometimes you need something more than forms
• Using the Patch function to create and edit records
• Deleting record(s) from data sources and collections
• Using Patch function to update a Gallery

Module 20: Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app

• The importance of thinking about performance
• Improve performance with data sources
• Testing and troubleshooting your app

Module 21: Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app

• What is relational data?
• Work with relationships in Power Apps
• Microsoft Dataverse for apps makes relationships even easier

Module 22: Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app

• Delegation overview
• Functions, predicates, and data sources combine to determine delegation
• Delegation warnings, limits, and non-delegable functions

Module 23: Connect to other data in a Power Apps canvas app

• Overview of the different data sources
• Work with action-based data sources
• Power Automate is a companion to Power Apps

Module 24: Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

• Overview of custom connectors
• Overview of the custom connector lifecycle
• Use postman for your custom connector

Module 25: Get started with Power Automate

• Introducing Power Automate
• Troubleshoot flows

Module 26: Build approval flows with Power Automate

• Provide solutions to real-world scenarios

Module 27: Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

• Introduction to expressions
• Get started with expressions
• Notes make things easier
• Types of functions
• Write complex expressions

Module 28: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources

• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform for Developers
• Overview of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model
• Extending Power Platform with Azure

Module 29: Use developer tools to extend Microsoft Power Platform

• Introduction to developer Microsoft Power Platform tooling
• Solutions overview
• Deploy apps with Package Deployer

Module 30: Introduction to extending Microsoft Power Platform

• User experience extensibility
• Microsoft Dataverse extensibility
• Determine when to configure or when to code

Module 31: Introduction to Dataverse for developers

• Introduction to developing with Microsoft Dataverse
• Microsoft Dataverse extensibility model
• Event framework

Module 32: Extend plug-ins in Power Platform

• Plug-ins usage scenarios
• Plug-in execution context

Module 33: Perform common actions with client script in Power Platform

• Introduction to client-side scripting
• Upload scripts
• Event handlers
• Context objects
• Client scripting common tasks

Module 34: Automate business process flows with client script

• Introduction to conducting global operations with the client API Xrm object
• Client scripting best practices
• Debugging client script

Module 35: Get started with Power Apps component framework

• Introduction to Power Apps component framework
• Power Apps component framework architecture
• Power Apps component tooling
• Demo of Power Apps code component

Module 36: Build a Power Apps component

• Introduction to creating a code component
• Create a code component solution package
• Test and debug code components

Module 37: Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework

• Introduction to using React within a Power Apps component
• Use the formatting API in a Power Apps component
• Use the Microsoft Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component
• Write a pop-up Power Apps component

Module 38: Work with Dataverse Web API

• Introduction to the Microsoft Dataverse Web API
• Authenticate against Microsoft Dataverse by using OAuth
• Interact with Microsoft Dataverse Web API by using Postman
• Use OData to query data
• Use FetchXML to query data
• Call Power Automate actions from the Web API
• Use the Web API to impersonate another user
• Track entity data changes with change tracking and the Web API

Module 39: Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions

• Microsoft Dataverse Azure Solutions overview
• Expose Microsoft Dataverse data to Azure Service Bus
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Microsoft Dataverse messages
• Publish Microsoft Dataverse events with webhooks
• Write an Azure Function that processes Microsoft Dataverse events