Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate (PL100)

This four-day Microsoft certified course will teach you how to build applications with low-code techniques to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform.

This training is a comprehensive preparation for the PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker exam to earn the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate certification.

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

• What is Microsoft Power Platform?
• The business value of Microsoft Power Platform
• Data Connectors
• Data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and accessibility
• Pulling it all together

Module 2: 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 3: Create tables in Dataverse

• Table characteristics
• Dual-write vs. virtual tables
• Dataverse auditing
• Import data into your Microsoft Dataverse database

Module 4: Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

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

Module 5: Create and manage columns within a table in 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 6: 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 7: Document and test your Power Apps application

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

Module 8: Get started with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

• Provision your first Dataverse environment
• Create your first table to store data

Module 9: Build your first app with Power Apps and Dataverse for Teams

• Create your first app with the hero template
• Customize your app with Power Apps Studio
• Publish your app
• Install template apps

Module 10: Create a canvas app in Power Apps

• Introduction to Power Apps
• Power Apps building blocks
• Exercise - Create your first app in Power Apps
• Ways to build Power Apps
• Power Apps related technologies
• Additional Power Apps related technologies
• Designing a Power Apps app

Module 11: Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

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

Module 12: 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 13: Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps

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

Module 14: Get started with Power Automate

• Introducing Power Automate
• Troubleshoot flows

Module 15: Use the Admin center to manage environments and data policies in Power Automate

• Administer flows
• Export and import flows
• Learn how to distribute button flows

Module 16: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform security and governance

• Identify Microsoft Power Platform environments
• Data Loss Prevention policies
• Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit

Module 17: Build your first workflow with Power Automate and Dataverse for Teams

• Types of workflows that Power Automate can build in Dataverse
• Schedule a flow

Module 18: Get started building with Power BI

• Use Power BI
• Building blocks of Power BI
• Tour and use the Power BI service

Module 19: Get data with Power BI Desktop

• Overview of Power BI Desktop
• Explore Power BI Desktop
• Connect to data sources
• Get data from Excel
• Transform data to include in a report
• Combine data from multiple sources
• Clean data to include in a report

Module 20: Create reports with Power BI and Dataverse for Teams

• Connect to and transform Dataverse for Teams data from Power BI
• Create a Power BI report
• Publish the report
• Share the data

Module 21: Get started with AI Builder

• Choose an AI capability
• Create your first model
• Ways to use your models

Module 22: Create a chatbot with Power Virtual Agents and Dataverse for Teams

• Create your first chatbot
• Create and modify topics
• Add inputs, variables, and conditions
• Call an action to pull in Dataverse for Teams data
• Publish and share your new chatbot