Microsoft Power Platform Developer PL-400

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes.
In this PL-400 Microsoft Power Platform Developer course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

Course Outline

Module 1: Create a model-driven application in Power Apps

This module introduces you to creating a model-driven app in Power Apps that uses Common Data Service.

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Module 2: Create a canvas app in Power Apps

This module introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it. It will also show you how to provide the best app navigation, and build the best UI using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.

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Module 3: Master advance techniques and data options in canvas apps

This module will help you use advanced formulas, perform custom updates, performance checks and testing. It will also help you to improve user’s experience, use custom connectors and focus on working with data source limits.

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Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
Author an advanced formula that uses tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps
Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
Connecting to other data in a Power Apps canvas app
Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

Module 4: Automate a business process using Power Automate

This module introduces you to Power Automate, teaches you how to build workflows, and how to administer flows.

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Module 5: Introduction to developing with Power Platform

This module is the first step in learning about platform, tools, and the ecosystem of the Power Platform

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Module 6: Extending the Power Platform Common Data Service

This module looks at the tools and resources needed for extending the Power Platform. We’ll start with looking at the SDKs, the extensibility model, and event framework. This learning path also covers when to use plug-ins. Configuration of plug-ins as well as registering and deploying plug-ins.

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Module 7: Extending the Power Platform user experience Model Driven apps

This module describes how to create client scripting, perform common actions with client script, and automate business process flow with client scrip. Learn about what client script can do, rules, and maintaining scripts. Discover when to use client script as well as when not to use client script.

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Module 8: Create components with Power Apps Component Framework

This module describes how to get started with Power Apps Component Framework with an introductory module on the core concepts and components. Then it shows you how to build a component and work with advanced Power Apps Component Framework features.

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Module 9: Extend Power Apps portals

This module describes how to transform a content portal into a full web app interacting with Common Data Service.
We will also cover the options available to customizers and developers to extend the portal functionality and integrate with Office 365, Power Platform, and Azure components.

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Module 10: Integrate with Power Platform and Common Data Service

This module describes how to integrate with Common Data Service using code by learning about Common Data Service API.
Get an in-depth overview of options available with Common Data Service to integrate data and events to Azure.

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What you will learn

Audience profile

Candidates for this course design, develop, secure, and troubleshoot Power Platform solutions.
Candidates implement components of a solution that include application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.
Candidates will gain applied knowledge of Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
Candidates should have development experience that includes JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful Web Services, ASP.NET, and Power BI.