PL-900 Exam: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals preparation guide

Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by understanding the capabilities of the Power Platform, automating basic business processes with Power Automate, performing basic data analysis with Power BI to produce business insights, acting more effectively by creating simple Power Apps canvas app experiences, and creating powerful chat-bots without using code.
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This exam measures your ability to understand the business value of Power Platform; understand the core components of Power Platform; demonstrate the business value of Power BI; and demonstrate the business value of Microsoft Automate.

Skills measured

Describe the business value of Power Platform (20-25%) Top

Describe the business value of Power Platform services

  • Analyze data by using Power BI
  • Act with Power Apps
  • Build solutions that use Common Data Service
  • Create flows by using Power Automate
  • Use connectors to access services and data
  • Create powerful chatbots by using a guided, no-code graphical interface

Describe the business value of extending business solutions by using Power Platform

  • Describe how Dynamics 365 apps can accelerate delivery of Power Platform business
    solutions
  • Describe how Power Platform business solutions can be used by Microsoft 365 apps
    including Microsoft Teams
  • Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume Microsoft 365 services
  • Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume Microsoft Azure services
  • Describe how Power Platform business solutions can consume third-party apps and
    services

Describe Power Platform administration and security

  • Describe how Power Platform implements security including awareness of Common Data
    Service security roles, Azure Identity Services
  • Describe how to manage apps and users
  • Describe environments
  • Describe where to perform specific administrative tasks including Power Platform Admin
    center, Microsoft 365 admin center
  • Describe Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies
  • Describe how the platform supports privacy and accessibility guidelines

Identify the core components of Power Platform (15-20%) Top

Describe Common Data Service

  • Describe the Power Apps user experience
  • Describe entities, fields, and relationships
  • Describe use cases for solutions
  • Describe use cases and limitations of business rules
  • Describe the Common Data Model (CDM)
  • Describe how to use common standard entities to describe people, places, and things

Describe Connectors

  • Describe triggers including trigger types and where triggers are used
  • Describe actions
  • Describe licensing options for connectors including standard or premium tier 
  • Identify use cases for custom connectors

Describe AI Builder

  • Identify the business value of AI Builder
  • Describe models including business card reader, detection model, form processing
    model, and prediction model
  • Describe how the Power Apps and Power Automate can consume AI Builder data

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI (15-20%) Top

Identify common Power BI components

  • Identify and describe uses for visualization controls including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots and KPIs
  • Describe types of filters
  • Describe the Power BI Desktop Reports, Data, and Model tabs
  • Describe uses for custom visuals including charts or controls
  • Compare and contrast dashboards and workspaces
  • Compare and contrast Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service

Connect to and consume data

  • Combine multiple data sources
  • Clean and transform data
  • Describe and implement aggregate functions
  • Identify available types of data sources including Microsoft Excel
  • Describe use cases for shared datasets and template apps and how to consume each

Build a basic dashboard using Power BI

  • Design a Power BI dashboard
  • Design data layout and mapping
  • Publish and share reports and dashboards

Describe the capabilities of Power Apps (15-20%) Top

Identify common Power Apps components

  • Describe differences between canvas apps and model-driven apps
  • Describe portal apps
  • Identify and describe types of reusable components including canvas component libraries and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) components
  • Describe use cases for formulas

Build a basic canvas app

  • Describe types of data sources
  • Connect to data by using connectors
  • Combine multiple data sources
  • Use controls to design the user experience
  • Describe the customer journey
  • Publish and share an app

Describe Power Apps portals

  • Create a portal by using a template
  • Describe common portal customizations
  • Identify differences in portal behavior based on whether a user is authenticated
  • Apply a theme to a portal

Build a basic model-driven app

  • Add entities to app navigation
  • Modify forms and views
  • Publish and share an app

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate (15-20%) Top

Identify common Power Automate components

  • Identify flow types
  • Describe use cases for and available templates
  • Describe how Power Automate uses connectors
  • Describe loops and conditions including switch, do until, and apply to each
  • Describe expressions
  • Describe approvals

Build a basic flow

  • Create a flow by using the button, automated, or scheduled flow template
  • Modify a flow
  • Use flow controls to perform data operations
  • Run a flow
  • Modify a flow

Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents (10-15%) Top

 

Describe Power Virtual Agents capabilities

  • Describe use cases for Power Virtual Agents
  • Describe where you can publish chatbots
  • Describe topics, entities and actions

 

Build and publish a basic chatbot

 

  • Create a chatbot
  • Create a topic
  • Call an action
  • Test a chatbot
  • Publish a chatbot
  • Monitor chatbot usage
  • Monitor chatbot performance