Course Length: 4 Days
Course Overview
Microsoft Power Platform empowers organizations to automate business processes, develop their own rich app experiences, and connect with customers better and faster. In this course, students will learn to perform discovery, capture requirements, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, translate requirements, and configure Microsoft Power Platform solutions and apps. They will supplement their learnings with hands-on labs to create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. Microsoft Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. In this course, we will cover these four applications in depth, with an additional focus on Microsoft Data verse, AI Builder, connectors, and portals.
Target Audience
A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automation, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes the utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations.
At Course Completion
- Work with an organization to gather requirements and implement Microsoft Power Platform solutions
- Build model-driven, canvas, and portal apps
- Create Power Automate flows
- Design a simple chatbot using Power Virtual Agents
- Analyze data using Power BI visualizations and dashboards
Prerequisites
- Experience as an IT professional or student
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform and its key components
- Knowledge of Microsoft Dataverse (or general data modeling) and security concepts
- PL 900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals is recommended but not required
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform
Lesson
- Microsoft Power Platform overview
Module 2: Work with Dataverse
Lesson
- Work with tables
- Understand data types and behavior
- Configure security settings
Module 3: Make model-driven apps with Power Apps
Lesson
- Building blocks of model-driven apps
- Design model-driven apps
- Forms and views
Module 4: Make canvas apps with Power Apps
Lesson
- Power Apps studio
- Canvas apps capabilities
- User experience
Module 5: Make portals with Power Apps
Lesson
- Power Apps portals architecture
- Access Microsoft Dataverse in your portal
- Authentication and user management
Module 6: Introduction to automation
Lesson
- Business rules
- Power Automate overview
Module 7: Build Power Automate cloud flows
Lesson
- Fundamentals of cloud flow
- Triggers
- Actions
Module 8: Build Power Automate desktop flows
Lesson
- Build desktop flows
- Use desktop flows
- Process advisor
Module 9: Build business process flows
Lesson
- Why use business process flows
- Using business process flow designer
- Automating your business process flow
Module 10: Build chatbots with Power Virtual Agents
Lesson
- Create a chatbot
- Configure topics
- Automate and integrate
- Configure entities
- Test and publish chatbots
Module 11: Analyze data with Power BI
Lesson
- Use tabular reporting options in Dataverse
- Use charts and dashboards in Dataverse
- Get started with Power BI
- Model data in Power BI
- Create visualizations and dashboards
- Publish and share in Power BI
Module 12: Putting it all together
Lesson
- Using solutions
- AI Builder
- Consultant skills
Certification
Earns Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant
You May Be Interested In:
PL 100 Microsoft Power Platform App Maker
PL 400 Microsoft Power Platform Developer
PL 900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals