PL-400T00-A: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

In this course you will learn to build solutions using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that include the following: Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure

Use advance techniques in canvas apps to perform custom updates and optimization

• Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
• Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
• Use Dataverse choice columns with formulas
• Reduce complexity in your data model with Dataverse table relationships
• Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
• Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
• Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
• Optimize app load time
• Use Monitor to troubleshoot Power Apps
• Use Power Apps Instrumentation with Application Insights

Automate a business process with expressions and Dataverse actions using Power Automate

• Get started with Power Automate
• Introduction to expressions in Power Automate
• Use Dataverse triggers and actions in Power Automate

Introduction to developing with Microsoft Power Platform

• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources
• Use developer tools to extend Power Platform
• Introduction to extending Power Platform

Extend the user experience with client scripting and command bar customization

• Perform common actions with client script in Power Platform
• Automate business process flows with client script
• Customize the command bar

Build basic code components with the Power Apps Component Framework

• Get started with Power Apps component framework
• Build a Power Apps component

Extending Power Platform Dataverse

• Introduction to Dataverse for developers
• Extend plug-ins in Power Platform
• Work with Dataverse Web API

Integrate with Dataverse and Azure

• Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions
• Explore Azure Functions
• Develop Azure Functions

Get started with custom connectors for Microsoft Power Platform

• Get started with custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
• Discover and use Web APIs with Power Apps
• Configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Microsoft Power Platform
• Configure policy templates for custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
• Create Microsoft Power Platform OpenAPI custom connectors

Basic application lifecycle management in Microsoft Power Platform

• Manage solutions in Power Apps and Power Automate
• Introduction to solutions for Microsoft Power Platform

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate

Demonstrate how to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform Developer.

As a candidate for this certification, you design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components using the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. Your expertise encompasses implementing:
• Custom user experiences and business logic.
• System integrations.
• Data conversions.
• Custom process automation.
• Complex Power Fx logic.
• Power Automate workflow expressions.
• AI as part of your solution logic.

You must have applied knowledge of:
• Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
• Authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Microsoft Power Platform developer tools including Power Platform CLI as part of the developer workflow.
• AI tools, including copilots, to improve development and troubleshooting solutions.
• As a candidate, you should have development experience that includes Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Azure.

As a training attendee you must have previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript. You must also have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and have hands-on experience with the following:

• Developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse
• Creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse
• Building Power Apps canvas apps
• Building Power Apps model-driven apps
• Building Power Automate cloud flows