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Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL400)

In this five-day Microsoft certified course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

his training is a comprehensive preparation for the PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer exam to earn the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate certification.

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Public class

Virtual classroom
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July 10 2023
$2875$
 
English
Virtual classroom
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August 21 2023
$2875$
 
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Virtual classroom
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September 25 2023
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Virtual classroom
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October 30 2023
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English
2875$
Duration: 
5 days / 35 hours

Private class

On site / Virtual classroom
Minimum no. of participants: 5
5 days / 35 hours
Price on request
English or French
Training plan: 

Microsoft Power Platform Developer (PL-400T00)

Module 1: 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 2: Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

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

Module 3: Manage tables in Dataverse

  • Identify tables and table types in Dataverse
  • Create a custom table
  • Enable attachments within a table
  • Licensing requirements for each table type

Module 4: Create and manage columns within a table in Dataverse

  • Define columns in Microsoft 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 5: Working with choices in Dataverse

  • Define choice column
  • Standard choices column

Module 6: Create a relationship between tables in Dataverse

  • Relate one or more tables - Introduction
  • Relationship types that are available in Microsoft Dataverse
  • Create a one-to-many relationship between tables
  • Create a many-to-many relationship between tables
  • Edit or delete relationships

Module 7: Define and create business rules in Dataverse

  • Define business rules - Introduction
  • Define the components of a business rule
  • Create a business rule

Module 8: Create and define calculation or rollup columns in Dataverse

  • Introduction to rollup columns
  • Create a rollup column
  • Introduction to calculation columns
  • Create a calculation column

Module 9: 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 10: Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

  • Introduction to Power Apps
  • Power Apps building blocks
  • Ways to build Power Apps
  • Power Apps related technologies
  • Additional Power Apps related technologies
  • Designing a Power Apps app

Module 11: Customize a canvas app in Power Apps

  • Improve apps by making basic customizations in Power Apps
  • Create a navigation model for your canvas app
  • Explore screens and controls in Power Apps

Module 12: Manage apps in Power Apps

  • Power Apps review

Module 13: Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

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

Module 14: 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 15: Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps

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

Module 16: Document and test your Power Apps application

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

Module 17: Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps

  • Imperative versus declarative development
  • The three types of variables in Power Apps
  • Global variables
  • Contextual variables
  • Collections
  • Additional variable concepts

Module 18: Create formulas that use tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps

  • Formulas that process multiple records
  • Math operations on tables
  • Combine and separate records
  • The ForAll function

Module 19: Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Sometimes you need something more than forms
  • Using the Patch function to create and edit records
  • Deleting record(s) from data sources and collections
  • Using Patch function to update a Gallery

Module 20: Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app

  • The importance of thinking about performance
  • Improve performance with data sources
  • Testing and troubleshooting your app

Module 21: Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app

  • What is relational data?
  • Work with relationships in Power Apps
  • Microsoft Dataverse for apps makes relationships even easier

Module 22: Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Delegation overview
  • Functions, predicates, and data sources combine to determine delegation
  • Delegation warnings, limits, and non-delegable functions

Module 23: Connect to other data in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Overview of the different data sources
  • Work with action-based data sources
  • Power Automate is a companion to Power Apps

Module 24: Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Overview of custom connectors
  • Overview of the custom connector lifecycle
  • Use postman for your custom connector

Module 25: Get started with Power Automate

  • Introducing Power Automate
  • Troubleshoot flows

Module 26: Build approval flows with Power Automate

  • Provide solutions to real-world scenarios

Module 27: Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

  • Introduction to expressions
  • Get started with expressions
  • Notes make things easier
  • Types of functions
  • Write complex expressions

Module 28: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources

  • Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform for Developers
  • Overview of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model
  • Extending Power Platform with Azure

Module 29: Use developer tools to extend Microsoft Power Platform

  • Introduction to developer Microsoft Power Platform tooling
  • Solutions overview
  • Deploy apps with Package Deployer

Module 30: Introduction to extending Microsoft Power Platform

  • User experience extensibility
  • Microsoft Dataverse extensibility
  • Determine when to configure or when to code

Module 31: Introduction to Dataverse for developers

  • Introduction to developing with Microsoft Dataverse
  • Microsoft Dataverse extensibility model
  • Event framework

Module 32: Extend plug-ins

  • Introduction to Plug-ins
  • Plug-ins usage scenarios
  • Custom workflow extensions
  • Plug-in execution context

Module 33: Performing common actions with client script

  • Introduction to client-side scripting
  • Upload scripts
  • Event handlers
  • Context objects
  • Client scripting common tasks

Module 34: Automate business process flows with client script

  • Introduction to conducting global operations with the client API Xrm object
  • Client scripting best practices
  • Debugging client script

Module 35: Get started with Power Apps component framework

  • Introduction to Power Apps component framework
  • Power Apps component framework architecture
  • Power Apps component tooling
  • Demo of Power Apps code component

Module 36: Build a Power Apps component

  • Introduction to creating a code component
  • Create a code component solution package
  • Test and debug code components

Module 37: Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework

  • Introduction to using React within a Power Apps component
  • Use the formatting API in a Power Apps component
  • Use the Microsoft Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component
  • Write a pop-up Power Apps component

Module 38: Access Dataverse in Power Apps portals

  • Use table lists to display multiple Microsoft Dataverse records
  • Use table forms to interact with Microsoft Dataverse data

Module 39: Extend Power Apps portals

  • Portal application lifecycle management
  • Extend with scripts
  • Advanced CSS
  • Advanced client-side development

Module 40: Build custom Power Apps portals web templates

  • Introduction to portal web templates
  • Create web templates
  • Web templates as API

Module 41: Work with Dataverse Web API

  • Introduction to the Microsoft Dataverse Web API
  • Authenticate against Microsoft Dataverse by using OAuth
  • Interact with Microsoft Dataverse Web API by using Postman
  • Use OData to query data
  • Use FetchXML to query data
  • Call Power Automate actions from the Web API
  • Use the Web API to impersonate another user
  • Track entity data changes with change tracking and the Web API

Module 42: Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions

  • Microsoft Dataverse Azure Solutions overview
  • Expose Microsoft Dataverse data to Azure Service Bus
  • Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Microsoft Dataverse messages
  • Publish Microsoft Dataverse events with webhooks
  • Write an Azure Function that processes Microsoft Dataverse events
Exclusives: 
  • One FREE attendance to the Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS900) training
  • One year access to the class recording
  • 180 days access to the lab environment after class
  • One voucher to take the exam
  • Up to date courseware with Microsoft Learn
  • Microsoft course achievement badge
Prerequisites: 
  • Candidates should have an introductory knowledge of Power Platfom
  • 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
Certification information: 

Exam characteristics:

  • Exam code: PL-400
  • Cost: $0 (included in your training)
  • Skills measured
    • Create a technical design 
    • Configure Microsoft Dataverse 
    • Create and configure Power Apps 
    • Configure business process automation 
    • Extend the user experience 
    • Extend the platform 
    • Develop integrations
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