PL-400T00-A: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

Create a technical design (10–15%)

Build Power Platform solutions (10–15%)

Implement Power Apps improvements (5–10%)

Extend the user experience (10–15%)

Extend the platform (40–45%)

Develop integrations (5–10%)

Design the technical architecture for a solution

Design the authentication and authorization strategy

Determine whether requirements can be met with out-of-the-box functionality

Determine where to run business logic including cloud computing, client-side processing, business rules, plug-ins, and Power Automate

Determine when to use standard tables, virtual tables, elastic tables, or connectors

Determine the impact of security features of the Microsoft Power Platform including data loss prevention (DLP) policies, security roles, teams, business units, and row sharing on your business solution

Design Power Apps reusable components including canvas components, code components, and client scripting

Design custom connectors

Design Dataverse code components including plug-ins and Custom APIs

Design automations including Power Automate cloud flows

Design inbound and outbound integrations using Dataverse and Azure

Troubleshoot operational security issues found in testing

Configure Dataverse security roles to support code components

Manage Microsoft Power Platform environments for development

Manage solution dependencies

Create and use environment variables

Determine when to use unmanaged and managed solutions

Manage solution layers

Implement complex Power Fx formulas

Build reusable component libraries

Utilize Power Automate cloud flows to implement business logic from a canvas app

Troubleshoot canvas and model-driven app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools

Optimize canvas app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation

Optimize model-driven app performance including forms and views

Build JavaScript code that targets the Client API object model

Determine event handler registration approach

Create client scripting that targets the Dataverse Web API

Configure commands and buttons using Power Fx

Configure commands and buttons using JavaScript

Demonstrate the use of the different code component lifecycle events

Initialize a new code component

Configure a code component manifest

Implement component interfaces

Package, deploy, and consume a component

Configure and use Device, Utility, and Web API features in component logic

Demonstrate the use of the different event execution pipeline stages

Develop a plug-in that uses the execution context

Develop a plug-in that implements business logic

Implement Pre Images and Post Images to support plug-in logic

Perform operations in plug-ins by using the Organization service

Optimize plug-in performance

Configure a Dataverse custom API message

Register plug-in components by using the Plug-in Registration Tool

Develop a plug-in that implements a custom API

Configure Dataverse business events

Create an Open API definition for an existing REST API

Implement authentication for custom connectors

Configure policy templates to modify connector behavior at runtime

Import definitions from existing APIs including Open API definitions, Azure services, and GitHub

Create a custom connector for an Azure service

Develop an Azure Function to be used in a custom connector

Extend the Open API definition for a custom connector

Develop code for a custom connector to transform data

Perform operations with the Dataverse Web API

Perform operations with the Organization service

Implement API limit retry policies

Optimize for performance, concurrency, transactions, and bulk operations

Perform authentication by using OAuth

Process long-running operations by using Azure Functions

Configure scheduled and event-driven triggers in Azure Functions

Authenticate to Microsoft Power Platform by using managed identities

Implement flow steps to use Dataverse connector actions and triggers

Implement complex expressions in flow steps

Manage sensitive input and output parameters

Implement Azure Key Vault and Microsoft Entra ID service principals

Implement flow control actions including error handling

Configure trigger filter and retry policies

Develop reuseable logic by using child flows

Publish a Dataverse event by using the IServiceEndpointNotificationService

Publish a Dataverse event by using the Plug-in Registration Tool

Register service endpoints including webhooks, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hub

Recommend options for listening to Dataverse events

Perform data synchronization by using change tracking

Develop code that utilizes alternate keys

Utilize the UpsertRequest message to synchronize data