PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

Validate requirements and design technical architecture

• design and validate the technical architecture for a solution
• design authentication and authorization strategy
• determine whether you can meet requirements with out-of-the-box functionality
• determine when to use Logic Apps versus Power Automate flows
• determine when to use serverless computing, plug-ins, or Power Automate
• determine when to build a virtual entity data source provider and when to use connectors

Design solution components

• design a Microsoft Dataverse data model
• design Power Apps reusable components
• design custom connectors
• design server-side components

Describe Microsoft Power Platform extensibility points

• describe Power Virtual Agents extensibility points including Bot Framework skills and Power Automate flows
• describe Power Apps portal extensibility points including CRUD APIs and custom styling
• describe Dataverse custom APIs and their uses

Configure security to support development

• troubleshoot operational security issues
• create or update security roles and column-level security profiles
• configure business units and teams

Implement tables and columns

• configure tables and table options
• configure columns
• configure relationships and types of behaviors

Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)

• create solutions and manage solution components
• import and export solutions
• manage solution dependencies
• implement source control for projects including solutions and code assets
• create and use environment variables
• describe how to use Package Deployer and associated tools to create a package
• automate deployments

Create model-driven apps

• configure a model-driven app
• configure forms
• configure columns
• configure commands and buttons

Create canvas apps

• create and configure a canvas app or custom page
• implement complex formulas to manage control events and properties
• build reusable component libraries
• test an app by using Test Studio
• embed an app in Microsoft Teams

Manage and troubleshoot apps

• troubleshoot app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools
• identify and resolve connector and API errors
• optimize app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation

Configure Power Automate

• build a cloud flow
• configure steps to use Dataverse connector actions and triggers
• implement complex expressions in flow steps
• implement error handling

Implement processes

• create and configure business process flows
• create and configure business rules
• create, manage, and interact with business process flows by using server-side and clientside code
• troubleshoot processes

Apply business logic using client scripting

• create JavaScript or TypeScript code that targets the Client API object model
• register an event handler
• create client-side scripts that target the Dataverse Web API

Create a Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) component

• describe the component lifecycle
• initialize a new component
• configure a component manifest
• implement component interfaces
• package, deploy, and consume a component
• configure and use PCF Device, Utility, and WebAPI features

Create a command button function

• create commands
• design command button rules and actions
• manage dependencies between JavaScript libraries

Create a plug-in
 describe the plug-in execution pipeline
 design and develop a plug-in
 debug and troubleshoot a plug-in
 implement business logic by using pre-images and post-images
 perform operations on data by using the Organization service API
 optimize plug-in performance by configuring concurrency, transactions, and batching
 configure a Dataverse custom API message
 register custom assemblies by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
 develop a plug-in that targets a custom action message
Create custom connectors
 create a definition for the API
 configure API security
 use policy templates to modify connector behavior at runtime
 expose Azure Functions as custom connectors

Use platform APIs
 interact with data and processes by using the Dataverse Web API or the Organization
Service
 implement API limit retry policies
 optimize for performance, concurrency, transactions, and batching
 perform authentication by using OAuth

Process workloads
 process long-running operations by using Azure Functions
 configure scheduled and event-driven function triggers in Azure Functions
 authenticate to the Microsoft Power Platform by using managed identities

Publish and consume events
 publish an event by using the API
 publish an event by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
 register service endpoints including webhooks, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hub
 implement a Dataverse listener for an Azure solution
 create an Azure Function that interacts with Microsoft Power Platform

Implement data synchronization
 configure entity change tracking
 read entity change records by using platform APIs
 create and use alternate keys