PL-500T00-A: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

Prepare to pass the PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer Certification Exam

Power Automate RPA Developer
Instructor-led Training

Course Description

Candidates for this course automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks by using Microsoft Power Automate. They review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, troubleshoot, and evaluate solutions. Candidates work with business stakeholders to improve and automate business workflows. They collaborate with administrators to deploy solutions to production environments, and they support solutions.

Audience Profile

If you’re a developer with a keen interest in providing automated solutions for your organization, this certification could be a great fit for you. You automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks by using Microsoft Power Automate. You review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and evaluate solutions. Working with business stakeholders, you help to improve and automate business workflows.

About this Course

Skills at a glance

  • Design automations (25–30%)

  • Develop automations (45–50%)

  • Deploy and manage automations (20–25%)

Design automations (25–30%)

Design automations using Power Automate features and capabilities

  • Leverage the Power Automate ecosystem

  • Differentiate between cloud flows and desktop flows

  • Design automations using desktop flows and cloud flows

  • Differentiate trigger types for cloud flows

  • Differentiate options for interacting with target applications and browsers

  • Differentiate the different methods for running a desktop flow

  • Assess the ability to run cloud and desktop flows concurrently

  • Recommend running desktop flows attended versus unattended

  • Differentiate HTTP actions in cloud and desktop flows

  • Assess if work queues are applicable for the automation

  • Design custom actions

Design automations using other Microsoft Power Platform features and capabilities

  • Design automations that include canvas and model-driven apps

  • Design automations using connectors, custom connectors, connection references, and connections for cloud flows

  • Design automations that include Microsoft Dataverse

Design automations that analyze and enhance data and documents

  • Differentiate Microsoft AI options for processing documents in desktop and cloud flows

  • Differentiate Microsoft AI options for processing data in desktop and cloud flows

  • Recommend optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities in desktop flows

  • Recommend Document Automation Toolkit for use in automation design

Design automations using scripting languages in desktop flows

  • Design automations using scripting languages including PowerShell and Visual Basic Script (VBScript)

  • Recommend automation use cases that use JavaScript

  • Design an automation that uses the document object model (DOM)

Develop automations (45–50%)

Develop cloud flows

  • Develop a cloud flow that calls a desktop flow

  • Develop and use child cloud flows including passing and returning data

  • Perform actions in cloud flows by calling external APIs

  • Implement trigger conditions and concurrency in cloud flows

  • Implement timeout and retry policies in cloud flows

  • Implement data objects and data operations in cloud flows

  • Perform text parsing including JSON, XML, and CSV in cloud flows

Develop desktop flows

  • Implement UI options

  • Implement datatables, lists, and custom objects in desktop flows

  • Implement subflows in desktop flows

  • Perform actions in desktop flows by calling external APIs

  • Implement timeout and retry in desktop flows

  • Implement data objects and data operations in desktop flows

  • Perform text parsing including JSON, XML, and CSV in desktop flows

  • Implement custom actions in desktop flows

Implement logic in cloud and desktop flows

  • Implement flow control in cloud and desktop flows including loops

  • Implement expressions in cloud flows

  • Implement variable actions for cloud and desktop flows

  • Implement secure input and output data in actions in cloud flows

  • Implement secure variables in desktop flows

  • Implement priority for desktop flows in a queue

  • Implement exception handling blocks in cloud and desktop flows to handle system exceptions

  • Implement error handling routines in cloud and desktop flows to handle business exceptions

  • Implement work queues in cloud and desktop flows

Build custom connectors and implement connector configurations

  • Build a custom connector

  • Implement authentication for custom connectors

  • Implement custom connector policy templates

  • Develop code in a custom connector

Perform automation infrastructure management

  • Recommend credential management practices

  • Utilize on-premises data gateway to connect resources from cloud flows

  • Build components in Microsoft Dataverse solutions

Test automations and finalize development efforts

  • Test a cloud flow

  • Test a desktop flow

  • Utilize environment variables and configuration files to manage configurations

  • Utilize debugging features in cloud and desktop flows

Deploy and manage automations (20–25%)

Perform target environment preparation

  • Implement Microsoft Power Platform application lifecycle management (ALM)

  • Differentiate credentials used for different environments

  • Recommend how to deploy solution components to other environments

  • Build virtual desktop environments for unattended desktop flow execution

Assess data loss prevention (DLP) policies for RPA execution

  • Assess Microsoft Power Platform DLP policies

  • Assess how DLP policies impact actions in cloud and desktop flows

  • Assess how DLP policies apply to custom connectors

Implement access to RPA components

  • Perform sharing of cloud and desktop flows

  • Perform sharing of machines and machine groups

  • Recommend security roles required to run and monitor cloud and desktop flows

  • Implement service accounts and service principals

Implement machine groups and queues required for desktop flow automations

  • Assess machine and machine group requirements

  • Perform machine registration management

  • Perform machine group management

  • Implement load balancing of desktop flows by using machine groups and queues

  • Perform operations on the run queue to manage desktop flows

  • Analyze cloud and desktop flow run history from the Power Automate portal

 

5 Days

Intermediate

Microsoft Power Platform

Developer

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