PL-600T00-A: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect

Prepare to pass the PL-600: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Certification Exam

Course Description

The Solution Architect is responsible for the successful design, implementation, deployment and adoption of an overall solution. The Solution Architect ensures that the solution meets the customer’s needs now and in the future. In this course, students will learn about decisions a Solution Architect makes during an implementation, covering security, integrations, Power Apps architecture, Power Automate architecture, and more. This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Solution Architect role.

Audience Profile

Senior Consultants (both functional and technical) that aspire to be Solution Architects, or current Solution Architects that are new to the role.

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Course Outline

Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (35–40%)

Initiate solution planning

Evaluate business requirements
Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
Identify other components including existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISVs)
Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts

Identify organization information and metrics

Identify desired high-level organizational business processes
Identify business process improvement opportunities
Assess an organization’s risk factors
Review key success criteria

Identify existing solutions and systems

Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture
Identify data sources needed for a solution
Define use cases and quality standards for existing data
Identify and document an organization’s existing business processes

Capture requirements

Refine high-level requirements
Identify functional requirements
Identify non-functional requirements
Confirm that requirements meet an organization’s goals
Identify and document an organization’s desired business processes

Perform fit/gap analyses

Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
Determine the scope for a solution

Architect a solution (40–45%)

Lead the design process

Design the solution topology
Design customizations for existing apps
Design and validate user experience prototypes
Identify opportunities for component reuse
Communicate system design visually
Design application lifecycle management (ALM) processes
Design a data migration strategy
Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task
Design a data visualization strategy
Design an automation strategy that uses Power Automate
Design environment strategy

Design the data model

Design tables and columns
Design reference and configuration data
Design relationships and relationship behaviors
Determine when to connect to external data versus import data
Design data models to address complex sets of requirements

Design integrations

Design collaboration integrations
Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems
Design third-party integrations
Design an authentication strategy
Design a business continuity strategy
Identify opportunities to integrate and extend Microsoft Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azure
Design robotic process automation (RPA)
Design networking

Design the security model

Design the business unit and team structure
Design security roles
Design column and row level security
Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
Determine security model management policies and processes
Identify Microsoft Entra groups and app registrations required to support a solution
Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
Determine how external users will access a solution

Implement the solution (15–20%)

Validate the solution design

Evaluate detail designs and implementation
Validate security
Ensure that the solution conforms to API limits
Assess the solution performance and impact on resources
Resolve automation conflicts
Resolve integration conflicts

Support go-live

Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
Troubleshoot data migration
Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues