PL-600: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert

If you’re looking to prove your expertise as a Microsoft Power Platform or Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution architect, or if you’re a developer or a senior consultant ready to take the next step to become a solution architect, this expert certification can help you move forward in your career.

As a candidate for the Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification, you work with stakeholders and focus on solutions that affect your organization’s broad business and technical needs. You have functional and technical knowledge of Power Platform, Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps, related Microsoft cloud solutions, and third-party technologies. For this certification, you need a minimum of 1 to 3 years as a Power Platform solution architect or 7 to 10 years as a senior consultant or developer, along with deep knowledge of Power Platform architecture.

Course Outline

Perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses (35-40%)

Initiate solution planning

evaluate business requirements
identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
identify other components including existing apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISV)
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 the data model

design entities and fields
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 Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azure

Design the security model

design the business unit and team structure
design security roles
design field security
design security models to address complex sets of requirements
determine security model management policies and processes
identify Azure Active Directory 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
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

Duration

3 Days

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