PL-400 Microsoft Power Platform Developer

• Discover the value and key features of Dataverse.
• Learn about the value and key features of model-driven apps.
• Explore sample model-driven template apps.

• Model-driven app design
• Creating a model-driven app

• Tables in Dataverse.
• Types of tables that are available in Dataverse.
• Creating a custom table.
• Enabling attachments within a table.
• Which licensing requirements to apply to use each type of table.

• What a column is in Dataverse.
• The types of columns that are available in Dataverse.
• How to add a column to a table.
• What a primary name column is in Dataverse.
• How to identify restrictions that are associated with columns.
• How to create an auto-numbering column.
• How to create an alternate key.

• Learn about choices.
• Explore the standard choices.
• Create a new choice or modify an existing one.

• Why you should segment data that is used by your solutions into many tables.
• Why you need to relate one table to another.
• How to build relationships between tables.
• How to select the proper relationship type when you're building solutions with Dataverse.

• Define business rules in Dataverse.
• Create and manage business rules in Dataverse.

• Define a rollup column.
• Create a rollup column.
• Identify a calculation column.
• Create a calculation column.
• Define a formula column.

• Learn about security roles and apply them to users in an environment.
• Learn how to add users to an environment.
• Understand security concepts in Dataverse.
• Identify default security roles.
• Create a custom role.
• Create a custom security role and assign it to entities and users.
• Learn how to configure Dataverse teams for security.
• Learn how to configure Dataverse group teams for security.

• Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
• Use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
• Build an app in Power Apps in different ways.
• Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

• Change the layout of a gallery.
• Change the data that a control portrays.
• Modify a form control to show different data fields.
• Learn about gallery and form controls.
• Add a screen.
• Learn how to modify label properties by using basic formulas.
• Add labels.
• Learn how to create basic screen navigation.

• Learn how to view and restore app versions.
• Explore how to share an app, including permissions and notifications.
• Learn about what environments are, how to create them, and how to manage security.
• Find more information about Power Apps.

• Gain a greater understanding of the Navigate and Back functions.
• Learn how to use screen transitions in an app.
• Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit various form factors.
• Gain hands-on experience in building navigations inside an app.
• Learn how to use other controls for app navigation.

• Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customization, and images.
• Use personalization in a canvas app.
• Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit different form factors.

• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
• Use the different types of controls
• Understand how Galleries and Forms relate to controls

• Learn about the different types of test plans and components of a good test plan
• Identify and discuss optimization tools and performance tuning
• Learn about the benefits of documenting your application

• Understand imperative vs. declarative development.
• Understand the variables in Power Apps.
• Understand when to utilize each of the three different types of variables.

• Utilize formulas that process multiple records.
• Use the Concat function to combine text from multiple records.
• Utilize the Countrows, CountIf, ForAll.
• Perform math operations on data in a table.

• Use the Patch function to update your data.
• Understand how the Defaults function is used to create new records with Patch.
• Use the Remove and RemoveIf functions to delete records.
• Determine whether to use Clear and Collect or ClearCollect in their scenario.

• Use best practices to improve the performance of your app.
• Understand how to best test an app.
• Use fiddler for troubleshooting.

• Understand relational data
• Use relational data to improve an app user's experience in Power Apps
• Understand how to use relational data in Microsoft Dataverse

• Understand the different limits of different data sources
• Understand how functions, predicates, and operators all play roles in the limits
• Use this new understanding to choose the best data source for an app

• Understand and use action-based connectors.
• Integrate user information and user-profile information into a canvas app.
• Use Power Automate with Power Apps.

• Understand custom connectors and the basics of how to build one.
• Understand the custom connector lifecycle.

• Create a flow that automatically saves email attachments.
• Learn how to create a button flow to send yourself a reminder.

• Create and process approval requests.
• Build a flow that runs at recurring time intervals.
• Create a business process flow with conditions.

• Use one or more functions to create expressions.
• Use functions to retrieve data, change data, evaluate data, and more.

• Explain what solution components exist within Microsoft Power Platform.
• Explain key components of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model.
• Explain what Azure solution elements relate to Microsoft Power Platform.
• Explain what AI Solutions exist as it relates to Microsoft Power Platform.
• Navigate the Developer Guide successfully in support of their Microsoft Power Platform development efforts.

• Install NuGet packages available for Microsoft Power Platform development
• Work with the Configuration Migration tool
• Work with Package Deployer
• Leverage Solution Packager to isolate features
• Run the Plugin Registration Tool

• Identify which elements architecturally comprise Microsoft Power Platform.
• Learn about the areas of extensibility that are available to customize Microsoft Power Platform through code.
• Discover different approaches to common business scenarios in respect to achieving extensibility with configuration versus code.

• Explain what functions can be executed against Microsoft Power Platform via Microsoft Power Platform SDKs.
• Perform basic operations against Microsoft Power Platform such as create/read/update/delete operations.

Learn how to extend plug-ins.

Write client scripts to perform common actions as listed in the module units.

Automate business processes using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods.

• Power Apps component framework architecture
• Power Apps component tooling

• Create a custom Power Apps component.
• Create a code component solution package.
• Test and debug a code component.
• Learn key concepts of Dataverse auditing

• Use formatting API in a Power Apps component.
• Use Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component.

• Discover Power Pages components that are available to help you display and interact with Dataverse data on a Power Pages website.
• Identify the various features of the Power Pages components.
• Display a list of data and an associated drill-down list for details.
• Set up a form to access individual table rows.
• Trigger classic Dataverse workflows from the website.

• Discover where software development can resolve particular website feature requirements.
• Employ application lifecycle management (ALM) for Power Pages websites.
• Apply JavaScript code to website assets.
• Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to address specific website development requirements.

• Learn about the relationship between web templates, page templates, and webpages.
• Discover how you can build custom web templates by using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Liquid, and JavaScript.
• Use Liquid template language to build and structure web templates.
• Learn how to embed custom CSS and JavaScript into web templates.
• Learn how to reference other web templates in a web template.

• Authorize against Dataverse with OAuth.
• Use OData to query data.

• Publish Dataverse events to Microsoft Azure Service Bus.
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Dataverse events.