Microsoft Power Platform Developer PL-400T00

Overview

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes. In this course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

Audience

Candidates for this course design, develop, secure, and troubleshoot Power Platform solutions. Candidates implement components of a solution that include application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. Candidates will gain applied knowledge of Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of capabilities, boundaries, and constraints. Candidates should have development experience that includes JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful Web Services, ASP.NET, and Power BI.

Prerequisite

Candidates should have an introductory knowledge of Power Platfom

Candidates should have development experience that includes JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful Web Services, ASP.NET, and Power BI

Content element

How to build your first model-driven app with Dataverse

In this module, you will:

• 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.

Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• Learn about model-driven app design
• Create a model-driven app

Manage tables in Dataverse

In this module, you’ll learn about:

• 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.

Create and manage columns within a table in Dataverse

In this module, you will:

• Learn what a column is in Dataverse.
• Learn about the types of columns that are available in Dataverse.
• Add a column to a table.
• Learn what a primary name column is in Dataverse.
• Identify restrictions that are associated with columns.
• Create an auto-numbering column.
• Create an alternate key.

Working with choices in Dataverse

In this module, you will:

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

Create a relationship between tables in Dataverse

In this module, you’ll learn:

• 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 and create business rules in Dataverse

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

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

Create and define calculation or rollup columns in Dataverse

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

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

Get started with security roles in Dataverse

In this module, you will:

• 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

Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

In this module, you will:

• Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
• Learn how to use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
• Learn about the different ways to build an app in Power Apps.
• Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

Customize a canvas app in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• Change the layout of a gallery.
• Change the data that a control shows.
• Change the order in which fields appear.
• Change the control with which a user provides information.
• Explore controls on each screen of an app.
• Format a number as a price.
• Color prices based on their values.
• Explore formulas in a generated app.

Manage apps in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• 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.

Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• Understand how navigation works in a canvas app
• Use the Navigate and Back functions
• Understand the different ways these functions can be invoked

How to build the UI in a canvas app in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customization, and images.
• Use personalization in a canvas app
• Understand the differences between the Tablet and Mobile form factors

Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

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

Document and test your Power Apps application

In this module, you will:

• 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

Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

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

Create formulas that use tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps

In this module, you will:

• 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

Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app

In this module, you will:

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

Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

In this module, you will:

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

Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources

In this module you’ll be able to:

• 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.

Use developer tools to extend Microsoft Power Platform

In this module, you will:

• 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

Introduction to extending Microsoft Power Platform

In this module, you will:

• 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 by means of configuration versus code.

Introduction to Dataverse for developers

In this module, you will:

• 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

Extend plug-ins

In this module, you will:

• Learn how to extend plug-ins.

Performing common actions with client script

In this module, you will:

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

Automate business process flows with client script

In this module, you will:

• Automate business process flow actions by using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods.

Get started with Power Apps component framework

In this module, you will:

• Learn about Power Apps component framework architecture.
• Learn about Power Apps component tooling.

Build a Power Apps component

In this module, you will:

• 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 advanced features with Power Apps component framework

In this module, you will:

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

Access Dataverse in Power Apps portals

In this module, you will:

• Discover the portal components that are available to display and interact with Dataverse data on the portal.
• Identify the various features of the portal components.
• Display a list of data and an associated drill-down for details.
• Configure a table form to access individual records.
• Trigger classic Dataverse workflows from the portal.

Extend Power Apps portals

In this module, you will:

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

Build custom Power Apps portals web templates

In this module, you will:

• Learn about the relationship between web templates, page templates, and webpages.
• Discover how custom web templates can be built 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.

Work with Dataverse Web API

In this module, you will:

• Interact with Dataverse Web API by using Postman.
• Authorize against Dataverse with OAuth.
• Use OData to query data.

Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions

In this module, you will:

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