Discover the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert credential.
Do you have experience performing proactive and preventive work to increase the value of your customers’ investment? Are you able to identify opportunities to solve business problems? Do you promote organizational health in your engagements? If this describes you, why not start the path of earning the Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification?
The Power Platform 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.
Training Duration: 4 Days
- Certificate Of Completion Available
- Group Private Class
- VILT Class Available
- SBL-Khas Claimable
The Power Platform 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.
This learning path covers the pre-sales and analysis phases of a project to include:
- What it takes to become a Solution Architect.
- Discovering customer needs.
- Proposing a solution.
- Working with requirements.
- Performing fit-gap analysis.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Completed and passed either PL-200T00: Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant or PL-400T00: Microsoft Power Platform Developer
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform
- Senior Consultant (functional or technical) or Solution Architect new to role
- Some knowledge of Microsoft Azure (get familiar with Azure by attending AZ-900T00: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals training)
If you are new to Power Platform, we’d recommend you to attend PL-900T00: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals to familiarize yourself with the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform.
Senior Consultants (both functional and technical) that aspire to be Solution Architects, or current Solution Architects that are new to the role.
Module 1: Becoming a Solution Architect/Getting to know your customer
Lessons
- Define a Solution Architect
- Role of a Solution Architect on projects
- Project Methodology
- Getting to know your customer
- Group exercise - Getting to know your customer
Module 2: Conceptualizing the design from requirements
Lessons
- How to lead the requirement collection effort
- Using fit gap analysis
- Pillars of good architecture
- Blueprinting the solution architecture
- Group exercise - Design from requirements
Module 3: Project governance and working as a team
Lessons
- Solution Architect's role in project governance
- Techniques for keeping a project on track
- Scenarios that could cause a project to fail
- Group exercise - Project governance and working as a team
Module 4: Power Platform Architecture
Lessons
- Key Power Platform architecture components
- Understand how platform design and limits influence solution architectures
- Updates and feature releases
- Understand how to communicate how the platform meets customer needs
Module 5: Data Modeling
Lessons
- Data model influences
- Data model strategy
- Data types
- Data relationships
- Group exercise - Data modeling
Module 6: Analytics and artificial intelligence
Lessons
- Planning and evaluating requirements
- Operational reporting
- Power BI
- Enterprise BI
- Pre-built insights and custom AI
Module 7: Power Apps Architecture
Lessons
- Discuss options for apps and how to choose where to start
- Discuss app composition options
- Using components as part of your app architecture
- Considerations for including Portals as an app in your architecture
- Group exercise - Power Apps Architecture topics
Module 8: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Lessons
- Microsoft vision and Solution Architect's role in ALM
- Environment strategies
- Defining a solution structure for your deliverable
Lab : ALM Hands-on Lab
Module 9: Power Automate Architecture
Lessons
- Discuss options for automation and custom logic
- Review considerations for using triggers and common actions
- Explore using Business Process Flows (BPF) to guide users through business processes
- Group Exercise - Evaluate scenarios for Power Automate usage
Module 10: Security Modeling
Lessons
- Solution Architect's role in security modeling
- Discovery and learning your client's environment
- Controlling access to environments and resources
- Controlling access to CDS Data
- Group Exercise - Security Modeling
Module 11: Integration
Lessons
- Solution Architects role in Integrations
- What is an integration and why do we need it
- Platform features that enable integration
- CDS Event Publishing
- Scenarios for group discussion
Module 12: Dynamics 365 Applications Architecture
Lessons
- Solution Architect's role when deploying Dynamics 365 apps
- Architecture Considerations for primary apps
- Group Exercise - App specific working groups evaluate requirements
Module 13: Power Virtual Agents architecture
Lessons
- Introduction
- Chatbot options
- Chatbot concepts
- Best practices
- Integrate chatbots
- Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams
Module 14: Robotic Process Automation
Lessons
- Introduction
- Power Automate Desktop
- Recording and editing tasks
- Running desktop flows
- Process advisor
Module 15: Testing and Go Live
Lessons
- Solution Architect's role with testing and go live
- Planning for testing
- Planning for go live
The PL-600T00: Power Platform Solution Architect course prepares learners for the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification.
The PL-600: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses; architect a solution; and implement the solution.
Skills measured
- Perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses (35-40%)
- Architect a solution (40-45%)
- Implement the solution (15-20%)
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What job roles can benefit from this certification?
The Power Platform Solutiuons Architect Expert certification is primarily targeted at solution architects, technical consultants, and senior developers. However, professionals in other roles, such as business analysts, data analysts, and IT managers, can also benefit from this certification by improving their understanding of the Power Platform.
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