PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Practice Exam

PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Practice Exam

About PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer 

The PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer exam has been built to measure your ability to accomplish the technical tasks include - creating a technical design; configuring Common Data Service; creating and configuring Power Apps; configuring business process automation; extending the user experience; extending the platform; and developing integrations.

Knowledge Required

• Candidates appearing for the PL-400 exam should have development experience that includes Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful web services, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Power BI.
• Candidates must have strong applied knowledge of Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
• Candidates should have a basic understanding of DevOps practices for Power Platform.
  

Skills Acquired

• Design, develop, secure, and troubleshoot Power Platform solutions.
• Implement components of a solution, including application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.

Microsoft PL-400 Exam Outline 

The PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Exam covers the latest exam updates and topics - 

Module 1 -  Create a technical design (10-15%)

Validate requirements and design technical architecture

• design and validate the technical architecture for a solution
• design authentication and authorization strategy
• determine whether you can meet requirements with out-of-the-box functionality
• determine when to use Logic Apps versus Power Automate flows
• determine when to use serverless computing, plug-ins, or Power Automate
• determine when to build a virtual entity data source provider and when to use connectors

Design solution components

• design a data model
• design Power Apps reusable components
• design custom connectors
• design server-side components

Describe Power Platform extensibility points

• describe Power Virtual Agents extensibility points including Bot Framework skills and Power Automate flows
• describe Power BI extensibility points including Power BI APIs, custom visuals, and
• embedding Power BI apps in websites and other applications
• describe Power Apps portal extensibility points including CRUD APIs and custom styling

Module 2 - Configure Microsoft Dataverse (15-20%)

Configure security to support development

• troubleshoot operational security issues
• create or update security roles and field-level security profiles
• configure business units and teams

Implement tables and columns

• configure tables and table options
• configure columns
• configure relationships and types of behaviors

Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)

• create solutions and manage solution components
• import and export solutions
• manage solution dependencies
• create a package for deployment
• automate deployments
• implement source control for projects including solutions and code assets

Module 3 - Create and configure Power Apps (15-20%)

Create model-driven apps

• configure a model-driven app
• configure forms
• configure columns
• configure visualizations

Create canvas apps

• create and configure a canvas app
• implement complex formulas to manage control events and properties
• analyze app usage by using App Insights
• build reusable component libraries
• test an app by using Test Studio
• embed an app in Microsoft Teams
  

Manage and troubleshoot apps

• troubleshoot app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools
• interpret results from App Checker and Solution Checker
• identify and resolve connector and API errors
• optimize app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation

Module 4 - Configure business process automation (5-10%)

Configure Power Automate

• create and configure a flow
• configure steps to use Dataverse connector actions and triggers
• implement complex expressions in flow steps
• implement error handling
• troubleshoot flows by analyzing JSON responses from connectors

Implement processes

• create and configure business process flows
• create and configure business rules
• create, manage, and interact with business process flows by using server-side and clientside code
• troubleshoot processes

Module 5 - Extend the user experience (10-15%)

Apply business logic using client scripting

• create JavaScript or Typescript code that targets the Client API object model
• register an event handler
• create client-side scripts that target the Microsoft Dataverse Web API

Create a Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) component

• describe the PCF component lifecycle
• initialize a new PCF component
• configure a PCF component manifest
• implement the component interfaces
• package, deploy, and consume the component
• configure and use PCF Device, Utility, and WebAPI features
• test and debug PCF components by using the local test harness

Create a command button function 

• create the command function
• design command button rules and actions
• edit the command bar by using the Ribbon Workbench
• manage dependencies between JavaScript libraries

Module 6 - Extend the platform (15-20%)

Create a plug-in

• describe the plug-in execution pipeline
• design and develop a plug-in
• debug and troubleshoot a plug-in
• implement business logic by using pre-images and post images
• perform operations on data by using the Organization service API
• optimize plug-in performance
• register custom assemblies by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• develop a plug-in that targets a custom action message

Create custom connectors

• create a definition for the API
• configure API security
• use policy templates to modify connector behavior at runtime
• expose Azure Functions as custom connectors
• create custom connectors for public APIs by using Postman

Use platform APIs

• interact with data and processes by using the Dataverse Web API or the Organization Service

• implement API limit retry policies
• optimize for performance, concurrency, transactions, and batching
• query the Discovery service to discover the URL and other information for an organization
• perform entity metadata operations with the Web API
• perform authentication by using OAuth

Process workloads

• process long-running operations by using Azure Functions
• configure scheduled and event-driven function triggers in Azure Functions
• authenticate to the Power Platform by using managed identities

Module 7 - Develop Integrations (5-10%)

Publish and consume events

• publish an event by using the API
• publish an event by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• register service endpoints including webhooks, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hub
• implement a Common Data Service listener for an Azure solution
• create an Azure Function that interacts with Power Platform

Implement data synchronization

• configure entity change tracking
• read entity change records by using platform APIs
• create and use alternate keys

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