PL-400T00: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Training

• 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
• Lab: Control security when sharing model-driven apps
• Lab: Create 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
• Lab: Create a new custom table and enable attachments

• 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
• Lab: Create a new choice or modify an existing choice

• 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
• Lab: Create two tables and relate them by using a one-to-many relationship

• Define business rules in Dataverse
• Create and manage business rules in Dataverse
• Lab: Create a business rule

• Define a rollup column
• Create a rollup column
• Identify a calculation column
• Create a calculation column
• Define a formula column
• Lab: Create a rollup column
• Lab: Create a calculated 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
• Lab: Create a custom role

• 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
• Lab: Create your first app in Power Apps
• Lab: Create an app from Excel using Copilot

• 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
• Lab: Introduction to formulas in canvas apps
• Lab: Create basic screen navigation for a canvas app

• 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
• Lab: Manage app versions in Power Apps
• Lab: Share apps in Power Apps
• Lab: Understand environments in 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
• Lab: App navigation practice

• 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
• Lab: Create and adjust UI for a new canvas app

• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
• Use the different types of controls
• Understand how Galleries and Forms relate to controls
• Lab: Create a canvas app with unique controls
• Lab: Upload file to SharePoint document library

• 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
• Lab: Using the variables and collections

• 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
• Lab: Using the ForAll function in a gallery

• 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
• Lab: Use the Concurrent function to test performance

• 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
• Lab: Work with relational data

• 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

• Signed up for Power Automate
• Have OneDrive for work or school
• Have or create a Mailchimp account
• Lab: Create recurring flows
• Lab: Monitor incoming emails
• Lab: Share flows

• Create and process approval requests
• Build a flow that runs at recurring time intervals
• Create a business process flow with conditions
• Lab: Build an approval request
• Lab: Create a business process flow
• Lab: Create a business process flow that has conditions

• Use one or more functions to create expressions
• Use functions to retrieve data, change data, evaluate data, and more
• Lab: Creating a manual flow and using expressions

• 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
• Lab: Prepare development environment

• 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
• Lab: Use the Power Apps CLI
• Lab: Install and use developer tools

• 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
• Lab: Create a custom API

• 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
• Lab: Write your first plug-in

• Write client scripts to perform common actions as listed in the module units
• Lab: Use client script to hide a form section

• Automate business processes using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods
• Lab: Use table data from client script

• 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
• Lab: Use the list and form components

• 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
• Lab: Add advanced client-side functionality

• 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
• Lab: Create an extendable 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

The PL 400 exam deals with designing, securing, and troubleshooting Power Platform Solutions. The pursuing professionals implement components such as system integration, data conversions, custom process automation, and customer user experience.

This exam typically consists of 40-60 questions and the duration of the exam is set to be 120 minutes.

One should least score 700 or greater out of 1000 to pass the PL 400 examination.