• Learn about model-driven app design
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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

• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
• Use the different types of controls
• Understand how Galleries and Forms related 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
• Utilize 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
• Use postman with a custom connector

• 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 by means of 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 script to perform common actions as listed in the module units.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Interact with Dataverse Web API by using Postman.
• 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.

A: This PL-400 training covers a wide range of topics, including an introduction to the Power Platform, designing and implementing Power Apps solutions, creating custom connectors and flows with Power Automate, building chatbots with Power Virtual Agents, and extending the Power Platform using code components.

A: PL-400 is designed for individuals who want to work as developers or solution architects with the Microsoft Power Platform. It is suitable for professionals involved in designing, building, and extending solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.

A: While there are no strict prerequisites, having a basic understanding of software development concepts and experience with Microsoft Power Platform components will be beneficial. Familiarity with JavaScript, C#, or other programming languages is also helpful but not required.

A: By the end of this PL-400 training, you will have the skills and knowledge to work as a developer with the Microsoft Power Platform. You will learn how to design and implement Power Apps solutions, create custom connectors and flows with Power Automate, build chatbots with Power Virtual Agents, and extend the Power Platform using code components.

A: Yes, PL400 includes hands-on exercises and labs that provide practical experience in working with the Microsoft Power Platform. You will have the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in a simulated environment, gaining valuable hands-on skills.