Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

Learn the business value and product capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform. Create simple Power Apps, connect data with Dataverse, build a Power BI Dashboard, and automate processes with Power Automate.

Audience Profile

Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences.

Course Syllabus

Describe the business value of the Microsoft Power Platform

Learn about the components of Microsoft Power Platform, the business value for customers, and how the technology works with other Microsoft products. 

• Introduction
• Explore Microsoft Power Platform
• Describe the business value of the Power Platform
• Explore connectors and Microsoft Dataverse
• Use Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity
• Explore the business value of the Power Fx
• Describe how Power Platform works with Microsoft 365 apps and services
• Explore how Power Platform works with Microsoft Teams
• Describe how Power Platform works with Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps
• Explore how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together
• Describe how Power Platform solutions consume Microsoft Azure services
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Identify foundational components of Microsoft Power Platform

Learn about the key foundational elements of Power Platform such as administration and the security and governance features. We also cover Microsoft Dataverse and data connectors. 

• Introduction
• Describe Power Platform administration
• Describe Power Platform security and governance
• Explore Microsoft Dataverse
• Examine Power Platform connectors
• Exercise - Build a basic Dataverse data model
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Describe how to build applications with Microsoft Power Apps

Learn about the value and capabilities of Microsoft Power Apps and ways citizen and professional developers use this technology to build simple applications for their business.

• Introduction
• Describe Power Apps
• Explore canvas applications
• Explore model-driven applications
• Differentiate between canvas apps and model-driven apps
• Build a basic canvas app
• Exercise: Build a canvas app
• Build a basic model-driven app
• Exercise: Build a basic model-driven app
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Describe building automation with Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate builds process automation. Power Automate allows anyone with knowledge of the business process to create repeatable flows that, when triggered, perform the process for them.

• Introduction
• Describe the capabilities of Power Automate
• Explore the different Power Automate apps
• Describe the components of a cloud flow
• Consider Power Automate scenarios
• Describe process mining
• Build a basic Power Automate cloud flow
• Build a cloud flow with Copilot
• Build a Desktop flow
• Exercise: Build a basic Power Automate flow
• Describe the business value of Power Automate
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Power BI

Learn how you can use Power BI to easily build reports and dashboards with interactive visualizations and AI-driven insights. See how other organizations have used this solution to drive business results with actionable insights.

• Introduction
• Describe using Power BI to build data-driven analytics
• Explore the different Power BI elements
• Describe cleaning and transforming data in Power BI Desktop
• Describe using AI Insights to spot trends and anomalies
• Build a basic dashboard
• Consider the business value of Power BI
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft Power Pages

Learn about Microsoft Power Pages, the platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing websites using shared business data stored in Microsoft Dataverse. 

• Introduction
• Explore Power Pages
• Describe the business value of Power Pages
• Build a Power Pages site
• Use cases to use Copilot to streamline the process of building a Power Pages site
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

Describe the AI authoring experience in Power Platform

Learn about Microsoft Copilot Studio, a guided solution for building copilots and configuring generative AI tools.

• Introduction
• Explore Copilot Studio
• Describe the components of Copilot Studio
• Create a basic copilot
• Describe use cases for Generative AI bots
• Describe AI Builder
• Describe the lifecycle to create an AI Builder model
• Knowledge check
• Summary