PL-400T00-A Certification Training

Module 1: How to Build Your First Model-driven App with Dataverse

• Introduction to Dataverse & model-driven apps
• Model-driven apps powered by Microsoft Dataverse
• Explore sample apps

Module 2: Get Started with Model-driven Apps in Power Apps

• Introducing model-driven apps
• Components of model-driven apps
• Design model-driven apps
• Exercise – Control security when sharing model-driven apps
• Incorporate business process flows
• Exercise – Create a model-driven app

Module 3: Manage Tables in Dataverse

• Identify tables and table types in Dataverse
• Create a custom table
• Enable attachments within a table
• Licensing requirements for each table type
• Lab – Create a new custom table and enable attachments

Module 4: Create and Manage Columns within a Table in Dataverse

• Define columns in Microsoft Dataverse
• Column types in Microsoft Dataverse
• Add a column to a table
• Primary column
• Restrictions that apply to columns in a table
• Create an auto numbering column
• Create an alternate key

Module 5: Working with Choices in Dataverse

• Define choice column
• Standard choices column
• Lab – Create a new choice or modify an existing choice

Module 6: Create a Relationship Between Tables in Dataverse

• Introduction to relating one or more tables
• Types of relationships available in Microsoft Dataverse
• Creating a one-to-many relationship between tables
• Creating a many-to-many relationship between tables
• Editing or deleting relationships
• Exercise – Create two tables and relate them by using a one-to-many relationship

Module 7: Define and Create Business Rules in Dataverse

• Introduction to defining business rules
• Define the business rule components
• Create a business rule
• Exercise – Create a business rule

Module 8: Create and Define Calculation or Rollup Columns in Dataverse

• Introduction to roll up columns
• Create a rollup column
• Introduction to calculated columns
• Create a calculation column
• Exercise – Create a rollup column
• Exercise – Create a calculated column
• Introduction to Power Fx formula columns

Module 9: Get Started with Security Roles in Dataverse

• Introduction to environment roles
• Understand environment roles
• Adding or disabling an environment user
• Understand user security roles and security role defaults
• Exercise – Create a custom role
• Check the roles that a user belongs to
• Configure Dataverse teams for security
• Configure Dataverse group teams for security

Module 10: Get Started with Power Apps Canvas Apps

• Introduction to Power Apps
• Start Power Apps
• Exercise – Create your first app in Power Apps
• Power Apps data sources
• Exercise – Create an app from Excel using Copilot
• Use Power Apps with Power Automate and Power BI
• Designing a Power Apps app

Module 11: Customize a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Improve your app by making basic customizations
• Explore controls and screens in canvas apps
• Exercise – Introduction to formulas in canvas apps
• Exercise – Create basic screen navigation for a canvas app

Module 12: Manage Apps in Power Apps

• Introduction
• Exercise – Manage app versions in Power Apps
• Exercise – Share apps in Power Apps
• Exercise – Understand environments in Power Apps
• Power Apps review

Module 13: Navigation in a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Understanding navigation
• The Navigate and Back functions
• More ways to use the Navigate function
• Exercise – App navigation practice

Module 14: How to Build the User Interface in a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customization, and images.
• Use personalization in a canvas app
• Build for phones or tablets
• Exercise – Create and adjust UI for a new canvas app

Module 15: Use and Understand Controls in a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Introduction to controls & its core properties
• Entering and displaying data with text controls
• Additional controls for enhancing your app’s usability
• Lab – Create a canvas app with unique controls
• Exercise – Upload file to SharePoint document library

Module 16: Document and Test your Power Apps Application

• Create test plans
• User interface testing
• Performance optimization
• Diagnostics and analytics
• Documentation and the customer

Module 17: Use Imperative Development Techniques for Canvas Apps in Power Apps

• Imperative vs. declarative development
• Three types of variables in Power Apps
• Additional variable concepts
• Exercise – Using the variables and collections

Module 18: Create Formulas that Use Tables, Records, and Collections in a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Formulas for processing multiple records
• Mathematical operations on tables
• Combine and separate records
• The ForAll function
• Lab – Using the ForAll function in a gallery

Module 19: Perform Custom Updates in a Power Apps Canvas App

• Sometimes you need something more than forms
• Use the Patch function to create and edit records
• Delete records from data sources and collections
• Use the Patch function to update a Gallery

Module 20:  Complete Testing and Performance Checks in a Power Apps Canvas App

• The significance of considering performance
• Improve performance with data sources
• Methods for testing and troubleshooting your app
• Exercise – Use the Concurrent function to test performance

Module 21:  Work with Relational Data in a Power Apps Canvas App

• What is relational data?
• How to work with relationships in Power Apps
• Exercise – Work with relational data
• Microsoft Dataverse for apps makes relationships even easier

Module 22:  Work with Data Source Limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps Canvas App

• Delegation overview
• Functions, predicates, and data sources combine to determine delegation
• Delegation warnings, limits, and non-delegable functions

Module 23:  Connect to Other Data in a Power Apps Canvas App

• Overview of the different data sources
• Work with action data
• Power Automate is a companion to Power Apps

Module 24: Use Custom Connectors in a Power Apps Canvas App

• Overview of custom connectors
• Overview of the custom connector lifecycle
• Build a custom connector for existing API

Module 25:  Get Started with Power Automate

• Introducing Power Automate
• Create your first flow
• Exercise – Create recurring flows, Monitor incoming emails, Share flows
• Troubleshoot flows

Module 26:  Build Approval Flows with Power Automate

• Provide solutions to real-world scenarios
• Exercise – Build an approval request
• Exercise – Create a business process flow
• Exercise – Create a business process flow that has conditions

Module 27:  Introduction to Expressions in Power Automate

• Introduction to expressions
• Types of functions
• Exercise – Creating a manual flow and using expressions

Module 28: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform Developer Resources

• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform for Developers
• Overview of Dataverse and the Common Data Model
• Extending Power Platform with Azure
• Power Platform environments
• Exercise – Prepare development environment

Module 29:  Use Developer Tools to Extend Power Platform

• Introduction to developer Power Platform tooling
• Exercise – Use the Power Apps CLI
• Deploy apps with Package Deployer
• Exercise – Install and use developer tools

Module 30:  Introduction to Extending Power Platform

• Introduction
• User experience extensibility
• Dataverse extensibility
• Exercise – Create a custom API
• Determine when to configure or when to code

Module 31:  Introduction to Dataverse for Developers

• Introduction to developing with Microsoft Dataverse
• Microsoft Dataverse extensibility model
• Event framework

Module 32:  Extend Plug-ins in Power Platform

• Introduction
• Plug-ins usage scenarios
• Plug-in execution context
• Exercise – Write your first plug-in

Module 33:  Perform Common Actions with Client Script in Power Platform

• Introduction to client-side scripting
• Upload scripts
• Event handlers
• Context objects
• Client scripting common tasks
• Exercise – Use client script to hide a form section

Module 34: Automate Business Process Flows with Client Script

• Introduction to conducting global operations with the client API Xrm object
• Client scripting best practices
• Debugging client script
• Exercise – Use table data from client script

Module 35:  Get Started with Power Apps Component Framework

• Introduction to Power Apps component framework
• Power Apps component framework architecture
• Power Apps component tooling
• Component manifest
• Demo of the Power Apps code component

Module 36: Build a Power Apps Component

• Introduction to creating a code component
• Create a code component solution package
• Test and debug code components

Module 37: Use Advanced Features with Power Apps Component Framework

• Introduction to using React within a Power Apps component
• Use the formatting API in a Power Apps component
• Use the Microsoft Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component
• Write a pop-up Power Apps component
• Introduction to using React within a Power Apps component

Module 38: Access Dataverse in Power Pages Websites 

• Introduction
• Use lists to display multiple Dataverse records
• Use forms to interact with Dataverse data
• Exercise – Use the list and form components

Module 39: Extend Power Pages Websites

• Introduction
• Power Pages website life cycle management
• Advanced CSS
• Advanced client-side development
• Exercise – Add advanced client-side functionality

Module 40: Build Custom Power Pages Web Templates

• Introduction
• Create web templates
• Web templates as API
• Exercise – Create an extendable web template

Module 41: Work with Dataverse Web API

• Introduction to the Microsoft Dataverse Web API
• Insomnia
• Authenticate against Microsoft Dataverse using OAuth
• Use OData to query data
• Use FetchXML to query data
• Call Power Automate actions from the Web API
• Use the Web API to impersonate another user
• Track entity data changes with change tracking and the Web API

Module 42: Integrate Dataverse Azure Solutions

• Microsoft Dataverse Azure Solutions overview
• Expose Microsoft Dataverse data to Azure Service Bus
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Microsoft Dataverse messages
• Publish Microsoft Dataverse events with webhooks
• Write an Azure Function that processes Microsoft Dataverse events

This course is ideal for:

• Experienced Web Developers
• IT Professionals
• Business Analysts
• Technical Consultants
• Solution Architects
• Technical Project Managers

Experience with:

• Microsoft Power Platform
• JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#
• HTML, RESTful Web Services
• Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure

• Building and managing model-driven apps with Dataverse.
• Creating and managing tables and columns in Dataverse.
• Defining and creating business rules, calculations, and rollup columns.
• Implementing security roles in Dataverse.
• Creating and customizing canvas apps in Power Apps.
• Managing apps, navigation, and user interface in canvas apps.
• Documenting, testing, and optimizing performance in Power Apps.
• Integrating Power Apps with other data sources and custom connectors.
• Extending Power Platform with developer tools and Azure solutions.