Exam PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

As a candidate for this exam, you design, develop, test, secure, and troubleshoot Microsoft Power Platform solutions. You implement components of a solution that include:

• Application enhancements

• Custom user experiences

• System integrations

• Data conversions

• Custom process automation

You must have:

• A strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.

• A basic understanding of authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform.

As a candidate, you should have development experience that includes Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure.

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: create a technical design; configure Microsoft Dataverse; create and configure Power Apps; configure business process automation; extend the user experience; extend the platform; and develop integrations.

Skills measured

• Create a technical design (10—15%)

• Configure Microsoft Dataverse (15—20%)

• Create and configure Power Apps (10—15%)

• Extend the user experience (10—15%)

• Extend the platform (35—40%)

• Develop integrations (5—10%)

Create and manage environments in Dataverse

• Identify the different environments that are in Dataverse.

• Create and manage environments in Dataverse.

• Create an instance of a database in Dataverse.

• Add users and security roles within an environment in Dataverse.

• Determine where to manage settings for an environment.