
Master the Microsoft Power Platform to pass the exam by using Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, with Dataverse, API, builder, and connector.
Discover what the PL-900 exam covers and how it grants the power platform fundamentals certification. Learn exam format, duration, and core tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse.
Navigate a complete PL-900 roadmap that guides you through six learning-objective sections, hands-on demos, and practice exams to pass the exam on your first try.
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Updates to PL-900 exam on June 22, 2023 introduce power pages and AI builder life cycle coverage. The course adds new videos to cover these changes and keep you exam-ready.
Create a free Office 365 trial and set up your environment, using a work or school email (or temporary email), and access Word, PowerPoint, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
Access office apps from the app launcher to use Power BI and Power Automate, then install Power BI desktop and distinguish desktop versus online service for your course environment.
Navigate the Power Platform landscape with a quick walkthrough of Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, highlighting app creation, data access, workflows, and dashboards.
Download the reference material before the demos and use the supplied Excel files and Power BI and Power Apps resources, including the NYC Math Scores data.
Access the course study notes and pdf study guide, organized by learning objectives and 100+ slides, via the link tree under class resources to print or annotate.
Power BI enables everyday users to turn data into insights with reports and dashboards, visualizing sales trends and other KPIs through quick, no-code analytics.
Discover how Power Apps enables business users to build low-code applications that streamline processes, run on any device, using drag and drop design, excel-like formulas, and connectors to Data Verse.
Master Power Automate to build automated workflows with no-code or low-code solutions. Connect apps and services, set event, schedule, or button triggers, and add conditions, loops, and approvals.
Explore connectors that bridge the power platform with external data sources and services, enabling tables or actions for Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and virtual agents.
Create no-code chat bots with power virtual agents and deploy them across websites, slack, messenger, and whatsapp, guiding users through tree-like dialogs and triggering workflows via power automate.
Explore how Dynamics 365's off-the-shelf intelligent apps connect data, processes, and teams with Power Platform via data verse, connectors, and Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
Explore how Dynamics 365 integrates with Power Platform via the data verse connector, enabling data flow across Power Apps and Power Automate, with Dynamics connectors for sales insights and commerce.
Explore how Microsoft 365 products connect with Power Platform via connectors, enabling data sources and services across Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Access, OneDrive, and Power Apps, Power Automate, and dashboards.
Explore how to build Power Apps, embed them in Teams, automate workflows with Power Automate, and surface Power BI dashboards and Power Virtual Agents within the Teams interface.
Learn how Azure extends the Power Platform with cognitive services, Azure functions, logic apps, and connectors to Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
Connect third-party apps to the Power Platform via standard or premium connectors, or by using APIs with HTTP requests, or with custom connectors built from Open API or Postman.
Explore AppSource, the enterprise app store for power apps. Access apps, consulting services, and partners with certification and ratings, plus four download options.
Explore app source on microsoft.com to browse Power Platform apps, including Power BI and Power Apps, with Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Power Merge for duplicates.
Discover how Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents connect through connectors and data verse to enable workflows across tools and embedded dashboards.
Explore power platform security, balancing user empowerment with protection as makers build apps, using Azure AD authentication, IAM, and data roles for secure access.
Explore how this lecture explains Dataverse security roles, how environments separate data and security profiles, and how roles are assigned to users or groups with support for multiple memberships.
Learn to manage Dataverse security roles across environments in the Power Platform admin center. Assign default and custom roles to users to tailor access and permissions.
Identify the key security roles highlighted by Microsoft, including the environment admin and its privileges and descriptions. Memorize this essential subset, as not all 30-plus default roles are required.
Explore how to manage apps, workflows, and users with Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Power Platform, including app details, sharing, analytics, pass assignment, and environment security roles.
Explore environments as fenced regions in the power platform with data verse, apps, and flows. Each binds to an Azure AD tenant and region, enabling development, testing, production, and security.
Explore the Microsoft 365 admin center and the Power Platform admin center to create users, assign licenses, manage groups and security roles, and manage environments and analytics.
Navigate the Microsoft 365 admin center to add users, assign licenses, and manage passwords, with administrator access. Note the connection to the Power Platform admin center.
Explore the Power Platform Admin Center, which combines the Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI admin centers to manage environments, security roles, auditing, data management, and analytics.
Enforce data loss prevention policies to control connector interactions, classifying them as business, non business, or blocked. Define allowed pairings such as SharePoint with Salesforce.
Create a DLP policy in the Power Platform Admin Center, classify connectors as business, non-business, or blocked, apply it tenant-wide, and test enforcement in Power Automate with a Trello–Teams–SharePoint flow.
Learn which connectors cannot be placed in the blocked category of DLP policies, including Yammer and data verse, and how to place them within business or non-business group usage.
Explore how the power platform enforces privacy with compliance, data residency, encryption, and GDPR tools, while offering accessibility checks and contrasting color guidelines for inclusive apps.
Learn how Microsoft privacy and accessibility tools help govern Power Platform use, via trust center, Microsoft 365 security and compliance center, and admin centers, plus accessibility resources and Windows tools.
Discover the trust center's privacy policies, GDPR alignment, and accessibility practices, and learn how the security and compliance center provides alerts, permissions, classifications, and data subject requests for governance.
Explore the governance structure of the Power Platform, including architecture with development, staging, and production environments; security, alert and action, and monitor capabilities to protect data and workflows.
Power Pages is a no-code, external-facing website platform that lets customers and vendors self-serve data, reducing emails, and it integrates with Dataverse and the Power Platform.
Explore AI Builder, a no-code AI feature in the power platform, deploying pre-built and custom models via power apps or power automate for sentiment analysis and document processing.
Explore Dataverse, a cloud-based no-code relational database that links tables into a central data repository and powers Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate.
Discover how Dataverse for Teams provides a smaller data layer inside the Teams environment to power Teams apps, with limited features, storage, and security compared to Dataverse.
Explore the data verse basics: tables, columns, and relationships, including one-to-many and many-to-many patterns, primary and foreign keys, and how intersect tables track complex links.
Explain the common data model’s predefined tables and relationships, standardized by the Open Data Initiative, enabling easy integration, import, and scalable use across databases that also use the model.
Explore how actions run on connectors to integrate third-party apps with power apps and power automate, using Twitter, SharePoint, Outlook, and translate as examples.
Learn four connector types in Power Automate: built-in (internal, with conditions, variables, loops), standard (external apps, free), premium (licensing required), and custom connectors (your API via HTTP or custom connector).
Assess when to use standard, premium, or custom connectors in Power Platform, replacing bulky http requests with reusable custom connectors created from open api, postman, or the blank approach method.
Connectors account for about 10% of the course, with few questions on data versus connectors and API builder; sections 1 and 5 cover power automate workflows and power app functions.
Explore AI Builder in the Power Platform to deploy prebuilt or custom models with no code, train and publish them, and automate tasks like business card extraction and sentiment analysis.
Explore the AI Builder model collection, distinguishing prebuilt, custom, and preview options with guided experiences, and see how receipt data extraction differs from language detection.
Use Power Apps to apply the business card reader model, extract names, company, and contact details from cards, and bind outputs to labels for storage without code.
Build a custom AI document processing model to extract fields like purchase price and monthly payment from structured documents, train with samples, and automate flows and data storage.
Train and test a custom model, publish it, and integrate it into a canvas app to extract data such as purchase prices, down payment, and trade-in values.
Open a canvas app, attach a document processing model to a form processor, and display fields like purchase price and monthly cost, demonstrating a custom model deployment.
Explore how AI Builder integrates with the Power Platform to analyze sentiment in text and trigger Power Automate workflows. Create an instant cloud flow that flags negative reviews in Teams.
Discover and compare visualization options in Power BI, including stacked, clustered, and 100% stacked bar and column charts, with practical examples by grade and gender.
Explore visualization options, including line charts, area charts, a combined line and bar chart, and a ribbon chart to show changes and rank over time.
Explore waterfall charts, funnel charts, scatterplots, pie and donut charts, and treemaps to visualize metric changes, processes, and category sizes within power by visualization options.
Explore map visualizations in Power BI, including Azure map, filled map, and shape map, and learn to build KPIs, gauges, and cards to track progress against targets over time.
Explore Power BI desktop tabs: reports, data, and model, and learn to create reports with visuals and pages; inspect data with Power Query Editor and understand table relationships in model.
Power BI desktop tabs in action, building visualizations on the reports tab and mapping one-to-many relationships and key columns in the model tab.
Contrast Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service across data import, cleaning, transformation via Power Query, visualizations, dashboards, and cloud-based sharing through apps and workspaces.
Discover how Power BI service elements interact: workspaces contain datasets, reports, and dashboards; a dataset powers many reports, while dashboards compile visuals from multiple reports in a many-to-many relationship.
Explore Power BI service elements—workspaces, datasets, reports, and dashboards—and learn how capacity, shared vs reserved, and refresh limits shape collaboration and performance.
Explore how Power BI service organizes workspaces, reports, dashboards, and datasets, with examples from a Principal Area workspace and the NYC Math Report, and compare access differences.
Power BI security, built on Azure AD, manages access via workspaces and roles: admin, member, contributor, and viewer, with invites to view, build, or delete dashboards, reports, and datasets.
Connect to data sources and load them into Power BI. Explore NYC math scores by grade, year, and gender, and merge tables to derive insights from public data.
Load and transform Excel data in Power BI using get data, preview scores and school ratings, and use Power Query to promote headers and set proper data types before loading.
Combine data from two sources in Power Query Editor by merging queries on the Gbbn key, using a left outer join to keep all scores and add school ratings.
Clean and transform data with the power query editor, changing data types and replacing values, then save and refresh the query for repeatable data preparation.
Apply the transform tab to replace erroneous values with blanks, convert the column to decimal, and replace errors with nulls to clean and standardize data.
Learn how to use Power Query to view column statistics and perform a data preview with a column profile, revealing counts, distinct values, mean, max, standard deviation, distribution, and nulls.
learn to add a custom column in Power Query, multiply number tested by average test time to compute total minutes, and convert to hours in Power BI.
Learn to clean and transform data in the Power Query editor by filtering rows, removing duplicates, splitting columns, grouping data, merging and appending queries, and even running Python scripts.
Learn to apply Power Query transformations to all loaded data, create and load new tables, merge queries to add gender letters, and strengthen your data model for Power BI reports.
Describes and implements aggregate functions in Power BI, using numeric operations like sum, average, min, max, count, and date-based earliest and latest, with categorical data considerations.
Explore creating visualizations and applying aggregate functions in Power BI, using mean scale score, sum, average, count, standard deviation, variance, and median on numeric data, while handling non-numeric fields.
Discover the comprehensive list of data sources in Power BI, from files and databases to Azure resources and online services, and learn to connect using certified connectors and odb.
See how data sets power Power BI reports by connecting sources, transformations, and relationships. Shared data sets enable standardization, consistency, and collaboration with a single source of truth.
Explore how Power BI apps bundle dashboards and reports into a no-code, workspace-based solution, then learn to package and publish template apps for others to install with their own data.
Demonstrates how to access template apps in the Power BI service, install a template app such as the COVID-19 US tracker, and explore reports with filters and documentation.
Explore four ways to view Power BI reports and dashboards: Power BI desktop, Power BI service, embedded, and printing to PDF. Note licensing and interactivity vary by option.
Create an adjusted score column in Power BI to normalize mean scale scores across years with denominators 400 and 700 using a nested if DAX formula for comparability.
Create a profiling page in a Power BI report using donut charts to show student counts by gender, grade, and school rating, with synchronized filters, tooltips, and details.
Explore formatting options for visualizations, including colors, titles, legends, labeling, and borders, and use drill through and tooltips to filter across visuals.
Create and refine visualizations in Power Platform, including a stacked column chart of students by year and grade with grade filters, titles, and school profiling charts.
Create a school analytics page using a gauge or key performance indicator to show average adjusted score against an 80% target, and use cards for number tested and total time.
Navigate filtering options in reports, including the filtering pane, page-level and all-page filters, and slicers filtering by school name and grade, with visual filtering affecting visuals on the same page.
Explore creating a line and stacked column chart in Power BI that uses two axes to compare yearly student counts and average adjusted scores, with gender breakdowns and clustered options.
Learn how to create and interpret KPI charts, gauges, and cards to measure progress toward a target using the adjusted score, with a year-based trend axis.
Create a stacked bar chart to display the average adjusted score by grade, use year filters to show 2019, and refine the visualization for even distribution.
Add interactive buttons to Power BI reports to enable back navigation and page routing, including actions like bookmarking, drill-through, and web URLs, and adjust sorting before saving.
Publish your report and its data set to the Power BI service, select a workspace, handle data set replacements, and explore reports, sharing options like subscribe, Teams, or links.
Create a report in Power BI service without Power BI Desktop by manually entering data or choosing a published data set created in Power BI Desktop or shared with you.
Create dashboards in the Power BI service by pinning report tiles to dashboards. Arrange tiles, add custom or media tiles with real-time data, and refresh, share, or subscribe.
Edit dashboard tiles by adjusting titles, subtitles, visibility, last refresh time, and links, then upload a custom Power BI theme or choose light or dark modes and colors.
Publish reports to the Power BI service, then share, embed, export to Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF, and subscribe. Create workspaces with permissions to manage reports, dashboards, and data.
Transfer reports and dashboards from your personal workspace to the principal area workspace by saving copies, naming them (for example, nyc map report), and setting permissions for access and editing.
Explore canvas apps, model-driven apps, and portals (power pages) in Power Apps. Learn when to build from scratch with canvas or use dataverse-based model-driven solutions, or external-facing portals.
Explore formulas in power apps canvas applications to make control properties dynamic and respond to events, using property assignment, action assignment, and functions like cat, set, and navigate.
Explore how Power Apps formulas mirror Excel functions, using inputs and arguments to produce outputs with functions, operators, and controls, including enumerations, color properties, and gallery item references.
Connect to external data sources with connectors, pulling tables and objects such as SharePoint lists, Excel files, emails, and tweets, then store data locally in memory while the app runs.
Connect to data sources with connectors to populate a local table variable, then display data using formulas in galleries and labels; refresh updates the local data when the source changes.
Update data source by using a form map and a data card in Power Apps. Bind the data card's update property to the text box and submit to apply changes.
Define tables with rows and columns, where a row is a record and a column holds a field value. See how the email field's value illustrates these basics in Powerapps.
Demonstrates loading data into a Power Apps canvas app by connecting to an Excel table via OneDrive, displaying it in a data table and gallery, and refreshing the data source.
Update data in power apps by binding a form to the selected gallery item, using data cards and update properties, then submit, reset, and refresh the data source.
Use delegation in Power Apps to filter data at the source before it loads. Know its limitations: only certain data sources such as SharePoint, SQL Server, and Salesforce support delegation.
Explore connectors in canvas apps as bridges between data sources and services, enabling data retrieval and actions like tweeting, while requiring authentication, consent, and standard, premium, or custom connectors.
Connect to an Excel data source in OneDrive to automatically generate a mobile app from data in Power Apps, then edit, run, and refresh if data doesn’t appear.
Explore a three-screen Powerapps app that browses records, shows details, and creates or edits entries from an Excel data source, with search, sort, and add controls.
Explore common controls in power apps, including galleries, forms, input controls, intelligent controls, media, and Power BI controls, and learn how functions and formulas drive dynamic behavior.
Create a canvas app in Power Apps Studio, name it, choose tablet design for web, and explore controls, properties, and the formula bar to customize behavior.
Explore dynamic assignment in Power Apps by binding a label's text to a text input's text property, enabling real time updates and dynamic control properties such as color.
Learn how actions differ from properties and how to use on select and on change events to navigate between screens with the navigate function, demonstrated in a hands-on example.
Explore using variables in canvas apps with power apps by using set function to store text input in a variable and display it in a label after a button click.
Explore functions and formulas in Power Apps, including string, logic, and math functions, with upper, lower, and proper examples, and learn navigate and set syntax from the formula reference.
Learn to replace multiple buttons with a single submit by using if statements and a dropdown to apply upper, lower, or proper text functions in Power Apps.
Connect power apps to data by uploading an Excel file to OneDrive and turning it into a table with customer number, name, VIP level, joined date, location, passport, and agent.
Build a canvas app, connect to Excel Online for Business via connectors with OneDrive for Business, and use data tables, galleries, and forms for real-time data updates.
View data in the data table control from table one by selecting fields like first name, last name, VIP level, location, and date joined.
Create vertical galleries in power apps, a repeating group of records showing image, first name, location, and VIP level, sourced from a table and linked to a customer page.
Learn to join first and last names with concatenate function, display the result from this item in a label, and use the gallery's selected item to drive editing across forms.
Create a display form connected to table one and populate it from a gallery selection to show a single record.
Delete the static form, add an edit form bound to table one with fields like first name, last name, location, VIP level, and agent name, then set to view mode.
Learn how to turn a view form into an editable form in Power Apps, submit changes to update the underlying database, and reset back to view mode after submission.
Explore filtering and searching a Power Apps gallery by using a country dropdown and a search field to locate records by first name.
Save and export your Power Apps, keep four versions, and publish changes to everyone. Share apps with individuals or security groups and assign user or co-owner permissions.
Save apps to the cloud, publish versioned builds, and view version history to restore earlier states. Manage sharing and data permissions to collaborators and co-owners.
Create model driven apps by modeling data in data verse, defining business processes, then composing the app with site maps, pages, and security, and finally publishing and sharing.
Create a data verse environment, install sample data, and use the common data model to build model driven apps in Power Platform, guided steps in the admin center.
Create a model-driven app from the account table using the modern interface, add pages, views, and forms, configure navigation, publish, and preview the app.
Explore the four building blocks of model driven apps—data, user interface, logic components, and visualization—covering tables, relationships, forms, views, charts, dashboards, and Power BI integration.
Explore the four form types in model-driven apps and data verse—main form, quick create, quick view, and cards—and how they view, add, or modify data.
Demonstrates modifying the main account form in data verse using the form designer, adding fields and sections, and publishing changes; shows configuring an app to use a specific form.
Learn how views display records from a table by selecting columns, column width, and order, and filtering rows. Distinguish personal, public, and system views.
Demonstrates creating and modifying a view in a model-driven app using the view designer, adding columns, sorting, filtering (owner = current user), and publishing the sales view.
Publish and share model-driven apps after changes, then share with teams or individuals, assign security roles, and distribute via web link or mobile access.
Explore the different security roles available in Power Platform, learn how to assign users, and reference the Microsoft Docs security roles page for best practices.
Explore cloud flows, business process flows, and desktop flows in Power Automate, including automated, instant, and scheduled cloud flows with online connectors and robotic process automation.
Understand the five flow types in Power Automate and how to choose between automated cloud flows, instant cloud flows, and desktop flows based on data verse, connectors, and triggers.
Discover how Power Automate uses flows to automate recurring and complex tasks, from simple triggers to multi-action workflows with connectors across apps like Outlook, Trello, and Twitter.
A flow is a visual representation of a task built from a trigger and actions in Power Automate, such as a tweet triggering an email.
Flows can have multiple actions triggered by one trigger, enabling sequential actions like team messages, ticket creation, and reply emails, with parallel actions possible.
Explore flow templates to quickly create automated tasks from plug-and-play templates, connect to connectors like Teams, Outlook, and Twitter, and filter templates by topic or connector for remote work.
Explore how to use templated workflows in Power Automate, connect Planner and Teams, configure triggers and connectors, and deploy a ready-to-run automation with guided testing.
Discover how connectors bridge Power Automate with external apps, enabling triggers to start flows and actions to run, with examples from Outlook, Twitter, and SharePoint lists.
Explore example connectors like Teams and Twitter, showing how triggers start flows and actions perform tasks such as posting messages or creating chats. Learn that connectors are bridges to apps.
Explore the four types of connectors in Power Automate—built-in, standard, premium, and custom—covering internal versus external connections, licensing, and building flows with variables, expressions, data operations, and HTTP APIs.
Explore power automate connectors, triggers, and actions. Learn to search built-in, premium, and custom connectors, view triggers on SharePoint and Twitter, and review templates and documentation.
Learn built in controls to handle complex automation, using condition, switch, and applied each to tailor triggers and notifications for SharePoint changes and expense reports.
Explore how the condition control in Power Automate creates branching workflows by evaluating true or false statements, such as expense amounts over 500 or urgent emails, with chained conditions.
Understand the switch control that selects actions based on multiple case options, unlike a condition that yields true or false, with cases like sales, marketing, HR, finance, or none.
Learn how do until loops repeat actions until a condition becomes true, and apply to each loops perform actions for every item in an array.
Explore expressions in Power Automate, the platform's version of functions and formulas, with examples like concatenate, utc, and various string, math, and date functions applied to triggers and actions.
Demonstrates using expressions in an instant cloud flow manually triggered to combine first name and last name into a Teams message, with dynamic content and testing steps.
Learn how approvals in Power Automate add human intervention to automated workflows, using triggers, actions, and decision factors to approve or reject items like expense reports, documents, and vacation requests.
Explore the four approval types in Power Platform: all must approve versus first to respond, plus custom responses with additional comments, and how wait-for-all or wait-for-first drives workflow continuation.
Provision a dataverse database automatically in the background for approvals, then ensure a valid license and proper permissions, and limit approvals to users within your tenant.
Build an approval workflow by creating a SharePoint expenses list and a Power Automate flow that sends approvals, posts to Teams, and updates the item to approved or rejected status.
Discover the three Power Automate applications—Power Automate portal for cloud flows, Power Automate Desktop for desktop flows, and Power Automate Mobile for on-the-go access and trigger buttons.
Master instant, scheduled, and automated cloud flows. Build a flow that asks for a name and posts to Teams, then create a scheduled and an automated flow from planner tasks.
Modify a cloud flow in Power Automate by opening the flow details, editing, saving, sharing, exporting as a template, and reviewing run history and connections.
Explore Power Automate data operations, including compose, create CSV table, create HTML table, filter array, join, parse JSON, and select, with practical examples and hands-on workflows.
Create an instant cloud flow that uses data operations and compose to build an array, then apply to each to post a countdown message to a Teams channel.
Learn to parse JSON in a flow by composing a JSON array of records, generating a schema from a sample, and posting dynamic first name and last name to Teams.
Step through running cloud flows in Power Automate by using instant, automated, and scheduled flows, triggering automated tasks from Planner, and testing changes with manual and automatic tests.
Power Virtual Agents creates no-code chat bots in a guided GUI, democratizing AI to empower teams, reduce costs, and automate workflows with Power Automate and SharePoint integration.
Explore Power Virtual Agents' three core elements—topics, entities, and actions—and learn how topics are discrete conversation paths, trigger phrases, entity extraction, and actions with Power Automate flows shape conversations.
Discover how topics begin with trigger phrases and use message, question, condition, and action nodes to shape conversations and automate routing in Power Virtual Agents.
Create a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents by selecting an environment, naming the bot, and configuring language, then manage topics, trigger phrases, entities, test, and publish to multiple sources.
Switch between multiple bots using the bot icon and manage them in settings by exporting, importing, or deleting with name confirmation. Toggle dark mode and review basic system fallback options.
Create a gift card issues topic using trigger phrases, design an authoring canvas with message and multiple-choice nodes, and route users to an agent or a help page.
Create and use a gift card type entity with a closed list, including corporate issued and points based options, using synonyms and smart matching to drive conditional flows.
Explore Power Virtual Agents actions in diagrams, linking topics, ending conversations, and transferring to agents. Learn to authenticate users and call a Power Automate flow.
Create a power automate flow from power virtual agents, pass input variables including a phone number, post a teams message, and return results to the agent.
Create a flow that passes data from Power Virtual Agents to Power Automate and returns variables back, using adaptive cards in Teams and option selections.
Publish your Power Virtual Agents bot to multiple channels, including Microsoft Teams, websites, mobile apps, and popular messaging and voice platforms like Facebook, Skype, Cortana, Slack, and Telegram.
Publish your Power Virtual Agents bot with a single click, preview on a demo site, deploy to Teams, Facebook, Slack, and SMS, and track analytics.
Explore power pages use cases for professional business websites with Dataverse data. Enable external stakeholder portals, such as helpdesk tickets and partner accounts, with data restricted to each user.
Explore Power Pages templates, including starter layout templates, Dynamics 365 templates, and solution templates, to build workflows like scheduling, application submissions, registration, and an FAQ.
Demonstrate building a Power Pages website from a template to share data externally, enabling online permit submissions and approval tracking for a municipal government.
Power Pages' no-code data sharing enables external users to register, sign in, and submit permits, with data stored in a dataverse table and visible only to related users.
Explore the full collection of AI builder models, distinguishing pre-built, custom, and preview models, and follow guided deployment steps for each model, including receipts extraction and language detection.
Build AI models in Power Apps using the business card reader to extract names, companies, and contacts, then display results in a no-code canvas app.
Build a custom ai model for document processing to extract fields such as purchase price, down payment, and monthly payment from structured or handwritten documents, using tagging and collections.
Track a trained custom model's status, test with a new image, review its accuracy and extracted information, publish it, and use it to build a canvas app for intelligent apps.
Build and deploy a custom document processing model in a canvas app, use the form processor to extract fields like purchase price and monthly cost, and display dynamic results.
Integrate AI Builder into Power Automate workflows to analyze sentiment in text. Use pre-built AI Builder controls and instant cloud flows to route negative or positive reviews to teams.
Explore the AI builder life cycle from create to publish, including drafting, training, and testing with diverse data. Use the published model in Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power BI.
* This course has been updated based on the curriculum additions that were made on June 22, 2023 *
Do you want to learn about the Power Platform, and prove that you have the knowledge to use the Power Platform to solve problems?
Do you want to learn and apply the capabilities within Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, AI Builder, and Connectors?
Do you want to be certified from Microsoft, so that you can put it on your Resume/CV and showcase to potential employers that you know the Power Platform?
Do you want to pass the Microsoft PL-900 on the first try, and want one single complete resource that has everything you need for the PL-900 certification?
Then this is the course for you. Learn from over 15 hours of instructional content, 140 pages of study guides, and practice exams, with the only complete guide to everything you need to know to pass the PL-900 exam and receive your certification.
This course gives you all the training you need to pass - with detailed lectures, demos, and practice questions for each of the 76 learning objectives within the PL900 curriculum. This course gives you the structure you need to succeed - we go through each learning objective in sequential order, so that you are never lost.
This course is also for those students who want to learn the Power Platform, and its underlying services. Along with the training required to pass the PL 900 certification, students also learn Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, AI Builder, Dataverse, and Connectors.
PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals is also called PL-900, PL900, and PL 900 certifications, and so these are used interchangeably
What is this course all about?
The purpose of this course is to prepare you for the PL 900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals exam. It offers you dedicated video lectures, walk through demos, PDF study guides, and practice exams to maximize your chances of success. This course covers 100% of the 76 learning objectives in Microsoft's curriculum, and trains you to receive the certification on the first try.
What is the PL-900?
The PL-900 is a certification exam offered by Microsoft, that enables you to receive the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification. This proves to employers and clients that understand the core capabilities of the Power Platform and can apply it to solve every day problems in business settings. The exam format varies, but is most often 45 questions within 65 minutes.
What does the PL-900 cover?
The PL-900 covers introductory concepts and capabilities related to the Power Platform. Specifically, this includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents. It also includes related topics such as Dataverse, AI Builder, Connectors, Dynamics 365, Teams, Security, and Administration. The exam does not only cover understanding the platform's capabilities, but also applying it to build reports, create apps, automate processes, and publish chat bots.
What is Power BI?
Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform, enabling users to connect data sources, discover insights, and create reports and dashboards that can be shared within the entire organization. Power BI is the most popular service within the Power Platform
What is Power Apps?
PowerApps in Microsoft's platform to build fully functional and cross-platform applications with little to no code. Think of PowerApps as Microsoft Word, but instead of building documents you are building real-life applications.
What is Power Automate?
Power Automate is a platform to automate any and all tasks. You can streamline anything, including your emails, calendars, and business processes. Users have seen more than a 15% increase in productivity after using Power Automate for only a week!
What is Power Virtual Agents?
Power Virtual Agents is the easiest and no-code way to create sophisticated chat bots to improve customer experience and automate requests in your company. PVA enables you to leverage Microsoft natural language processing and artificial intelligence at your fingertips
Why should you get the PL-900 certification?
The PL-900 certification from Microsoft is a recognized way to prove that you understand and can operate the services within the Power Platform. You can use the knowledge you learn in the PL-900 course to create impact in your organization. You can add it to your resume to significantly boost your chances of employment. Most employers even cover the cost of the training and exam because of the value that this certification provides. In certain countries, you can even receive ACE college credits.
Why choose this course?
Complete guide - this is the 100% complete, start to finish zero to hero training guide to passing the PL900 exam. It includes lectures, demos, study guides, practice exams, and more. It is the only resource that you will ever need to ace the exam. It contains over 15 hours of instructional content!
Full coverage - we go through Microsoft's curriculum one-by-one and cover all aspects of each of the 76 different learning objectives. This means no surprises on the exam, and it ensures that you are best prepared to pass the PL-900 exam on the first try.
Structured to succeed - the course mirrors Microsoft's PL 900 curriculum exactly. Each of the 76 learning objectives has a combination of a PDF study guide, full video lectures, full video walk through demos, and application.
Instructional and applicable - we not only go through important concepts, but also apply them as we are building our application so that we can solidify them. This is not only a walkthrough of the all the features and theoretical concepts, but a PL-900 course that actually builds applications with you
Study guide PDF - you receive the full 120+ page study guide that we go through in detail in the course - students download these, print them, and annotate them so you can maximize your chances of success to pass the PL 900 exam.
Practice exams - this course contains practice exams with questions that exactly mirror the types of questions found on the PL-900 exam. Use them to validate your knowledge and find weaker areas where you need to review.
Step by step - each learning objective within Microsoft's PL 900 curriculum is covered in order, step by step. This ensures that you never get lost in the course.
Teacher response - if there's anything else you would like to learn, or if there's something you cannot figure out, I'm here for you! Look at the ways to reach out video
Community - when you enroll in this course, you join a PL900 community full of learners just like you
Course overview theory
The course follows exactly according to PL900 curriculum, based on 76 learning objectives (LO) that Microsoft has defined. Everything in this course is made to maximize your chances of passing the exam. For each learning objective, the course offers a combination of guided study notes, lecture videos, walk-through demos, and application. We then end with practice exams.
Course overview
Introduction - learn about the PL 900 exam and how best to succeed
Environment Setup - set up the Power Platform on your computer so you can follow along, and review the curriculum
Section 1: Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform (20-25%)
Section 2: Identify the core components of Microsoft Power Platform (10-15%)
Section 3: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI (20-25%)
Section 4: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps (25-30%)
Section 5: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate (10-15%)
Section 6: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Virtual Agents (5-10%)
Practice Exams - practice what you have learned to validate your knowledge
Conclusion - take your exam, earn your certification, and next steps
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