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Power Platform App Maker
PL-100
Ignite Your Power Platform Journey
At the heart of modern business transformation lies Microsoft Power Apps, a dynamic platform that empowers individuals to create custom applications without the need for extensive coding expertise. Built with simplicity and flexibility in mind, Power Apps serves as a gateway for users to craft tailored solutions that streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. From intuitive user interfaces to interactive dashboards, Power Apps enables the translation of creative ideas into functional applications that cater to unique organizational needs.
Learning Power Apps unlocks a world of opportunities for individuals and organizations alike. With its user-friendly interface and pre-built templates, mastering Power Apps enables professionals to bridge the gap between concept and execution swiftly. As the demand for efficient data management, process automation, and seamless user experiences continues to rise, proficiency in Power Apps becomes a valuable asset. Whether you’re a business analyst seeking to optimize workflows or an entrepreneur looking to bring your vision to life, the ability to create and deploy applications offers a strategic advantage in today’s technology-driven landscape.
By delving into Power Apps, learners embark on a transformative journey that aligns with the future of work. The power to build customized apps tailored to specific requirements empowers individuals to contribute directly to their organization’s success. Acquiring proficiency in Power Apps not only enhances personal skill sets but also fosters a culture of innovation and agility within teams. In a world where digital solutions are paramount, learning Power Apps not only equips you with a practical toolset but also positions you as a catalyst for positive change and growth.
Overview
For business professionals deeply rooted in their solution domain, fueled by a drive to craft Microsoft Power Platform solutions that streamline, automate, and revolutionize tasks and processes for their teams, this certification is your tailored pathway. Proficiency in core technical business analyst responsibilities—data modeling, fundamental UX design, requirements and process analysis—is prerequisite.
You seamlessly embody the role of an app maker if you’re inherently self-guided and solution-driven. Leveraging Microsoft Power Platform’s maker tools, you adeptly unravel business challenges. Perhaps experienced with tools like Visual Basic for Applications, Excel PivotTables, and Teams, you bridge the gap between technology and problem-solving. While formal IT training might be absent, your comfort collaborating with IT administrators and Microsoft Power Platform developers to engineer business solutions stands testament to your capabilities.
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Curriculum
Topics Covered
Microsoft Power Platform App Maker
Acquire knowledge concerning the fundamental constituents of Microsoft Power Platform, delve into the intrinsic business benefits it offers to customers, and grasp the intricate interplay of this technology with various other offerings within the Microsoft suite.
- Introduction
- Explore Microsoft Power Platform
- Describe the business value of the Power Platform
- Explore connectors and Microsoft Dataverse
- 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
- Describe how Power Platform solutions consume Microsoft Azure services
- Explore how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together
Unlock the capability of Dataverse, a fortress for safeguarding and orchestrating data fueling business applications. Within Dataverse, a realm of standardized and personalized tables awaits, offering a haven of secure and cloud-based data storage solutions for your organizational needs.
- Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse
- Table characteristics
- Create tables in Microsoft Dataverse
- Import data into your Microsoft Dataverse database
- Table relationships
- Dataverse logic and security
- Create custom tables and import data
- Dataverse auditing
- Dual-write vs virtual tables
Embrace model-driven app design, a methodology centered on rapid integration of components into your applications. These encompass dashboards, forms, views, and charts, all seamlessly incorporated. With minimal or no coding, achieve app creation ranging from straightforward to intricate, unlocking your potential to build versatile solutions.
- Introducing model-driven apps
- Components of model-driven apps
- Design model-driven apps
- Control security when sharing model-driven apps
- Create a model-driven app
Are you inclined to forge fresh data columns or leverage established standardized ones for your business solutions? This module unveils the art of manipulating or generating new columns within a Dataverse table, empowering you to tailor your data structure to meet specific requirements.
- Define columns in Microsoft Dataverse
- Column types in Microsoft Dataverse
- Add a column to a Table
- Create a primary name column
- Restrictions that apply to columns in a table
- Create an auto numbering column
- Create an alternate key
Are you seeking to employ security roles for precise user authorization? This module unveils the techniques for configuring permissions that curtail access to an environment. It also guides you in defining user privileges, restricting data viewing, editing, and deletion within a Dataverse environment.
- Introduction to environment roles
- Understand environment roles
- Adding or disabling an environment user
- Understand security concepts in Dataverse
- Understand user security roles and security role defaults
- Create a custom role
- Check the roles that a user belongs to
- Configure Dataverse Teams for Security
- Configure Dataverse group teams for security
Within this module, you will delve into the realm of optimal strategies for testing and comprehensive documentation of your Power Apps application.
- Create test plans
- User interface testing
- Performance optimization
- Diagnostics and analytics
- Documentation and the customer
Introducing Microsoft Dataverse for Teams—an inherent, low-code data platform within Microsoft Teams. It empowers users to construct personalized apps, workflows, chatbots, and dashboards using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Automate, all seamlessly integrated into Teams. Offering relational data storage, diverse data types, robust governance, and effortless solution deployment, Dataverse for Teams enhances the Teams app experience.
- Provision your first Dataverse environment
- Create your first table to store data
Contemporary business challenges demand innovative digital remedies. Leveraging a low-code platform, even those brimming with ideas but limited coding skills can craft digital applications. Enter Dataverse for Teams—an avenue to create and deploy cutting-edge digital apps. Empower yourself and your team to effectively tackle these challenges head-on, utilizing modern tools tailored to your needs.
- Create your first app with the hero template
- Customize your app with Power Apps Studio
- Publish your app
- Install template apps
Discover the fundamentals of Power Apps and its application within your organizational context.
- Power Apps building blocks
- Create your first app in Power apps
- Ways to build Power apps
- Power Apps related technologies
- Additional Power Apps related technologies
- Designing a Power Apps app
Explore the art of personalizing an app through the incorporation of controls, images, and logic.
- Improve apps by making basic customizations in Power Apps
- Create a navigation model for your canvas app
- Explore screens and controls in Power Apps
Within an app, users’ navigation is confined to the choices set by developers. This module is tailored to aid you in crafting a seamless navigation journey for your canvas app users.
- Understand navigation
- The navigation and back function
- Create navigation functions
- More ways to use the navigation function
Desiring an enhanced user interface for your app? This module guides you in achieving just that through themes, icons, images, personalization, diverse form factors, and an array of controls.
- Use themes to quickly change the appearance of your app
- Branding a control
- Icons
- Images
- Personalization
- Using the tablet or phone form factors
- Create UI for a new canvas app
Controls play a pivotal role in enhancing user experiences and capturing relevant data. This module is tailored to equip you with insights and practical know-how to effectively utilize controls.
- Introduction to Controls
- Core properties of controls
- Entering and displaying data with text controls
- Additional controls for enhancing your app’s usability
- Media
- Create a canvas app with unique controls
Effectively oversee app versions, sharing, and environments within Power Apps.
- Manage app versions in Power Apps
- Share apps in Power apps
- Understand environments in Power Apps
- Power Apps review
Microsoft Power Apps stands as a robust platform for constructing applications adaptable to both desktop and mobile devices. While canvas apps can cater solely to mobile needs, optimizing them for mobile devices is vital for an exceptional user encounter. This module delves into diverse design elements that ensure your canvas app thrives in a mobile environment, guaranteeing an optimal user experience.
- Learn about mobile-optimized apps
- Identify components to make a canvas app mobile-optimized
- Create a mobile-optimized app that uses responsive designs
- Identify performance considerations for a mobile-optimized canvas app
- Monitor the performance of a mobile app
Power Automate, an online workflow service, streamlines operations by automating tasks across a spectrum of prevalent apps and services.
- Introducing Power Automate
- Create your first flow
- Create recurring flows
- Monitor incoming emails
- Share flows
- Troubleshoot flows
Administrators of tenants and environments harness the Power Automate Admin center as a command hub to oversee data policies and environment configurations for Power Automate implementations.
- Administer flows
- Export and Import flows
- Learn how to distribute button flows
Eager to delve into fortifying and regulating Microsoft Power Platform applications such as Power Automate and Power Apps? This module casts a spotlight on Microsoft Power Platform environments and their pivotal role in shaping Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies through practical examples and real-world scenarios. A concise introduction to essential tools will be covered, encompassing the Microsoft Power Platform and Power Automate Admin interfaces, along with insights into the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (COE) toolkit.
- Identify Microsoft Power Platform environments
- Data Loss Prevention policies
- Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit
- Create a Power Platform environment
Harness the potential of automated and scheduled flows to construct robust workflows within Microsoft Teams, enhancing productivity within your collaborative endeavors.
- Types of workflows that Power Automate can build in Dataverse
- Create a workflow that triggers when a new message is created
- Add a flow to your Power Apps app
- Schedule a flow
Gain comprehensive insights into the essence of Power BI, encompassing its foundational elements and their harmonious synergy.
- Introduction
- Use Power BI
- Building blocks of Power BI
- Tour and use Power BI Service
Unveil the methods to discover, gather, and refine data from diverse origins. Power BI serves as your data comprehension tool, and within this realm, you’ll acquire techniques to simplify data acquisition.
- Overview of Power BI Desktop
- Explore Power BI desktop
- Connect to data sources
- Get data from Excel
- Transform data to include in a report
- Combine data from multiple sources
- Clean data to include in a report
Construct your reports utilizing the synergy of Microsoft Power BI and Dataverse for Teams. Within this module, delve into the intricacies of importing datasets, report creation, refining reports, and the art of sharing reports with fellow collaborators.
- Connect to and transform Dataverse for Teams data from Power BI
- Create a Power BI report
- Publish the report
- Share the data
Embark on a self-guided journey through this module, where you’ll craft an AI model from the ground up and discover how to seamlessly integrate it into your business operations, all without the need for coding.
- Introduction to AI Builder
- Choose an AI capability
- Create your first model
- Ways to use your models
Empower your workforce with swift information access, enhancing decision-making, diminishing errors, and cost-saving. Enter chatbots, tailored to offer personalized experiences, streamlining employees’ information retrieval. Leverage Power Virtual Agents and Dataverse for Teams to forge intelligent chatbots, promptly catering to employee requirements sans the need for intricate high-code solutions.
- Introduction to Power Virtual Agents
- Create your first chatbot
- Create and modify topics
- Add inputs, variables, and conditions
- Call an action to pull in Dataverse for Teams data
- Publish and share your new chatbot
Course Duration
4 Days
Choose the training options that match your preferences from the list below.
Remote Training
Transform your future through interactive remote training with expert-led virtual classrooms.
Onsite Training
Elevate your skills with hands-on onsite training led by industry experts. Enroll now for excellence!
Why Learn Power Platform
- No Coding Required: With its no-code/low-code approach, you can become a proficient app creator and automate processes without extensive coding knowledge.
- Boost Efficiency: Harness the power of automation and AI-driven insights to streamline tasks, leading to significant time savings and improved productivity.
- In-Demand Skill: Learning Power Platform equips you with a sought-after skillset, making you a valuable asset to organizations seeking digital transformation.
It's time to see what you get
- You will get a comprehensive set of materials and resources designed to provide a well-rounded learning experience.
- Receive course manuals or syllabus, lecture slides, practical exercises, assessments such as quizzes or exams.
- Access our online learning platform or virtual classrooms, and interact with instructors and other students.
Power Apps
Empower users to create remarkable, custom business solutions without extensive coding knowledge, unleashing innovation effortlessly.
Power BI
Illuminate data insights with stunning visuals, enabling data-driven decisions that fuel business growth and efficiency.
Process Automate
Process automation optimizes workflows, reducing manual intervention and errors, enhancing efficiency for accelerated business success.
Onsite Training
Customized in-person training at the workplace, or in-class training, convenient and cost-effective.
Remote Training
Learning via Teams remotely online, offers online video conferencing for convenient and flexible access.
Hybrid Training
Combining on-site and remote training, we provide a comprehensive training experience.