The Power Platform empowers organizations to automate business processes, develop their own rich app experiences, and connect with customers better and faster. In this course, students will learn to perform discovery, capture requirements, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, translate requirements, and configure Power Platform solutions and apps. They will supplement their learnings with hands-on labs to create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. In this course, we will cover these four applications in-depth, with additional focus on the Common Data Service, AI Builder, connectors, and portals.
Course Objectives
- Work with an organization to gather requirements and implement Power Platform solutions
- Build model-driven, canvas, and portal apps
- Create Power Automate flows
- Design a simple chatbot using Power Virtual Agents
- Analyze data using Power BI visualizations and dashboards.
Course Outline
Introduction to the Power Platform
- Power Platform overview
- Lab : Validate lab environment
The Functional Consultant role
- Consultant skills overview
- Create and validate documentation
- Engage stakeholders
- Perform quality assurance
- Configure integrations
Work with Dataverse
- Work with the data model
- Create and manage processes
- Work with AI Builder
- Configure Dataverse settings
- Import and export data
- Use tabular reporting options
- Configure security settings
- Lab : Create an app
- Lab : Create tables and columns
- Lab : Create relationships
- Lab : Additional table options
Make Power Apps
- Make model-driven apps
- Make canvas apps
- Make portal apps
- Lab : App designer
- Lab : Modify forms
- Lab : Modify views
- Lab : Build dashboards
- Lab : Canvas app fundamentals
- Lab : Work with data and services
- Lab : User experience
Build Power Automate flows
- Build flows
- Build business process flows
- Build UI flows
- Lab : Create users
- Lab : Create security role
- Lab : Configure a new business rule
- Lab : Advanced business rules
- Lab : Create a flow
- Lab : Build approval flow
- Lab : Build a business process flow
- Lab : Add branching to business process flow
Work with Power Virtual Agents
- Create a chatbot
- Configure topics
- Automate and integrate
- Configure entities
- Test and publish chatbots
- Lab : Create a chatbot
Analyze data with Power BI
- Get started with Power BI
- Model data in Power BI
- Create visualizations
- Create dashboards
- Publish and share in Power BI
- Lab : Build a Word template
- Lab : Build an Excel template
- Lab : Duplicate detection
- Lab : Import data
- Lab : Export data
- Lab : Bulk delete
Who Should Attend
- A Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring Power Platform solutions and apps.
- The Functional Consultant implements components of a solution that include application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.
Prerequisites
Required
- Experience as an IT professional or student
- Working knowledge of the Power Platform and its key components
- A knowledge of the Common Data Service and security concepts
Recommended
- PL-900T00: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.