PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Practice Exam

PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Practice Exam

About PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer 

The PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer exam has been built to measure your ability to accomplish the technical tasks include - creating a technical design; configuring Common Data Service; creating and configuring Power Apps; configuring business process automation; extending the user experience; extending the platform; and developing integrations.

Knowledge Required

• Candidates appearing for the PL-400 exam should have development experience that includes Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful web services, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Power BI.
• Candidates must have strong applied knowledge of Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
• Candidates should have a basic understanding of DevOps practices for Power Platform.
  

Skills Acquired

• Design, develop, secure, and troubleshoot Power Platform solutions.
• Implement components of a solution, including application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.

Microsoft PL-400 Exam Outline 

The PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer Exam covers the latest exam updates and topics - 

Domain 1 - Create a technical design (10–15%)

1.1 Design technical architecture

• Analyze the technical architecture to identify solution components and their implementation approach
• Design the authentication and authorization strategy for solution components
• Determine whether requirements can be met with out-of-the-box functionality
• Determine where to implement business logic including cloud computing, client-side processing, business rules, plug-ins, and Power Automate
• Determine when to use standard tables, virtual tables, elastic tables, or connectors
• Assess the impact of Microsoft Power Platform security features on solution components including data loss prevention (DLP) policies, security roles, teams, business units, and row sharing

1.2 Design solution components

• Design Power Apps reusable components including canvas components, code components (Power Apps component framework), and client scripting
• Design custom connectors
• Design Dataverse code components including Power Fx functions, plug-ins, and custom APIs
• Design automations including Power Automate cloud flows
• Design inbound and outbound integrations using Dataverse and Azure

Domain 2 - Build Power Platform Solutions (10–15%)

2.1 Configure and troubleshoot Microsoft Power Platform

• Troubleshoot operational security issues
• Configure Dataverse security roles to support code components including the principle of least privilege
• Manage Microsoft Power Platform environments for development

2.2 Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)

• Manage solution dependencies
• Create and use environment variables
• Manage solution layers
• Implement and extend Power Platform Pipelines
• Create Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) automations using Power Platform Build Tools

Domain 3 - Implement Power Apps improvements (10–15%)

3.1 Implement advanced canvas apps features

• Implement complex Power Fx formulas and functions
• Build reusable component libraries
• Utilize Power Automate cloud flows to implement business logic from a canvas app

3.2 Optimize and troubleshoot apps

• Troubleshoot canvas and model-driven app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools
• Optimize canvas app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation
• Optimize model-driven app performance including forms and views

Domain 4 - Extend the user experience (10–15%)

4.1 Apply business logic in model-driven apps using client scripting

• Build JavaScript code that targets the Client API object model
• Determine event handler registration approach
• Create client scripting that targets the Dataverse Web API
• Configure commands and buttons using Power Fx and JavaScript
• Implement navigation to custom pages using the Client API

4.2 Create a Power Apps component framework (PCF) code component

• Demonstrate the use of the different lifecycle events
• Configure a code component manifest
• Implement component interfaces
• Package, deploy, and consume a component
• Configure and use Device, Utility, and Web API features in component logic

Domain 5 - Extend the platform (30–35%)

5.1 Create a Dataverse plug-in

• Demonstrate the use of the different event execution pipeline stages
• Develop a plug-in that uses the execution context
• Develop a plug-in that implements business logic
• Implement Pre Images and Post Images to support plug-in logic
• Perform operations in plug-ins by using the Organization service
• Optimize plug-in performance
• Configure a Dataverse custom API message
• Register plug-in components by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• Develop a plug-in that implements a custom API
• Configure Dataverse business events

5.2 Create custom connectors

• Create an Open API definition for an existing REST API
• Implement authentication for custom connectors
• Configure policy templates to modify connector behavior at runtime
• Import definitions from existing APIs including Open API definitions, Azure services, and GitHub
• Create a custom connector for an Azure service
• Develop an Azure Function to be used in a custom connector
• Extend the Open API definition for a custom connector
• Develop code for a custom connector to transform data

5.3 Use platform APIs

• Perform operations with the Dataverse Web API
• Perform operations with the Organization service
• Implement API limit retry policies
• Optimize for performance, concurrency, transactions, and bulk operations
• Perform authentication by using OAuth

5.4 Process workloads by using Azure Functions

• Process long-running operations by using Azure Functions for Microsoft Power Platform solutions
• Implement scheduled and event-driven triggers in Azure Functions for Microsoft Power Platform solutions
• Authenticate to Microsoft Power Platform by using managed identities

5.5 Configure Power Automate cloud flows

• Configure Dataverse connector actions and triggers
• Implement complex expressions in flow steps
• Manage sensitive input and output parameters
• Utilize Azure Key Vault
• Implement flow control actions including error handling
• Configure trigger filter and retry policies
• Develop reuseable logic by using child flows
• Implement Microsoft Entra ID service principles

Domain 6 - Develop integrations (10–15%)

6.1 Publish and consume Dataverse events

• Publish a Dataverse event by using the IServiceEndpointNotificationService
• Publish a Dataverse event by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• Register service endpoints including webhooks, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hub
• Recommend options for listening to Dataverse events

6.2 Implement data synchronization with Dataverse

• Perform data synchronization by using change tracking
• Develop code that utilizes alternate keys
• Utilize the UpsertRequest message to synchronize data

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