Exam PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

 Create a technical design (10-15%)
Validate requirements and design technical architecture

• design and validate the technical architecture for a solution
• design authentication and authorization strategy
• determine whether you can meet requirements with out-of-the-box functionality
• determine when to use Logic Apps versus Power Automate flows
• determine when to use serverless computing, plug-ins, or Power Automate
• determine when to build a virtual entity data source provider and when to use connectors

Design solution components

• design a data model
• design Power Apps reusable components
• design custom connectors
• design server-side components

Describe Microsoft Power Platform extensibility points

• describe Power Virtual Agents extensibility points including Bot Framework skills and
• Power Automate flows
• describe Power BI extensibility points including Power BI APIs, custom visuals, and embedding Power BI apps in websites and other applications
• describe Power Apps portal extensibility points including CRUD APIs and custom styling
• describe Web Resources and their uses

Configure Microsoft Dataverse (15-20%)
Configure security to support development

• troubleshoot operational security issues
• create or update security roles and field-level security profiles
• configure business units and teams

Implement tables and columns

• configure tables and table options
• configure columns
• configure relationships and types of behaviors

Implement application lifecycle management (ALM)

• create solutions and manage solution components
• import and export solutions
• manage solution dependencies
• create a package for deployment
• automate deployments
• implement source control for projects including solutions and code assets

Create and configure Power Apps (15-20%)
Create model-driven apps

• configure a model-driven app
• configure forms
• configure columns
• configure visualizations
• configure commands and buttons

Create canvas apps

• create and configure a canvas app
• implement complex formulas to manage control events and properties
• analyze app usage by using App Insights
• build reusable component libraries

Manage and troubleshoot apps

• troubleshoot app issues by using Monitor and other browser-based debugging tools
• interpret results from App Checker and Solution Checker
• identify and resolve connector and API errors
• optimize app performance including pre-loading data and query delegation

Configure business process automation (5-10%)

Configure Power Automate

• create and configure a flow
• configure steps to use Dataverse connector actions and triggers
• implement complex expressions in flow steps
• implement error handling
• troubleshoot flows by analyzing JSON responses from connectors

Implement processes

• create and configure business process flows
• create and configure business rules 
• create, manage, and interact with business process flows by using server-side and client side code
• troubleshoot processes

Extend the user experience (10-15%)
Apply business logic using client scripting

• create JavaScript or Typescript TypeScript code that targets the Client API object model
• register an event handler
• create client-side scripts that target the Dataverse Web API

Create a Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) component

• describe the PCF component lifecycle
• initialize a new PCF component
• configure a PCF component manifest
• implement the component interfaces
• package, deploy, and consume the component
• configure and use PCF Device, Utility, and WebAPI features
• test and debug PCF components by using the local test harness

Create a command button function

• create commands 
• design command button rules and actions
• edit the command bar by using the Ribbon Workbench
• manage dependencies between JavaScript libraries

Extend the platform (15-20%)
Create a plug-in

• describe the plug-in execution pipeline
• design and develop a plug-in
• debug and troubleshoot a plug-in
• implement business logic by using pre-images and post-images
• perform operations on data by using the Organization service API
• optimize plug-in performance
• register custom assemblies by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• develop a plug-in that targets a custom action message

Create custom connectors

• create a definition for the API
• configure API security
• use policy templates to modify connector behavior at runtime
• expose Azure Functions as custom connectors
• create custom connectors for public APIs by using Postman  (removed on 14 March 2022 by MS)

Use platform APIs

• interact with data and processes by using the Dataverse Web API or the Organization Service
• implement API limit retry policies
• optimize for performance, concurrency, transactions, and batching
• query the Global Discovery service to discover the URL and other information for an organization  (removed on 14 March 2022)
• perform entity metadata operations with the Web API  (removed on 14 March 2022)
• perform authentication by using OAuth

Process workloads

• process long-running operations by using Azure Functions
• configure scheduled and event-driven function triggers in Azure Functions
• authenticate to the Microsoft Power Platform by using managed identities

Develop Integrations (5-10%)

Publish and consume events

• publish an event by using the API
• publish an event by using the Plug-in Registration Tool
• register service endpoints including webhooks, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hub
• implement a Dataverse listener for an Azure solution
• create an Azure Function that interacts with Microsoft Power Platform

Implement data synchronization

• configure entity change tracking
• read entity change records by using platform APIs
• create and use alternate key