Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) Practice Exam

Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) Practice Exam

The Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) certification validates your understanding of the core functionalities and business value of Microsoft Power Platform. Earning this entry-level certification demonstrates your ability to identify use cases and explore the potential of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents in streamlining processes, visualizing data, and building low-code applications.

Who Should Take This Exam?

This Microsoft certification is ideal for:

• Business Users: Individuals seeking to understand how Power Platform can enhance their daily tasks and automate workflows.
• Citizen Developers: Business-oriented individuals who want to explore low-code development using Power Apps.
• IT Professionals: Anyone in IT roles (help desk, analysts) looking to gain a foundational understanding of Power Platform for potential integrations or automation opportunities.
• Anyone seeking to: Launch a career in low-code development or enhance their understanding of Microsoft's application development platform.

Are There Prerequisites?

There are no formal prerequisites for taking the PL-900 exam. However, basic computer literacy and familiarity with cloud-based solutions are beneficial.

Exam Details

• Number of Questions: 40-60
• Length of Time:  120 Minutes
• Registration Fee: $99.00
• Passing Score: 700 (on a scale of 1-1000)

Roles

The PL-900 certification can be valuable for various roles, including:

• Business Analyst
• IT Help Desk Analyst
• Project Manager
• Marketing Specialist
• Sales Representative
• Citizen Developer

Course Outline

Domain 1 - Understand the business value of Microsoft Power Platform (20–25%)

1.1 Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform services

• Learn the value of Power Apps to build applications
• Learn the value of Power Automate to automate processes
• Learn the value of Power BI to gain insights into data
• Learn the value of Power Pages to build websites
• Learn the value of Power Virtual Agents to create chatbots
• Learn the value of connectors to integrate services and data
• Learn the value of Microsoft Dataverse to organize business data
• Learn the value of AI Builder to enhance apps and flows

1.2 Describe the business value of extending business solutions by using Microsoft Power Platform

• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together with Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform business solutions work together with Microsoft 365 apps and services
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform apps work together
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform works with Microsoft Teams
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform business solutions can consume Microsoft Azure services
• 1.3 Describe Microsoft Power Platform administration and governance
• Learn the Microsoft Power Platform security model
• Learn environments
• Learn where to perform specific administrative tasks including Microsoft Power Platform admin center and Microsoft 365 admin center
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform supports privacy and accessibility guidelines

Domain 2 - Understand Identify foundational components of Microsoft Power Platform (10–15%)

2.1 Describe Microsoft Dataverse

• Learn differences between traditional databases and Microsoft Dataverse
• Learn tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse
• Learn business logic in Microsoft Dataverse
• Learn dataflows for Microsoft Dataverse
• Learn connectors
• Learn the components of a connector
• Learn standard and premium connectors
• Learn to Identify use cases for custom connectors

Domain 3 - Understand and Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI (10–15%)

3.1 Identify basic Power BI components

• Learn Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service
• Learn to Compare and contrast dashboards, workspaces, reports, and paginated reports
• Learn how to clean and transform data by using Power Query
• Learn how AI Insights helps identify anomalies and trends in data
• 3.2 Build a basic dashboard by using Power BI
• Learn to create a Power BI report by adding visualizations
• Learn create a Power BI dashboard
• Learn to add visualizations to dashboards by using Q&A
• Learn to Consume Power BI reports and dashboards

Domain  4 - Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps (20–25%)

4.1 Identify basic Power Apps capabilities

• Learn the differences between canvas apps and model-driven apps
• Learn use cases for and capabilities of canvas apps
• Learn use cases for and capabilities of model-driven apps

4.2 Build a basic canvas app

• Learn to connect to data sources by using connectors
• Learn to create an app from data
• Learn to add controls to canvas app screens

4.3 Build a basic model-driven app

• Learn to create a model-driven app from tables
• Learn to modify forms
• Learn to create and modify views

Domain 5 - Understand complementary Microsoft Power Platform solutions (15–20%)

5.1 Describe the capabilities of Power Virtual Agents

• Learn use cases for Power Virtual Agents
• Learn the purpose of topics, entities, and actions
• Learn to create topics from existing FAQs by using Suggest Topics

5.2 Describe the capabilities of Power Pages

• Learn use cases for Power Pages
• Learn use cases for templates
• Learn how to share data externally

5.3 Describe the capabilities of AI Builder

• Learn use cases for AI Builder
• Learn the lifecycle to create an AI Builder model