Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect (PL-600) Practice Exam

Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect (PL-600) exam is for candidates who are solution architects with skills for leading successful implementations, focusing on how solutions address the broader business and technical needs of organizations. This role requires the knowledge of identifying opportunities to solve business problems.

Knowledge required for the exam:

Candidates for the PL-600 exam are expected to have both functional and technical proficiency in the following areas:

• Microsoft Power Platform
• Dynamics 365 customer engagement applications
• Associated Microsoft cloud solutions
• Various third-party technologies

Their expertise should be applied consistently throughout engagements. Further, the responsibilities include proactive and preventative measures to:

• Enhance the value of the customer's investment
• Foster organizational well-being

As a candidate for this examination, you should demonstrate comprehensive experience across functional and technical aspects of Microsoft Power Platform. You must be capable of guiding design decisions encompassing development, configuration, integration, infrastructure, security, licensing, availability, storage, and change management. In this capacity, you must effectively balance the project's business objectives with both functional and non-functional requirements.

Exam Details

• Exam Code: PL-600
• Exam Name: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect
• Exam Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)
• Exam Questions: 40-60 Questions
• Passing Score: 700 or greater (On a scale 1 - 1000)

PL-600 Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Understanding performing solution envisioning and requirement analysis (35–40%)

Initiate solution planning

• Evaluating business requirements
• Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
• Identifying other components including existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISVs)
• Identifying and estimating migration and integration efforts

Identifying organization information and metrics

• Identifying desired high-level organizational business processes
• Identify business process improvement opportunities
• Assessing an organization's risk factors
• Reviewing key success criteria

Identifying existing solutions and systems

• Evaluating an organization’s enterprise architecture
• Identify data sources needed for a solution
• Defining use cases and quality standards for existing data
• Identifying and documenting an organization's existing business processes

Capturing requirements

• Refining high-level requirements
• Identify functional requirements
• Identifying non-functional requirements
• Confirm that requirements meet an organization's goals
• Identifying and documenting an organization's desired business processes

Performing fit/gap analyses

• Determining the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
• Evaluating Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
• Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
• Determininh the scope for a solution

Topic 2: Architecting a solution (40–45%)

Leading the design process

• Design the solution topology
• Designing customizations for existing apps
• Design and validate user experience prototypes
• Identify opportunities for component reuse
• Communicating system design visually
• Design application lifecycle management (ALM) processes
• Design a data migration strategy
• Designing apps by grouping required features based on role or task
• Design a data visualization strategy
• Designing an automation strategy that uses Power Automate
• Design environment strategy

Designing the data model

• Design tables and columns
• Designing reference and configuration data
• Design relationships and relationship behaviors
• Determining when to connect to external data versus import data
• Design data models to address complex sets of requirements

Designing integrations

• Design collaboration integrations
• Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
• Designing integrations with an organization’s existing systems
• Design third-party integrations
• Design an authentication strategy
• Designing a business continuity strategy
• Identifying opportunities to integrate and extend Microsoft Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azur
• Designing robotic process automation (RPA)
• Design networking

Designing the security model

• Design the business unit and team structure
• Designing security roles
• Design column and row level security
• Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
• Determining security model management policies and processes
• Identify Microsoft Entra groups and app registrations required to support a solution
• Identifying data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
• Determine how external users will access a solution

Topic 3: Implementing the solution (15–20%)

Validating the solution design

• Evaluate detail designs and implementation
• Validate security
• Ensuring that the solution conforms to API limits
• Assess the solution performance and impact on resources
• Resolve automation conflicts
• Resolving integration conflicts

Support go-live

• Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
• Troubleshoot data migration
• Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
• Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues