PL-200 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant)

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Preparing for the PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Certificate exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the PL-200 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).

I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the PL-200 exam. I hope this article will help you to achieve the PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate Certification. Also, please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.

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Configure Microsoft Dataverse (25-30%)

Manage an Existing Data Model

Assign a type for a table including standard, activity, or virtual

Types of tables

Configure tables ownership

Standard table ownership

Create new tables or modify existing tables

Create a custom table

Edit a table

Determine which type of relationship to implement including 1: N and N: N

Types of table relationships

Configure table relationship behaviors including cascading rules

Configure entity-relationship cascading behavior

Automate business processes

Create new relationships or modify existing relationships

Create a relationship between tables

Edit relationships

Create new columns or modify existing columns

How to create and edit columns

Create alternate keys for tables

Work with alternate keys

Configure table properties

Configure connection roles

Configure connection roles

Create and Manage Processes

Define requirements for business rules

Business rules for Dataverse

Define and implement business rule logic

Apply business logic in Microsoft Dataverse

Define the scope for business rules

Define the components of a business rule

Configure and test business rules

Create a business rule

Validate a business rule

Configure a synchronous classic workflow

Replace classic Common Data Service workflows with flows

Configure Dataverse

Configure Relevance Search

Search across entity data using relevance search

Relevance search API

Configure auditing

Auditing overview

Configure entities and attributes for auditing

Perform data management tasks

Add or remove sample data

Merge data

Remove a large amount of data with bulk deletion

Remove user personal data

Configure duplicate detection settings

Detect duplicate data using code

Enable and disable duplicate detection

Set up duplicate detection rules to keep your data clean

Configure privacy preferences

Compliance and data privacy

Configure Security Settings

Create and manage business units

Business units

Create or edit business units

Create and manage security roles

Get started with security roles in Dataverse

Security roles and privileges

Assign a security role to a user

Create and manage users and teams

Create users and assign security roles

About the Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environment

Create and manage column security profiles

Field security entities

Configure hierarchy security

Hierarchy security to control access

Configure Conditional Access settings

Block access by location with Azure AD Conditional Access

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Create Apps by Using Power Apps (20-25%)

Create Model-driven Apps

Create and configure forms

Create and design model-driven app forms

Create and configure views

Create and edit model-driven app views

Create and configure charts

Create a model-driven app system chart

Create and configure dashboards

Create or edit model-driven dashboards

Configure site maps

Create a model-driven app site map

Select applicable assets for an app including tables, forms, views, business process flows, dashboards, and charts

Add model-driven app components in the Power Apps app designer

Share a model-driven app

Share a model-driven app using Power Apps

Apply organizational branding by using themes

Use a theme to create a custom look for your app

Create Canvas Apps

Create a canvas app

Create a canvas app from scratch based on Excel data

Create a canvas app in Power Apps

Configure Dataverse as a data source for an app

Create a canvas app from scratch using Dataverse

Connect to Microsoft Dataverse

Create canvas app screens

Add a screen to a canvas app

Implement form navigation, formulas, variables and collections, and error handling

Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

Use basic formulas to make better Power Apps canvas apps

Understand canvas-app variables in Power Apps

Create and update a collection in a canvas app

‘IfError’ and ‘IsError’ functions in Power Apps

Build reusable components and component libraries

Create a component for canvas apps

Create a component library for canvas apps

Configure offline capabilities for apps

Develop offline-capable canvas apps

Implementing offline capability in your app

Run Power Automate flows based on actions that occur in a canvas app

Start a flow in a canvas app

Interpret App Checker results and resolve identified issues

App checker results for Canvas apps in solutions

Power Apps Checker includes rules for canvas apps & flows

Review a canvas app for accessibility in Power Apps

Test, monitor, and share apps

Testing and troubleshooting your app

Working with Test Studio (experimental)

Debugging canvas apps with Monitor

Share a canvas app in Power Apps

Create Portal Apps

Create a portal app

Create a portal in an environment

Expose Dataverse data

Integrate Power Apps portals with Dataverse

Configure Power Apps portals security

Configure portal web pages, forms, and navigation

Manage web pages in Power Apps portals

Configure a web form for a portal

Configure portal security including web roles and page access

Create web roles for portals

Manage page permissions

Create and Manage Power Automate (15-20%)

Create Flows

Describe types of flows and flow components

Overview of the different types of flows

3 major components of Microsoft Flow

Trigger a flow by using Dataverse connectors

Create an automated flow by using the Common Data Service connector

Run actions by using the Dataverse connector

Write data into Dataverse

Dataverse: Write data using actions

Implement logic control

Build more powerful conditions in flows

Implement dynamic content and expressions

Use expressions in flow actions

Working with Dynamic Content

Interpret and act on Flow Checker results

Power Apps checker now includes Flow checker results

Activate and deactivate flows

Turn flows on or off

Interpret flow analytic data

Announcing Microsoft Flow Analytics

View analytics for flows

Create and Manage Business Process Flows

Configure a business process flow

Create a business process flow in Power Automate

Add business rules, workflows, and action steps to a business process flow

Create a business process flow to standardize processes

Define stages and steps

Configure background workflow stages and steps

Configure parallel branches

Create parallel approval workflows with Power Automate

Manage the business process flow table for a business process flow

Business process flows overview

Build Desktop Flows

Describe types of desktop flows

Introduction to other types of desktop flows

Identify use cases for desktop flows

5 practical Power Automate examples your business will love

Differentiate between attended and unattended desktop flows

Run attended and unattended UI flows

Attended vs Unattended UI Flows

Record business process tasks

Record flows in Power Automate Desktop

Implement Power Virtual Agents Chatbots (10-15%)

Create Chatbot

Assign a chatbot to an environment

Assign environment security roles

Publish a chatbot

Publish a chatbot to various channels

Share a chatbot

Share your bot with other users

Add chatbots to Teams and other channels

Add a bot to Microsoft Teams

Add a bot to Facebook

Add a bot to mobile and custom apps

Monitor and diagnose bot performance, usage, and topic usage

Analyze chatbot usage

Analyze bot performance and usage in Power Virtual Agents

Analyze topic usage in Power Virtual Agents

Configure Topics

Define topic conversation triggers

Power Virtual Agent topic triggers

Create questions, messages, and conditions

Create and edit topics in your Power Virtual Agents bot

Extract topics from a web page

Create topics from existing online support content

Implement greetings, escalations, error messages, and statuses

Configure your bot to start the conversation automatically

Configure hand-off to omnichannel for customer service

Topic errors

Topic status

Call a Power Automate flow to run an action

How to Call an Action through Power Automate?

Call child flows

Configure Entities

Create custom entities

Custom entities

Implement entities in conversations

Use entities in a conversation

Implement variables to store data

Use variables

Reuse variables across topics

Integrate Power Apps with Other Apps and Services (15-20%)

Integrate Power BI with Power Apps

Create Power BI visualizations

Power Apps visual for Power BI

Create data flows and schedule data flow runs

Create and use dataflows in Power Apps

Schedule refresh for your Dataflow

Filter data

Filtering data in Power Apps based on Power BI

Power Apps Power BI integration dynamic filtering

Build reports and dashboards

Create Power BI reports & dashboards with PowerApps

Publish and share reports and dashboards

Publish and share in Power BI

Add Power BI tiles to model-driven apps and canvas app

Add Power BI visualizations on your dashboard

Embed a Power BI report in a model-driven form

Add canvas apps to a Power BI dashboard

Embed a Power Apps visual in a Power BI report

Trigger Power Automate flows from Power BI alerts

Integrate Power BI data alerts with Power Automate

Set up data alerts for the Power BI dashboard

Implement AI Builder

Determine which AI Builder model type to use

What is AI Builder?

AI builder model types

Create an AI Builder model

Build a model in AI Builder

Prepare source data for use by models

Data preparation

AI Builder binary classification – data preparation

Train, test, and publish a model

Train your model in AI Builder

Publish your model in AI Builder

Prediction model performance

Consume a model by using Power Apps

Use your prediction model in Power Apps

Consume a model by using Power Automate

Use a prebuilt model in Power Automate

Use a custom model in Power Automate

Integrate Power Apps with Microsoft 365

Add apps to Microsoft Teams

Add an app to Microsoft Teams

Embed a canvas app as a personal app in Teams

Create a Teams app from a Power Apps app

Create apps in Microsoft Teams by using Power Apps

Create an app directly in Teams

Create your first app in Microsoft Teams

Configure app policies

Manage Power Platform apps in the Teams admin center

Create a Teams channel by using Power Automate

Create a private channel in Teams using Flow

Create a flow that will create a channel

Configure and use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel templates

Work with Excel and Word templates

This brings us to the end of the PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Study Guide.

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