What will I actually learn in this Power Platform course?

You'll learn how Microsoft Power Platform can be used to solve everyday business problems, from organizing data to automating routine work and sharing insights. It starts with the core products and Microsoft Dataverse, then builds into creating simple apps, workflows, dashboards, and chatbots. You'll apply that in activities such as building a canvas app from spreadsheet data or setting up an approval flow.

Do I need to know coding before taking this course?

No, you don't need a programming background to start. The course uses low-code and no-code tools and introduces Power Platform concepts, Dataverse, and connectors from the beginning. Some comfort with everyday business software and data will help, because the examples move fairly quickly into apps, dashboards, and workflows.

Is this course beginner-friendly for Power Platform?

Yes, it's a good fit if you're new to Power Platform and want a broad introduction rather than deep specialization. The lessons explain what each part of the platform does before moving into practice activities and short knowledge checks. If you're already looking for advanced app architecture or complex automation, it may feel intentionally introductory.

How long does it take to complete this course?

Plan on about 25 hours in total. At around 10 hours a week, that works out to roughly 2 to 3 weeks of steady study. The course includes lessons, readings, guided exercises, quizzes, and a practice exam.

Are there hands-on exercises, projects, or labs in this course?

Yes, there is hands-on work, but it's mostly guided rather than open-ended project work. You'll build and customize simple apps, create approval and recurring flows, assemble a dashboard, and work through a basic chatbot exercise. That gives you a chance to use each topic as you learn it without needing a large final project.

What skills, topics, or methods are covered in this course?

You'll cover the main parts of Power Platform, including app building, workflow automation, dashboards, chatbots, and the shared data layer that supports them. The course also introduces connectors, environments, portals, and security topics such as access roles and data loss prevention. Overall, it helps you understand how these tools fit together to solve common business problems.

What can I actually do after finishing this course?

After finishing, you should be able to create simple business solutions and explain which Power Platform tool fits a given need. For example, you could build a basic app from spreadsheet data, automate an approval step, or put together a dashboard that answers a few business questions. The scope stays at fundamentals, so you'll be working with straightforward solutions rather than complex enterprise builds.

Is this course more focused on theory or hands-on learning?

It leans more toward understanding how the platform works, with guided practice to reinforce that. You'll spend time learning what each tool is for, then applying it through smaller builds in apps, flows, dashboards, and chatbots.

Why would I choose this course over other Power Platform courses?

This course is a strong choice if you want one broad introduction to the Microsoft Power Platform instead of a narrow focus on just apps, automation, or reporting. It ties the business use of each tool to simple build activities, so you learn what the products are for and then try them across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. If you want to see how the platform fits together and cover PL-900 fundamentals along the way, it's a better fit than a deeper single-product course.

Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

161 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

3 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

92%

Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

How to create simple apps, visualize data, automate a business process and build a chatbot
How to describe the business value of Power Platform
How to identify the core components of Power Platform and how to demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI
How to describe the capabilities of Power Apps, and how to demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents

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There are 6 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform. You will create simple Power Apps, connect data with Microsoft Dataverse, build a Power BI Dashboard, automate a process with Power Automate, and build a chatbot with Power Virtual Agents.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Describe the business value of Power Platform • Identify the core components of Power Platform • Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI • Describe the capabilities of Power Apps • Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents Microsoft's Power Platform is not just for programmers and specialist technologists. If you, or the company that you work for, aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences or even chatbots, this is the right course to kick-start your career and learn amazing skills. Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals will act as a bedrock of fundamental knowledge to prepare you for the Microsoft Certification: Power Platform Fundamentals - PL900 Exam. You will be able to demonstrate your real-world knowledge of the fundamentals of Microsoft Power Platform. This course can accelerate your progress and give your career a boost, as you use your Microsoft skills to improve your team’s productivity.

Module details

Learn about the components of Microsoft Power Platform, the business value for customers, and security of the technology.

What's included

12 videos15 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin

12 videosTotal 49 minutes

An overview of Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 5 minutes
Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals4 minutes
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals3 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Platform?6 minutes
Data connectors4 minutes
Pulling it all together3 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse4 minutes
Understand relationships3 minutes
Environments in Dataverse4 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Apps?4 minutes
What Power Apps can do for you5 minutes
Introduction to Power Platform module summary5 minutes

15 readingsTotal 75 minutes

Exam PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals5 minutes
Course syllabus: Power Platform in Business Analysis5 minutes
How to be successful in this course5 minutes
Custom connectors5 minutes
Data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and accessibility5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform lesson summary5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform additional resources5 minutes
Overview of Dataverse5 minutes
Business rules5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse lesson summary5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse: Additional resources5 minutes
Customer case study - Heathrow Airport5 minutes
Power Apps lesson summary5 minutes
Power Apps: Additional resources5 minutes
About the Introduction to Power Platform graded assessment5 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 84 minutes

Microsoft Power Platform knowledge check18 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse knowledge check18 minutes
Power Apps knowledge check18 minutes
Introduction to Power Platform module quiz: exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

Meet and greet5 minutes

1 pluginTotal 5 minutes

Power Apps in action5 minutes

Power Apps allows businesses to create custom solutions for everyday problems. In this module, you will learn how to build and customize a canvas app from scratch, and to leverage Power Apps to create model-driven apps.

What's included

10 videos13 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt

10 videosTotal 46 minutes

Introduction and learn basic elements5 minutes
Build a canvas app: Create your account and install4 minutes
Customize the app7 minutes
Get started with functions and share an app7 minutes
Introduction to model-driven apps3 minutes
Design of model-driven apps4 minutes
Business logic3 minutes
Creating model-driven apps8 minutes
Control security and share model-driven apps4 minutes
Custom solutions module summary3 minutes

13 readingsTotal 140 minutes

Generate and Explore the app5 minutes
Exercise: Build your first canvas app30 minutes
Practice using functions in Power Apps5 minutes
Exercise: Practice using functions in Power Apps30 minutes
Canvas app lesson summary5 minutes
Canvas app additional resources5 minutes
Building blocks of model-driven apps5 minutes
Prepare to create a model-driven app5 minutes
Exercise: Create a model-driven app30 minutes
Types of predefined security roles5 minutes
Model-driven app lesson summary5 minutes
Model-driven app: Additional resources5 minutes
About the custom solutions graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 84 minutes

Exercise Review: Build your first canvas app6 minutes
Exercise Review: Using functions in Power Apps6 minutes
Canvas app knowledge check18 minutes
Exercise Review: Create a model-driven app6 minutes
Model-driven apps knowledge check18 minutes
Custom solutions module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

What canvas app would you like to build next?5 minutes

Learn about the value of Power Apps portals and how you can leverage it to allow internal and external audiences to view and interact with data from Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365.

What's included

15 videos13 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin

15 videosTotal 67 minutes

Power Apps portals and what they can do for you7 minutes
Get started with portals4 minutes
Use themes in portals2 minutes
Overview of portals security4 minutes
Introduction to Power Automate6 minutes
Overview of Power Automate5 minutes
Introduction and creating a flow from a template6 minutes
Build recurring flows4 minutes
Build an approval request: solution walk-through4 minutes
Customize an approval request3 minutes
Business process flows4 minutes
Adding conditions to a business process flow5 minutes
Adding a business flow to a model driven app4 minutes
Edit a business process flow3 minutes
Build an automated solution module summary5 minutes

13 readingsTotal 115 minutes

Overview of templates in portals5 minutes
Overview of core components of portals5 minutes
Portals lesson summary5 minutes
Portals additional resources5 minutes
Customer case study - TruGreen5 minutes
Power Automate lesson summary5 minutes
Power Automate additional resources5 minutes
Build a button flow5 minutes
Exercise: Build an approval request30 minutes
Exercise: Build a business process flow30 minutes
Automated solution lesson summary5 minutes
Automated solution additional resources5 minutes
About the automated solution graded assessment5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 96 minutes

Portals knowledge check18 minutes
Power Automate knowledge check18 minutes
Exercise Review: Build an approval request6 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a business process flow6 minutes
Automation solution knowledge check18 minutes
Build an automated solution module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

How can you use business process flows to create efficiencies?5 minutes

1 pluginTotal 5 minutes

Power Automate in action5 minutes

Power BI helps business users and developers alike to easily analyze, visualize, and collaborate on data. This module will teach you how to do all of that without effecting your underlying dataset.

What's included

11 videos15 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt2 plugins

11 videosTotal 54 minutes

What is Power BI?3 minutes
Power BI concepts5 minutes
Power BI Reports and Dashboards7 minutes
Data modeling and visualizations4 minutes
Clean data6 minutes
Work with Aggregates7 minutes
Security and administration in Power BI3 minutes
Introduction and Connect to data4 minutes
Visualize data4 minutes
Build a dashboard and collaborate and share6 minutes
How to build a simple dashboard module summary6 minutes

15 readingsTotal 130 minutes

Install a template app5 minutes
Types of visualizations in Power BI5 minutes
Custom visuals5 minutes
Exercise: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users)30 minutes
Exemplar: Data modeling and visualizations10 minutes
Power BI: Lesson summary5 minutes
Power BI: Additional resources5 minutes
Customer case study – Miami Heat5 minutes
Power BI: security lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Security additional resources5 minutes
Transform data5 minutes
Exercise: Build a dashboard30 minutes
Build a dashboard lesson summary5 minutes
Build a dashboard additional resources5 minutes
About the graded assessment5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 87 minutes

Exercise Review: Data modeling and visualizations6 minutes
Power BI knowledge check18 minutes
Security and administration knowledge check9 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a dashboard6 minutes
Build a dashboard knowledge check18 minutes
How to build a simple dashboard module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

How will you use dashboards to create a data-driven organization?5 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 9 minutes

Miami Heat's amazing transformation with Power BI3 minutes
Power BI in action6 minutes

Learn how Power Virtual Agents, will help you publish bots to engage with your customers on multiple platforms or channels. These can include live websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms like Microsoft Teams and Facebook, etc.