Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

160 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

3 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

93%

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

Skills you'll gain

Power BI
No-Code Development
Microsoft Power Automate/Flow
Workflow Management
Application Design
Dashboard
Business Process Automation
Data Visualization
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Power Platform
Generative AI Agents
Business Process
Data Visualization Software
Data Analysis
Data Integration
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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.

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 videos Total 49 minutes

An overview of Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 5 minutes
Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 4 minutes
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals 3 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Platform? 6 minutes
Data connectors 4 minutes
Pulling it all together 3 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse 4 minutes
Understand relationships 3 minutes
Environments in Dataverse 4 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Apps? 4 minutes
What Power Apps can do for you 5 minutes
Introduction to Power Platform module summary 5 minutes

15 readings Total 75 minutes

Exam PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 5 minutes
Course syllabus: Power Platform in Business Analysis 5 minutes
How to be successful in this course 5 minutes
Custom connectors 5 minutes
Data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and accessibility 5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform lesson summary 5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform additional resources 5 minutes
Overview of Dataverse 5 minutes
Business rules 5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse lesson summary 5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse: Additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study - Heathrow Airport 5 minutes
Power Apps lesson summary 5 minutes
Power Apps: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the Introduction to Power Platform graded assessment 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 84 minutes

Introduction to Power Platform module quiz: exam preparation 30 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform knowledge check 18 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse knowledge check 18 minutes
Power Apps knowledge check 18 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

Meet and greet 5 minutes

1 plugin Total 5 minutes

Power Apps in action 5 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 videos Total 46 minutes

Introduction and learn basic elements 5 minutes
Build a canvas app: Create your account and install 4 minutes
Customize the app 7 minutes
Get started with functions and share an app 7 minutes
Introduction to model-driven apps 3 minutes
Design of model-driven apps 4 minutes
Business logic 3 minutes
Creating model-driven apps 8 minutes
Control security and share model-driven apps 4 minutes
Custom solutions module summary 3 minutes

13 readings Total 140 minutes

Generate and Explore the app 5 minutes
Exercise: Build your first canvas app 30 minutes
Practice using functions in Power Apps 5 minutes
Exercise: Practice using functions in Power Apps 30 minutes
Canvas app lesson summary 5 minutes
Canvas app additional resources 5 minutes
Building blocks of model-driven apps 5 minutes
Prepare to create a model-driven app 5 minutes
Exercise: Create a model-driven app 30 minutes
Types of predefined security roles 5 minutes
Model-driven app lesson summary 5 minutes
Model-driven app: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the custom solutions graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 84 minutes

Custom solutions module quiz: Exam preparation 30 minutes
Exercise Review: Build your first canvas app 6 minutes
Exercise Review: Using functions in Power Apps 6 minutes
Canvas app knowledge check 18 minutes
Exercise Review: Create a model-driven app 6 minutes
Model-driven apps knowledge check 18 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 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 videos Total 67 minutes

Power Apps portals and what they can do for you 7 minutes
Get started with portals 4 minutes
Use themes in portals 2 minutes
Overview of portals security 4 minutes
Introduction to Power Automate 6 minutes
Overview of Power Automate 5 minutes
Introduction and creating a flow from a template 6 minutes
Build recurring flows 4 minutes
Build an approval request: solution walk-through 4 minutes
Customize an approval request 3 minutes
Business process flows 4 minutes
Adding conditions to a business process flow 5 minutes
Adding a business flow to a model driven app 4 minutes
Edit a business process flow 3 minutes
Build an automated solution module summary 5 minutes

13 readings Total 115 minutes

Overview of templates in portals 5 minutes
Overview of core components of portals 5 minutes
Portals lesson summary 5 minutes
Portals additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study - TruGreen 5 minutes
Power Automate lesson summary 5 minutes
Power Automate additional resources 5 minutes
Build a button flow 5 minutes
Exercise: Build an approval request 30 minutes
Exercise: Build a business process flow 30 minutes
Automated solution lesson summary 5 minutes
Automated solution additional resources 5 minutes
About the automated solution graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 96 minutes

Build an automated solution module quiz: Exam preparation 30 minutes
Portals knowledge check 18 minutes
Power Automate knowledge check 18 minutes
Exercise Review: Build an approval request 6 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a business process flow 6 minutes
Automation solution knowledge check 18 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

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

1 plugin Total 5 minutes

Power Automate in action 5 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 videos Total 54 minutes

What is Power BI? 3 minutes
Power BI concepts 5 minutes
Power BI Reports and Dashboards 7 minutes
Data modeling and visualizations 4 minutes
Clean data 6 minutes
Work with Aggregates 7 minutes
Security and administration in Power BI 3 minutes
Introduction and Connect to data 4 minutes
Visualize data 4 minutes
Build a dashboard and collaborate and share 6 minutes
How to build a simple dashboard module summary 6 minutes

15 readings Total 130 minutes

Install a template app 5 minutes
Types of visualizations in Power BI 5 minutes
Custom visuals 5 minutes
Exercise: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users) 30 minutes
Exemplar: Data modeling and visualizations 10 minutes
Power BI: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study – Miami Heat 5 minutes
Power BI: security lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Security additional resources 5 minutes
Transform data 5 minutes
Exercise: Build a dashboard 30 minutes
Build a dashboard lesson summary 5 minutes
Build a dashboard additional resources 5 minutes
About the graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 87 minutes

How to build a simple dashboard module quiz: Exam preparation 30 minutes
Exercise Review: Data modeling and visualizations 6 minutes
Power BI knowledge check 18 minutes
Security and administration knowledge check 9 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a dashboard 6 minutes
Build a dashboard knowledge check 18 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

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

2 plugins Total 9 minutes

Miami Heat's amazing transformation with Power BI 3 minutes
Power BI in action 6 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.