The Power Platform empowers organizations to automate business processes, develop their own rich app experiences, and connect with customers better and faster.
In this course, students will learn to perform discovery, capture requirements, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, translate requirements, and configure Power Platform solutions and apps. They will supplement their learnings with hands-on labs to create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.
Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. In this course, we will cover these four applications in-depth, with additional focus on the Common Data Service, AI Builder, connectors, and portals.
A Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring Power Platform solutions and apps.
The Functional Consultant implements components of a solution that include application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.
Module 1: Introduction to the Power Platform
This module will provide the learner with background about the Power Platform and its 4 key components: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents.
Lessons
Lab 1: Validate lab environment
After completing module 1, students will be able to:
Module 2: Work with the Common Data Service
In this module, students will learn about creating a data model in the Common Data Service, including importing data, using tabular reporting options, and configuring security. They will also learn about creating easy AI with AI Builder.
Lessons
Lab 2a: Create an app
Lab 2b: Create entities and fields
Lab 2c: Create relationships
Lab 2d: Additional entity options
After completing module 2, students will be able to:
Module 3: Make Power Apps
In this module, students will learn the business value of the three types of Power Apps. They will then learn to how to configure and design them, including user experience considerations for each type of application.
Lessons
Lab 3a: App designer
Lab 3b: Modify forms
Lab 3c: Modify views
Lab 3d: Build dashboards
Lab 3e: Canvas app fundamentals
Lab 3f: Work with data and services
Lab 3g: User experience
After completing module 3, students will be able to:
Module 4: Build Power Automate flows
In this module, students will learn how to automate business processes using Power Automate flows, business process flows, and UI flows.
Lessons
Lab 4a: Create users
Lab 4b: Create security role
Lab 4c: Configure a new business rule
Lab 4d: Advanced business rules
Lab 4e: Create a flow
Lab 4f: Build approval flow
Lab 4g: Build a business process flow
Lab 4h: Add branching to business process flow
After completing module 4, students will be able to:
Module 5: Work with Power Virtual Agents
In this module, students will learn how to automate customer interactions with a chatbot using Power Virtual Agents.
Lessons
Lab 5: Create a chatbot
After completing module 5, students will be able to:
Module 6: Analyze data with Power BI
In this module, students will learn how to work with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to analyze data and create visualizations.
Lessons
Lab 6a: Build a Word template
Lab 6b: Build an Excel template
Lab 6c: Duplicate detection
Lab 6d: Import data
Lab 6e: Export data
Lab 6f: Bulk delete
After completing module 6, students will be able to:
Module 7: Consultant skills
In this module, students will learn more about the functional consultant role and the skills required to successfully implement a Power Platform solution for an organization.
Lessons
After completing module 7, students will be able to:
