PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals @NanddeepNachan
PL-900
Microsoft Power Platform
Fundamentals

Nanddeep Nachan
Consultant - SharePoint, Office 365, MS Azure
Speaker | Author | Blogger
@NanddeepNachan
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NanddeepNachan@gmail.com
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Agenda

Exam Overview

Types of questions
• Single choice
• Multiple choice
• Drag and drop
Best way to prepare

Introduction to
Power Platform

What is Power Platform?
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro
4 Products
Features

• Rapid low code development environment for building custom apps
• Enables the creation of web and mobile applications that run on all
devices.
• Business users or pro developers can build custom apps, when out
of the box solutions do not meet exact business needs.
Power Apps

• Create automated workflows between applications and services.
• Helps automate repetitive business processes such as
communication, data collections, and decision approvals.
Power Automate

• Business analytics service that delivers insights for analyzing data.
• Data visualizations with reports and dashboards.
Power BI

• Enables anyone to create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-
code graphical interface.
• No dependency on data scientists or developers.
• Chatbots can perform an action to call a Power Automate flow.
Power Virtual Agents

• AI Builder
• Adds AI capabilities to the workflows and Power Apps and predict outcomes.
• Common Data Service (CDS)
• A scalable data service and app platform.
• Securely store and manage data from multiple sources.
• Integrate that data in business applications using a common data model.
• Connectors
• Enable you to connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud.
• More than 275 connectors for the Power Platform are available.
• E.g.: Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google services, and more.
Features

Common Data Service

Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-common-data-service/2-overview

• Common Data Service database
• Single instance of Common Data Service which stores data in a set of
standard and custom data structures called entities.
• Entity
• A logical set of records that is used to store data. It is like a table in a
database or in an Excel workbook.
• Types: Standard, Complex.
• Field
• A way to store a discrete piece of information within a record in an entity.
• It is like a column in an Excel.
• Common Data Model
• Collection of predefined entities, attributes, semantic metadata, and
relationships.
Important Terms

Allow you to apply and maintain business logic at the data layer
instead of the app layer.
Business Rules
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-common-data-service/6-business-rules

Business Rules Usage
Canvas apps or Model-driven
apps
• Set field values
• Clear field values
• Validate data and show error
messages
Model-driven apps
• Show or hide fields
• Enable or disable fields
• Create business
recommendations based on
business intelligence

Demo
Common Data Services
(CDS)

Environments in CDS
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-common-data-service/5-environments

3 major sections:
• Environments
• Data policies
• Data integration
Power Apps Admin Center

Create and manage an environment
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-manage-environments/2-manage
https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com

Power Apps

• No-code/low-code platform for building apps
• Over 275 connectors
• Common data sources
• Common Data Service
• SharePoint
• Dynamics 365
• SQL Server and Azure SQL
• Office 365
• On-premises data sources
Power Apps Introduction

• Build an app from a blank canvas
• Choose the screen size: tablet or mobile
• Add data sources to your app
• Drag and drop various controls
• Add the desired functionality by writing
Excel style formulas
Canvas Apps
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-power-apps/2-what-is-power-apps

• Build from data in the Common
Data Service.
• App size will be responsive to
work on mobile or tablet.
• Define the relationships, forms,
views, business rules, and more
at the data layer, inside of the
Common Data Service.
• Get business results without
writing the formulas yourself.
Model-driven apps

• No-code solutions to building externally facing websites.
• Build an anonymous or authenticated website that allows users to
interact with data held in Common Data Service.
• Drag and drop experience to build rich, interactive websites.
Portals

• Add artificial intelligence to your apps with no code.
• Available AI models in Power Apps:
1. Prediction
2. Form processor
3. Object detector
4. Text classification
AI Builder

Build a canvas app

• Power Apps Studio (https://make.PowerApps.com)
• App format (Mobile or Tablet)
• Galleries
• Forms
• Input Controls
• Intelligent Controls
• Functions
Basic elements

Demo
Build Canvas App

Build a model-driven
app

1. Model your business data
2. Define your business processes
3. Build the app
3 design phases
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/how-build-model-driven-app/02-model-driven-apps

Demo
Build model-
driven App

Power Apps Portals

• Common Data Service
• Portal from blank
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps
• Community portal
• Customer self-service portal
• Employee self-service portal
• Partner portal
• Customer portal (Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management)
Portal templates

Demo
Provision a portal

Power Automate

1. Event driven flows
2. Business process flows
3. UI flows
3 types of flows

• 2 main parts: trigger, actions
Important concepts
Trigger
• When something changes
• On a schedule
• On a button press
Action
• Loops
• Switch
• Do Until
• Apply to each
• Expressions

Demo
Create a flow from
a template

Power BI

Power BI overview
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-power-bi/2-what-power-bi

Parts of Power BI
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-power-bi/2-what-power-bi

Major building blocks of Power BI:
Power BI concepts
• Capacities
• Workspaces
• My workspace
• Workspaces
• Datasets
• Reports
• Dashboards

Data modeling and visualizations
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-power-bi/2a-data-modeling-visualizations

Power Virtual
Agents (PVA)

• Topics
• User topics
• System topics
• Entities
• Prebuilt entities
• Custom entities
• Actions
• Publishing
Components of Power Virtual Agents

Demo
Build Basic Chatbot

On-premises
Data Gateway

What is an On-premises Data Gateway?
• One gateway for multiple cloud
services and experiences
• Power BI
• Power BI dataflows
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform dataflows
• Azure Analysis Services
• Logic Apps
• Microsoft Search
• Personal mode vs Standard mode
Image source: docs.microsoft.com

Do we need Data Gateway every time?

Summary: Power Platform
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro
4 Products
Features

• Certification
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/pl-900
• Microsoft Learn Path
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/power-plat-fundamentals/
References

Thank You
NanddeepNachan@gmail.com
/in/nanddeepnachan
@NanddeepNachan
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