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Types of questions
• Single choice
• Multiple choice
• Drag and drop
Best way to prepare
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What is Power Platform?
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro
4 Products
Features
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• 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
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• Create automated workflows between applications and services.
• Helps automate repetitive business processes such as
communication, data collections, and decision approvals.
Power Automate
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• Business analytics service that delivers insights for analyzing data.
• Data visualizations with reports and dashboards.
Power BI
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• 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
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• 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
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Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-common-data-service/2-overview
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• 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
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Allow you to apply and maintain business logic at the data layer
instead of the app layer.
Business Rules
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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
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Demo
Common Data Services
(CDS)
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Environments in CDS
Image source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-common-data-service/5-environments
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3 major sections:
• Environments
• Data policies
• Data integration
Power Apps Admin Center
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Create and manage an environment
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https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Power Apps Studio (https://make.PowerApps.com)
• App format (Mobile or Tablet)
• Galleries
• Forms
• Input Controls
• Intelligent Controls
• Functions
Basic elements
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1. Model your business data
2. Define your business processes
3. Build the app
3 design phases
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1. Event driven flows
2. Business process flows
3. UI flows
3 types of flows
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• 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
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Demo
Create a flow from
a template
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Power BI overview
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Parts of Power BI
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Major building blocks of Power BI:
Power BI concepts
• Capacities
• Workspaces
• My workspace
• Workspaces
• Datasets
• Reports
• Dashboards
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Data modeling and visualizations
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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
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Do we need Data Gateway every time?
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Summary: Power Platform
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4 Products
Features
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• 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
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