Skills at a glance

• Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)

• Architect a solution (35–40%)

• Implement the solution (15–20%)

Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)

Initiate solution planning

• Evaluate business requirements

• Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components

• Identify and select components from existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, Azure, third-party components, and independent software vendors (ISVs)

• Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts and alternatives

Identify organization information and metrics

• Guide the process of collecting the current state business processes

• Assess an organization’s risk factors

• Review key success criteria

Identify existing solutions and systems

• Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture

• Identify data sources needed for a solution

• Define use cases and quality standards for existing data

Capture requirements

• Refine high-level requirements

• Identify functional requirements

• Identify non-functional requirements

• Guide the process of designing and improving the future state business processes

Perform fit/gap analyses

• Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements

• Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements

• Address functional gaps through alternate solutions

• Determine the scope for a solution

Architect a solution (35–40%)

Lead the design process

• Design the solution topology

• Identify customization approach for existing apps

• Design and validate user experience prototypes

• Identify opportunities for component reuse

• Communicate system design visually

• Design a data migration strategy

• Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task

• Design a data visualization strategy

• Design an automation strategy

• Design environment strategy

Design the data model

• Design relationships and relationship behaviors

• Determine when to connect to external data versus import data

• Design data models to address complex sets of requirements

Design integrations

• Design collaboration suite integration including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

• Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps

• Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems

• Design third-party integrations

• Design an authentication strategy

• Design a business continuity strategy

• Design robotic process automation (RPA)

• Assess possibilities of networking to support integrations

Design the security model

• Design the business unit and team structure

• Design security roles

• Design column and row level security

• Design security models to address complex sets of requirements

• Determine security model management policies and processes

• Identify Microsoft Entra ID groups and app registrations required to support a solution

• Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution

• Determine how external users will access a solution

Implement the solution (15–20%)

Validate the solution design

• Evaluate detailed designs and implementation

• Review the security across the solution including business rules, user roles, Entra ID requirements and security boundaries

• Ensure that the solution conforms to API limits

• Assess the solution performance and impact on resources

• Resolve automation conflicts

• Resolve integration conflicts

Support go-live

• Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues

• Escalate and provide options to resolve data migration issues

• Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans

• Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues

Who this course is for:

• As a candidate for this exam, you should have solution architecture experience across functional and technical disciplines of Microsoft Power Platform. You should be able to facilitate design decisions based on recommended practices across development, configuration, integration, infrastructure, security, licensing, storage, and change management.