Power Platform Solution Architect

Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

Learn how to become a solution architect.

• Introduction to becoming a solution architect
• Existing product and platform skills
• Expectations of a solution architect
• Solution architect role during project phases
• Pillars of a great architecture
• Check your knowledge

Discover customer needs as a Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

Learn how to ask customers questions about their business processes and feature requirements to create a viable solution.

• Introduction and discovery overview
• Initial customer discovery
• Customer discovery meetings
• Customer communication strategy
• Check your knowledge

Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

Learn how to propose a solution.

• Introduction and overview to proposing a solution
• Identify solution components
• Develop and validate a demo
• Identify potential third-party components
• Recognize strengths and weaknesses in a solution
• Check your knowledge

Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

It is important to capture the customer’s needs accurately. This module explains how to capture requirements and identify functional and non-functional items.

• Lead requirement capture sessions
• Identify functional requirements
• Identify non-functional requirements
• Confirm and finalize requirements
• Check your knowledge

Perform fit gap analysis

Learn about performing a fit gap analysis as a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.

• Introduction to fit gap analysis
• Determine feasibility of requirements
• Refine requirements from proof of concept insights
• Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analysis
• Evaluate Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform apps
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Implement project governance for Power Platform and Dynamics 365

Learn about project governance as a solution architect.

• Introduction to project governance
• Project governance
• Solution architect’s role in project governance
• Techniques for keeping a project on track
• Work as a team
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Power Platform architecture

Learn about Microsoft Power Platform architecture.

• Environments
• Environment data location
• Work with data
• Custom logic
• Platform limits
• High availability and disaster recovery considerations
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Model data for Power Platform solutions

Learn how to work with data modeling in Microsoft Power Platform solutions as a solution architect.

• Common Data Model
• Data modeling
• Choose a data store
• Data modeling for Dataverse
• Best practices for Dataverse
• Exercise - Model data
• Architecture of Fabrikam data model and devices
• Report data and handle primary visitors
• Handle visitors, waivers, and photos
• Example data model solution
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Evaluate Power Platform analytics and AI

Learn about reporting and analytics in Microsoft Power Platform.

• Power Platform reporting capabilities
• Power BI overview
• Data requirements
• Power BI and Power Platform
• Dataflows
• AI
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Explore Power Apps architecture

Explore the architecture of Microsoft Power Apps.

• Common app patterns
• App composition
• Components
• Optimize canvas apps
• Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
• Portal apps
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Plan application lifecycle management for Power Platform

Solution architects for Microsoft Power Platform need to define the environment strategy and application lifecycle management (ALM) for transporting work from development to test to production.

• Key considerations for ALM
• Solutions
• Configuration and reference data
• Release process
• ALM with Azure DevOps
• Check your knowledge

Explore Power Automate architecture

Explore the architecture of Microsoft Power Automate.

• Triggers
• Common actions
• Error handling
• Best practice
• Business process flows
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions

Lean about security functionality within Microsoft Dataverse.

• Environment security
• Data loss prevention
• Access to Dataverse
• Security in apps
• Exercise - Security modeling
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Implement integrations with Power Platform

Learn how to implement integrations in Microsoft Power Platform solutions.

• Integration challenges
• Inbound data integration
• Outbound data integration
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Explore Power Virtual Agents

Learn how Power Virtual Agents are used in solutions.

• Chatbot building options
• Chatbot concepts
• Best practices
• Integrate chatbots
• Power Virtual Agents in Teams
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Explore robotic process automation

Learn about Microsoft Power Automate for desktop and its capabilities.

• Power Automate for desktop
• Record and edit tasks
• Run desktop flows
• Process advisor
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Testing and go-live

The solution architect role is continuous; they must also deploy the solution.

• Plan for go-live
• Data migration
• Plan for go-live
• Check your knowledge