This course will teach you to use Microsoft Power Platform solutions to simplify, automate, and empower business processes for organizations in the role of a Functional Consultant. A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations. This course may contain a 1-day Applied Workshop. This workshop will allow you to practice your Functional Consultant skills by creating an end-to-end solution to solve a problem for a fictitious company. The solution will include a Microsoft Dataverse database, Power Apps canvas app, and Power Automate flows.
A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations.
Course Syllabus
Get started using Dataverse
Do you want to learn how to build solutions that can use a standardized data structure and work with other solutions sharing the same data model? Do you want to extend the standard model to support custom solutions? This learning path explains the concepts behind and benefits of Dataverse. Creating an environment, entities, fields and options sets are also discussed in this learning path.
Manage permissions and administration for Dataverse
Do you need to manage user access rights? In this learning path, you will learn how to manage permissions associated with environments and entities. You will also learn about different administrative portals and how to access each.
Visualize, import, and export Microsoft Dataverse data
This learning path will show you how to use various Dataverse views, explore how Power Query can load data into Dataverse tables, and how to use Dataverse with third-party tools.
Create relationships, business rules, calculations, and rollups in Dataverse
Do you need to create data relationships, business rules, calculations, and rollups in Dataverse? These modules help you use Dataverse to build powerful business solutions to transform your operations, processes, and your entire organization.
Advanced Model-Driven Apps with Power Apps: Configuration, Customization, and Deployment Techniques
This learning path covers creating and customizing model-driven apps in Microsoft Power Platform, including using forms, views, and dashboards, deploying and evolving apps, and leveraging reporting, analytics, and command customization.
Create a canvas app in Power Apps
Do you want to create apps to help make your business more efficient? Then this path is for you. It introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it.
Use the UI and controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
The app user experience often defines the success of your app. This learning path will focus on how to provide the best app navigation, and build the best UI using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.
Use basic formulas to make better Power Apps canvas apps
Do you want to use formulas to improve functionality and change a behavior in your Power Apps canvas app? This learning path can help you accomplish your goal.
Advanced Canvas App Development in Power Apps: Mastering Formulas and Development Techniques
This learning path teaches how to write complex formulas and apply imperative development techniques in Power Apps, including understanding various development methods and utilizing different types of variables.
Work with Power Pages websites
This learning path describes how Power Pages components work within context of Dataverse to deliver the content and data to external and internal audiences.
Extend Power Pages
This learning path describes how to transform a content website into a complete web app interacting with Dataverse.
Administer Power Pages
This learning path describes tools and techniques available for administrators to configure and maintain Power Pages sites, as well as efficiently troubleshoot the issues.
Work with Power Automate error handling and expressions
This learning path covers how to use your Power Automate skills to master error handling and expressions. Learn best practices for identifying and resolving flow failures efficiently using the flow actions and built-in error reports. Then, take your automation to the next level by leveraging expressions to manipulate and optimize your data.
Integrate Power Automate flows and Dataverse
Work with triggers and actions to extend Power Automate and Dataverse. This Learning Path looks at how to use these features with your flows.
Power Platform Solution Management: Sharing, Customization, and Low-Code Development Essentials
This learning path covers sharing Power Automate cloud flows, using Power Apps for app creation, managing solutions in Power Automate, and transporting and customizing apps within Microsoft Power Platform.
Validate your Power Platform Functional Consultant skills
This learning path prepares you to complete the Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant challenge project and validate your skills.
This learning path covers sharing Power Automate cloud flows, using Power Apps for app creation, managing solutions in Power Automate, and transporting and customizing apps within Microsoft Power Platform.
Prerequisites:
- Experience as an IT professional or student
- Working knowledge of the Power Platform and its key components
- A knowledge of Microsoft Dataverse (or general data modeling) and security concepts
Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant
