PL-600 key terms

The role that turns business goals into a technical design spanning Power Platform and related Azure services, balancing feasibility, governance, licensing cost, and long-term maintainability across the engagement.

Statements describing what the solution must do for its users, such as capturing a case or approving a request, usually written as user stories with acceptance criteria.

Quality and constraint requirements such as performance targets, availability, security, data residency, audit retention, and usability that shape the architecture without describing a specific feature.

The practice of linking each requirement to its design component, build item, and test case so scope changes and coverage gaps can be verified throughout delivery.

A comparison of requirements against standard platform capabilities that identifies where out-of-the-box features satisfy the need (fit) and where customization or new components are required (gap).

Documenting how work actually flows through roles and systems today, producing a baseline for redesign and a source of requirements and automation opportunities.

Identifying everyone affected by or influencing the solution, along with their interests, influence, and communication needs, to plan engagement and decision-making.

A short, focused build that verifies a risky assumption or unfamiliar integration before committing to full design, typically with limited scope and disposable artifacts.

The accumulated cost of shortcuts, legacy customizations, or outdated patterns that makes future change slower and more expensive if not tracked and remediated.

A design document describing components, data model, integrations, security, environments, and deployment approach for the proposed solution, used to validate and communicate the architecture.

An isolated container holding apps, flows, data, and settings, used to separate development, testing, and production workloads and to control access and deployment.

A plan for how many environments exist, what each is used for, who owns it, and how items move between them, including development, test, acceptance, and production tiers.

Microsoft's cloud data service that stores business data in tables with rich metadata, relationship types, row and column level security, and built-in business logic.

A Dataverse structure that stores records of one kind, defining columns, relationships, forms, views, and business rules that apply to every row of that type.

A set of privileges and access levels in Dataverse granting users permission to create, read, update, delete, and append records at organization, business unit, or user scope.

A Dataverse organizational container used to model a company's structure and to scope record ownership and security role access for the people assigned to it.

An additional Dataverse control implemented through field security profiles that restricts read, update, and create access to specific sensitive columns beyond what the user's security role allows.

Tenant-level rules that classify connectors as business, non-business, or blocked, preventing data from flowing between connectors assigned to different groups.

An agent installed on a server that lets cloud services reach on-premises data sources securely without opening inbound firewall ports.

An Entra ID policy that evaluates signals such as user, device, location, and risk before granting access to Power Platform services, enforcing multifactor authentication or blocking sessions.

A recurring design approach for connecting systems, such as real-time request-reply, event-driven messaging, scheduled batch sync, or data virtualization, chosen to match latency and volume needs.

A serverless compute service used alongside Power Platform to run custom code for complex logic, heavy processing, or operations that exceed connector or flow limits.

The rules determining which Power Platform capabilities a user may access, typically per-user or per-app plans covering premium connectors, Dataverse, and capacity add-ons.

The policies, standards, and processes controlling who can build what, where, and with which connectors, so that self-service development stays secure and supportable.

Platform logging that records record changes, user access, and administrative activity, used for compliance investigations and troubleshooting unexpected behavior.

Planned capabilities such as environment backups, point-in-time restore, and regional failover used to restore service and data after an outage or corruption event.

The top-level Microsoft cloud organization holding Entra ID users and all Power Platform environments; policies applied here affect every environment inside it.

The discipline of moving solutions through development, testing, and production in a repeatable, versioned way, including source control, automated export, and release management.

A container that packages Power Platform components such as apps, flows, tables, and connectors so they can be exported, versioned, and deployed to another environment.

A packaged solution deployed for use in a target environment; its components are locked apart from configuration and it can be uninstalled cleanly, making it suitable for production releases.

A solution used during development whose components remain editable and which layers changes directly onto the target environment; not recommended for production deployment.

The way multiple solutions affecting the same component combine, with managed layers stacking over the base and unmanaged customizations taking precedence, explaining odd behavior after imports.

A short alphanumeric prefix assigned to a solution publisher that is added to custom component names to avoid naming collisions and to identify their origin.

A configured sequence that exports a solution from one environment, runs pre-deployment checks, and imports it into the next, replacing manual export and import steps.

A wrapper describing an external REST or SOAP API so that apps and flows can call it with defined authentication, actions, and triggers.

An application identity registered in Microsoft Entra ID with a secret or certificate, used by automated pipelines and integrations to authenticate without a human account.

A low-code tool for building conversational agents that answer questions and perform actions across Dataverse, connectors, and external knowledge sources.

A guided, stage-based path in a model-driven app that walks users through the steps of a business process and can require specific data before advancing.