PL-900 study guide
PL-900 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals is a beginner-level Microsoft certification aimed at the App Maker role. Earning it demonstrates that you understand the business value and product capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform - notably Power Apps, data connections with Microsoft Dataverse, and Power Automate - and that you can explain how the platform is used to build tailored business solutions, work with data through Dataverse and connectors, apply AI-powered capabilities in Power Apps, automate business processes with Power Automate, and create agents with Copilot Studio. The PL-900 study guide has 5 sections and about 1,739 words.
01Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform
Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code suite of products plus shared services. Power Apps builds apps; Power Automate builds workflows and desktop automation; Power BI delivers analytics and dashboards; Power Pages publishes external-facing websites; Copilot Studio builds conversational agents.
347 words, about 2 min02Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
An environment is a container for apps, flows, Dataverse data, and users, with its own security boundary and its own DLP policy assignment. Every tenant has a default environment that all licensed users can access; it cannot be deleted, so production work should live in dedicated environments instead.
327 words, about 2 min03Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps
Canvas app : you design the UI first, control by control, and bind data with formulas (Power Fx). Runs on web and mobile, uses 1,000+ connectors, and can work offline with Dataverse or collections.
353 words, about 2 min04Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
Automated cloud flow : starts from an event trigger (new SharePoint item, new email, new Dataverse row). Instant cloud flow : started manually, from a button, or called by another app or flow.
350 words, about 2 min05Describe features and capabilities of agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio
An agent built in Microsoft Copilot Studio is a conversational assistant created without code and published to channels such as Microsoft Teams, a website, or a contact-center integration. It answers questions from knowledge sources and takes actions in other systems.
362 words, about 2 min