Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

So there is a new bunch of PowerApps certification out and it is, therefore, time either take the opportunity to learn or to prove that you know, the latest PowerApps stuff. As always old certification will be deprecated and new will take their place …so… ready, set, go.

In this blog post, I will share my secret prep guide of passing certification PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals.

Newbie to Microsoft certification?

If you are new to certification exams, I recommend you to go through the official Microsoft course content for this certification as it would give you a decent foundation to have a chance to pass. When taking the exam use these Strategies to read Certification Questions.

Official PL-900 Certification Self-Paced training

But certification is not passed with just reading the theory, but you need to actually get into the system, use it and understand the process and relationships on components as some certification questions are quite “where to click in correct order” questions. For this, I recommend spinning up a free individual Power Platform aka. Community Plan to have a fully functional Power Platform to mess up going through some of the laps found in the below training.

Lab training Working with Power Platform

The Shorter prep fore us with practical experience

Having passed Dynamics certification the last 10+ years, I found the most effective step to prep is always to list and look into the specific Skills measured and find relevant information for those topics only to keep my prep as lean, clean and quick. I focus reading up on the added and changed skills measured and only skim the skills measured that have not changed since last time. Below you find the skills measured and links to Docs.microsoft.com that I found relevant to pass the certification.

Relevant information to pass certification

First, I look through the official Microsoft documentation that is getting better and better at Docs.Microsoft.Com.

I have done all the “hard work” and below you find the relevant links for prep on PL-900 in a lean, clean and quick fashion.

Note when reading Docs.Microsoft.com documentation take special care of reading and remembering the purple “Note” and baby blue “Important” section as information here have a high likelihood of being in the certification questions.

Skills measured in PL-900 & links to learn

Understand the business value of Power Platform (20-25%)

Understand the Core Components of Power Platform (20-25%)

Demonstrate the business value of Power BI (15-20%)

Demonstrate the business value of Power Apps (20-25%)

Demonstrate the business value of Power Automate (15-20%)

Understand the common components of Power Automate

Good luck taking the Certification

Please post a comment if you find anything missing that could benefit from passing this certification.