The PL-900 exam is the only exam needed to get the Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals Certification, and an optional exam in the Microsoft Certified Dynamics Associate and Expert paths. Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences.

In this PL-900 Study Guide, I will share both free and paid options, whether books, video training or simply links to articles and blog posts. I will not share any dumps as those are against the Microsoft Terms of Service, and by using dumps, we decrease the value of our certifications.

Books

Video Training

NOTE: Pluralsight is a paid resource unlike Channel9 and Microsoft Virtual Academy which are free. The quality they provide is also superior because of all the quality checks they go through, and the instructors are one of the best in the industry. The Pluralsight courses have a link to where you can get a free trial and decide for yourself if paying a subscription or not is worth it, but the 10-day free trial should allow you to view all those courses for free.

	Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) Certification Prep Path (6 courses – 10 hours) This path covers certification objectives for the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900). Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences. Read less Link: https://spvlad.com/PL900-PSPath Free Pluralsight Trial: http://spvlad.com/PS10DayTrial
	Overview of building solutions on PowerApps and the Power Platform In this video, get a high-level overview of the business problems being solved by Microsoft PowerApps and the Microsoft Power Platform. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFAe__ZvwHA
	Learn Microsoft Flow Welcome to workflow development. This course is your gateway to workflow design using Microsoft Flow. You will learn to build workflows from scratch and integrate it with many external services. Link: https://spvlad.com/33ogjex
	Microsoft Flow Crash Course This course teaches you the basic skills required for using Power BI to acquire and transform data, enhance the data for analysis, and produce reports and dashboards. Link: https://spvlad.com/34n1Ocl
	Fundamentals of Microsoft PowerApps This course will teach students how to design, build and publish modern mobile first and interactive forms using Microsoft PowerApps without the need to write a single line of code. Link: https://spvlad.com/2QQgIny
	Microsoft PowerApps & Flow: Build Business Apps Without Code You will learn how to build Apps without code using Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. A powerful alternative! Link: https://spvlad.com/37GiSfp
	Microsoft Power BI – A Complete Introduction In this course you will learn why Power BI offers you a comprehensive set of Business Intelligence tools for your data analysis goals and how to use these tools to fulfill all the above tasks – and more. Imagine to quickly structure your data, to easily add calculations to it and to create and publish nice-looking charts in just a few minutes. Link: https://spvlad.com/2QRDBHq
	Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Learn the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform. Create a simple Power App, connect data with CDS, build a Power BI Dashboard, and automate a process with Power Automate. Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/power-plat-fundamentals/

Instructor-led training (Microsoft Official Courses)

Articles / Blog Posts Per Objective

Describe the business value of Power Platform (15-20%)

Describe the business value of Power Platform services

• analyze data by using Power BI
  • Why Power BI
• act with Power Apps
  • Build professional-grade apps the easy way
• build solutions that use Common Data Service
  • What is Common Data Service?
  • Why choose Common Data Service?
• create flows by using Power Automate

1. Take care of what’s important. Automate the rest.

• use connectors to access services and data

1. About Connectors

• create powerful chatbots by using a guided, no-code graphical interface

1. Power Virtual Agents & Bot Framework – enabling everyone to build intelligent chatbots

Describe Power Platform administration and security

• describe how Power Platform implements security including awareness of Common Data Service security roles, Azure Identity Services

1. Security concepts in Common Data Service
2. Security in Common Data Service
3. Governance considerations
4. Configure user security to resources in an environment

• describe how to manage apps and users

1. Create and manage environments in the Power Platform admin center

• describe environments

1. Environments overview
2. About environments
3. Working with environments and Microsoft Power Apps
4. Establishing an Environment Strategy for Microsoft Power Platform
5. Create and manage environments in the Power Apps Admin center

• describe where to perform specific administrative tasks including Power Platform Admin center, Microsoft 365 admin center

1. Working with the admin portals
2. About admin roles
3. Assign admin roles
4. About the Microsoft 365 admin center

• describe Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

1. Data loss prevention (DLP) policies
2. Manage data loss prevention (DLP) policies
3. Create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy
4. Data loss prevention policies
5. New Data Loss Prevention capabilities in public preview

• describe how the platform supports privacy and accessibility guidelines

1. Compliance and data privacy
2. PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines
3. Making apps accessible
4. Create accessible canvas apps in Power Apps

Identify the Core Components of Power Platform (15-20%)

Describe Common Data Service

• describe the Power Apps user experience
  • Create a canvas app from scratch using Common Data Service
• describe entities, fields, and relationships
  • Identify entities and fields in Common Data Service
  • Understand relationships
• describe use cases for solutions
  • Solutions overview
• describe use cases and limitations of business rules
  • Apply business logic in Common Data Service
  • Create business rules and recommendations to apply logic in a model-driven app form
• describe the Common Data Model (CDM)

1. How to use Common Data Model
2. Frequently asked questions about the Common Data Model

• describe how to use common standard entities to describe people, places, and things

1. Entities and metadata in Common Data Service

Describe Connectors

• describe triggers including trigger types and where triggers are used

1. Power Platform: What are the connectors & triggers in Power Automate? [tracyvanderschyff]
2. Data Connectors

• describe actions

1. Power Platform: What are the connectors & triggers in Power Automate? [tracyvanderschyff]
2. Data Connectors

• describe licensing options for connectors including standard or premium tier Identify use cases for custom connectors
  • Data Connectors

Describe AI Builder

• identify the business value of AI Builder

1. Introducing AI Builder for Power Platform
2. What is AI Builder?

• describe models including business card reader, detection model, form processing model, and prediction model

1. AI model types
2. Overview of the prediction model
3. Create a prediction model
4. Use your prediction model
5. Use the business card reader component in model-driven apps
6. Use the business card reader prebuilt model in Power Automate
7. Get started with object detection
8. Use the object detection model in Power Automate
9. Train and publish your object detection model
10. Overview of the form-processing model
11. Create a form-processing model
12. Use a form-processing model in Power Automate
13. Train and publish your form-processing model

• describe how the Power Apps and Power Automate can consume AI Builder data
  • AI Builder in Power Automate overview
  • AI Builder in Power Apps overview

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI (15-20%)

Identify common Power BI components

• identify and describe uses for visualization controls including pie, bar, donut, and scatter plots and KPIs

1. Visualizations in Power BI reports
2. Visualization types in Power BI
3. Customize visualization titles, backgrounds, and legends

• describe types of filters

1. Types of filters in Power BI reports

• describe the Power BI Desktop Reports, Data, and Model tabs

1. What is Power BI Desktop?
2. Get started with Power BI Desktop
3. Data sources in Power BI Desktop
4. Data types in Power BI Desktop
5. Use the updated ribbon in Power BI Desktop
6. Work with Modeling view in Power BI Desktop

• describe uses for custom visuals including charts or controls

1. Create custom visuals for Power BI
2. Use custom controls for data visualizations
3. Tutorial: Developing a Power BI visual
4. Get a Power BI visual certified
5. How to govern Power BI visuals inside your organization [

Compare and contrast dashboards and workspaces

• compare and contrast Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service

1. Comparing Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service

Connect to and consume data

• combine multiple data sources

1. Combine data from multiple data sources (Power Query)
2. Tutorial: Shape and combine data in Power BI Desktop
3. Tutorial: Shape and combine data using Power Query

• clean and transform data

1. Transform, shape, and model data in Power BI – documentation

• describe and implement aggregate functions

1. Use aggregations in Power BI Desktop
2. Work with aggregates (sum, average, and so on) in the Power BI service

• identify available types of data sources including Microsoft Excel

1. Find out which data sources are used in a workbook data model ]

• describe use cases for shared datasets and template apps and how to consume each

1. What are Power BI template apps?
2. Shared and certified datasets

Build a basic dashboard using Power BI

• design a Power BI dashboard

1. Introduction to dashboards for Power BI designers
2. Tips for designing a great Power BI dashboard
3. Create a Power BI dashboard from a report

• design data layout and mapping

1. Tips for designing a great Power BI dashboard

• publish and share reports and dashboards

1. Ways to collaborate and share in Power BI
2. Share Power BI dashboards and reports with coworkers and others
3. Publish datasets and reports from Power BI Desktop
4. Display the dashboards and reports that have been shared with me

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps (15-20%)

Identify common Power Apps components

• describe differences between canvas apps and model-driven apps
  • Model Driven vs. Canvas PowerApps Major Differences (C# Corner)
• describe portal apps

1. Introducing PowerApps Portals: powerful low-code websites for external users
2. What is Power Apps portals?
3. Power Apps Portals
4. Power Apps portals FAQ

• identify and describe types of reusable components including canvas component libraries and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) components

1. Power Apps component framework overview

• describe use cases for formulas

1. Get started with canvas-app formulas in Power Apps

Build a basic canvas app

• describe types of data sources

1. Data types in canvas apps

• connect to data by using connectors

1. Overview of canvas-app connectors for Power Apps
2. Connect to Common Data Service

• combine multiple data sources
• use controls to design the user experience
  • Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
• describe the customer journey
• publish and share an app

1. Save and publish a canvas app in Power Apps
2. Share a canvas app in Power Apps

Describe Power Apps portals

• create a portal by using a template

1. Create and manage page templates
2. Create a Common Data Service starter portal

• describe common portal customizations

1. Overview of extending portals

• identify differences in portal behavior based on whether a user is authenticated

1. Configure portal authentication
2. Set authentication identity for a portal

• apply a theme to a portal

1. Overview of themes in Power Apps portals
2. Create a theme
3. Edit CSS for themes in Power Apps portal

Build a basic model-driven app

• add entities to app navigation

1. Basic navigation in a model-driven app
2. Build your first model-driven app from scratch

• modify forms and views

1. Customize entity forms
2. Understand model-driven app views
3. Create a model-driven app quick view form to view information about a related entity
4. Create, edit, or configure forms using the form designer

• publish and share an app

1. Share a model-driven app using Power Apps
2. Validate and publish a model-driven app using the app designer

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate (15-20%)

Identify common Power Automate components

• identify flow types

1. Types of flows

• describe use cases for and available templates

1. Exercise – Create your first flow
2. Check out the start page

• describe how Power Automate uses connectors
  • Manage connections in Power Automate
• describe loops and conditions including switch, do until, and apply to each

1. Use the apply to each action in Power Automate to process a list of items periodically

• describe expressions

1. Use expressions in flow actions

• describe approvals

1. Create and test an approval workflow with Power Automate

Build a basic flow

• create a flow by using the button, automated, or scheduled flow template

1. Run flows on a schedule
2. Introducing instant flows
3. Introducing button flows with user input
4. Create a flow in Power Automate
5. Create a flow from a template in Power Automate

• modify a flow

1. Create a flow in Power Automate

• use flow controls to perform data operations

1. Use data operations with Power Automate

• run a flow

1. Watch your flows in action
2. Run attended and unattended UI flows

Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Virtual Agents (10-15%)

Describe Power Virtual Agents capabilities

• describe use cases for Power Virtual Agents

1. Power Virtual Agents overview

• describe where you can publish chatbots

1. Key Concepts – Publish your bot

• describe topics, entities and actions

1. Key concepts – Enhanced authoring in Power Virtual Agents
2. Building a Crisis FAQ bot using Power Virtual Agents
3. Add actions to a bot using Power Automate

Build and publish a basic chatbot

• create a chatbot

1. Create your first Power Virtual Agents bot
2. Quickstart: Create and deploy a Power Virtual Agents bot

• create a topic

1. Create and edit topics in your Power Virtual Agents bot
2. Create topics from existing support content on the web

• call an action

1. Add actions to a bot using Power Automate

• test a chatbot

1. Test your Power Virtual Agents bot

• publish a chatbot

1. Key Concepts – Publish your bot

• monitor chatbot usage
  • Analyze bot performance and usage in Power Virtual Agents
  • Analyze topic usage in Power Virtual Agents
  • Analyze customer satisfaction for Power Virtual Agents bots
• monitor chatbot performance
  • Analyze bot performance and usage in Power Virtual Agents

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Additional Tips

I think the best thing that you can do after reading this, or even meanwhile, is to open a free Microsoft 365 with Dynamics 365 trial (or a few), and play with those features, follow the tutorials and you shouldn’t have any problems with the exam!

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