Module 1: Architect Solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

• Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

  • Introduction to becoming a solution architect
  • Existing product and platform skills
  • Expectations of a solution architect
  • Solution architect role during project phases
  • Pillars of a great architecture
• Discover customer needs as a Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

  • Introduction and discovery overview
  • Initial customer discovery
  • Customer discovery meetings
  • Customer communication strategy
• Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

  • Introduction and overview to proposing a solution
  • Identify solution components
  • Develop and validate a demo
  • Identify potential third-party components
  • Recognize strengths and weaknesses in a solution
• Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

  • Introduction
  • Lead requirements capture sessions
  • Identify functional requirements
  • Identify non-functional requirements
  • Confirm and finalize requirements
• Perform fit gap analysis

  • Introduction to fit gap analysis
  • Determine feasibility of requirements
  • Refine requirements from proof-of-concept insights
  • Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analysis
  • Evaluate Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform apps

Module 2: Solution Architect: Design Microsoft Power Platform Solutions

• Solution Architect series: Implement project governance for Power Platform and Dynamics 365

  • Introduction to project governance
  • Project governance
  • Solution architect’s role in project governance
  • Techniques for keeping a project on track
  • Work as a team
• Solution Architect series: Power Platform architecture

  • Introduction
  • Environments
  • Environment data location
  • Work with data
  • Custom logic
  • Platform limits
  • High availability and disaster recovery considerations
• Solution Architect series: Explore Power Apps architecture

  • Introduction
  • Common app patterns
  • App composition
  • Components
  • Optimize canvas apps
  • Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
  • Portal apps
• Explore Power Automate architecture

  • Introduction
  • Triggers
  • Common actions
  • Error handling
  • Best practice
  • Business process flows
• Solution architect series: Explore Microsoft Copilot Studio

  • Introduction
  • Agent building options
  • Agent concepts
  • Best practices
  • Integrate agents
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio in Teams
• Solution architect series: Explore robotic process automation

  • Introduction
  • Power Automate for desktop
  • Record and edit tasks
  • Run desktop flows
  • Process mining
• Solution architect series: Model data for Power Platform solutions

  • Introduction
  • Common Data Model
  • Data modelling
  • Choose a data store
  • Data modeling for Dataverse
  • Best practices for Dataverse
  • Exercise - Model data
  • Architecture of Fabrikam data model and devices
  • Report data and handle primary visitors
  • Handle visitors, waivers, and photos
  • Example data model solution
• Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions

  • Introduction
  • Environment security
  • Data loss prevention
  • Access to Dataverse
  • Security in apps
  • Exercise: Security modelling
• Solution Architect series: Evaluate Power Platform analytics and AI

  • Introduction
  • Power Platform reporting capabilities
  • Power BI overview
  • Data requirements
  • Power BI and Power Platform
  • Dataflows
  • AI
• Solution Architect series: Implement integrations with Power Platform

  • Introduction
  • Integration challenges
  • Inbound data integration
  • Outbound data integration
• Solution Architect series: Plan application lifecycle management for Power Platform

  • Introduction
  • Key considerations for ALM
  • Solutions
  • Configuration and reference data
  • Release process
  • ALM with Azure DevOps
• Solution Architect series: Testing and go-live

  • Introduction
  • Plan for go-live
  • Data migration
  • Plan for go-live

Module 3: Validate Your Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Skills

• Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

  • Introduction to becoming a solution architect
  • Introduction to becoming a solution architect
  • Expectations of a solution architect
  • Solution architect role during project phases
  • Pillars of a great architecture
• Design a semantic model in Power BI

  • Introduction
  • Work with tables
  • Create a date table
  • Work with dimensions
  • Define data granularity
  • Work with relationships and cardinality
  • Resolve modeling challenges
  • Exercise: Model data in Power BI Desktop
• Challenge project: Create Microsoft Power Platform solutions

  • Introduction
  • Prepare
  • Exercise: Create solutions for customers using Power Platform