Mastery in Power Apps and Power Automate — Lesson 1: Power Platform and Data Foundations

Learning Objectives

• Select the right Power Apps and Power Automate pattern for a business need
• Connect to Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and approved data sources
• Plan roles, permissions, connections, environments, and solution components

Detailed Topics

• Select the right Power Apps and Power Automate pattern for a business need: Select the right Power Apps and Power Automate pattern for a business need
• Connect to Dataverse: Connect to Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and approved data sources
• Plan roles: Plan roles, permissions, connections, environments, and solution components

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, application, automation, analysis, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Design a connected app-and-automation solution.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Power Platform and Data Foundations in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.