Create Apps and Automation Power Platform — Lesson 3: Automation and Integration

Learning Objectives

• Create triggers, actions, conditions, approvals, loops, and notifications
• Connect the application to Microsoft 365 and approved data sources
• Handle failures, retries, permissions, duplicate execution, and monitoring

Detailed Topics

• Create triggers: Create triggers, actions, conditions, approvals, loops, and notifications
• Connect the application to Microsoft 365 and approved data sources: Connect the application to Microsoft 365 and approved data sources
• Handle failures: Handle failures, retries, permissions, duplicate execution, and monitoring

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, intended users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, application, report, 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 the acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Automate a key application process and validate normal and exception paths.

• 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 at least two 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, support 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 Automation and Integration in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.