PL-600: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect-Apr 2025
Description:
Skills at a glance
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)
Architect a solution (35–40%)
Implement the solution (15–20%)
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)
Initiate solution planning
Evaluate business requirements
Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
Identify and select components from existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, Azure, third-party components, and independent software vendors (ISVs)
Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts and alternatives
Identify organization information and metrics
Guide the process of collecting the current state business processes
Assess an organization's risk factors
Review key success criteria
Identify existing solutions and systems
Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture
Identify data sources needed for a solution
Define use cases and quality standards for existing data
Capture requirements
Refine high-level requirements
Identify functional requirements
Identify non-functional requirements
Guide the process of designing and improving the future state business processes
Perform fit/gap analyses
Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
Determine the scope for a solution
Architect a solution (35–40%)
Lead the design process
Design the solution topology
Identify customization approach for existing apps
Design and validate user experience prototypes
Identify opportunities for component reuse
Communicate system design visually
Design a data migration strategy
Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task
Design a data visualization strategy
Design an automation strategy
Design environment strategy
Design the data model
Design relationships and relationship behaviors
Determine when to connect to external data versus import data
Design data models to address complex sets of requirements
Design integrations
Design collaboration suite integration including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems
Design third-party integrations
Design an authentication strategy
Design a business continuity strategy
Design robotic process automation (RPA)
Assess possibilities of networking to support integrations
Design the security model
Design the business unit and team structure
Design security roles
Design column and row level security
Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
Determine security model management policies and processes
Identify Microsoft Entra ID groups and app registrations required to support a solution
Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
Determine how external users will access a solution
Implement the solution (15–20%)
Validate the solution design
Evaluate detailed designs and implementation
Review the security across the solution including business rules, user roles, Entra ID requirements and security boundaries
Ensure that the solution conforms to API limits
Assess the solution performance and impact on resources
Resolve automation conflicts
Resolve integration conflicts
Support go-live
Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
Escalate and provide options to resolve data migration issues
Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues