Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect

 

Senior Consultants (both functional and technical) that aspire to be Solution Architects, or current Solution Architects that are new to the role. Job role: Solution Architect
 

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
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Introduction
• Lead requirement capture sessions
• Identify functional requirements
• Identify non-functional requirements
• Confirm and finalize requirements
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Power Platform architecture

• Introduction
• Environments
• Environment data location
• Work with data
• Custom logic
• Platform limits
• High availability and disaster recovery considerations
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Model data for Power Platform solutions

• Introduction
• Common Data Model
• Data modeling
• 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
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Explore Power Apps architecture

• Introduction
• Common app patterns
• App composition
• Components
• Optimize canvas apps
• Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
• Portal apps
• Check your knowledge

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
• Check your knowledge

Explore Power Automate architecture

• Introduction
• Triggers
• Common actions
• Error handling
• Best practice
• Business process flows
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions

• Introduction
• Environment security
• Data loss prevention
• Access to Dataverse
• Security in apps
• Exercise - Security modeling
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Implement integrations with Power Platform

• Introduction
• Integration challenges
• Inbound data integration
• Outbound data integration
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Explore Power Virtual Agents

• Introduction
• Chatbot building options
• Chatbot concepts
• Best practices
• Integrate chatbots
• Power Virtual Agents in Teams
• Check your knowledge

Solution architect series: Explore robotic process automation

• Introduction
• Power Automate for desktop
• Record and edit tasks
• Run desktop flows
• Process advisor
• Check your knowledge

Solution Architect series: Testing and go-live

• Introduction
• Plan for go-live
• Data migration
• Plan for go-live
• Check your knowledge