Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (Coursera)

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the business value of Power Platform

• Identify the core components of Power Platform

• Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI

• Describe the capabilities of Power Apps

• Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents

Microsoft's Power Platform is not just for programmers and specialist technologists. If you, or the company that you work for, aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences or even chatbots, this is the right course to kick-start your career and learn amazing skills.

Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals will act as a bedrock of fundamental knowledge to prepare you for the Microsoft Certification: Power Platform Fundamentals - PL900 Exam. You will be able to demonstrate your real-world knowledge of the fundamentals of Microsoft Power Platform.

This course can accelerate your progress and give your career a boost, as you use your Microsoft skills to improve your team’s productivity.

What You Will Learn

Learners will learn how to create simple apps, visualize data, automate a business process and build a chatbot.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

Learn about the components of Microsoft Power Platform, the business value for customers, and security of the technology.

WEEK 2

Create custom solutions for everyday problems

Power Apps allows businesses to create custom solutions for everyday problems. In this module, you will learn how to build and customize a canvas app from scratch, and to leverage Power Apps to create model-driven apps.

WEEK 3

Build an automated solution

Learn about the value of Power Apps portals and how you can leverage it to allow internal and external audiences to view and interact with data from Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365.

WEEK 4

Power BI

Power BI helps business users and developers alike to easily analyze, visualize, and collaborate on data. This module will teach you how to do all of that without effecting your underlying dataset.

WEEK 5

Power Virtual Agents

Learn how Power Virtual Agents, will help you publish bots to engage with your customers on multiple platforms or channels. These can include live websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms like Microsoft Teams and Facebook, etc.

WEEK 6

The practice exam

Prepare to take the certification exam.