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Skills this practice test covers
- Explain the business value of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, connectors and Dataverse.
- Describe Dataverse tables and relationships, environments and the Power Platform security model.
- Build a canvas app with connectors and containers, and a model-driven app from tables.
- Create, test and share a cloud flow that starts from an instant, automated or scheduled trigger.
- Create a Power Pages site with Copilot, then change its pages, components and theme.
- Describe what Copilot Studio and the Copilot features in each service can do.
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PL-900 exam content
5 domains · 11 topics · 250 questions
Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform
This domain asks why a business would use each service. Candidates describe the value of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, connectors, Dataverse, Power Fx and the Copilot features, and how the services work together and with Microsoft 365.
Skills tested
- Match a business problem to Power Apps, Power Automate or Power Pages.
- Explain how connectors bring outside services and data into a solution.
- Describe what Copilot Studio and the generative AI features add.
- Show how a solution works inside Microsoft 365 apps such as Microsoft Teams.
Official topics
- Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform services
- Describe the business value of extending business solutions
Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
This domain covers where solutions keep their data and how they are governed. Candidates describe Dataverse tables, columns, relationships and business logic, and the security model, environments and admin centers.
Skills tested
- Compare Dataverse with a traditional database.
- Create tables and columns, including through a conversation with Copilot.
- Describe how environments and the security model control who can use what.
- Name the admin centers and portals, and what each one manages.
Official topics
- Describe Microsoft Dataverse
- Describe Power Platform administration and governance
Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps
The largest domain is about the two kinds of app. Candidates choose between canvas and model-driven apps, build a canvas app with connectors, containers and controls, and build a model-driven app from tables.
Skills tested
- Choose a canvas app or a model-driven app for a given need.
- Connect a canvas app to data, lay it out with containers and share it.
- Create a model-driven app from tables, then change its forms and views.
- Describe what Copilot controls can do inside a canvas app.
Official topics
- Identify Power Apps capabilities
- Build a canvas app
- Build a model-driven app
Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
This domain covers automation. Candidates tell cloud flows from desktop flows, explain how triggers and actions work, and build, test, run and share a cloud flow.
Skills tested
- Choose between a cloud flow, a desktop flow and a cloud flow template.
- Create a cloud flow from an instant, automated or scheduled trigger.
- Add loops and branches, then test, monitor and share the flow.
- Describe what Process Mining shows about a business process.
Official topics
- Identify Power Automate components
- Build a Power Automate flow
Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Pages
This domain covers business websites. Candidates describe Power Pages use cases and security, then create a site with Copilot and edit its pages, components and theme in the design studio.
Skills tested
- Describe when a Power Pages site fits a business need.
- Create a site with Copilot and edit pages in the design studio workspaces.
- Configure site components and change the theme.
- Explain how Power Pages security controls what visitors can see.
Official topics
- Describe the capabilities of Power Pages
- Create a Power Pages site
Requirements
- No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
- Recommended: a basic understanding of business processes and familiarity with Microsoft 365.
- Recommended: an interest in low-code and no-code solutions; technical experience is not needed.
About the PL-900 exam
PL-900 checks that a beginner understands what each Microsoft Power Platform service does and which business problems it solves. It covers Power Apps for apps, Power Automate for flows, Power Pages for websites, and Dataverse and connectors for data, plus the Copilot features in each. Some objectives are hands-on, such as building a canvas app or a cloud flow, and others cover environments and governance. No technical experience is required, and passing earns the Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals certification.
Each explanation in the PlanetCert practice test says why one service fits a scenario better than another, for example a model-driven app for a process built on Dataverse tables, or a canvas app when the screen layout matters most. Flashcard Mode helps with the many feature names, from connectors and Power Fx to Process Mining and the design studio. Study Mode suits the Power Apps domain, the largest on the exam, where canvas and model-driven apps are easy to mix up. Brainy AI Assistant can explain how a cloud flow differs from a desktop flow, or what a Dataverse business rule does.
How to earn the certification
- Earns
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform FundamentalsFundamentals
- After
- PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst
An associate exam on data models and reports in Power BI, the analytics service in the Power Platform family.
- PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst
How to prepare for PL-900
- 1
Open a Power Apps trial environment
A Power Platform trial gives a place to build apps, flows and a Power Pages site for real. The hands-on objectives are much easier to answer after doing each task once.
- 2
Write one line per service
Describe Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, connectors, Power Fx and Copilot Studio in one sentence each. The business value domain asks which service fits a described need.
- 3
Build both kinds of app
Create a canvas app from an Excel table or a SharePoint list, then a model-driven app from Dataverse tables. Power Apps is the largest domain, and the two app types sit at its center.
- 4
Automate a task, then publish a site
Build a cloud flow with an automated trigger, a condition and a loop, then test and share it. Next, create a Power Pages site with Copilot and change its theme.
- 5
Check readiness in Timed Mode
Take the PL-900 practice test in Timed Mode after every domain has had a first pass. Ask Brainy AI Assistant about any question where two services seemed to fit.
Start a timed PL-900run
Microsoft's course for this exam is Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform, with one Microsoft Learn learning path for each domain.
Who PL-900 is for
- Office workers and business analysts who want to solve team problems with low-code apps and flows.
- Students and career changers looking for a first Microsoft certification in low-code tools.
- IT staff and consultants new to Power Platform who need its vocabulary before deeper work.
- Functional consultants and solution architects who are starting to explore low-code.
Typical job titles: Citizen developer · Business analyst · App maker · Process automation specialist · Junior Power Platform developer
PL-900 glossary
16 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.
- Business rules
- Dataverse rules, set up without code, that set or check column values and show messages on forms.
- Canvas apps
- Apps built by placing controls freely on a screen and connecting them to data sources.
- Cloud flows
- Power Automate flows that run in the cloud and start from a trigger, such as a new email or a button press.
- Connectors
- Prebuilt links that let apps and flows read from and write to other services, such as SharePoint or Outlook.
- Containers
- Canvas app controls that hold other controls and rearrange them, so a page fits different screen sizes.
- Copilot Studio
- The Microsoft tool for building copilots and agents that answer questions or take actions for users.
- Data loss prevention
- Policies that control which connectors can be used together, so business data does not flow to unapproved services.
- Default environment
- The environment that every tenant gets automatically, where all licensed users can build apps and flows.
- Design studio
- The Power Pages editor, with workspaces for pages, styling, data and site setup.
- Desktop flows
- Power Automate flows that repeat clicks and keystrokes on a computer, for tasks in older apps that lack connectors.
- Environments
- Separate spaces for apps, flows and data, used to keep work such as development, testing and production apart.
- Microsoft Dataverse
- The data platform behind Power Platform, which stores business data in tables with columns, relationships and built-in rules.
- Model-driven apps
- Apps built from Dataverse tables, where the forms and views follow the data model instead of a free layout.
- Power Fx
- The low-code formula language of Power Platform, written much like formulas in Excel.
- Power Pages
- The Power Platform service for building secure business websites, often for people outside the organization.
- Process Mining
- A Power Automate capability that reads event data from business systems to show how a process really runs and where it slows down.