Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect PL-600

Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (35-40%)

Initiate solution planning - Evaluate business requirements
- Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
- Identify other components including existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISVs)
- Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts Identify organization information and metrics - Identify desired high-level organizational business processes
- Identify business process improvement opportunities
- 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
- Identify and document an organization's existing business processes Capture requirements - Refine high-level requirements
- Identify functional requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements
- Confirm that requirements meet an organization's goals
- Identify and document an organization's desired 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 (40-45%)

Lead the design process - Design the solution topology
- Design customizations for existing apps
- Design and validate user experience prototypes
- Identify opportunities for component reuse
- Communicate system design visually
- Design application lifecycle management (ALM) processes
- 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 that uses Power Automate
- Design environment strategy Design the data model - Design tables and columns
- Design reference and configuration data
- 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 integrations
- 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
- Identify opportunities to integrate and extend Microsoft Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azure
- Design Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Design networking 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 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 detail designs and implementation
- Validate security
- 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
- Troubleshoot data migration
- Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
- Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues