Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals

If you’re a student, business user, or beginning technical professional, this certification can accelerate your progress and give your career a boost, as you use your Microsoft Power Platform skills to improve your team’s productivity. No experience is necessary to train for it—just basic familiarity with computer technology, data analytics, cloud computing, and the internet. Think of a fundamentals certification as the first step in growing your skill set and advancing to other certifications, such as Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant.

The Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification could be a great fit for you, if you’d like to:

  • Build solutions with Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Automate basic business processes with Power Automate.
  • Perform data analysis with Power BI.
  • Create simple Power Apps experiences.
  • Build practical chatbots with Power Virtual Agents.

This certification has no prerequisites. However, if you’d like to gain some more experience, you could:

  • Shadow a person on your team who works with Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Explore available learning paths on Microsoft Learn.
  • Sign up for an instructor-led training course.

Job role: Business User, Functional Consultant, Student

Required exams: PL-900

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FUNDAMENTALS CERTIFICATION

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals

Skills measured

  • 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 capabilities of Power Automate
  • Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents

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Certification exams

  • PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

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    This exam measures your ability 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 capabilities of Power Automate; and demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents.

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    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

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** Complete this exam before the retirement date to ensure it is applied toward your certification. After the retirement date, please refer to the related certification for exam requirements.