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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
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Book Image

Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

4.5 (2)
By: Hugo Herrera

Overview of this book

If you’ve been looking for a way to unlock the potential of Microsoft Power Platform and take your career as a solution architect to the next level, then look no further—this practical guide covers it all. Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect’s Handbook will equip you with everything you need to build flexible and cost-effective end-to-end solutions. Its comprehensive coverage ranges from best practices surrounding fit-gap analysis, leading design processes, and navigating existing systems to application lifecycle management with Microsoft Azure DevOps, security compliance monitoring, and third-party API integration. The book takes a hands-on approach by guiding you through a fictional case study throughout the book, allowing you to apply what you learn as you learn it. At the end of the handbook, you’ll discover a set of mock tests for you to embed your progress and prepare for PL-600 Microsoft certification. Whether you want to learn how to work with Power Platform or want to take your skills from the intermediate to advanced level, this book will help you achieve that and ensure that you’re able to add value to your organization as an expert solution architect.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
4
Part 2: Requirements Analysis, Solution Envisioning, and the Implementation Roadmap
10
Part 3: Architecting the Power Platform Solution
15
Part 4: The Build – Implementing Solid Power Platform Solutions
20
Part 5: Power Platform Solution Architect Certification Prep

Chapter 8: Designing the Power Platform Solution

In this chapter, you will learn how to lead the design process using our fictional case study at Inveriance Corps and communicate decisions through effective design visualizations. You will create a blueprint that defines the Solution Architecture, PowerApps Portals user prototypes, application life cycle management (ALM) processes, and an automation strategy that leverages Power Automate capabilities. You will learn how to design supportable customizations, component reuse patterns, and data migration strategies. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to group requirements based on user roles or tasks, and design data visualization strategies.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Defining the Power Platform Solution Architecture topology
  • Power Platform detailed design
  • Facilitating understanding through descriptive visual designs
  • Defining user experience prototypes for customer-facing...