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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
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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

Defining the application life cycle management process

Application life cycle management (ALM), which was introduced earlier in this book, is a set of disciplines through which Power Platform projects can be defined, implemented, deployed, and operated through a controlled framework. Solution Architects define ALM processes for a Power Platform implementation, enabling the orchestration of project tasks, build activities, testing, deployment, and implementation review.

The following diagram illustrates the activities and areas that are covered by Power Platform ALM:

Figure 8.21 – Power Platform ALM

An effective Power Platform ALM strategy can be created by following these steps:

  1. Plan an environment strategy:

Typical Power Platform implementations benefit from having a minimum of three environments: a development environment, a test or QA environment, and a production environment. The use of a pre-production environment should be considered...