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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
4.5 (2)
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

Translating complex business requirements into visual data models

Multiple modeling strategies and methods can be used in data models. Typical modeling notations include Crow’s Foot, UML, Chen’s, and IDEF1X. This book will focus on general considerations when creating data models rather than on specific notation characteristics.

When creating data models for Power Platform implementations, solution architects aim to create a view of the data from different perspectives. The readers understand how the components work together and help consultants build cohesive Power Platform implementations.

In this section, we will focus on the following types of data models and diagrams:

  • Logical data models
  • Object diagrams
  • Physical data models

Creating logical data models

Logical data models are often drafted during the discovery phase. They are high-level visual representations of the data that are used by the Power Platform implementation. Logical...