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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

Assessing the existing enterprise architecture

Enterprise architecture models represent a business’s structure and the relationships between its various domains. The domains include physical, organizational, and technical components. A full enterprise architecture discussion is beyond the scope of this book. We can, however, draw value from a baseline analysis.

An evaluation of the current enterprise architecture provides perspective, which you can use to decide where Power Platform best fits within an organization. Solution architects assess the baseline architecture and draft the proposed model that considers the enterprise architecture roadmap for the organization. With the plan in hand, you have an effective high-level directive, allowing you to focus project activities on getting from the as-is situation to the to-be end state.

Understanding the current enterprise architecture

To start the evaluation of the current enterprise architecture, you would ask the following...