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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

Identifying Power Platform data sources, their usage, and quality standards

Power Platform applications can consume data from a wide range of sources. Identifying these data sources provides an early view of how data will be fed in and out of Power Platform and how it will be consumed. We can also find out about any data cleansing or normalization that may be required. This exercise will be illustrated using our case study at Inveriance Corps.

Case study – current data sources at Inveriance Corps

Having reviewed the high-level architecture diagram drafted during the discovery phase, several key data sources have been identified and are highlighted in the following diagram:

Figure 5.1 – Key data sources at Inveriance Corps

Having identified the key data sources to be used as part of the Power Platform implementation, you can now define their usage. Data sources may be imported into Power Platform as a one-off migration process, integrated...