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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

Deep-diving into best fit analysis – matching Microsoft product capabilities

The earlier sections in this chapter discussed the basics of matching up requirements to Power Platform capabilities and the wider Microsoft ecosystem. As a solution architect, you will look to have an understanding of the Power Platform feature sets and the applications and extensions that co-exist within the Dataverse framework.

When matching up a requirement to a product, you will also have a view of the components product roadmap and the organization’s long-term plans for the use of the system. You can then select the Power Platform component that best suits the technical requirement and these long-term considerations.

Matching requirements to Power Platform components

As a Power Platform solution architect, you will seek to identify the Power Platform components that are best suited to fulfill a requirement. Through your knowledge of the platform’s capabilities, you would...