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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

Validating solutions through POCs

As you are working through a fit gap analysis, you may find instances where it would be beneficial to implement a POC for a specific area of the solution. You would look to create a POC to achieve one of the following:

  • Provide early hands-on access to users, allowing them to try out potential solutions for themselves and confirm a requirement is met.
  • Present Power Platform’s out-of-the-box capabilities to users to validate that their features solve a specific problem.
  • Test whether an implementation strategy is a viable solution for fulfilling a requirement.
  • Validate that a third-party component is suitable for incorporation as part of a Power Platform implementation.
  • Validate whether integrations or complex feature sets are required, or whether they could be simplified.

POCs provide early glimpses of what the final system might look like, allowing you to validate solutions as a low-risk exercise.