Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant

Master the Microsoft Power Platform to enhance business processes and develop advanced app experiences, perfect for IT professionals and functional consultants seeking to automate workflows and engage stakeholders.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Gather and implement organizational requirements using Power Platform solutions

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Build and configure model-driven apps, canvas apps, portal apps, and AI-driven chatbots

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Automate business processes with Power Automate and analyze data using Power BI

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Engage stakeholders and perform quality assurance across Power Platform solutions

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Functional Consultants
  • IT Professionals
  • Application Developers
  • Business Analysts

Description

The Power Platform empowers organizations to automate business processes, develop their own rich app experiences, and connect with customers better and faster. In this course, students will learn to perform discovery, capture requirements, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, translate requirements, and configure Power Platform solutions and apps. They will supplement their learnings with hands-on labs to create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. In this course, we will cover these four applications in depth, with additional focus on Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service), AI Builder, connectors, and portals.

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Upcoming Course Dates

August 4-8, 2025

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Virtual: Online - America/Los_Angeles

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September 15-19, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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October 6-10, 2025

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Virtual: Online - America/Los_Angeles

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Introduction to the Power Platform

  1. Power Platform overview

  2. Identify the key components of the Power Platform

  3. Describe the role of a functional consultant

Module 2: The Functional Consultant role

  1. Consultant skills overview

  2. Create and validate documentation

  3. Engage stakeholders

  4. Perform quality assurance

  5. Configure integrations

Module 3: Work with Dataverse

  1. Work with the data model

  2. Create and manage processes

  3. Work with AI Builder

  4. Configure Dataverse settings

  5. Import and export data

  6. Use tabular reporting options

  7. Configure security settings

Module 4: Make Power Apps

  1. Make model-driven apps

  2. Make canvas apps

  3. Make portal apps

  4. Connect to data in Power Apps

  5. Build a Power App

  6. Design an application user experience

Module 5: Build Power Automate flows

  1. Build flows

  2. Build business process flows

  3. Build UI flows

Module 6: Work with Power Virtual Agents

  1. Create a chatbot

  2. Configure topics

  3. Automate and integrate

  4. Configure entities

  5. Test and publish chatbots

Module 7: Analyze data with Power BI

  1. Get started with Power BI

  2. Model data in Power BI

  3. Create visualizations

  4. Create dashboards

  5. Publish and share in Power BI

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