Important
The content of this certification was updated on October 1, 2021. Please
download the skills measured document on the Exam PL-200 page to see what
changed.
Are you a functional consultant, data analyst, or developer looking to hone
your consulting and configuration skills, or solution architect on a path to
the solution architect certification? Or maybe you’re an IT professional
with knowledge and experience configuring Microsoft Power Platform. If this
describes you and you’re familiar with using Power Platform components to
extend and customize Microsoft apps and services such as Teams, Dynamics
365, Excel, and Word, explore how the Microsoft Power Platform Functional
Consultant Associate certification can help enhance your career and make you
a key member of your team. This certification indicates to the world that
you’re considered qualified to build and implement solutions that use Power
Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents.
As a candidate for this certification, you work with an organization’s
stakeholders and subject matter experts, such as solution architects,
developers, and testers, to gather requirements and then implement Microsoft
Power Platform solutions. You build model-driven, canvas, and portal apps.
And you create Power Automate flows, design chatbots using Power Virtual
Agents, and analyze data using Power BI visualization and dashboards. You
even create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system
integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom
visualizations.
As a functional consultant, use this certification to market yourself more
effectively for projects and other engagements. The Microsoft Power Platform
Functional Consultant Associate certification lets organisations know
that—with no code or low code—you can build solutions that would normally
require developer expertise.
If you need more experience before you try to earn this certification, here
are some suggestions:
- Build a basic dashboard using Power BI
- Take available learning paths on Microsoft Learn
- Sign up for an instructor-led training course