PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

Course description

Candidates for this course automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks using Microsoft Power Automate. They review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, troubleshoot, and test solutions. Candidates work with business stakeholders to improve and automate business workflows. They collaborate with administrators to deploy solutions in production environments and support the solutions.

Audience profile

If you are a developer with a strong interest in providing automated solutions for your organization, this certification could be a great fit for you. Automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks with Microsoft Power Automate. Reviews solution requirements, creates process documentation, and designs, develops, implements, integrates, tests solutions, and resolves issues that they raise. By working with business stakeholders, it helps improve and automate business workflows.

Items in this collection

• Get started with Power Automate for desktop
• Power Automate for desktop development basics
• Build your first Power Automate desktop flow
• Define input and output parameters in Power Automate
• Integrate desktop flows with the Outlook connector in Power Automate for desktop
• Connect a cloud flow to desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop
• Use AI Builder to process invoice forms in Power Automate
• Use the Teams connector in Power Automate
• Run Power Automate desktop flow in unattended mode
• Optimize your business processes with Process Advisor
• Manage variables in Power Automate for desktop
• Automate repetitive tasks using loops in Power Automate for desktop
• Adjust process behavior using conditional actions with Power
• Set up flow control in Power Automate for desktop
• Generate Power Automate for desktop flows by recording them
• Configure exception and error handling in Power Automate for desktop
• Control file and folder management in Power Automate for desktop
• Web automation in Power Automate for desktop
• Use Power Automate for desktop to interact with windows and applications
• Excel automation in Power Automate for desktop
• Automate email management in Power Automate for desktop
• Automate system, workstation, and service actions in Power
• Communicate using message boxes in Power Automate for desktop flows
• Text manipulation in Power Automate for desktop
• Simulate mouse and keyboard actions with Power Automate for desktop
• Combine Power Automate desktop and cloud flows
• Database management in Power Automate for desktop
• Manage Active Directory in Power Automate for desktop
• Scripting in Power Automate for desktop
• OCR technologies in Power Automate for desktop
• Introduction to custom connectors in Power Automate
• Configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Power Automate
• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform security and governance

Course outline

Module 1: Get started with Power Automate for desktop
Get started with Power Automate for desktop by learning about flows, creating automated steps, and flow development essentials.

Module 2: Automate processes with Robotic Process Automation and Power Automate for desktop
Work with Power Automate for desktop to record Windows and Web applications, but also use out of box actions such as manipulating Excel documents as part of an end to end invoice processing solution.

Module 3: Work with Power Automate for desktop
Work with Power Automate for desktop options, flows, recording features, conditions, loops, variables, images, and error and exception handling.

Module 4: Work with different technologies in Power Automate for desktop
Learn how to automate email handling, Excel, user interface, and system services with Power Automate for desktop.

Module 5: Implement advanced logic in Power Automate for desktop
Learn how to work with system flows, control flows, mimic mouse actions, as well as operations used to manipulate text, date, and time in Power Automate for desktop.

Module 6: Build expertise with Power Automate for desktop
Learn how to use Power Automate for desktop to work with Power Automate, OCR technologies, and scripting.

Module 7: Build custom connectors for Power Automate
This Learning Path explores custom connectors and explains how to configure them and use them with Microsoft Power Automate

Module 8: Use best practices to secure and govern Microsoft Power Platform environments
This module focuses on introducing Microsoft Power Platform environments and their role in creating Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies by using examples and use cases. A brief introduction and overview of tools will also be discussed, including Microsoft Power Platform and Power Automate Admin experiences and Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (COE) toolkit.

Previous requirements

Candidates must have experience with JSON, cloud streams, and Azure services; integration of solutions with REST and SOAP services; data analysis with Microsoft Excel, VBScript and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); HTML; javascript; one or more programming languages and the Power Platform toolset (AI Builder, Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power Virtual Agents).

Language

• English course
• Labs: English