The Solution Architect is responsible for the successful design, implementation, deployment and adoption of an overall solution. The Solution Architect ensures that the solution meets the customer’s needs now and in the future. In this course, students will learn about decisions a Solution Architect makes during an implementation, covering security, integrations, Power Apps architecture, Power Automate architecture, and more. This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Solution Architect role.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
- Introduction to becoming a solution architect
- Existing product and platform skills
- Expectations of a solution architect
- Solution architect role during project phases
- Pillars of a great architecture
Lesson 2: Discover customer needs as a Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
- Introduction and discovery overview
- Initial customer discovery
- Customer discovery meetings
- Customer communication strategy
Lesson 3: Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
Lesson 4: Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365
- Lead requirement captures sessions
- Identify functional requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements
- Confirm and finalize requirements
Lesson 5: Perform fit gap analysis
- Introduction to fit gap analysis
- Determine feasibility of requirements
- Refine requirements from proof of concepts insights
- Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analysis
- Evaluate Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform apps
Lesson 6: Solution Architect series: Implement project governance for Power Platform and Dynamics 365
- Introduction to project governance
- Project governance
- Solution architect’s role in project governance
- Techniques for keeping a project on track
- Work as a team
Lesson 7: Solution Architect series: Power Platform architecture
- Environments
- Environment data location
- Work with data
- Custom logic
- Platform limits
- High availability and disaster recovery considerations
Lesson 8: Solution architect series: Model data for Power Platform solutions
- Common Data Model
- Data modelling
- Choose a data store
- Data modelling for Dataverse
- Best practices for Dataverse
- Exercise – Model data
- Architecture of Fabrikam data model and devices
- Report data and handle primary visitors
- Handle visitors, waivers, and photos
- Example data model solution
Lesson 9: Solution Architect series: Evaluate Power Platform analytics and AI
- Power Platform reporting capabilities
- Power BI overview
- Data requirements
- Power BI and Power Platform
- Dataflows
- AI
Lesson 10: Solution Architect series: Explore Power Apps architecture
- Common app patterns
- App composition
- Components
- Optimize canvas apps
- Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
- Portal apps
Lesson 11: Solution Architect series: Plan application lifecycle management for Power Platform
- Key considerations for ALM
- Solutions
- Configuration and reference data
- Release process
- ALM with Azure DevOps
Lesson 12: Explore Power Automate architecture
- Triggers
- Common actions
- Error handling
- Best practice
- Business process flow
Lesson 13: Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions
- Environment security
- Data loss prevention
- Access to Dataverse
- Security in apps
- Exercise – Security modeling
Lesson 14: Solution Architect series: Implement integrations with Power Platform
- Integration challenges
- Inbound data integration
- Outbound data integration
Lesson 15: Solution architect series: Explore Power Virtual Agents
- Chatbot building options
- Chatbot concepts
- Best practices
- Integrate chatbots
- Power Virtual Agents in Teams
Lesson 16: Solution architect series: Explore robotic process automation
- Power Automate for desktop
- Record and edit tasks
- Run desktop flows
- Process advisor
Lesson 17: Solution architect series: Testing and go-live
- Plan for go-live
- Data migration
- Plan for go-live
