Exam Quick Facts
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Exam Code | PL-600 |
| Title | Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect |
| Level | Expert |
| Pass Score | 700 / 1000 |
| Duration | 100 minutes |
| Questions | ~40-60 |
| Cost | $165 USD (varies by region) |
| Scheduling | Pearson VUE |
| Skills Updated | September 23, 2024 |
| Retires | 2026-06-30 |
Study Resources
| Resource | Link |
|---|---|
| Official Exam Page | Microsoft Learn — PL-600 |
| Official Study Guide | Microsoft Study Guide |
| Free Practice Assessment | Start Practice Assessment |
| Exam Sandbox | Try the exam interface |
Skills at a Glance
| Skill Area | Weight |
|---|---|
| Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis | 45-50% |
| Architect a solution | 35-40% |
| Implement the solution | 15-20% |
Who is this exam for?
This Power Platform certification covers Microsoft’s low-code/no-code platform. It tests your ability to build business applications, automate processes, and create solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, and related services. This is an expert-level exam requiring advanced knowledge and significant hands-on experience.
This exam is retiring on 2026-06-30. The replacement exam is New Power Platform architect certs. If you’re planning to take this exam, schedule it before the retirement date.
Skills Measured
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)
This domain covers data visualisation and analysis. You need to know how to create effective reports, dashboards, and analytical insights.
Initiate solution planning
- Evaluate business requirements
- Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
- Identify and select components from existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, Azure, third-party components, and independent software vendors (ISVs)
- Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts and alternatives
Identify organization information and metrics
- Guide the process of collecting the current state business processes
- Assess an organization’s risk factors
- Review key success criteria
Identify existing solutions and systems
- Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture
- Identify data sources needed for a solution
- Define use cases and quality standards for existing data
Capture requirements
- Refine high-level requirements
- Identify functional requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements
- Guide the process of designing and improving the future state business processes
Perform fit/gap analyses
- Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
- Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
- Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
- Determine the scope for a solution
Architect a solution (35–40%)
This domain covers the skills needed to work with the topics described below. Study each objective carefully and use the linked resources to deepen your understanding.
Lead the design process
- Design the solution topology
- Identify customization approach for existing apps
- Design and validate user experience prototypes
- Identify opportunities for component reuse
- Communicate system design visually
- Design a data migration strategy
- Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task
- Design a data visualization strategy
- Design an automation strategy
- Design environment strategy
Design the data model
- Design relationships and relationship behaviors
- Determine when to connect to external data versus import data
- Design data models to address complex sets of requirements
Design integrations
- Design collaboration suite integration including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
- Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
- Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems
- Design third-party integrations
- Design an authentication strategy
- Design a business continuity strategy
- Design robotic process automation (RPA)
- Assess possibilities of networking to support integrations
Design the security model
- Design the business unit and team structure
- Design security roles
- Design column and row level security
- Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
- Determine security model management policies and processes
- Identify Microsoft Entra ID groups and app registrations required to support a solution
- Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
- Determine how external users will access a solution
Implement the solution (15–20%)
This domain covers the skills needed to work with the topics described below. Study each objective carefully and use the linked resources to deepen your understanding.
Validate the solution design
- Evaluate detailed designs and implementation
- Review the security across the solution including business rules, user roles, Entra ID requirements and security boundaries
- Ensure that the solution conforms to API limits
- Assess the solution performance and impact on resources
- Resolve automation conflicts
- Resolve integration conflicts
Support go-live
- Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
- Escalate and provide options to resolve data migration issues
- Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
- Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues
- Leads successful implementations.
- Focuses on how solutions address the broader business and technical needs of organizations.
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps
- Related Microsoft cloud solutions
- Other third-party technologies
- Increase the value of the customer’s investment.
- Promote organizational health.
- Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (35–40%)
- Architect a solution (40–45%)
- Implement the solution (15–20%)
- Identify and resolve potential and actual performance issues
- Troubleshoot data migration
- Resolve any identified issues with deployment plans
- Identify factors that impact go-live readiness and remediate issues
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (35–40%)
This domain covers data visualisation and analysis. You need to know how to create effective reports, dashboards, and analytical insights.
Initiate solution planning
- Evaluate business requirements
- Identify Microsoft Power Platform solution components
- Identify other components including existing apps, Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps, AppSource apps, third-party components, and components from independent software vendors (ISVs)
- Identify and estimate migration and integration efforts
Identify organization information and metrics
- Identify desired high-level organizational business processes
- Identify business process improvement opportunities
- Assess an organization’s risk factors
- Review key success criteria
- Evaluate an organization’s enterprise architecture
- Identify data sources needed for a solution
- Define use cases and quality standards for existing data
- Identify and document an organization’s existing business processes
Capture requirements
- Refine high-level requirements
- Identify functional requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements
- Confirm that requirements meet an organization’s goals
- Identify and document an organization’s desired business processes
Perform fit/gap analyses
- Determine the feasibility of meeting specific requirements
- Evaluate Dynamics 365 apps and AppSource options to solve requirements
- Address functional gaps through alternate solutions
- Determine the scope for a solution
Architect a solution (40–45%)
This domain covers the skills needed to work with the topics described below. Study each objective carefully and use the linked resources to deepen your understanding.
Lead the design process
- Design the solution topology
- Design customizations for existing apps
- Design and validate user experience prototypes
- Identify opportunities for component reuse
- Communicate system design visually
- Design application lifecycle management (ALM) processes
- Design a data migration strategy
- Design apps by grouping required features based on role or task
- Design a data visualization strategy
- Design an automation strategy that uses Power Automate
- Design environment strategy
Design the data model
- Design tables and columns
- Design reference and configuration data
- Design relationships and relationship behaviors
- Determine when to connect to external data versus import data
- Design data models to address complex sets of requirements
Design integrations
- Design collaboration integrations
- Design integrations between Microsoft Power Platform solutions and Dynamics 365 apps
- Design integrations with an organization’s existing systems
- Design third-party integrations
- Design an authentication strategy
- Design a business continuity strategy
- Identify opportunities to integrate and extend Microsoft Power Platform solutions by using Microsoft Azure
- Design robotic process automation (RPA)
- Design networking
Design the security model
- Design the business unit and team structure
- Design security roles
- Design column and row level security
- Design security models to address complex sets of requirements
- Determine security model management policies and processes
- Identify Microsoft Entra ID groups and app registrations required to support a solution
- Identify data loss prevention (DLP) policies for a solution
- Determine how external users will access a solution
What to Study Next
Based on this exam, here are related certifications to consider:
- PL-200: Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant — Associate
- PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer — Associate
- AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions — Expert