PL-900 cheat sheet
A one-page reference for the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals exam: the format, how the domains are weighted, and the glossary terms for this exam.
Exam at a glance
Vendor
Microsoft
Level
Foundational
Questions
65
Time
90 min
Mock pass mark
70%
Domains
5
Practice Qs
158
Code
PL-900
Domain weightings
How much of the exam each domain covers. Spend your study time in proportion — the heavier the domain, the more questions you'll see.
Key terms
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of low-code tools — Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio — for building business solutions. PL-900 covers its business value and core capabilities.
- Power Apps
- Power Apps is a low-code service for building custom business applications, including canvas and model-driven apps. PL-900 covers its capabilities, use cases, and building basic apps with AI assistance.
- Canvas app
- A canvas app is a Power Apps app type that gives makers a blank canvas to design a tailored user interface and connect to many data sources. PL-900 covers use cases for canvas apps in the Power Apps domain.
- Model-driven app
- A model-driven app is a Power Apps app type whose layout is generated largely from the underlying Dataverse data model and business logic. PL-900 covers its use cases alongside canvas apps.
- Power Automate
- Power Automate is a service for automating business processes using cloud and desktop flows across connectors and applications. PL-900 covers its use cases and building basic flows.
- Cloud flow
- A cloud flow is a Power Automate automation that runs in the cloud and is started by a trigger such as an event, schedule, or manual action. PL-900 covers connector triggers and actions for cloud flows.
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Dataverse is the cloud data platform that stores and manages data for Power Platform apps in tables. PL-900 covers Dataverse tables, columns, relationships, and business logic in the environment domain.
- Power Fx
- Power Fx is the low-code, Excel-like formula language used across Power Platform to express business logic. PL-900 covers it among the options for business logic in Dataverse.
- Connector
- A connector is a proxy that lets Power Platform apps and flows integrate with services and data sources through their APIs. PL-900 covers the value of connectors for integrating services and data.
- Copilot Studio
- Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code tool for building and managing AI-powered agents and conversational experiences. PL-900 covers building and managing agents as a dedicated exam domain.
- Agent
- An agent is an AI-powered assistant, built in Copilot Studio, that uses topics, knowledge sources, and tools to help users and automate tasks. PL-900 covers building agent conversation paths and publishing agents to channels.
- Power Pages
- Power Pages is a Power Platform service for building secure, low-code business websites backed by Dataverse. PL-900 covers its business value among the Power Platform services.
- Application lifecycle management
- Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the practice of managing solutions from development through testing to production, in Power Platform using pipelines and environments. PL-900 covers ALM in the environment-management domain.