As a candidate for Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate, you design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components that use the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. You use traditional code to solve challenges not appropriate for low code. You implement the parts of a business solution that include:

• Custom user experiences
• Custom business logic
• System integrations
• Data conversions
• Custom process automation
• Complex Power Fx formulas
• Workflow expressions

You must have:

• A strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints
• An applied knowledge of authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform
• An applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform developer tools including Power Platform CLI as part of the developer workflow

As a candidate, you should have development experience that includes Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Azure.