Certification

Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate

Demonstrate how to improve and automate workflows with Microsoft Power Automate RPA developer.

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Overview

As a candidate for this certification, you automate Windows-based, browser-based, and terminal-based applications that are time-consuming or contain repetitive processes. You use a mix of approaches like:

  • UI
  • API
  • Database automations

You analyze and design processes for automation and implement automations using Power Automate for desktop and Power Automate cloud flows. As a robotic process automation (RPA) developer, you use actions for logic and to work with:

  • Data
  • Applications
  • Services

You work with business stakeholders to optimize business workflows. You partner with administrators to deploy solutions to other environments and support solutions.

Additionally, as a candidate, you should have experience with:

  • The Windows desktop environment
  • Scripting languages
  • Power Automate cloud and desktop flows
  • AI Builder
  • Process Advisor
  • Microsoft Dataverse

Skills measured

  • Design automations
  • Develop automations
  • Deploy and manage automations

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You will have 100 minutes to complete this assessment.

Exam policy

This exam will be proctored, and is not open book. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.

If you fail a certification exam, don’t worry. You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the amount of time varies. For full details, visit: Exam retake policy.

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This exam is offered in the following languages:

English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)

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Certification resources

Exam PL-500 study guide

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