Introduction
As a Power Platform developer, you start with stakeholder requirements and an approved solution context. You evaluate which capabilities fit, where component logic and data belong, and how identity, security, and user-experience constraints affect implementation. You document choices within your scope and escalate organization-level decisions to their owners.
Scenario: Equipment provisioning
Throughout this module, you work through these decisions using an illustrative scenario: an internal equipment-provisioning system built as a custom Dataverse solution, not a packaged Dynamics 365 deployment. Employees submit requests for replacement equipment such as laptops, monitors, and peripherals. The solution checks each employee's eligibility against their role, tenure, and existing equipment allowance.
It also calls an external inventory service to confirm what's in stock, and routes approval and fulfillment through an IT asset coordinator who tracks the request to delivery. Four Dataverse tables anchor the data model: Employee, Device, Request, and Allowance.
This scenario is deliberately generic. As you move through the module, map each component implementation choice to a solution you build or maintain, rather than treating the scenario as a fixed script.
What you explore in this module
You start by analyzing the equipment-provisioning requirements and assessing how much fits out-of-the-box functionality versus custom development. From there, you explore where business logic and data live, how approved authentication, authorization, and row-level security models constrain each component, and when to apply those constraints or escalate required changes. You also explore how to choose among interfaces like code apps, generative pages, and agent-based experiences.
By the end of this module, you can evaluate solution requirements and select implementable component approaches within an approved Power Platform architecture.