You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate certification validates your ability to configure business solutions using Microsoft Power Platform tools. It is designed for professionals who engage with stakeholders to capture requirements and implement solutions. Earning this certification demonstrates your skills in creating tailored user experiences and process automation.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions410
Content last reviewed 5 October 2023 · Up to date
The certification
What PL-200 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
4domains
12objectives
105concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate certification validates your ability to use Microsoft Power Platform solutions to simplify, automate, and empower business processes. It targets professionals responsible for configuring business solutions using Power Platform tools.
Earning this certification demonstrates your capability to engage with stakeholders, capture requirements, and implement solutions that enhance user experiences and automate processes. You will also learn to integrate third-party applications and services, and generate training documentation.
Who it’s for
This certification is for functional consultants who work with Microsoft Power Platform to configure business solutions. You should be comfortable engaging with stakeholders, capturing requirements, and implementing solutions that enhance user experiences and automate processes. You should have a good understanding of application lifecycle management practices for Microsoft Power Platform and be familiar with components like Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
Recommended experience
Experience with Microsoft Power Platform components and application lifecycle management. Proficiency in data modeling and user experience design; Experience with Microsoft Dataverse and Power Apps; Familiarity with process automation using Power Automate
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 5 October 2023 · See the source
Configure Microsoft Dataverse
- Manage the data model
- Manage Dataverse
- Configure security settings
Create apps by using Microsoft Power Apps
- Create model-driven apps
- Describe canvas apps
- Build Microsoft Power Pages
Create and manage logic and process automation
- Create and manage cloud flows
- Create and manage business process flows
- Create and manage classic Dataverse workflows
- Implement low-code logic
Manage environments
- Participate in application lifecycle management (ALM)
- Manage interoperability with other services
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codePL-200
CertificationPower Platform Functional Consultant Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your certification annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
Is any part of the PL-200 exam hands-on or lab-based?
No, the PL-200 exam does not include a hands-on lab component. It consists of multiple-choice and multiple-response questions.
If I fail PL-200, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the Power Platform Functional Consultant credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as functional consultant, business analyst, and solution architect who work with Power Platform solutions.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No, you must complete the online renewal assessment to maintain your certification.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2023-10-05 Up to date
Practice free questions 410 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
4domains
12objectives
105concepts
87free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 5 October 2023 · See the source
1Configure Microsoft Dataverse114 questions
2Create apps by using Microsoft Power Apps113 questions
3Create and manage logic and process automation121 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Manage the data model8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
37 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
410 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
410questions
87pages
12objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Configure Microsoft Dataverse114 questions
2Create apps by using Microsoft Power Apps113 questions
3Create and manage logic and process automation121 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
105concepts
410free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
105concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 12 objectives, 105 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
12objectives on the outline→105concepts written→410free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.