You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Power Platform Fundamentals
The Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals certification validates your ability to demonstrate the business value and product capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform. It is ideal for those starting their journey with Power Platform, focusing on Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power Automate. Earning it shows you can develop tailored business solutions and automate processes effectively.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration45 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions291
Content last reviewed 24 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What PL-900 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.
5domains
9objectives
62concepts
US $99exam 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 Fundamentals certification validates your understanding of how Microsoft Power Platform technologies can be used to develop tailored business solutions. It targets individuals who are beginning their journey with Power Platform, focusing on the capabilities of Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power Automate.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to optimize data usage, accelerate business outcomes with AI-powered solutions, and automate business processes. It is an excellent starting point for those looking to build solutions with Microsoft Power Platform.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for individuals who aspire to understand how Microsoft Power Platform technologies can be used to develop tailored business solutions. It is suitable for those seeking to start their journey building solutions with Microsoft Power Platform. Candidates should be interested in optimizing data usage, accelerating business outcomes with AI-powered solutions, and automating business processes using Power Platform tools.
Recommended experience
Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform and basic understanding of data management. Experience with Power Apps and Power Automate; Understanding of data connections and Dataverse; Basic knowledge of AI-powered solutions
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 24 July 2026 · See the source
Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform
- Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform services
Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
- Describe Microsoft Dataverse
- Describe Microsoft Power Platform administration and governance
Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps
- Describe Power Apps capabilities and use cases
- Describe how to build basic apps by using Power Apps
Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
- Describe Power Automate use cases and capabilities
- Describe how to build basic flows by using Power Automate
Describe features and capabilities of agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Describe how to build agents in Copilot Studio
- Describe how to manage agents in Copilot Studio
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-900
CertificationPower Platform Fundamentals
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration45 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Traditional), Italian
PricingUS $99
Certification levelFundamentals
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 Fundamentals
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals Fundamentals level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew eligible Certifications 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-900 exam hands-on or lab-based?
No, the PL-900 exam consists of multiple-choice and multiple-response questions without a hands-on component.
If I fail PL-900, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt.
What job roles does the Power Platform Fundamentals credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as app maker, business analyst, and data analyst who work with Power Platform tools.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No, recertification requires completing the online renewal assessment specific to the Power Platform Fundamentals certification.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-24 Up to date
Practice free questions 291 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.
5domains
9objectives
62concepts
62free 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 24 July 2026 · See the source
1Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform29 questions
2Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment95 questions
3Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps38 questions
4Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate51 questions
5Describe features and capabilities of agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio78 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.
Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform services6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
29 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
291 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.
291questions
62pages
9objectives
Freealways
Start anywhereDescribe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform services 29 questions · 6 pages
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform29 questions
2Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment95 questions
3Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps38 questions
4Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate51 questions
5Describe features and capabilities of agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio78 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.
62concepts
291free 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
62concepts 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 — 9 objectives, 62 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
9objectives on the outline→62concepts written→291free 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.