Create and Manage Model-Driven Apps with Power Apps and Dataverse

Model‑driven apps start with the data model in Microsoft Dataverse, enabling rapid development of secure, responsive applications where the interface and logic are generated from your business data and process requirements, perfect for complex, real‑world business scenarios.

Training in PL-7003: Create and Manage Model‑Driven Apps with Power Apps and Dataverse equips you with the skills to build robust, data‑centric business applications that scale with your organization. This training helps you streamline data management, enforce business rules, and deliver consistent apps that integrate seamlessly with the broader Microsoft ecosystem.

Course Outcome

At the end of this training program, students will learn how to:

• Create and configure Dataverse tables and relationships for structured data.

• Design and build model‑driven apps with business process flows.

• Customize forms, views, dashboards, and charts to present data effectively.

• Manage solutions and deploy apps across environments using Power Apps and Power Automate.

Prerequisites

Candidates for this credential should be familiar with data modeling concepts in Microsoft Dataverse and with the Power Apps maker portal.

Target Audience

This course is designed for business analysts, app makers, functional consultants, and IT professionals who want to build scalable, data‑driven business applications using Microsoft Dataverse and Power Apps with little to no traditional coding.

Course Outline

Module 1: Create tables in Dataverse

Dataverse lets you securely store and manage data that's used by business applications. Standard and custom tables within Dataverse provide a secure and cloud-based storage option for your data.

Lesson Title

• Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse

• Table characteristics

• Exercise: Create a Microsoft Dataverse table

• Exercise: Import data into your Microsoft Dataverse database

• Table relationships

• Exercise: Create table relationships

• Dataverse logic and security

• Exercise: Create a custom table and import data

• Dataverse auditing

• Dual-write vs virtual tables

Module 02: Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

Model-driven app design is an approach that focuses on quickly adding components to your apps. These components include dashboards, forms, views, and charts. With little or no code, you can make apps that

are simple or complex.

Lesson Title

• Introducing model-driven apps

• Components of model-driven apps

• Design model-driven apps

• Exercise: Control security when sharing model-driven apps

• Incorporate business process flows

• Exercise: Create a model-driven app.

Module 03: Configure forms, charts, and dashboards in model-driven apps

In this module, you'll learn about forms, grids, views, charts, and dashboards that can be used in model- driven apps.

Lesson Title

• Forms overview

• Form elements

• Configure multiple forms

• Use specialize form components

• Configure views overview

• Configure grids

• Create and edit views

• Configure charts overview

• Dashboard overview

• Use interactive streams and tiles

Module 04: Manage solutions in Power Apps and Power Automate

Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate include such package features as apps from Microsoft Power Apps, site maps, flows, entities, customer connectors, and more. In this module, you'll learn how to

manage solutions with Power Automate

Lesson Title

• Introduction

• Add and remove apps, flows and entities in a solution

• Edit and solution aware app, flow and table

• Exercise: Import and export solutions

• Build and deploy a complex solution with flows, apps and entities

• Automate solution management

Guided Project - Create and manage model-driven apps with Power Apps and Dataverse

In this module, practice building model-driven apps with Microsoft Power Apps, including creating Dataverse tables, modifying forms and views, and configuring apps. The lab offers interactive practice with real-world scenarios for business-specific challenges.