Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer Training (PL-500/PL-500T00)
Nearly 60% of employees report spending more than a full workday each week on repetitive, manual tasks; time that could be redirected toward higher-value work. The PL-500T00 Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer course gives you the skills to eliminate those inefficiencies by creating, deploying, and managing end-to-end automated workflows using Microsoft Power Automate.
Through immersive, hands-on training, you’ll learn to work with business stakeholders to analyze process requirements, document business workflows, design automation solutions, and integrate them with Microsoft Power Platform and other systems. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to build both cloud and desktop flows, implement process mining, handle errors, and deploy secure, scalable solutions that deliver measurable business impact.
This course follows exam PL-500 objectives, giving you the hands-on skills and knowledge you need to earn your Power Automate RPA Developer Associate certification.
What Is Included
- Official Microsoft Learn courseware aligned to the PL-500 exam objectives
- Expert Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) instruction
- Hands-on labs and guided exercises using Power Automate for Desktop and Cloud
- 90 days of on-demand access to course materials and lab environments after class
- Free course retake (terms apply)
- Guaranteed to Run (GTR) classes for confirmed dates
- Flexible rescheduling options (terms apply)
- Optional Exam Voucher (Add-On)
This course provides a comprehensive path to becoming a skilled Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer. You will learn how to:
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and evaluate automation solutions with Microsoft Power Automate.
- Integrate solutions with REST and SOAP services and other Microsoft Power Platform tools.
- Implement process mining to analyze and optimize workflows.
- Build secure, scalable cloud flows and desktop flows.
- Apply best practices for error handling, exception management, and solution deployment.
If you’re a developer with a keen interest in providing automated solutions for your organization, this certification could be a great fit for you. You automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks by using Microsoft Power Automate. You review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and evaluate solutions. Working with business stakeholders, you help to improve and automate business workflows.
Candidates should have experience with JSON, cloud flows and desktop flows, integrating solutions with REST and SOAP services, analyzing data by using Microsoft Excel, VBScript, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), HTML, JavaScript, one or more programming languages, and the Microsoft Power Platform suite of tools (AI Builder, Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power Virtual Agents).
- Overview of Dataverse and the Common Data Model.
- Extending Power Platform with Azure.
- Understanding Power Platform environments.
- Manage apps, flows, and entities within solutions.
- Edit and deploy solution-aware components.
- Automate solution management.
- Process mining concepts and role in hyperautomation.
- Use process mining in Power Automate web portal and desktop.
- Get started with Process Advisor: record, edit, analyze, and generate automation recommendations.
- Explore Power Automate capabilities and apps.
- Build basic cloud and desktop flows (with and without Copilot).
- Troubleshoot flows and apply business value scenarios.
- Write expressions and use functions.
- Apply error handling with “run after” and analytics.
- Troubleshoot slow-running flows with admin center tools.
- Set up environment and create first desktop flow.
- Configure flow control, conditionals, variables, and parameters.
- Automate repetitive tasks using loops.
- Record desktop flows and use scripting.
- Perform web automation (browser handling, forms, data extraction).
- Apply exception and error handling.
- Connect desktop flows with cloud flows.
- Share flows via co-ownership, run-only, and copy options.
- Manage solutions and cross-environment deployment.
- Introduction to custom connectors in the maker portal.
- Discover and use Web APIs with OpenAPI standards.
- Configure authentication (Azure AD / Entra ID).
- Apply policy templates and runtime expressions.
- Create OpenAPI custom connectors with dynamic schema and extensions.