Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)

Certification

Associate certification for building extensions and integrations on Power Platform. The exam is moving to AB-400; PL-400 testing ends 30 October 2026.

Glossary

Related topics in brief

• Microsoft · Developed by · Organization
  Microsoft Corporation is a technology company that develops software and cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365.
• Power Platform · Covers · Platform
  Microsoft's low-code family consisting of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages and Copilot Studio. Together with Dataverse it lets business users build apps, automations, reports and agents.
• Power Apps · Covers · Product
  A low-code tool for building custom business apps for web and mobile. Canvas apps give full control over the layout, while model-driven apps are generated from the data model in Dataverse.
• Power Automate · Covers · Product
  A service for automating workflows between apps and services. Cloud flows react to triggers such as a new email or file, desktop flows automate Windows applications, and both can include AI steps.
• Dataverse · Covers · Product
  The managed data platform behind Power Platform and Dynamics 365. It stores tables with relationships, security roles and business logic, so apps and agents work on one governed data source.
• Power Fx · Covers · Concept
  Microsoft's open-source low-code formula language, modelled on Excel formulas, used in Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and Copilot Studio.
• Connector · Covers · Concept
  Prebuilt wrapper around an API that lets Power Apps, Power Automate and Copilot Studio read and write data in hundreds of services.