Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
The PL-200 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Power Platform. It validates your ability to configure Microsoft Dataverse, create apps by using Microsoft Power Apps, create and manage logic and process automation, and manage environments.
The PL-200 exam has retired. New candidates should take AB-410.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
- Exam code
- PL-200
- Level
- Associate
- Duration
- Approximately 100 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $165 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Languages
- English (also available in Japanese, Spanish, French, German and several other languages)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Configure Microsoft Dataverse (25–30%)
- Create and modify tables, columns, relationships, rollups, and formulas.
- Manage Dataverse search, auditing, import and export, duplicate detection, and bulk deletion.
- Configure business units, security roles, teams, column security, and hierarchy security.
Create apps by using Microsoft Power Apps (25–30%)
- Create model-driven apps with forms, views, custom pages, commanding, and embedded canvas apps.
- Describe canvas app structure, formulas, variables, collections, and flow calls.
- Build Power Pages sites, forms, lists, navigation, security, and authentication.
Create and manage logic and process automation (25–30%)
- Create cloud flows with connectors, branching, expressions, and the Dataverse connector.
- Create business process flows and classic Dataverse workflows.
- Implement low-code plug-ins, Power Fx functions, and business rules.
Manage environments (15–20%)
- Create and manage Dataverse solutions, managed versus unmanaged, and environment ALM.
- Configure email, SharePoint, document management, and Word templates.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take PL-200?
PL-200 is for Power Platform functional consultants, low-code consultants, and business-applications consultants. Most work at Microsoft partners, or in internal automation teams in professional services, the public sector, and financial services. This exam has retired.
What is the average salary for a Power Platform Functional Consultant?
As of August 2026, Salary.com reports an average US Power Platform Consultant salary of about $104,000. In the United Kingdom, Jobtome reports about £66,300 average for Power Platform Consultant, and HTP 365 places Power Platform specialists around £55,000 to £85,000. In Germany, Power Platform professionals are about €55,000 to €70,000. There is no single published EMEA average.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real PL-200 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. Microsoft publishes a free Practice Assessment for PL-200 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. MeasureUp also sells the official practice test linked in the study resources on this page. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
Does the exam include official labs I can use to practice?
Microsoft does not publish a stable list of which certification exams include labs, and a lab can be dropped for a candidate if the live environment is unavailable. PL-200 may include performance-based tasks, but Microsoft will not confirm that in advance. For practice, create a free Power Platform developer environment and complete the Microsoft Learn exercises. Official instructor-led PL-200T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. Applied Skills labs for Power Apps or Copilot Studio are a different credential. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.