Microsoft Power Platform Developer Associate
The PL-400 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Power Platform. It validates your ability to create a technical design, build Power Platform solutions, implement Power Apps improvements, extend the user experience, extend the platform, and develop integrations.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Power Platform Developer Associate
- Exam code
- PL-400
- 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, German, Spanish, French and several other languages)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Create a technical design (10–15%)
- Design architecture, authentication, and where to put business logic.
- Design reusable Power Apps components, custom connectors, plug-ins, custom APIs, and integrations.
Build Power Platform solutions (10–15%)
- Troubleshoot security and configure Dataverse roles for code components.
- Implement ALM with solution layers, environment variables, pipelines, and CI/CD.
Implement Power Apps improvements (10–15%)
- Implement complex Power Fx, component libraries, and cloud-flow logic from canvas apps.
- Optimise and troubleshoot canvas and model-driven apps with Monitor and delegation.
Extend the user experience (10–15%)
- Apply Client API JavaScript, commands, and Dataverse Web API scripting in model-driven apps.
- Create, package, and consume PCF code components.
Extend the platform (30–35%)
- Create Dataverse plug-ins, custom APIs, images, and business events.
- Create custom connectors and call Dataverse Web API or Organization service with OAuth.
- Process workloads with Azure Functions and complex Power Automate cloud flows.
Develop integrations (10–15%)
- Publish and consume Dataverse events with webhooks, Service Bus, and Event Hubs.
- Synchronise data with change tracking, alternate keys, and UpsertRequest.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take PL-400?
PL-400 is for Power Platform developers, software engineers, and technical consultants. Most work at Microsoft partners, at ISVs, or in enterprise engineering teams in professional services, finance, and the public sector.
What is the average salary for a Power Platform Developer?
As of 2026, US Power Platform developer averages are reported around $95,000 to about $129,000, depending on the sample. In the United Kingdom, IT Jobs Watch shows a median advertised salary of £55,000. In Germany, published Power Platform developer averages are around the mid €60,000s to €75,000. 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-400 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-400 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-400 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-400T00 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.