Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals — Practice Set 1

Question 1

Your organization wants to allow business users without coding experience to automate repetitive manual tasks such as copying data between systems. Which Microsoft Power Platform service provides this capability?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Power Automate enables users to automate repetitive processes and tasks without writing code by creating flows that connect to hundreds of services and applications. It is specifically designed to automate business processes.

Question 2

You need to describe the role of Microsoft Dataverse in a Power Platform solution. What is the primary purpose of Microsoft Dataverse?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Dataverse is the underlying data platform for Power Platform. It provides a secure, scalable, and structured storage layer for business data with built-in business logic, security roles, and integration with other Microsoft services.

Question 3

Your organization needs to build a custom chatbot that can answer employee HR questions using company knowledge base articles. Which Microsoft Power Platform service should you use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents) enables you to build custom AI-powered chatbots and copilots that can answer questions from knowledge sources, integrate with business systems, and be deployed across multiple channels including Microsoft Teams.

Question 4

Your manager asks how Microsoft Power Platform services work together. You are building a solution where a Power Apps form submission automatically triggers an approval email and stores the result in a database. Which services are involved in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

In this scenario, Power Apps provides the form interface, Power Automate handles the automated approval workflow triggered by the form submission, and Microsoft Dataverse stores the form data and approval results. This demonstrates the natural integration between the three core Power Platform services.

Question 5

You are administering Microsoft Dataverse. You need to store employee performance review data with structured fields for rating, comments, and review date. What is the correct Dataverse object to create?

Accepted Answer

In Microsoft Dataverse, a table is the equivalent of a database table and is used to store structured business data. Each field in the data (rating, comments, review date) maps to a column in the Dataverse table. Tables can have relationships to other tables to model complex data structures.

Question 6

Your organization needs separate Power Platform environments for development, testing, and production. Where should an administrator configure and manage these environments?

Accepted Answer

The Microsoft Power Platform admin center is the centralized administration portal where administrators create, manage, and configure environments (including development, test, and production), manage Dataverse databases, set security roles, and configure data policies.

Question 7

Your organization needs to prevent Power Automate flows from sending business data to personal consumer cloud storage services. What should the Power Platform administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Microsoft Power Platform prevent data from flowing between business services and personal/consumer services by classifying connectors into Business and Non-Business (or Blocked) groups. Connectors in different groups cannot be used together in the same flow.

Question 8

You need to import a large dataset from an Excel file into Microsoft Dataverse for use in a Power Apps model-driven app. Which method should you use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Dataverse supports importing data directly from Excel and CSV files through the table import options in the Power Apps maker portal or admin center. This is the standard method for bulk-loading structured data into Dataverse tables.

Question 9

A field technician needs a mobile app to record equipment inspection results, capture photos, and work offline when in areas without network connectivity. Which type of Power Apps app is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Canvas apps in Power Apps are best suited for mobile scenarios requiring custom layouts, camera functionality, and offline capability. Canvas apps give makers full control over the UI layout and can work in offline mode with local data sync when connectivity is restored.

Question 10

You are building a model-driven app in Power Apps for case management. Users need to view all open cases assigned to them. What should you create to display this filtered list?

Accepted Answer

In model-driven apps, views are used to define which records are shown in list screens and how they are filtered and sorted. Creating a view filtered by the current user as the assigned owner and case status 'Open' will display exactly the required list of open cases.

Question 11

You are a Power Apps maker at a construction company. Your team needs an app that displays project status data from SharePoint and allows supervisors to submit daily safety reports that are stored in Microsoft Dataverse. You need to build this quickly with minimal code. What should you build?

Accepted Answer

Canvas apps can connect to multiple data sources simultaneously through connectors. In this scenario, connecting to SharePoint for project status data and Dataverse for report storage allows the app to serve both read and write requirements in a single canvas app without requiring custom code.

Question 12

You are building a canvas app and need the layout to automatically adjust to different screen sizes for both tablet and phone users. What should you use in the canvas app to achieve responsive design?

Accepted Answer

Containers in Power Apps canvas apps support responsive layout properties that allow controls to automatically resize and reposition based on the available screen size. Using containers with flexible width and height settings enables the app to work well on both tablet and phone form factors.

Question 13

You are building a model-driven app for a customer service team. Agents need to see a custom form layout when viewing a customer account record, with the most important fields prominently displayed at the top. What should you modify in the model-driven app?

Accepted Answer

In model-driven apps, the form defines the layout of fields when viewing or editing a record. Modifying the form for the Account table allows you to add, remove, and rearrange sections and fields to display the most important information prominently at the top of the record view.

Question 14

You have built a canvas app for your sales team. You need to share the app so that all members of the Sales department can use it. Which two actions are required to share the app with the Sales team? Choose 2.

Accepted Answer

Sharing a canvas app requires two steps: (1) sharing the app itself with users or groups so they can find and launch it, and (2) ensuring those users have appropriate access to the underlying data sources (such as Dataverse table permissions) so the app can read and write data on their behalf.

Question 15

You are a Power Apps developer at a healthcare organization. You need to build a patient intake app that works on both iOS and Android devices used by nurses in hospital wards. The app must allow nurses to describe symptoms in natural language and have those symptoms automatically categorized. Which Power Apps capability should you use for the natural language categorization?

Accepted Answer

Power Apps includes Copilot controls that integrate generative AI capabilities directly into canvas apps. These controls can process natural language input and use AI to categorize, classify, or extract structured information, enabling intelligent data capture without custom AI development.

Question 16

You need to create a Power Automate flow that sends an approval request email to a manager whenever a new expense report is submitted in SharePoint. Which type of flow trigger should you use?

Accepted Answer

An automated trigger in Power Automate is activated by an event in a connected service, such as a new item being created in SharePoint. This ensures the approval flow runs automatically every time a new expense report is submitted without requiring manual initiation.

Question 17

Your organization needs to automate a process that involves interacting with a legacy desktop application that has no API. Which Power Automate capability should you use?

Accepted Answer

Power Automate for Desktop enables Robotic Process Automation (RPA) by recording and replaying UI interactions with desktop applications, web browsers, and legacy systems that have no APIs. Desktop flows are the correct tool for automating processes in applications without programmatic interfaces.

Question 18

You are a process automation specialist at a law firm. Partners must approve contract documents before they are sent to clients. The approval process requires three partners to each approve separately, and the contract should only proceed when all three have approved. You need to build this in Power Automate. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Power Automate's Approvals connector supports multiple approval types including 'Everyone must approve', which requires all specified approvers to approve before the flow continues. This is the correct solution for a multi-party sequential or parallel approval requirement.

Question 19

You have built a Power Automate cloud flow that sends weekly reports. Before releasing it to production use, you need to verify it works correctly. Which two actions should you take to test and monitor the flow? Choose 2.

Accepted Answer

The Test option in the Power Automate maker portal allows you to run a flow manually with test inputs to verify each action executes correctly. The run history shows detailed execution logs including inputs, outputs, and any errors for each action in the flow, enabling effective debugging.

Question 20

You need to analyze inefficiencies in an existing business process before automating it with Power Automate. Which Power Platform feature helps you visualize and understand process bottlenecks using event log data?

Accepted Answer

Process Mining in Power Automate uses event log data to visualize how business processes actually run, identifying bottlenecks, deviations, and inefficiencies. This insight helps organizations understand the current state of a process before designing automation solutions.

Question 21

Your organization wants to build a customer portal where external users can submit service requests and track their status, without those users having internal Microsoft 365 accounts. Which Microsoft Power Platform service should you use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Power Pages is designed for building external-facing websites that allow unauthenticated or externally authenticated users (who do not have Microsoft 365 accounts) to interact with business data and processes. It supports customer portal, partner portal, and self-service scenarios.

Question 22

You are building a Power Pages site for a supplier registration portal. You need to ensure that suppliers can only view and edit their own records, not those of other suppliers. Which Power Pages capability addresses this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Power Pages security is controlled through table permissions and web roles. Table permissions define what authenticated external users can read, create, update, or delete in Dataverse, and can be scoped to the current contact's own records. Web roles group users and assign them the appropriate table permissions.

Question 23

You are building a Power Pages job application portal for a recruitment company. The HR team wants to launch the basic site within a week and needs the fastest possible way to create the initial structure with pages, forms, and a consistent design. What is the most efficient approach?

Accepted Answer

Power Pages includes a Copilot-powered site builder that allows makers to describe their site requirements in natural language. Copilot generates the initial site structure, pages, forms, and content, significantly accelerating the creation of a new Power Pages site compared to building from scratch.

Question 24

You are customizing a Power Pages site for a financial services firm. The firm requires all pages to use their brand colors, fonts, and logo consistently. Which Power Pages capability should you use to apply these changes globally across all pages?

Accepted Answer

The Power Pages design studio Styling workspace allows you to modify the site's theme, including brand colors, fonts, and button styles, that are applied globally across all pages. This ensures consistent branding without manually editing each page.

Question 25

You are building a Power Pages site and need to add a form for external users to submit warranty claims. Which two workspaces in the Power Pages design studio would you use to create and configure the form and the page it appears on? Choose 2.

Accepted Answer

In the Power Pages design studio, the Pages workspace is used to create and edit pages and add components such as forms to them. The Data workspace is used to configure form components, including which Dataverse table they bind to and which columns are included. Together these two workspaces handle both the page structure and the form data configuration.

PL-900 — Power Platform Fundamentals