PL-900 Practice Test 15 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A manager needs to quickly analyze sales data from multiple sources and share interactive dashboards with the team. Which Power Platform tool should they use?

Accepted Answer

Power BI. Power BI is the correct tool because it is designed specifically for data analytics and visualization. It can connect to multiple data sources, transform and model the data, and create interactive dashboards that can be shared securely with team members via the Power BI service. This directly meets the manager's need to analyze sales data from multiple sources and share interactive dashboards.

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Power Automate

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Power Apps

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Power Virtual Agents

Question 2

You are creating a flow that should run only when a button is pressed in a mobile app. The flow will send an email to a manager with the current location of the user. Which type of flow should you create?

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Instant cloud flow. An instant cloud flow can be triggered from a button or app. Automated flows trigger on events. Scheduled flows run on schedule. Desktop flows are for desktop automation.

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Scheduled cloud flow

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Automated cloud flow

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Desktop flow

Question 3

A hospital uses Power Apps to manage patient intake forms. The app stores data in Microsoft Dataverse. The security policy requires that patient health information (PHI) be encrypted at rest and in transit. The environment is already configured with default Dataverse settings. The IT admin needs to ensure compliance. What should the admin do?

Accepted Answer

No further action is needed; Dataverse encrypts data at rest and in transit by default.. Dataverse provides encryption at rest by default (using Microsoft-managed keys) and encryption in transit (TLS). No additional configuration is needed unless the organization requires customer-managed keys, which is not mentioned.

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Enable customer-managed encryption keys for Dataverse.

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Configure a VPN for all access to the environment.

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Use Power Automate to encrypt data before storing it in Dataverse.

Question 4

Your organization has multiple Power Platform environments. You need to ensure that a specific connector (e.g., SQL Server) is blocked in the production environment but allowed in the development environment. What should you configure?

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Create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy and assign it to the production environment.. Data loss prevention (DLP) policies in Power Platform allow administrators to classify connectors as Blocked, Business Data Only, or No Business Data Allowed. By creating a DLP policy and assigning it to the production environment, you can specifically block the SQL Server connector in that environment while leaving it available in the development environment, which is not assigned the same policy.

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Set the connector's API rate limits to zero in the production environment.

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Modify the connector's sharing settings in the environment.

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Configure environment-level security roles to restrict connector usage.

Question 5

Which Power Platform component provides a low-code platform to build custom business applications that can be embedded in Microsoft Teams?

Accepted Answer

Power Apps. Power Apps is the correct answer because it is the low-code platform within Microsoft Power Platform specifically designed for building custom business applications. These apps can be directly embedded into Microsoft Teams via the 'Power Apps' tab or personal app, allowing users to interact with the app without leaving the Teams interface.

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Power BI

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Power Virtual Agents

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Power Automate

Question 6

Which THREE components are required to create an automated approval process using Power Automate and Microsoft Teams?

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A 'Start and wait for an approval' action. Options A, C, and E are correct because they represent the trigger, approval action, and notification. Option B is wrong because it's for manual triggers. Option D is wrong because it's not required for approvals.

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A manual button to start the flow

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A SharePoint list to store approval history

Question 7

Match each Power Virtual Agents feature to its purpose.

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Topics: Define conversation paths and responses.. Power Virtual Agents uses Topics to define conversation flows, Entities to extract data, Actions to interact with external systems, and Triggers to initiate topics based on user keywords. Common confusions include swapping the roles of Topics and Entities, or Entities and Actions.

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Topics: Extract specific information from user input.

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Entities: Call external systems or perform tasks.

Question 8

An organization uses Power Pages to provide a partner portal. Partners must log in using their corporate Microsoft Entra ID credentials. Which authentication provider should be configured in Power Pages?

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Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is the identity provider for enterprise federated authentication.

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Microsoft account

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SAML 2.0

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Local authentication

Question 9

A Power Automate flow fails with the error 'GatewayTimeout'. The flow uses an on-premises data gateway to connect to a SQL Server database. What is the most likely cause?

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The on-premises data gateway is offline or unreachable.. A GatewayTimeout error typically indicates that the gateway is not reachable or has been offline due to network issues, maintenance, or misconfiguration. Option A is wrong because incorrect credentials would cause authentication errors, not timeout. Option B is wrong because a misconfigured trigger would cause a different error at flow start. Option D is wrong because insufficient license would cause a quota or permission error.

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The SQL Server credentials are incorrect.

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The flow creator does not have a Power Automate license.

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The flow trigger is misconfigured.

Question 10

A company wants to use AI to automatically categorize customer support tickets based on their description. Which Power Platform AI capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

AI Builder category classification model. AI Builder's category classification model is specifically designed to automatically categorize text into predefined categories, making it ideal for routing support tickets based on their description. This prebuilt AI model uses natural language processing to analyze the text and assign the most relevant category without requiring custom machine learning expertise.

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Power Automate with a regular expression

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Power Virtual Agents (now Copilot Studio)

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Power BI AI visuals

Question 11

You need to design a Power Automate flow that sends a welcome email to a new user immediately after their account is created in Microsoft Entra ID. Which trigger should you use?

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When a user is added. 'When a user is added' triggers when a new user is created. Option A is wrong because it triggers when a user is deleted, not created. Option B is wrong because it triggers when a group is added, not a user. Option C is wrong because it triggers when a user is updated, not created.

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When a user is removed

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When a group is added

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When a user is updated

Question 12

Which TWO scenarios are appropriate for using Power Automate? (Choose two.)

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Copying files from one SharePoint folder to another when a new file is added. Power Automate includes a trigger for 'When a file is created' in SharePoint, which can initiate an automated workflow to copy that file to another folder. This demonstrates Power Automate's core strength in automating repetitive tasks across Microsoft services without manual intervention.

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Creating a dashboard to visualize sales trends

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Building a custom user interface for data entry

Question 13

Refer to the exhibit. A Power Apps app uses Dataverse with the defined table and roles. An employee reports that they can see all assets in the app, but they should only see assets assigned to them. What is the most likely reason?

Accepted Answer

The Employee security role has 'Read' permission set to 'Organization' scope instead of 'User'. The Employee security role's 'Read' permission is set to 'Organization' scope, which allows the employee to see all asset records in the Dataverse table. To restrict visibility to only assets assigned to the employee, the 'Read' permission should be set to 'User' scope, which limits record access to those the user owns or is assigned to. This is a common misconfiguration in Dataverse role-based security that directly causes the reported issue.

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The Asset table does not have a relationship to the User table

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The employee is not the owner of the asset records

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The app is not configured to filter records based on the current user

Question 14

A Power BI report contains a measure that calculates year-over-year growth. The measure works correctly in Power BI Desktop but shows blank values after publishing to the service. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The time zone settings in the service differ from Desktop. Time zone settings in the Power BI service can cause date-based measures like year-over-year growth to return blank values. When a measure uses functions such as SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR or DATEADD, the service may interpret date boundaries differently than Power BI Desktop, especially if the dataset uses a different time zone or if the service applies UTC conversion. This mismatch can result in no matching dates for the calculation, leading to blank results.

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The dataset was deleted from the service

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The user does not have permission to view the measure

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The scheduled refresh is not configured

Question 15

A real estate agency wants to provide a portal where tenants can submit maintenance requests online. The portal should allow tenants to track the status of their requests. The agency staff should be able to update the status and assign work orders to contractors. The agency uses Microsoft 365 and has Power Platform licenses. What should they use?

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Power Pages for tenants, Dataverse for storage, Power Automate for notifications, and Power Apps model-driven app for staff. It uses Power Pages to create an external-facing portal for tenants to submit and track maintenance requests, Dataverse as the underlying data store for all request data, Power Automate to send notifications (e.g., status updates), and a Power Apps model-driven app for staff to manage requests and assign work orders. This combination provides a secure, low-code solution that leverages the existing Microsoft 365 and Power Platform licenses.

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Power Apps canvas app for tenants and Power Apps model-driven app for staff

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AI Builder and Power Automate to process requests

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Power BI dashboard for tenants to view status and Power Apps for staff