PL-900 Practice Test 6 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Drag and drop the steps to create a canvas app from a SharePoint list in the correct order.

Accepted Answer

Go to Power Apps maker portal, then select SharePoint as data source, then connect to a specific SharePoint list, then choose a template for the app, then publish and share the app.. The process starts in the maker portal, then selects SharePoint as source, connects to the list, chooses a template, and finally publishes and shares.

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Select SharePoint as data source, then choose a template for the app, then connect to a specific SharePoint list, then go to Power Apps maker portal, then publish and share the app.

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Publish and share the app, then go to Power Apps maker portal, then select SharePoint as data source, then connect to a specific SharePoint list, then choose a template for the app.

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Choose a template for the app, then go to Power Apps maker portal, then select SharePoint as data source, then connect to a specific SharePoint list, then publish and share the app.

Question 2

A sales manager wants to track leads and opportunities without custom development. Which Power Platform component should they use?

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Power Apps (model-driven app). A model-driven app in Power Apps is designed for data-centric business processes like lead and opportunity tracking, providing out-of-the-box tables, forms, and views without custom development. It leverages the Dataverse to store and manage structured data, making it ideal for a sales manager to track leads and opportunities through a pre-configured, customizable interface.

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Power BI

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Power Virtual Agents

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Power Automate

Question 3

A company is deploying Power Virtual Agents (now Copilot Studio) chatbots across multiple departments. Each department needs its own environment to manage chatbots independently. However, the company wants to share a common set of entities and workflows across all environments. Which approach should the administrator take?

Accepted Answer

Create a separate environment per department and deploy managed solutions containing the common components. Managed solutions allow you to package common components (entities, workflows) and deploy them to multiple environments, ensuring consistency while maintaining departmental isolation. Each department gets its own environment for independent chatbot management, and the shared components are installed via managed solutions that cannot be modified, preserving the common baseline.

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Create a single environment for all departments and use security roles to isolate chatbots

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Use Power Apps component library to share components across environments

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Create a shared environment for common components and link each department environment to it

Question 4

An administrator configures a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy with the scope set to 'All environments' and places selected connectors in the 'Blocked' group. What will be the result of this policy?

Accepted Answer

The connectors are blocked in all environments. A DLP policy scoped to 'All environments' applies its connector classification across every Power Platform environment in the tenant. When connectors are placed in the 'Blocked' group, any app or flow using those connectors is prevented from running in any environment, including the default one. The scope setting directly determines where the policy's restrictions take effect.

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The connectors are allowed but audited

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The connectors are blocked only in production environments

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The connectors are blocked except for the default environment

Question 5

A flow fails with the error: 'GatewayTimeout'. The flow connects to an on-premises SQL Server via a data gateway. What is the most likely cause?

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The on-premises data gateway is not running or unreachable. The 'GatewayTimeout' error indicates that the flow successfully reached the on-premises data gateway but the gateway did not respond within the expected time frame. This typically occurs when the gateway service is not running, the machine hosting the gateway is offline, or network connectivity between the gateway and the SQL Server is broken. Incorrect credentials or missing tables would produce different errors (e.g., 'Login failed' or 'Invalid object name').

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The SQL login credentials are incorrect

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The SQL table does not exist

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The flow trigger did not fire

Question 6

An organization has multiple Power Platform environments including production, development, and test. They want to ensure that changes made in development are promoted to test and then to production, with approval gates. Which feature should they use?

Accepted Answer

Use managed solutions with environment variables and configure deployment pipelines.. Managed solutions with environment variables and deployment pipelines provide a structured, automated way to promote solutions across environments with approval gates. This approach ensures that only managed solutions (which are locked and not directly editable) are deployed to production, while environment variables allow configuration values to change per environment without modifying the solution itself.

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Use Power Apps check-in feature and version history.

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Use unmanaged solutions and export/import manually between environments.

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Export solutions to a SharePoint document library and import from there.

Question 7

An organization wants to ensure that all Power Platform solutions in production environments are tracked and changes are approved. What should the administrator implement?

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Managed solutions with application lifecycle management (ALM). Managed solutions with application lifecycle management (ALM) ensure that all Power Platform solutions in production environments are tracked and changes are approved by enforcing version control, solution layering, and controlled deployment through environments. This approach uses solution components and environment segmentation to prevent unapproved modifications and maintain an audit trail.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

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Environment security groups

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Disable the 'Create personal productivity environments' setting

Question 8

Refer to the exhibit. A Power BI report connecting to the SalesDB database is slow. The exhibit shows a SQL Server activity snapshot. What is the most likely cause of the performance issue?

Accepted Answer

SPID 55 is blocked by SPID 54, causing delays. The exhibit shows SPID 55 (a SELECT query) in a 'suspended' state with a non-zero 'blocked_by' column value of 54, indicating it is waiting for a lock held by SPID 54. SPID 54 is in a 'sleeping' state but still holds locks, which blocks SPID 55 from proceeding. This blocking chain directly causes the report's slow performance, as the Power BI query cannot complete until the blocking session releases its locks.

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The database server has insufficient memory

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The SELECT query (SPID 55) is performing a table scan

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The sleeping session (SPID 54) is using too much CPU

Question 9

A retail company wants to reduce the time store managers spend on manual inventory reporting. Currently, managers use paper forms and email to submit daily stock counts, which then need to be manually entered into a central system. This process is error-prone and delays replenishment. The company wants a solution that automates data entry, provides real-time dashboards, and allows managers to submit reports from their phones without installing any software on the phones. Which combination of Microsoft Power Platform tools should the company use?

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Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. The scenario requires a combination of Power Apps (for mobile-friendly report submission without installing software), Power Automate (to automate data entry into the central system), and Power BI (to provide real-time dashboards). Power Apps alone cannot automate data entry or provide dashboards; Power Automate alone cannot provide a mobile input interface or dashboards; Power BI alone cannot capture data or automate workflows. Only the trio covers all requirements: mobile input, automated processing, and real-time visualization.

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Power Automate only

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Power Apps only

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Power BI only

Question 10

Which THREE of the following are capabilities of Power Virtual Agents? (Choose three.)

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Use prebuilt templates for common scenarios. Option A is correct because Power Virtual Agents ships with prebuilt templates for common scenarios (such as FAQ, IT helpdesk, and customer service bots) that let makers start a bot quickly without building every topic from scratch. Option B is correct because Power Virtual Agents supports human handoff, allowing a bot to escalate a conversation to a live agent, typically through integration with Dynamics 365 Omnichannel for Customer Service. Option C is correct because bots built in Power Virtual Agents can be published to multiple channels, including websites (via an embeddable web chat widget or iframe) and Microsoft Teams, as well as other channels like Facebook and Cortana. Option D is not a core Power Virtual Agents capability; interactive reports are produced with Power BI, not generated natively by Power Virtual Agents. Option E is not a Power Virtual Agents capability per se; complex workflow automation with conditions is handled by Power Automate, which Power Virtual Agents can call, but the bot itself does not automate complex workflows.

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Generate interactive reports from conversation data

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Automate complex workflows with conditions