PL-900 Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform Practice Test 10 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Which TWO benefits does Power Platform offer to organizations? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Provides seamless integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure. Option A is correct because Power Platform connectors natively integrate with Microsoft 365 services (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Dataverse) and Azure services (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Microsoft Entra ID), allowing apps and flows to use existing identity, data, and cloud resources without custom middleware. Option B is correct because Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents provide low-code/no-code visual designers, prebuilt templates, and drag-and-drop components that let citizen developers (business users outside IT) create solutions with minimal or no traditional programming. Option C is not correct because Power Platform requires standalone Power Apps/Power Automate per-user or per-app licenses; an Office 365 license alone does not grant full Power Platform capabilities beyond limited seeded rights. Option D is not correct because Power Platform augments rather than eliminates custom development—complex scenarios still require pro-code extensions, custom connectors, plug-ins, or Azure services.

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Is free for all users with an Office 365 license

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Eliminates the need for any custom development

Question 2

Which THREE components are part of Microsoft Power Platform? (Choose three.)

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Power BI. Power BI (A) is a core Power Platform component, providing business analytics and interactive dashboards that connect to data sources and publish reports. Power Automate (B) is also part of the platform, delivering workflow and robotic process automation across services via triggers, actions, and connectors. Power Apps (E) is the third core component, enabling low-code/no-code canvas, model-driven, and portal app development on top of Dataverse and other connectors. Dynamics 365 (C) is a separate family of business applications that integrates with Power Platform but is not itself one of its components. Microsoft Copilot Studio (D) is a conversational AI/agent-building tool that extends the platform ecosystem but is not counted among the three core Power Platform components.

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Dynamics 365

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Microsoft Copilot Studio

Question 3

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. Option B is correct because Power Automate is a workflow automation service that can use a SharePoint trigger such as 'When a file is created in a folder' to automatically copy the new file to another SharePoint folder, which is a classic event-driven automation scenario. Option D is correct because Power Automate natively supports approval workflows via the Approvals connector, so when a new expense report is submitted it can trigger an approval request and route it to the appropriate approver. Option A is not appropriate because dashboards for visualizing sales trends are built with Power BI, not Power Automate. Option C is not appropriate because building a custom data-entry user interface is done with Power Apps, whereas Power Automate handles background process automation rather than UI creation.

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Creating a dashboard to visualize sales trends

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Building a custom user interface for data entry

Question 4

A company wants to enable employees to ask questions about HR policies using a conversational interface. The system should be built with minimal code. Which Power Platform capability should they use?

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Microsoft Copilot Studio. Microsoft Copilot Studio (D) is the correct choice because it enables the creation of conversational AI agents with minimal code, specifically designed for building chatbots that can answer HR policy questions. It integrates with Power Platform and uses prebuilt templates and natural language understanding to handle employee queries without requiring extensive development.

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Power BI

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Power Apps

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Power Automate

Question 5

An organization needs to create a centralized repository of business data that can be used by Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. Which data storage option is designed for this purpose?

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Microsoft Dataverse. Microsoft Dataverse is the correct choice because it is a low-code data platform specifically designed to securely store and manage business data used by Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. It provides a common data schema, built-in business logic, role-based security, and seamless integration with the Power Platform, making it the centralized repository for business data.

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SharePoint lists

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Azure SQL Database

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Excel Online

Question 6

A company wants to enable its field service technicians to access customer records and update work orders from their mobile devices offline. Which Power Platform solution should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Power Apps (model-driven) configured for offline use. Model-driven Power Apps natively support offline capabilities through the Dynamics 365 offline sync engine, which allows field service technicians to access customer records and update work orders without connectivity. When the device reconnects, changes are automatically synchronized with the Dataverse, ensuring data consistency. This makes it the correct choice for mobile offline scenarios.

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Power Pages website accessible from mobile browsers

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Power BI dashboards embedded in a mobile app

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Power Automate flows to sync data periodically

Question 7

An organization is using Microsoft Power Platform to build a compliance solution. They need to ensure that sensitive data in Dataverse is encrypted at rest and that access is audited. Which feature should they enable?

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Customer-managed encryption key (CMK) and Audit logging. Customer-managed encryption key (CMK) provides control over the encryption key used to encrypt data at rest in Dataverse, ensuring sensitive data is encrypted with a key managed by the organization. Audit logging records all access and changes to data, enabling compliance auditing. Together, they directly address the requirements for encryption at rest and access auditing.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

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Power Apps business rules

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Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access policies

Question 8

A marketing department wants to create a custom portal where external partners can submit project proposals and track their status. Which Power Platform product should they use?

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Power Apps portal (now Power Pages). Power Apps portals (now Power Pages) is the correct choice because it enables organizations to create low-code, externally facing websites that allow external users—such as partners—to sign in, submit project proposals, and track their status. It integrates with Microsoft Dataverse to store and manage the proposal data, and supports role-based access control to ensure partners only see their own submissions.

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Power Automate

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Power Virtual Agents

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Power BI

Question 9

A business analyst wants to create a real-time dashboard showing sales performance from Dynamics 365 Sales data. Which tool should they use?

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Power BI. Power BI is the correct tool for creating real-time dashboards because it is designed specifically for data visualization and business intelligence. It can connect directly to Dynamics 365 Sales data via the Dataverse connector or direct query mode, enabling live, interactive dashboards that refresh automatically as data changes.

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Power Apps

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Power Pages

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Power Automate

Question 10

An organization plans to deploy a Power Platform solution that uses Dataverse as the data source. They need to ensure that users can only see records from their own department. What should they implement?

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Business units and security roles with team-based access. Business units and security roles with team-based access are the correct implementation because Dataverse uses a hierarchical security model where business units define the organizational structure and security roles control record-level permissions. By configuring business units per department and assigning users to teams within those units, you can enforce that users only see records belonging to their own department through record ownership and sharing rules.

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Power Automate to filter records

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Audit logging

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Column-level security profiles

Question 11

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

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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 12

A nonprofit organization needs to track donations and volunteers using a custom app without writing code. Which Power Platform tool should they use?

Accepted Answer

Power Apps. Power Apps is Microsoft's low-code/no-code application development platform, letting makers build canvas or model-driven apps with drag-and-drop controls, connectors to Dataverse/SharePoint/SQL, and no traditional programming. For a nonprofit tracking donations and volunteers, Power Apps provides the data-entry forms, views, and business logic needed without writing code. Power BI, Power Pages, and Power Automate serve analytics, external websites, and workflow automation respectively—not custom app creation.

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Power BI

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Power Pages

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Power Automate

Question 13

A company has a legacy on-premises SQL Server database and wants to integrate it with a Power App without moving data to the cloud. Which connector should they use?

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On-premises data gateway with SQL Server connector. The On-premises data gateway acts as a secure bridge between cloud services like Power Apps and on-premises data sources such as SQL Server. When combined with the SQL Server connector, it allows live queries and updates to the on-premises database without requiring data migration to the cloud, fulfilling the requirement to keep data on-premises.

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SQL Server connector directly

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Power Automate on-premises agent

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Dataverse

Question 14

Which Power Platform component can be used to create and deploy a chatbot?

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Copilot Studio. Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents) is the dedicated Power Platform component for creating and deploying chatbots using a no-code graphical interface. It allows you to design conversational topics, trigger flows, and publish the bot to channels like Microsoft Teams or websites without writing code. AI Builder provides AI models that can be integrated into a chatbot solution but cannot create or deploy a standalone chatbot.

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Power Automate

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Power BI

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Power Apps

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AI Builder

Question 15

Which TWO are common use cases for Power Automate?

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Automating approval workflows. Power Automate is used for automating business processes and integrating apps. Building custom apps is Power Apps, creating dashboards is Power BI, and managing user identities is Microsoft Entra ID.

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Creating interactive dashboards

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Managing user access to Microsoft 365

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Building custom mobile applications