easyMultiple ChoiceObjective-mapped
PL-900 Practice Question: A business analyst wants to create a dashboard…
A business analyst wants to create a dashboard that displays real-time sales data from a SQL database and share it with the team. Which Power Platform component is best suited?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse Power Apps with Power BI because both can display data, but Power Apps is for app creation with limited real-time dashboard sharing, while Power BI is the dedicated analytics and visualization tool for live dashboards.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Power BI
Power BI is the correct choice because it is specifically designed for data visualization and business intelligence, enabling real-time dashboards from SQL databases via DirectQuery or live connections. It allows sharing dashboards with the team through Power BI Service, meeting the requirement for real-time sales data display and collaboration.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Power Automate
Why it's wrong here
Power Automate automates workflows, not dashboards.
- ✓
Power BI
Why this is correct
Power BI is the tool for dashboards and analytics.
- ✗
Power Virtual Agents
Why it's wrong here
Power Virtual Agents creates chatbots.
- ✗
Power Apps
Why it's wrong here
Power Apps builds apps, not dashboards.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
One of 904 original PL-900 practice questions on Courseiva, each with a full explanation and wrong-answer analysis — not exam dumps or protected exam content. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
Same concept, more angles
1 more way this is tested on PL-900
These questions test the same concept from different angles. Work through them to make sure you can recognise it however the exam phrases it.
Variation 1. A company wants to analyze customer feedback from surveys stored in Excel and create interactive reports. Which combination of Power Platform components is best?
medium- A.Power Virtual Agents and Power BI
- B.Power Apps and Power BI
- ✓ C.Power BI and Power Automate
- D.Power Apps and Power Automate
Why C: Power BI is the primary tool for creating interactive reports and dashboards from data sources like Excel, while Power Automate can be used to automate the ingestion or refresh of survey data from Excel into Power BI, enabling scheduled updates. Together, they directly address the requirement to analyze feedback and build interactive reports without needing custom app development.
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This PL-900 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Microsoft certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the PL-900 exam.