PL-900 Practice Question: Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
A company is migrating a complex Power Apps solution from a development environment to production. The solution includes custom connectors, flows, and Dataverse tables. Which THREE steps should the administrator take to ensure a successful migration?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Test the solution in a staging environment first
To ensure a successful migration, the administrator should test the solution in a staging environment first (A) to validate functionality, export it as a managed solution (C) to maintain component relationships and support future upgrades, and run the solution checker (E) to identify and fix issues before migration. Deleting the development environment after export (B) is risky because it removes the source before the migration is verified. Manually recreating the solution in production (D) is error-prone and not recommended.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Test the solution in a staging environment first
Why this is correct
Deploying to a staging environment first exercises the solution's custom connectors, flows and Dataverse tables against a production-like target, exposing environment-specific connection references or configuration gaps before the production import, satisfying the migration's need to verify behaviour safely.
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Delete the development environment after export
Why it's wrong here
Deleting the development environment destroys the source solution and its unmanaged layers before production validation completes, preventing rollback. It is tempting as post-migration cleanup, which is valid only after production verification and any required fixes succeed.
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Export the solution as a managed solution
Why this is correct
Exporting as a managed solution locks components against direct editing in production, preventing drift from the development baseline. Managed solutions also support clean upgrades and removal, satisfying the stem's requirement to migrate custom connectors, flows, and Dataverse tables reliably into the production environment.
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Manually recreate the solution in production
Why it's wrong here
Manual recreation omits solution-aware components such as connection references, environment variables and custom connector definitions, breaking flows and Dataverse dependencies. It is tempting when exports fail, but supported export/import of the managed solution preserves those artefacts.
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Run the solution checker to identify issues
Why this is correct
The solution checker statically validates the solution's components—custom connectors, flows and Dataverse tables—against Power Apps rules, surfacing errors such as missing dependencies or unsupported configurations before export and import, so migration faults are caught in development rather than production.
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