PL-900 Practice Question: Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
A financial services firm uses Power Platform in a highly regulated environment. They have a production environment that contains sensitive customer data. The compliance officer requires that all changes to apps and flows in production be approved before deployment. The development team uses a separate sandbox environment. The admin needs to implement a change management process that ensures only approved solutions are deployed to production. What should the admin do?
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
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Enable Managed Environments for the production environment and configure the deployment pipeline with approval gates.
Managed Environments in Power Platform provide governance rules, including deployment pipelines that require approval before solutions are deployed to production. This meets the compliance requirement.
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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Use Power Automate approval flows to send notifications when a change is made.
Why it's wrong here
This is reactive and does not prevent unauthorized deployments.
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Restrict permissions so only the admin can deploy solutions to production.
Why it's wrong here
This does not enforce approval from compliance; the admin could deploy without approval.
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Enable Managed Environments for the production environment and configure the deployment pipeline with approval gates.
Why this is correct
Managed Environments with deployment pipelines enforce approval before deployment.
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Manually review and approve changes by checking version history in the sandbox.
Why it's wrong here
This is not automated and does not enforce a formal process.
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