PL-900 Practice Question: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
A Power Automate cloud flow must run every weekday at 7:00 AM local time to post a summary to a Microsoft Teams channel. The flow currently uses a Recurrence trigger. The administrator needs to ensure the flow runs only on Monday through Friday and uses the correct time zone. What should the administrator configure?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that a weekly recurrence or a start time alone can restrict a flow to weekdays, when a daily recurrence plus a day-of-week condition is what actually enforces the weekday-only schedule.
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Set the Recurrence trigger's Interval to 1 and Frequency to Day, then set the trigger's Time zone and add a Condition action that checks whether the current day is a weekday.
A daily Recurrence trigger with interval 1 fires once every day at the configured time. Setting the trigger's Time zone aligns that firing with local time, and a Condition action can filter out Saturday and Sunday. Together these settings deliver a weekday-only 7:00 AM run without external scheduling tools, which directly meets the stated requirement.
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Set the Recurrence trigger's Interval to 5 and Frequency to Day, then set the trigger's Start time to Monday at 7:00 AM.
Why it's wrong here
An interval of 5 with daily frequency means the flow runs every fifth day, not every weekday. The Start time only sets the initial firing time and does not restrict runs to Monday through Friday. This configuration would cause the flow to run on weekends and skip weekdays unpredictably, so it does not meet the requirement.
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Set the Recurrence trigger's Interval to 1 and Frequency to Day, then set the trigger's Time zone and add a Condition action that checks whether the current day is a weekday.
Why this is correct
A daily recurrence with interval 1 fires once per day at the specified time. Setting the Time zone ensures the 7:00 AM trigger aligns with local time. The Condition action can then evaluate whether the day is Monday through Friday and stop the run on weekends. This combination satisfies both the weekday-only and local-time requirements using standard trigger settings and a built-in control action.
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Set the Recurrence trigger's Interval to 1 and Frequency to Week, then add a Condition action that checks the day of the week.
Why it's wrong here
Using a weekly frequency with interval 1 runs once per week, not daily. Adding a Condition to check the day of the week would require the flow to run daily first, but a weekly trigger does not fire daily, so the condition would never evaluate on most days. This approach cannot produce a weekday-only daily schedule and is therefore incorrect for the stated requirement.
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Replace the Recurrence trigger with a 'When a new channel message is added' trigger and filter the channel for weekday posts.
Why it's wrong here
A 'When a new channel message is added' trigger fires when someone posts a message, not on a schedule. It cannot guarantee a 7:00 AM weekday run, and filtering channel messages does not create a time-based schedule. This trigger is event-driven and unrelated to the recurring weekday requirement, making it unsuitable.
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