PL-900 Practice Question: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
A Power Automate flow runs on a schedule and exports data from Microsoft Dataverse to a CSV file in SharePoint. Recently, the flow has been taking longer than expected and sometimes times out. Which approach should you take to improve performance?
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 pagination in the Dataverse 'List rows' action.
Enabling pagination in the Dataverse 'List rows' action allows the flow to retrieve more rows per API call, reducing the number of requests and improving throughput, which helps avoid timeouts when dealing with large datasets. Option B is incorrect because an on-premises data gateway is used for connecting to on-premises data sources, not for speeding up cloud-to-cloud data transfer. Option C is incorrect because reducing the schedule frequency does not address the performance issue; it only runs the flow less often, but the flow itself will still take too long when it runs. Option D is incorrect because increasing the action timeout setting only gives the flow more time to complete but does not improve performance; it may just delay the failure or mask the underlying issue.
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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Enable pagination in the Dataverse 'List rows' action.
Why this is correct
Pagination retrieves more records per page, reducing round trips.
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Install an on-premises data gateway to speed up data transfer.
Why it's wrong here
Gateway is for on-premises data, not Dataverse to SharePoint.
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Reduce the schedule frequency to run less often.
Why it's wrong here
Less frequent runs don't solve timeout during a run.
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Increase the action timeout setting in the flow.
Why it's wrong here
Longer timeout may cause the flow to still fail eventually.
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