PL-900 Practice Question: Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
A Power Platform administrator is setting up a new environment for a department. The department requires that data stored in the environment remain within a specific geographic region. The administrator creates the environment in the Europe region. Which additional step must the administrator take to ensure that all data, including backups, stays in that region?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that data residency requires a separate toggle or policy, when it is actually established solely by the environment's region at creation.
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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Configure the environment's region during creation; no further action is required.
Data residency in Power Platform is determined by the region chosen when an environment is created. The environment's data, including backups, is stored in data centers within that region. No additional configuration is required to enforce this. The administrator's creation of the environment in the Europe region already ensures that data remains in that geography, making other proposed steps unnecessary or ineffective.
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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Create a data loss prevention policy that blocks connectors outside the region.
Why it's wrong here
Data loss prevention policies control which connectors can be used together and can restrict data flow, but they do not determine where data is stored. Blocking connectors does not affect the physical storage location of environment data or backups. This step addresses data movement, not data residency, and would not fulfill the regional storage requirement.
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Configure the environment's region during creation; no further action is required.
Why this is correct
When you create an environment in the Power Platform admin center, you select a region, and all data, including backups, is stored within that region's data centers. No additional setting is needed to enforce data residency. The region selection at creation is the definitive control, so the administrator's action of creating it in Europe already satisfies the requirement.
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Enable the 'Data residency' setting in the Power Platform admin center.
Why it's wrong here
There is no separate 'Data residency' toggle in the Power Platform admin center. Data residency is determined by the region selected when the environment is created. Enabling such a setting is not a valid action, and relying on it would not meet the requirement because the region choice is the primary control for data location.
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Assign the environment to a security group that is restricted to users in that region.
Why it's wrong here
Assigning a security group controls which users can access the environment, but it does not affect where data is stored or backed up. Data residency is a function of the environment's region, not user membership. This step would not ensure that data remains in the specified geographic region.
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