PL-900 Practice Question: Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
A retail company uses Power Platform for inventory and sales apps. They have multiple environments: Development, Test, and Production. The Development environment is running low on storage capacity due to many test records. The admin needs to free up storage without affecting the Test and Production environments. The admin also wants to maintain data integrity for ongoing development. What should the admin do?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Reset the Development environment using the Admin Center.
The Development environment can be reset (wiped clean) using the Power Platform Admin Center. This removes all data and customizations, freeing storage. The admin can then import the latest solution from source control to restore necessary apps and flows without test data.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Reset the Development environment using the Admin Center.
Why this is correct
Resetting clears all data and customizations, freeing storage, and allows a fresh start.
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Delete the Development environment and create a new one.
Why it's wrong here
Deleting the Development environment destroys all unmanaged solutions, customisations, and data within it, which violates the requirement to maintain data integrity for ongoing development. This action is tempting because creating a fresh environment is a standard method to instantly reclaim storage capacity when no historical data or custom work needs preservation, such as in a short-lived sandbox for isolated experiments.
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Increase the storage capacity of the Development environment by purchasing add-ons.
Why it's wrong here
This incurs cost and does not address the root cause of unnecessary data.
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Manually delete all test records from the Dataverse database.
Why it's wrong here
This is time-consuming and may not free enough space if the issue is with solution artifacts.
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