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Practice scenarios

Question 1hardmulti select
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Which TWO components of Microsoft Power Platform are primarily used to create and deploy custom business applications without writing code?

Question 2hardmulti select
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Which THREE are common uses of connectors in Power Automate? (Choose three.)

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company has a canvas app that uses a SharePoint list as its data source. The app works fine for most users but a few users report that they cannot submit new items. They receive a generic 'Access denied' error. What is the most likely cause?

Question 4hardmultiple choice
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A Power Automate flow uses the trigger shown. Users report that the flow does not trigger for emails with attachments. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
JSON:
{
  "triggers": {
    "When_a_new_email_arrives": {
      "type": "ApiConnection",
      "inputs": {
        "host": {
          "connectionName": "shared_office365"
        },
        "method": "get",
        "path": "/v1.0/mail/me/Inbox/recent"
      }
    }
  }
}
Question 5hardmultiple choice
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You are the Power Platform administrator for Contoso Ltd., a retail company with 500 employees. The company uses Microsoft 365 and has recently adopted Power Platform. The IT department manages a Power Apps canvas app used by the sales team to track customer interactions. The app connects to a Microsoft Dataverse table named 'Customer Interactions' with columns: CustomerID (text), InteractionDate (date), Notes (text), and SalesPerson (text). The app was working fine for three months, but starting last week, users report that the app loads slowly, sometimes timing out, and the 'Customer Interactions' table shows duplicate records. Upon investigation, you find that the app uses a 'Patch' function to create records, and the 'OnStart' property loads all records from the table using 'Filter(Customer Interactions, SalesPerson = User().FullName)' to show only the current user's records. The Dataverse table has grown to 50,000 rows. Additionally, some users have accidentally created multiple submissions by double-clicking the submit button. You need to resolve the performance and duplicate issues with minimal disruption. What should you do?

Question 6hardmulti select
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A company deploys a model-driven app that uses a custom table 'Project' with a status choice column. The app includes a business rule that shows a warning message when the status is set to 'Completed' but the 'End Date' is blank. The business rule works on the main form but not when records are updated via a Power Automate flow. Which THREE actions should the administrator take to enforce the rule regardless of update method?

Question 7hardmultiple choice
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A company has configured the copilot as shown in the exhibit. Users report that the copilot is not answering questions about HR policies that were updated in the SharePoint site today. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "knowledgeSources": [
    {
      "type": "sharepoint",
      "url": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/HRDocs",
      "refreshInterval": "weekly"
    },
    {
      "type": "publicWebsite",
      "url": "https://www.example.com/policies",
      "refreshInterval": "daily"
    }
  ],
  "generativeAI": {
    "enabled": true,
    "moderation": "medium"
  },
  "authentication": {
    "type": "azuread",
    "tenantId": "tenant123"
  }
}
Question 8hardmultiple choice
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You review a failed flow run with the log shown. The flow is supposed to send an email when a SharePoint item is created. What is the most likely issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
Flow run log:
Action: Send an email (V2)
Status: Failed
Error: 'The mail server could not be reached. Check your connection and try again.'
Trigger: When an item is created (SharePoint)
Scope: SendNotification
Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A developer creates a canvas app to display orders from Microsoft Dataverse. The app uses the gallery and data configuration shown in the exhibit. When the app runs, the gallery shows orders but the 'View Details' button does nothing when tapped. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "name": "Order Approval",
  "type": "canvas",
  "dataSources": [
    {
      "type": "Microsoft Dataverse",
      "entities": ["Orders", "OrderDetails"],
      "relationships": [
        {
          "fromEntity": "Orders",
          "toEntity": "OrderDetails",
          "relationshipType": "OneToMany",
          "fromKey": "OrderID",
          "toKey": "OrderID"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "controls": [
    {
      "type": "Gallery",
      "name": "OrderGallery",
      "items": "Orders",
      "template": {
        "fields": ["OrderID", "OrderDate", "Total"],
        "controls": [
          {
            "type": "Button",
            "name": "DetailButton",
            "text": "View Details",
            "action": "Navigate(OrderDetailScreen)"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 10hardmultiple choice
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An organization is configuring a custom connector in Power Automate to connect to Salesforce. The exhibit shows a snippet of the connector definition. However, when attempting to test the connection, the authentication fails. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "type": "Microsoft.PowerApps/apis",
  "apiVersion": "2020-10-01",
  "properties": {
    "displayName": "Salesforce Connector",
    "backendService": {
      "serviceUrl": "https://login.salesforce.com",
      "endpoint": "https://instance.salesforce.com/services/data/v52.0"
    },
    "connectionParameters": {
      "token": {
        "type": "oauthSetting",
        "oAuthSettings": {
          "flow": "accessCode",
          "clientId": "3MVG9lKcPoNINVB",
          "scopes": ["api", "refresh_token"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Question 11hardmultiple choice
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You are designing a Power Automate flow to approve expense reports. The flow must allow managers to approve or reject directly from the email notification without signing in. Which action should you use?

Question 12hardmulti select
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Which TWO Microsoft Power Platform solutions are designed to be used together to build a complete customer feedback analysis system that collects feedback from multiple channels, processes sentiment, and provides actionable insights?

Question 13hardmultiple choice
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A company uses Power Automate to send approval requests. The flow is triggered when a new item is added to a SharePoint list. However, the flow fails when the item contains a large attachment. What is the most likely cause?

Question 14hardmultiple choice
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An organization uses Power Apps to manage inventory. The app uses a SharePoint list as the data source. Users report that when two employees update the same item simultaneously, data is lost. What is the best solution?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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A company has a Power BI dataset that refreshes daily. Users report that the report shows stale data from two days ago. What is the most likely cause?

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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A user sees the exhibit error when opening a Power BI report in the service. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Error: "The data source for the report has been removed or changed. Please refresh the report to get the latest data."
Question 17hardmultiple choice
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A developer is trying to create a business process flow (BPF) for the 'Opportunity' table in a model-driven app. When activating the BPF, the developer receives the error shown in the exhibit. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Error log:
{
  "error": {
    "code": "0x80040220",
    "message": "Business Process Flow instance creation failed. The selected entity is not valid for the selected process.",
    "details": {
      "ActivityId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890"
    }
  }
}
Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A financial analyst creates a Power BI report to compare quarterly revenue across years. The data has a 'Date' column and a 'Revenue' column. The analyst wants to display year-over-year growth for each quarter. Which visual and configuration would best achieve this?

Question 19hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The JSON represents a Power BI dataset refresh configuration. After deployment, the refresh fails with an error indicating that the data source credentials are missing. Which step must be taken to resolve the issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "name": "SalesReport",
  "dataset": "SalesDB",
  "refreshSchedule": {
    "frequency": "Daily",
    "time": "02:00",
    "timeZone": "UTC",
    "days": ["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday"]
  },
  "dataSources": [
    {
      "type": "Sql",
      "connectionString": "Server=sqlsrv;Database=SalesDB;Integrated Security=SSPI;"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 20hardmulti select
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A company is designing a copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio. The copilot must handle sensitive employee data. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to ensure data security and compliance?

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