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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to create a custom app that allows field technicians to view and update work orders from their mobile devices. The app must work offline and sync data when connectivity is restored. Which Power Platform component should be used?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A business analyst wants to create a dashboard that displays real-time sales data from a SQL database and share it with the team. Which Power Platform component is best suited?

Question 3hardmultiple 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 4mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to automate the process of sending a welcome email to new employees after their HR record is created in Dataverse. Which component should be used?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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Which Power Platform component provides a low-code platform to build custom business applications that can be embedded in Microsoft Teams?

Question 6hardmultiple 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 7mediummultiple choice
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A business wants to create a chatbot that answers common IT support questions and can escalate to a human agent if needed. Which Power Platform component should be used?

Question 8easymultiple choice
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Which data platform in Power Platform provides a secure, scalable database with built-in business logic and security?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A Power Apps app uses a canvas and connects to multiple data sources. Users complain that the app loads slowly. What is the best practice to improve performance?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to analyze customer feedback from surveys stored in Excel and create interactive reports. Which combination of Power Platform components is best?

Question 11easymultiple choice
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Which Power Platform component allows users to create automated workflows between apps and services?

Question 12mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are key benefits of using Microsoft Dataverse? (Choose two.)

Question 13hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are valid connectors in Power Automate? (Choose three.)

Question 14easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are components of Power Platform? (Choose two.)

Question 15hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are capabilities of Power Virtual Agents? (Choose three.)

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an Azure Resource Manager template for a Power Platform connector. Which component is being configured?

Exhibit

{
  "resource": {
    "type": "Microsoft.PowerApps/apis",
    "name": "shared_commondataservice",
    "properties": {
      "displayName": "Microsoft Dataverse",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "connectionParameters": {
        "serverUrl": {
          "type": "string",
          "uiDefinition": {
            "displayName": "Environment URL",
            "description": "Your Dataverse environment URL",
            "tooltip": "Provide the URL of your Dataverse environment"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Question 17mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A Power Automate flow fails with the error shown. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Error: The flow 'Send Approval' failed. Action 'Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint' returned an unsupported status code '403'. The caller does not have permission to perform the action.
Question 18easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. Which Power Platform component is being described?

Exhibit

Workflow: When a new lead is created in Dataverse, send an email to the sales team and create a task in Planner.
Question 19hardmultiple choice
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A medium-sized company uses Power Platform to manage its customer service operations. They have a model-driven app built on Dataverse that tracks cases and customer interactions. Recently, the app has been experiencing slow load times when users open a case record. The Dataverse environment is in the same region as the users. The app uses several business rules and calculated fields. The IT team suspects that the issue might be related to the number of components on the form. They want to optimize performance without disabling necessary functionality. The app is used by 50 customer service agents. What should the IT team do to improve form load times?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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A non-profit organization uses Power Automate to send thank-you emails to donors after a donation is recorded in a SharePoint list. The flow is triggered when a new item is added. Recently, the flow has been failing intermittently with a '400 Bad Request' error. The SharePoint list has columns: DonorName, Email, Amount, Date. The flow uses the 'Send an email (V2)' action. The IT volunteer who set up the flow is unavailable. The organization needs a quick resolution. What is the most likely cause of the error?

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