PL-900 Practice Question: Manage the Microsoft Power Platform environment
You are a Power Platform administrator for a medium-sized business. The company uses Power Apps and Power Automate extensively. The development team has requested the ability to create their own sandbox environments for testing without waiting for IT. However, the security team requires that all environments be subject to data loss prevention (DLP) policies and that environment creation be tracked. You need to design a solution that allows developers to self-service environment creation while maintaining governance. The developers currently have Power Apps Plan 2 licenses. What should you do?
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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Create a security group in Microsoft Entra ID, add developers, and configure tenant settings to allow only members of that group to create environments. Enable audit logging.
The best approach is to create a security group in Microsoft Entra ID, add developers to it, and then configure the tenant settings to allow that group to create environments. Additionally, enable audit logging to track creation. Option A is incorrect because assigning the Power Platform Administrator role gives too much privilege. Option B is incorrect because disabling creation for non-admins prevents self-service. Option C is incorrect because the CoE Starter Kit is for governance but does not directly enable self-service creation.
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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Assign the Power Platform Administrator role to all developers.
Why it's wrong here
This grants full admin rights, which is too broad and insecure.
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Disable environment creation for non-admins and have developers submit requests to IT.
Why it's wrong here
This defeats the self-service requirement.
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Install the CoE Starter Kit and configure the environment creation policy to allow all users.
Why it's wrong here
Allowing all users is not secure; the CoE Starter Kit does not control creation permissions.
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Create a security group in Microsoft Entra ID, add developers, and configure tenant settings to allow only members of that group to create environments. Enable audit logging.
Why this is correct
This enables self-service while restricting creation to approved users and tracking activity.
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