PL-900 Practice Question: Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
You need to create a flow that runs on the first day of every month and sends a summary email of all new SharePoint list items added in the previous month. The email should be sent to the sales team. Which type of flow should you create?
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Scheduled cloud flow
A scheduled cloud flow can run on a recurring schedule (e.g., first day of month) and includes actions to query SharePoint and send email. Automated flows trigger on events, not schedules. Desktop flows are for desktop automation. Business process flows guide users through stages.
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For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Business process flow
Why it's wrong here
A business process flow models staged user progression through a defined sequence of steps; it has no recurrence schedule and cannot send monthly summary emails. It is tempting because it automates a guided process, and would be correct for standardising stages on a record.
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Desktop flow
Why it's wrong here
Desktop flows run attended or unattended RPA actions on a Windows machine, so they cannot schedule a monthly cloud-side summary email without a device and gateway. They suit automating legacy desktop applications lacking APIs, not recurring SharePoint-to-email reporting.
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Scheduled cloud flow
Why this is correct
A scheduled cloud flow uses a Recurrence trigger, which supports monthly intervals and specific days, satisfying the first-day-of-every-month requirement. A Get items action with an ODATA date filter then retrieves only the previous month's SharePoint list items for the summary email.
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Automated cloud flow
Why it's wrong here
Automated cloud flows trigger on an event, such as a new SharePoint item, not a calendar date. A recurrence schedule trigger is required for the first-of-month run, so this fails the stated timing requirement despite being the right tool for cloud email actions.
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