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Question 1
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Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global renewable energy provider that operates wind farms and solar installations. The company is modernizing its maintenance and operations platform. The company plans to implement a Microsoft Power Platform solution for the operations team. The implementation will include Microsoft Dataverse, a model-driven app, and Power Automate cloud flows.
The company is building and testing a new model-driven app named Operations. The solution will support operations managers, regional coordinators, and field technicians. The app must integrate with an external cloud-based system that manages onboarding of field technicians.
Contoso Ltd. plans to improve data quality and enforce consistent business logic across the app and automation processes.
Technical environment -Contoso Ltd. has an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) department that manages security. The company has one Power Platform environment named Production, where all building and configuration take place. Auditing is disabled.
The Production environment has the following security configurations:
IDAM has a Microsoft Entra security group named Contoso Ltd. QA. This security group will assign all members a Power Apps license.
IDAM created a Quality Assurance security role that grants read and write access to all custom tables.
IDAM also created a team named Testers in Dataverse, of a Microsoft Entra group team type. The team is configured for the Contoso Ltd. QA security group. The Testers team is assigned the Quality Assurance security role.
Microsoft 365 environment -All Contoso Ltd. managers are included in a Microsoft 365 group named Managers. The group is NOT enabled for email.
The company shares a SharePoint list with a key customer: Alpine Ski House. Alpine Ski House staff members can add new maintenance requests, which are then checked and marked as reviewed by Contoso Ltd.
Current issue:
A new QA tester joins Contoso Ltd. The IDAM department adds the new tester to the Contoso Ltd. QA security group. However, the new tester is not listed in the Testers team as a member.
Other applications:
A separate software-as a-service (SaaS) solution named TechCheck manages technician onboarding. The TechCheck solution is set up as follows:
TechCheck assigns a unique number named Ref to all technicians.
Users cannot make changes to the TechCheck data model.
Users cannot use the same TechCheck ref on more than one Technician row.
Automation requirements -Contoso plans to use Power Automate to develop a Maintenance Request Approval flow. The flow must meet the following requirements:
Create a Maintenance Request row in Dataverse when either of the following occurs:
An item is added to the SharePoint list by the customer with the Priority property set to High.
Any item is checked and marked as reviewed by a Contoso Ltd. representative.
Seek maintenance request approvals from managers through both email and a Microsoft Teams message after they have been reviewed:
Requests require approval from all managers.
If one manager rejects the request, approval must not be granted.
The result of the approval request must be sent to the initial reviewer in an email. The subject line must set the response as either Approve or Reject.
Contoso Ltd. requires the following table logic:
If a user tries to enter a price greater than the cost on a new Asset row, the row must display an inline error message.
If a user tries to save changes to a Technician row where the TechCheck ref column is empty, the action must be prevented and a message explaining the action must be displayed.
Any updates made to Technician profiles in TechCheck must be mirrored in Dataverse by using a custom integration. The developers building the integration require an index for performant searches on the Technician table.
Data model and app design -Contoso Ltd. plans to use Dataverse as its central data platform. Log storage must be minimized.
Tables
The following tables are required for data modeling and the app design:
Assets: Stores information about solar panels and wind turbines Maintenance Requests: Tracks issues and maintenance activities. The table must include the following columns:
• Request ID (auto-number)
• External Request Code (text)
• Assigned
• Technician (lookup to Technicians)
• Report (lookup to Maintenance Reports)
• Technician updated (Yes/No)
• Maintenance Reports: Tracks the results of maintenance reports
Technicians: Stores technician assignment data. The table must include the following columns:
• Full Name (Text)
• Mobile phone number (Text)
• Email (Text)
• Seniority (Choice)
• TechCheck ref (Text)
• Data modeling
The data model must provide the following functionality:
Maintenance Requests must:
be uniquely identifiable across systems. have two inactive statuses, Cancelled and Duplicate.
If a new option is added to an existing set of options, it must be made available automatically for selection on all columns that use the set.
A new column named Priority must be added to multiple tables. Users must be able to select only one option from the following set per row:
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Critical
Changes to the Technician column on Maintenance Requests must be tracked for compliance purposes. Rows must include the names of previous and current technicians and the time of the change.
Relationship requirements -One asset can be related to many maintenance requests. A maintenance request can have many assets.
A maintenance request can have only zero or one maintenance report.
Only one Technician can be related to a Maintenance Request at a time.
When a Maintenance Request is deleted, any Maintenance Reports associated with it must also be deleted, but this action should be prevented if there is value in the Technician lookup.
When a Maintenance Request is assigned to a different owner, the Maintenance Report associated with it must be reassigned to the new owner as well, but the associated Technician should stay with the current owner.
App design -The Technicians table contains the following public views:
• Senior Technicians
• Junior Technicians
The Senior Technician view must be available through the table list view selector to a set of specific users only.
A tester creates a personal view named Hot Assets on the Assets table. The tester recognizes that the view is useful for the entire testing team.
The view must be made accessible to the team.
You need to add the Priority column to the Maintenance Request table.
Which column type should you use?
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Correct answer: B. global choice
A global choice set must be used for the Priority column because the requirement states 'If a new option is added to an existing set of options, it must be made available automatically for selection on all columns that use the set.' This requirement, automatic propagation of new options across multiple columns, is only possible with a global choice set. Local choice sets are specific to individual columns and do not share options across columns. Status reason and formula are inappropriate for this use case.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Local choice sets are column-specific and do not automatically propagate new options to other columns using the same set.
- C. Status reason is a reserved system column type for tracking record status changes, not for general-purpose multi-option selections.
- D. Formula columns calculate values based on expressions rather than providing user- selectable options.
Question 2
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This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately from other exam sections. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case study. However, there might be additional case studies or other exam sections. Manage your time to ensure that you can complete all the exam sections in the time provided. Pay attention to the Exam Progress at the top of the screen so you have sufficient time to complete any exam sections that follow this case study.
To answer the case study questions, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case. Case studies and associated questions might contain exhibits or other resources that provide more information about the scenario described in the case. Information provided in an individual question does not apply to the other questions in the case study.
A Review Screen will appear at the end of this case study. From the Review Screen, you can review and change your answers before you move to the next exam section. After you leave this case study, you will NOT be able to return to it.
To start the case study -To display the first question in this case study, select the “Next” button. To the left of the question, a menu provides links to information such as business requirements, the existing environment, and problem statements. Please read through all this information before answering any questions.
When you are ready to answer a question, select the “Question” button to return to the question.
Background
Contoso Ltd. is a global renewable energy provider that operates wind farms and solar installations. The company is modernizing its maintenance and operations platform. The company plans to implement a Microsoft Power Platform solution for the operations team. The implementation will include Microsoft Dataverse, a model-driven app, and Power Automate cloud flows.
The company is building and testing a new model-driven app named Operations. The solution will support operations managers, regional coordinators, and field technicians.
The app must integrate with an external cloud-based system that manages onboarding of field technicians.
Contoso Ltd. plans to improve data quality and enforce consistent business logic across the app and automation processes.
Technical environment -Contoso Ltd. has an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) department that manages security. The company has one Power Platform environment named Production, where all building and configuration take place. Auditing is disabled.
The Production environment has the following security configurations:
IDAM has a Microsoft Entra security group named Contoso Ltd. QA. This security group will assign all members a Power Apps license.
IDAM created a Quality Assurance security role that grants read and write access to all custom tables.
IDAM also created a team named Testers in Dataverse, of a Microsoft Entra group team type. The team is configured for the Contoso Ltd. QA security group. The Testers team is assigned the Quality Assurance security role.
Microsoft 365 environment -All Contoso Ltd. managers are included in a Microsoft 365 group named Managers. The group is NOT enabled for email.
The company shares a SharePoint list with a key customer: Alpine Ski House. Alpine Ski House staff members can add new maintenance requests, which are then checked and marked as reviewed by Contoso Ltd.
Current issue:
A new QA tester joins Contoso Ltd. The IDAM department adds the new tester to the Contoso Ltd. QA security group. However, the new tester is not listed in the Testers team as a member.
Other applications:
A separate software-as a-service (SaaS) solution named TechCheck manages technician onboarding. The TechCheck solution is set up as follows:
TechCheck assigns a unique number named Ref to all technicians.
Users cannot make changes to the TechCheck data model.
Users cannot use the same TechCheck ref on more than one Technician row.
Automation requirements -Contoso plans to use Power Automate to develop a Maintenance Request Approval flow. The flow must meet the following requirements:
Create a Maintenance Request row in Dataverse when either of the following occurs:
An item is added to the SharePoint list by the customer with the Priority property set to High.
Any item is checked and marked as reviewed by a Contoso Ltd. representative.
Seek maintenance request approvals from managers through both email and a Microsoft Teams message after they have been reviewed:
Requests require approval from all managers.
If one manager rejects the request, approval must not be granted.
The result of the approval request must be sent to the initial reviewer in an email. The subject line must set the response as either Approve or Reject.
Contoso Ltd. requires the following table logic:
If a user tries to enter a price greater than the cost on a new Asset row, the row must display an inline error message.
If a user tries to save changes to a Technician row where the TechCheck ref column is empty, the action must be prevented and a message explaining the action must be displayed.
Any updates made to Technician profiles in TechCheck must be mirrored in Dataverse by using a custom integration. The developers building the integration require an index for performant searches on the Technician table.
Data model and app design -Contoso Ltd. plans to use Dataverse as its central data platform. Log storage must be minimized.
Tables
The following tables are required for data modeling and the app design:
Assets: Stores information about solar panels and wind turbines Maintenance Requests: Tracks issues and maintenance activities. The table must include the following columns:
• Request ID (auto-number)
• External Request Code (text)
• Assigned
• Technician (lookup to Technicians)
• Report (lookup to Maintenance Reports)
• Technician updated (Yes/No)
• Maintenance Reports: Tracks the results of maintenance reports
Technicians: Stores technician assignment data. The table must include the following columns:
• Full Name (Text)
• Mobile phone number (Text)
• Email (Text)
• Seniority (Choice)
• TechCheck ref (Text)
• Data modeling
The data model must provide the following functionality:
Maintenance Requests must:
be uniquely identifiable across systems. have two inactive statuses, Cancelled and Duplicate.
If a new option is added to an existing set of options, it must be made available automatically for selection on all columns that use the set.
A new column named Priority must be added to multiple tables. Users must be able to select only one option from the following set per row:
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Critical
Changes to the Technician column on Maintenance Requests must be tracked for compliance purposes. Rows must include the names of previous and current technicians and the time of the change.
Relationship requirements -One asset can be related to many maintenance requests. A maintenance request can have many assets.
A maintenance request can have only zero or one maintenance report.
Only one Technician can be related to a Maintenance Request at a time.
When a Maintenance Request is deleted, any Maintenance Reports associated with it must also be deleted, but this action should be prevented if there is value in the Technician lookup.
When a Maintenance Request is assigned to a different owner, the Maintenance Report associated with it must be reassigned to the new owner as well, but the associated Technician should stay with the current owner.
App design -The Technicians table contains the following public views:
• Senior Technicians
• Junior Technicians
The Senior Technician view must be available through the table list view selector to a set of specific users only.
A tester creates a personal view named Hot Assets on the Assets table. The tester recognizes that the view is useful for the entire testing team.
The view must be made accessible to the team.
You need to define the alternate key for the Technicians table by using the TechCheck ref column.
Which setting should you apply to the TechCheck ref column?
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Correct answer: A. Required
The Required setting must be applied to the TechCheck ref column when defining it as an alternate key. Alternate keys enforce uniqueness and identify records across systems. The requirement states that the TechCheck ref is a unique identifier and 'users cannot use the same TechCheck ref on more than one Technician row.' Making the column Required ensures that every Technician record has a value for this column, which is essential for it to function as a reliable alternate key for cross-system identification.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Searchable enables efficient querying but does not enforce the uniqueness or existence requirements needed for an alternate key.
- C. Column security restricts access to the column's data but does not establish it as an alternate key for uniqueness.
- D. Auditing tracks changes to the column but does not configure it as an alternate key.
Question 3
A company uses a model-driven app across multiple departments.
A public view intended only for managers currently exposes sensitive columns and filters to all users.
The view must meet the following requirements:
Restrict access to the specific public view to managers.
Display only context-relevant views for other users.
You need to configure view access.
What should you do?
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Correct answer: A. Restrict the view by assigning it to the manager security role.
security role. Restricting the view by assigning it to the manager security role ensures that only users with the manager role can access the sensitive view. In Power Platform, views can be assigned to specific security roles, limiting visibility to those role members only. This approach directly addresses both requirements: managers see the restricted view while other users see only appropriate views. This is the standard method for view-level access control in model-driven apps.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Table-level permissions control access to entire tables, not individual views, and cannot restrict sensitive columns within specific views.
- C. Removing the view from app navigation does not prevent direct access and does not control which users can view the view.
- D. Quick find views are used for global search functionality, not for restricting access to specific views.
Question 4
You create a parent entity and a child entity. The parent entity has a 1:N relationship with the child entity.
You need to ensure that when the owner changes on the parent record that all child records are assigned to the new owner.
You need to configure the relationship behavior type.
What should you use?
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Correct answer: D. Parental
The Parental relationship behavior type is designed to cascade ownership changes from parent to child records. When you configure a 1:N relationship as Parental, changing the owner of the parent record automatically reassigns all child records to the new owner. This is the exact requirement stated in the case study: 'When a Maintenance Request is assigned to a different owner, the Maintenance Report associated with it must be reassigned to the new owner as well.'
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Referential, Restrict Delete prevents deletion of parent records with child records but does not handle ownership cascading.
- B. Referential alone maintains referential integrity without cascading ownership changes.
- C. Restrict behavior prevents certain operations but does not cascade ownership changes.
Question 5
A company tracks order processing duration using a model-driven app.
The company requires a system that provides the following functionality:
The age of the order, based on the created date, must be displayed on forms and views.
The value must update dynamically when viewed without storing the result.
The value must NOT be stored in the database.
You need to configure the column types.
Which two column types should you use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct answer: A, B
A. Formula B. Calculated Both Formula and Calculated column types meet the requirements. Calculated columns use expressions to compute values dynamically without database storage, and Formula columns perform similar functions with advanced expression support. Both types display updated values on forms and views without requiring database persistence. Formula columns offer more flexibility with complex logic, while Calculated columns are simpler for straightforward calculations. Either or both can satisfy the requirement for dynamic age calculation based on the created date.
Why the other options are wrong
- C. BigInt is a numeric data type for storing large integers and does not provide dynamic calculation or automatic updates based on dates.
- D. Prompt is not a standard column type in Dataverse and does not apply to this scenario.
Question 6
A company maintains a Power Platform solution that includes prompts, cloud flows, and Dataverse components. Multiple development teams are responsible for different features within the solution.
The development teams have the following requirements:
Teams must develop and update the same features independently.
Updates must not overwrite changes made by other teams.
Production deployments must remain controlled and predictable.
You need to recommend an ALM approach that supports independent development and controlled deployment in line with Microsoft best practices.
What should you recommend?
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Correct answer: C. Create and maintain separate solutions in a separate development environment. Deploy independently as managed solutions.
development environment. Deploy independently as managed solutions. Creating and maintaining separate solutions in a separate development environment, then deploying independently as managed solutions, aligns with Microsoft Power Platform best practices for multi-team development. This approach provides isolation between teams, prevents overwriting of changes, and enables controlled, predictable deployments to production. Each team works in their own development environment with their own solutions, eliminating conflicts while maintaining production stability through managed deployment processes.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Using a single development environment increases the risk of teams overwriting each other's changes despite separate solutions.
- B. Direct-to-production deployment lacks version control, testing, and the ability to handle independent team changes safely.
- D. Creating unmanaged solutions in production violates ALM best practices and creates unpredictable deployment scenarios without proper version management.
Question 7
A company is designing a Power Platform solution that includes a model-driven app used by customer service representatives to manage support cases.
The company is evaluating which solution component to include in the app. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Users must interact with system-generated responses while working within forms and views.
Responses must reflect the current data and context in the app.
Users must remain within the app while interacting with the solution.
You need to recommend solution components for the app.
Which two components should you recommend? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Correct answer: B, D
B. Copilot Studio agent D. App assistant agent Copilot Studio agents and App assistant agents are both AI-powered components that provide system-generated responses within the model-driven app context. These components allow customer service representatives to receive contextual, data-aware assistance while remaining within forms and views. Copilot Studio agents can be embedded for advanced conversational interactions, and App assistant agents provide context-specific suggestions and responses based on current app data, meeting all three requirements.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Business rules provide conditional logic and validation but do not generate contextual AI responses or interact with users in the required manner.
- C. Smart assist is a legacy component primarily used in Dynamics 365 and does not represent a complete modern solution for this scenario.
Question 8
A company uses Power Apps.
Users must be able to view only the address1 columns in the Account table.
You need to ensure other address columns are not visible to users when creating views and filters.
What should you do?
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Correct answer: A. Use column-level security to remove read access to all users.
all users. Column-level security enables granular control over which columns users can access, independent of the table level. By removing read access to other address columns for all users, those columns become invisible in views, filters, and forms. This prevents users from viewing or working with the restricted address columns while allowing full access to address1. This is the appropriate security mechanism for column-specific data restrictions.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Business rules can hide columns visually but are not as robust as column-level security and do not prevent users from accessing column data through other means.
- C. Deleting columns is irreversible and may not be appropriate if those columns are needed for other purposes.
- D. Disabling search does not prevent columns from appearing in views and filters or restrict user access to the data.
Question 9
A company uses Microsoft Dataverse to manage prospects. The company has a business process flow named BPFA that is associated with the Prospect entity to streamline the prospect management process.
You add a field named Category to the Prospect entity. You create additional business process flows. You apply the business process flows to Prospect records based on the selected category. Users can switch to any other newly configured business process flows but must not use BPFA.
You need to configure the solution.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Show answer and explanation
Correct answer: C, D
C. Deactivate BPFA. D. Remove all of the privileges for BPFA. To prevent users from using BPFA while allowing them to use other business process flows, you must either deactivate BPFA or remove its privileges. Deactivating BPFA directly disables it from being available to users. Removing all privileges for BPFA prevents users from accessing it even though it technically exists. Changing display order merely reorganizes the list but does not prevent access, and business rules cannot control which business process flows are available to users.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Changing display order does not prevent users from selecting BPFA; it only changes where it appears in the list.
- B. Business rules cannot control which business process flows are available or restrict access to specific flows.
Question 10
A company is building a prompt about product specifications. The company plans to use the prompt in Power Automate.
The prompt must use Retrieval-Augmented Generation to ground the model with additional business information.
You need to select the available knowledge source for the prompt.
What should you use?
Show answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Dataverse table columns
For Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Power Automate prompts, Dataverse table columns are the appropriate knowledge source because they provide structured business data that the model can retrieve and reference. PDFs and images are unstructured formats that require different processing, and plain text without context is less effective for grounding. Dataverse tables allow the system to query and retrieve specific business information dynamically.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. PDF documents are not a native RAG knowledge source option for Power Automate prompts.
- B. PNG images cannot be used as knowledge sources for RAG in Power Automate prompts.
- D. Unstructured text alone is not the optimal knowledge source; Dataverse provides structured, queryable business data.
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