50 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

A department wants to quickly build a mobile-friendly app for employees to submit equipment requests. The app must connect to Microsoft Dataverse and enforce role-based access. Which Power Apps type should they use?

A team needs a chatbot on their internal portal to answer common HR questions and escalate to a human when it cannot resolve an issue. Which Power Platform component should they use?

A manager wants an automated email sent whenever an item in a SharePoint list is created. Which Power Automate trigger best fits this requirement?

You need to share a Power BI report with colleagues while ensuring they always see the latest data after scheduled refreshes. What should you publish to provide this experience?

A company wants to reduce time spent on manual data entry by allowing non-developers to create apps and workflows. Which statement best describes the business value of Power Platform in this scenario?

You are designing a Power Apps solution that will store relational business data (customers, orders, and order lines) and must support auditing and strong security. Which data source is the best fit?

A flow fails when trying to update rows in a system because the user who created the flow does not have permission. You need the flow to run with a dedicated service account that has the required access. What should you configure?

A user says a Power BI report is "showing wrong numbers" compared to a colleague's view of the same report. Both are using the same report in the Power BI service. Which feature most likely explains the difference?

You are building a Power Virtual Agents bot to answer questions and also create a service ticket in Dataverse when users request help. What is the recommended way for the bot to create the ticket?

Your organization wants to prevent users from creating flows that connect a business data source (Dataverse) to personal services (such as consumer email) to reduce data leakage risk. Which Power Platform capability should be used to enforce this separation?

A sales team wants a simple mobile app to capture customer visit notes, including offline data entry that syncs when a connection is available. Which Power Apps type is the best fit?

You build a Power Automate cloud flow that should run only when a SharePoint item is created AND the "Status" column equals "Urgent". What is the recommended way to reduce unnecessary flow runs?

A user says they cannot see a Power BI report that others can access. The report is published to a workspace in the Power BI service. What is the most likely requirement to resolve the issue?

You want to provide a chatbot that answers common HR questions and escalates to a human when it cannot resolve the issue. Which capability in Power Virtual Agents supports escalation?

An app maker wants to store customer account records with business rules, relationships, and role-based security managed centrally. Which data source is the best choice?

A department wants to quickly analyze survey results and share interactive visuals with leadership. They need to combine data from an Excel file and a SharePoint list. What Power BI capability best supports shaping and combining this data before building visuals?

Your organization wants employees to build apps and flows while ensuring compliance and preventing connectors such as consumer social media services from being used with business data. What Power Platform feature should be used?

A maker builds a cloud flow that updates a Dataverse row. The flow frequently fails due to intermittent service issues, but succeeds if retried. What is the best practice to improve reliability with minimal redesign?

A team wants a Power Apps solution to be moved from a development environment to a production environment with consistent components (apps, flows, tables) and the ability to manage updates. Which approach is recommended?

You are designing analytics for a global organization. Executives should see only aggregated results, while regional managers should see data only for their own region in the same Power BI report. Which feature should you implement?

A manager wants to prevent business users from accidentally modifying shared flows in a production environment. What is the recommended way to control who can edit a Power Automate flow?

You build a canvas app that connects to a large data source. Users report that the app only shows the first portion of expected results when they filter and sort. What is the most likely cause?

A team wants to build a company chatbot that can answer HR questions and escalate complex requests to a human. Which Power Platform component is designed for this use case?

You need a single source of truth for customers, products, and orders that will be shared across multiple Power Apps and Power Automate flows. Which data platform is the best fit?

A Power Automate cloud flow is configured to run 'When a new email arrives' and then create a record in Dataverse. Some emails trigger the flow multiple times, creating duplicate records. Which approach is a best practice to reduce duplicates?

In Power BI, you import sales transactions and create a report with multiple visuals. You want a slicer selection on one visual to filter all other visuals on the page. Which feature provides this behavior by default?

A business user creates a Power Apps solution and moves it to a test environment, but some flows fail because connections are missing or point to the wrong resources. What is the recommended approach to manage environment-specific settings during deployment?

A dataset contains a Date column stored as text (for example, '2026-01-15'). In Power BI, time intelligence calculations are not working correctly. What should you do first?

You are designing a model-driven app for a sales team. Users need to see related records (activities, contacts) and enforce consistent business rules and validation across forms. Why is a model-driven app a good choice?

A company wants to allow multiple departments to build apps and flows while enforcing guardrails such as restricting certain connectors and applying data loss prevention rules. Which Power Platform capability supports this governance requirement?

A department wants to build a simple mobile app for employees to submit maintenance requests. They need the app to work offline in areas with poor connectivity and sync data later. Which Power Apps app type best fits this requirement?

You build a flow that should run automatically when a new email arrives in a shared mailbox. The flow never triggers. Other flows in the environment work correctly. What is the most likely cause?

A team wants to build an internal chatbot that answers questions using predefined topics and can hand off to a human when it cannot resolve an issue. Which Power Platform component should they use?

You need to share a Power BI report with executives so they can view the latest metrics and interact with filters. Which Power BI artifact should you share?

A company wants to standardize data definitions for customers, orders, and service cases so multiple apps and flows reuse the same tables and relationships. Which approach is recommended?

A maker is building an app and needs to restrict certain screens and actions to users in the Finance department. Which feature should they use to implement this requirement in Power Apps?

A flow updates a SharePoint list item each time an item is created. After deployment, you notice that creating an item triggers the flow repeatedly until it fails. What is the most likely cause and best fix?

A Power BI report shows inconsistent totals when users slice by region. The model has a Region table and a Sales table, but filtering Region does not affect Sales. What is the most likely issue?

You need to create a chatbot that can retrieve a customer's order status from Dataverse in real time and respond with the current value during a conversation. What should you use to meet this requirement?

An organization wants to allow business users to build apps and flows while ensuring data loss prevention by preventing certain connectors (for example, consumer email) from being used with business data sources. Which Power Platform capability addresses this requirement?

A sales manager wants a simple way for users to view and update Opportunities, Accounts, and Contacts with the same interface in a browser and on mobile devices. The data is stored in Microsoft Dataverse. Which type of Power App should you recommend?

A department builds a Power Automate flow that emails a manager whenever a SharePoint item is created. The manager is receiving multiple emails when a single item is created. What is the most likely cause?

A user wants to create a quick dashboard showing sales totals by region from an Excel file stored in OneDrive. They want to build it with minimal setup and no code. Which Power Platform product best fits this need?

A company wants to allow external customers to submit support requests and check the status of their tickets. The ticket data is stored in Dataverse. Which Power Platform component should you use to build the external-facing site?

You are creating a Power Apps canvas app that must work offline for field technicians and later sync updates when connectivity returns. Which data source is best suited for offline-first behavior in Power Platform?

A Power Automate flow is triggered when an email arrives. It processes attachments and updates a Dataverse table. Sometimes the flow fails due to intermittent connector issues. Which built-in capability should you use to improve resiliency without rewriting the flow logic?

A report author needs to ensure that users only see sales data for their own region in a Power BI report published to the Power BI service. What should the author implement?

A company wants a chatbot that can answer HR policy questions and hand off to a live agent when it cannot resolve an issue. Which capability in Power Virtual Agents supports escalation to a human support experience?

An organization wants to standardize business logic so that whenever a new "Case" row is created in Dataverse, a priority is automatically calculated based on multiple fields and always enforced—even when records are created via model-driven apps, canvas apps, or integrations. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A finance team wants to create multiple automated processes. Some processes must run regardless of who created them (even if the creator leaves the company), and their credentials should not be tied to a single user account. What is the recommended design approach?