Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Power Automate for App Makers 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Power Automate trigger type starts a cloud flow when a user clicks a button inside a Canvas app?
- Power Apps trigger (Correct answer)
- Manual trigger
- Instant trigger
- Button trigger
Correct answer: Power Apps trigger
The 'Power Apps' trigger allows Canvas apps to invoke a cloud flow and optionally pass parameters to it.
Question 2: In Power Automate, what is an 'Approval' action used for in a business app context?
- Send an approval request to designated users and wait for their Approve or Reject decision (Correct answer)
- Automatically approve records matching criteria
- Log a decision to Dataverse
- Schedule a meeting for review
Correct answer: Send an approval request to designated users and wait for their Approve or Reject decision
The Approval action sends a structured request to approvers and pauses the flow until a response is received.
Question 3: Which Power Automate flow type runs on a set schedule, such as daily or weekly, without requiring a triggering event?
- Scheduled cloud flow (Correct answer)
- Instant cloud flow
- Automated cloud flow
- Desktop flow
Correct answer: Scheduled cloud flow
Scheduled cloud flows use a recurrence trigger and run automatically at the configured interval regardless of external events.
Question 4: In a Power Automate cloud flow, what does the 'Apply to each' action do?
- Iterates over each item in an array and runs enclosed actions for every item (Correct answer)
- Applies a condition to filter array items
- Sends the same email to each user in a list
- Runs parallel branches simultaneously
Correct answer: Iterates over each item in an array and runs enclosed actions for every item
'Apply to each' loops through an array, executing the nested actions once for every element in the array.
Question 5: Which connector in Power Automate allows flows to create, update, read, and delete records in Microsoft Dataverse?
- Microsoft Dataverse connector (Correct answer)
- Common Data Service connector
- Dynamics 365 connector
- SharePoint connector
Correct answer: Microsoft Dataverse connector
The Microsoft Dataverse connector provides actions to perform full CRUD operations on any Dataverse table.
Question 6: What is the maximum number of actions that can run in parallel within a single 'Parallel Branch' in Power Automate?
- There is no stated hard cap, but practical UI allows up to several parallel branches (Correct answer)
- Exactly 2 branches
- 10 branches
- 5 branches
Correct answer: There is no stated hard cap, but practical UI allows up to several parallel branches
Power Automate does not impose a strict limit on parallel branches, though performance and action limits apply to the overall flow.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Power Automate for App Makers 1
Which Power Automate trigger type starts a cloud flow when a user clicks a button inside a Canvas app?