Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Solution Management and ALM 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the purpose of 'Solution Checker' in Power Platform?
- Analyze a solution for best practice violations, performance issues, and reliability problems (Correct answer)
- Validate solution import permissions
- Check solution version compatibility
- Scan for security vulnerabilities in connector credentials
Correct answer: Analyze a solution for best practice violations, performance issues, and reliability problems
Solution Checker runs static analysis on solution components and reports issues with performance, usage, and coding best practices.
Question 2: Which Power Platform tool allows makers to view and compare changes between two versions of a solution?
- Solution history and the solution versioning export comparison (Correct answer)
- Power Platform Admin Center diff tool
- Dataverse change log
- GitHub solution compare
Correct answer: Solution history and the solution versioning export comparison
Solution versioning records when solutions are imported, and the solution history screen shows what changed between imports.
Question 3: When importing a Managed Solution that updates an existing Managed Solution, which update mode should you use to add net-new components without removing existing ones?
- Upgrade (Stage for Upgrade then Apply) (Correct answer)
- Overwrite
- Patch
- Merge
Correct answer: Upgrade (Stage for Upgrade then Apply)
Using 'Stage for Upgrade' followed by 'Apply Upgrade' replaces the old solution version with the new one cleanly while preserving the managed layer.
Question 4: What is a 'Solution Patch' in Power Platform?
- An incremental update to a managed solution that ships only the changed components (Correct answer)
- A hotfix for a broken environment
- A security update pushed by Microsoft
- A rollback package
Correct answer: An incremental update to a managed solution that ships only the changed components
Solution Patches are child solutions that include only the subset of components that changed, reducing the size and risk of updates.
Question 5: In Power Platform ALM, what does the term 'environment variable' refer to?
- A configuration value stored in a solution that can differ between environments without changing the solution (Correct answer)
- A system environment variable set in OS configuration
- A Power Automate variable shared across flows
- A Dataverse column used for runtime settings
Correct answer: A configuration value stored in a solution that can differ between environments without changing the solution
Environment variables in Power Platform solutions store configuration parameters that can be set to different values per environment at import time.
Question 6: Which Power Platform Admin Center capability allows administrators to copy a production environment to create a sandbox for testing?
- Environment Copy (Correct answer)
- Clone Environment
- Snapshot Restore
- Backup and Restore
Correct answer: Environment Copy
The 'Copy' feature in Power Platform Admin Center duplicates an environment's customizations and data into a new or existing target environment.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Solution Management and ALM 2
What is the purpose of 'Solution Checker' in Power Platform?