Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Solution Management and ALM

Question 1

In Power Platform, what is a 'Solution' used for?

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Package components such as apps, flows, tables, and plugins for transport between environments

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Store runtime data for an app

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Define security roles for a project

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Manage billing and licensing

Question 2

What is the key difference between a Managed and Unmanaged Solution in Power Platform?

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Managed solutions lock components in the target environment; unmanaged solutions allow full customization

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Managed solutions cost more to deploy

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Unmanaged solutions can only be used in development environments

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Managed solutions auto-update from the publisher

Question 3

What is a 'Publisher' in the context of a Power Platform solution?

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An entity that defines the unique prefix applied to custom component names to avoid naming conflicts

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The user who exports the solution

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The company that hosts the environment

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A Microsoft-certified solution creator

Question 4

In Power Platform ALM, what is the recommended environment strategy for a production deployment pipeline?

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Development → Test/UAT → Production environments

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Single shared environment for all stages

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Production → Development → Staging

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Sandbox → Integration → QA

Question 5

What does the Power Platform 'Pipelines' feature automate?

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Deployment of solutions from one environment to another with governance controls

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CI/CD builds for Azure DevOps

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Automated test execution

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Data migration between Dataverse environments

Question 6

In a Power Platform solution, what are 'Solution Layers' used to show?

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The order in which customizations from different solutions are applied to a component

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The hierarchy of security roles

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The dependency tree of tables

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The version history of the solution file