Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. Which feature in Power Apps allows makers to define business logic—like field requirements or visibility rules—without writing code? → Business rules
2. What is the purpose of a 'solution' in the Power Platform? → A container that packages app components for transport between environments via ALM
3. What does a Model-Driven app 'Quick Create Form' allow users to do? → Create a new record from a side panel without leaving the current page
4. Which Microsoft-provided toolkit helps organizations gain visibility and governance over all apps and flows across the Power Platform tenant? → Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit
5. Which function clears all records from a collection and then fills it with new data in one step? → ClearCollect()
6. What does a Power BI 'KPI visual' display? → A metric value compared to a target goal with a trend indicator showing progress over time
7. Which property would you set to make a Text Input control read-only in Power Apps? → DisplayMode = DisplayMode.View
8. In Dataverse, which security model controls which specific rows (records) a user can access within a table? → Record-based security using ownership and sharing
9. Which Power Apps formula correctly displays today's date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY? → Text(Today(), "mm/dd/yyyy")
10. In model-driven apps, what is a 'Quick View Form'? → A read-only form embedded inside another form to display fields from a related record
11. In Power Apps, what does the Patch() function do when the first argument is a data source and the second is Defaults(DataSource)? → Creates a new record in the data source
12. In a model-driven app, what determines the fields displayed in the main form of a table? → The form customization in the table's Forms section
13. A Power Apps model-driven app developer wants to display a custom list of related records on a form. Which component should they add? → Subgrid
14. Which Power Platform tool would you use to build a Copilot (chatbot) that answers HR policy questions from employees? → Microsoft Copilot Studio
15. In a Power Automate cloud flow, what is the difference between a 'condition' action and a 'switch' action? → Condition handles true/false branching; Switch handles multiple discrete value branches
16. What is a 'Solution Patch' in Power Platform? → An incremental update to a managed solution that ships only the changed components
17. What does a 'connector' do in Power Automate? → Provides a proxy interface to connect to external services and APIs
18. In Power Automate, which expression function would you use to get the current UTC date and time? → utcNow()
19. In Power Apps canvas apps, which function is used to navigate from one screen to another? → Navigate()
20. Which Power Apps formula function would check whether a required text input is empty before submitting a form? → IsBlank(TextInput.Text)
21. Which AI Builder model type would a maker use to automatically extract key information such as invoice number and total from uploaded invoice documents? → Document processing model
22. In Power Automate, what is the purpose of the 'Compose' action? → Store and transform data without writing to a data source
23. In Power Automate, what trigger type should you use to start a flow when a new item is added to a SharePoint list? → When an item is created
24. What is the correct way to filter a gallery in a Power Apps canvas app to show only records where the Status column equals 'Active'? → Set the gallery's Items property to Filter(DataSource, Status = "Active")
25. In Dataverse, what relationship type creates a link where one record in Table A can relate to many records in Table B? → One-to-many (1:N)
26. Which formula would you use in Power Apps to navigate from one screen to another? → Navigate(ScreenName, ScreenTransition.Fade)
27. A user wants to visualize sales trends with interactive charts and share them across the organization. Which Power Platform tool should they use? → Power BI
28. In a Canvas app, which function is used to submit a form and save data to the connected data source? → SubmitForm()
29. Which Power Platform feature provides data loss prevention (DLP) policies to govern which connectors can be used together in flows and apps? → DLP Policies in Power Platform Admin Center
30. Which repository integration does Microsoft officially support for source-controlling Power Platform solutions? → Azure DevOps and GitHub via Power Platform Build Tools and GitHub Actions