Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. 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
2. 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
3. Which function clears all records from a collection and then fills it with new data in one step? → ClearCollect()
4. What does a Power BI 'KPI visual' display? → A metric value compared to a target goal with a trend indicator showing progress over time
5. Which property would you set to make a Text Input control read-only in Power Apps? → DisplayMode = DisplayMode.View
6. In Dataverse, which security model controls which specific rows (records) a user can access within a table? → Record-based security using ownership and sharing
7. 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
8. 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
9. What is a 'Solution Patch' in Power Platform? → An incremental update to a managed solution that ships only the changed components
10. In Power Automate, which expression function would you use to get the current UTC date and time? → utcNow()
11. Which Power Apps formula function would check whether a required text input is empty before submitting a form? → IsBlank(TextInput.Text)
12. Which formula would you use in Power Apps to navigate from one screen to another? → Navigate(ScreenName, ScreenTransition.Fade)
13. In a Canvas app, which function is used to submit a form and save data to the connected data source? → SubmitForm()
14. 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
15. 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
16. What does the UpdateContext() function do in a Canvas app? → Creates or updates a context variable scoped to the current screen
17. In a Model-Driven app, which setting on a lookup column allows users to create a new related record inline without navigating away? → Allow Quick Create
18. What is the purpose of the 'Delegation' concept in Power Apps canvas apps? → Allowing the data source to process large dataset queries instead of the app
19. 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
20. Which Power Automate trigger fires when a row in a Dataverse table is created, updated, or deleted? → When a row is added, modified or deleted (Dataverse trigger)
21. What is the effect of setting a column as 'Required' in a Model-Driven app form? → The record cannot be saved until that field has a value
22. In Dataverse, what does enabling 'Auditing' on a table do? → Records a history of all data changes including who changed what and when
23. In Power Platform, what is a 'Managed Environment'? → A premium environment tier with enhanced governance, monitoring, and admin controls
24. Which Power Apps feature allows you to define formulas that automatically recalculate when referenced data changes? → Behavioral properties with named formulas
25. Which formula would you use in a Canvas app to navigate to a screen called 'DetailScreen' with a fade transition? → Navigate(DetailScreen, ScreenTransition.Fade)
26. In Dataverse, which table type stores data that rarely changes and is used to provide reference values, such as country codes? → Standard table
27. In a Power Apps canvas app, which property of a Gallery control do you set to bind it to a data source? → Items
28. What is the purpose of a Security Role in Microsoft Dataverse? → To define a set of privileges that control user access to tables and operations
29. In a Model-Driven app, which element defines the fields displayed when a user opens a single record? → Form
30. Which Power Platform Admin Center capability allows administrators to copy a production environment to create a sandbox for testing? → Environment Copy