Intro to Microsoft Power Platform

Question 1

What four products is Microsoft Power Platform comprised of?

Answer 1

1. Power Apps
2. Power Automate
3. Power BI
4. Power Virtual Agents

Question 2

What is Power Apps?

Answer 2

• A rapid low-code development environment for building custom apps for business needs.
• Works across web and mobile, embedded or standalone, on any device

Question 3

What is Power Automate?

Answer 3

Lets you automate processes

Question 4

What is Power BI?

Answer 4

The Analysis and Insight component of Power Platform

Question 5

What is Power Virtual Agent?

Answer 5

It allows you to create powerful chatbots using a guided no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers.

Question 6

What are the cross-platform features that allow Power Platform to be leveraged to its full potential?

Answer 6

1. AI Builders
2. Microsoft Dataverse
3. Connectors

Question 7

What does AI Builder do?

Answer 7

AI Builder enables users and developers to integrate AI capabilities to workflows and Power Apps that they create and use.

Question 8

What is Microsoft Dataverse?

Answer 8

• A scalable data service and application platform that enables you to securely store and manage data from numerous sources.
• You can integrate your data into business applications using a common data model to ensure ease and consistency to users.
• Microsoft Dataverse is the common currency that enables the components of Microsoft Power Platform to work together.
• It’s the foundation that enables the consolidation, display, and manipulation of data

Question 9

What is a Connector?

Answer 9

• A bridge from your data source to your app, workflow or dashboard.
• Provides input and output between a data source and Microsoft Power Platform

Question 10

What do Connectors do?

Answer 10

• Bring data and additional functionality to your solutions
• integrate disparate parts of your business solutions
• Enable you to connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud.
• Examples of popular connectors include Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Services, and more

Question 11

What two types of data sources do Connectors connect to?

Answer 11

1. Tabular Data
2. Function Based Data

Question 12

What are characteristics of a Tabular Data Source

Answer 12

• Returns data in a structured table format power apps can directly read and displays these tables through galleries, forms and other controls.
• If the data source supports it, Power apps can create edit and delete data from these table sources.
• Examples include Microsoft Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL Server

Question 13

What are characteristics of a Function Based Data Source

Answer 13

• Uses functions to interact with the data source.
• These functions can be used to return a table of data but offer more extensive actions such as the ability to send an email, update permissions or create a calendar event.
• Examples include Office 365 users, Project online and Azure blob storage.

Question 14

Roughly how many connectors exist?

Answer 14

275

Question 15

What if you need a connection that doesn’t exist?

Answer 15

You can create a custom connection.

Question 16

What are the two types of connectors?

Answer 16

1. Standard
2. Premium

Question 17

Standard Connector examples

Answer 17

1. Sharepoint
2. Outlook
3. YouTube

Question 18

How can Premium Connectors be used?

Answer 18

Additional licensing is required

Question 19

Premium Connector examples

Answer 19

1. SQL Server
2. Survey Monkey
3. Mailchimp

Question 20

Once you have established a data source and Connector, what two operations can you do?

Answer 20

1. Triggers
2. Actions

Question 21

Where are Triggers used?

Answer 21

Power Automate
- They prompt a flow to begin
- They are required to tell your workflow when to run

Question 22

Examples of triggers

Answer 22

• Time based, start the flow every day at 8:30
• Do x every time a new row is inserted
• Do x after receiving an email
• etc

Question 23

Where are Actions used?

Answer 23

1. Power Automate
2. Power Apps

Question 24

What are Actions prompted by?

Answer 24

• The User
• A Trigger

Question 25

What do Actions do?

Answer 25

Allow interaction with your data source by some function

Question 26

Examples of an Action

Answer 26

- Sending an email in your workflow app - Writing a new line in a data source

Question 27

How are Connectors classified?

Answer 27

- **Business:** Connectors that host business-use data - **Non-Business:** Personal-use data

Question 28

How can you restrict usage across one or more environments using Connectors?

Answer 28

Classify the Connector as Blocked

Question 29

How is data protected in transit between user devices and Microsoft data centers?

Answer 29

- Connections established between customers and Microsoft datacenters are encrypted, and all public endpoints are secured using industry-standard TLS. - TLS effectively establishes a security-enhanced browser to server connection to help ensure data confidentiality and integrity between desktops and datacenters. - API access from the customer endpoint to the server is also similarly protected. - Currently, TLS 1.2 (or higher) is required for accessing the server endpoints.

Question 30

Which Connector allows you to use the resources in Power Platform to recognize faces in images?

Answer 30

Azure Services Connector