Intro to Microsoft Power Platform Flashcards

1
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What four products is Microsoft Power Platform comprised of?

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  1. Power Apps
  2. Power Automate
  3. Power BI
  4. Power Virtual Agents
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What is Power Apps?

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

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Lets you automate processes

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What is Power BI?

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The Analysis and Insight component of Power Platform

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What is Power Virtual Agent?

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

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

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  1. AI Builders
  2. Microsoft Dataverse
  3. Connectors
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What does AI Builder do?

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

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What is Microsoft Dataverse?

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  • 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
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What is a Connector?

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

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  • 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
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What two types of data sources do Connectors connect to?

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  1. Tabular Data
  2. Function Based Data
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What are characteristics of a Tabular Data Source

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  • 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
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What are characteristics of a Function Based Data Source

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  • 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.
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Roughly how many connectors exist?

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275

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

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You can create a custom connection.

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What are the two types of connectors?

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  1. Standard
  2. Premium
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Standard Connector examples

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  1. Sharepoint
  2. Outlook
  3. YouTube
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How can Premium Connectors be used?

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Additional licensing is required

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Premium Connector examples

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  1. SQL Server
  2. Survey Monkey
  3. Mailchimp
20
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Once you have established a data source and Connector, what two operations can you do?

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  1. Triggers
  2. Actions
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Where are Triggers used?

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

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Examples of triggers

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  • 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
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Where are Actions used?

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  1. Power Automate
  2. Power Apps
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What are Actions prompted by?

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  • The User
  • A Trigger
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What do Actions do?

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Allow interaction with your data source by some function

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Examples of an Action

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  • Sending an email in your workflow app
  • Writing a new line in a data source
27
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How are Connectors classified?

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  • Business: Connectors that host business-use data
  • Non-Business: Personal-use data
28
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How can you restrict usage across one or more environments using Connectors?

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Classify the Connector as Blocked

29
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How is data protected in transit between user devices and Microsoft data centers?

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  • 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.
30
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Which Connector allows you to use the resources in Power Platform to recognize faces in images?

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Azure Services Connector