Power Apps Overview

Question 1

What is Power Apps?

Answer 1

• A low or no code platform for building apps
• It builds off of concepts like formulas in an Excel workbook, such as sum and text.

Question 2

Where do Power Apps live?

Answer 2

In the cloud

Question 3

How can you connect to data from a Power App?

Answer 3

• Using the underlying data service and app platform Dataverse
• Or many online and on-premises data sources, such as SharePoint, Dynamics 365, SQL server and Azure SQL, and Office 365

Question 4

Can your Power App have more than one data source?

Answer 4

Yes
Power Apps easily supports multiple data connections, allowing you to bring data together from many platforms into a single app

Question 5

What are the three types of Apps you can use to create Power Apps?

Answer 5

1. Canvas Apps
2. Model-Driven Apps
3. Portals

Question 6

What does a Canvas app allow you to do?

Answer 6

• Create an app from a blank canvas.
• It allows you complete flexibility when building your app

Question 7

How do Model-Driven apps work?

Answer 7

• They build from data in the Dataverse
• Power Apps will build you a great looking, fully functional app to act upon and interact with this data.
• Model-driven apps are responsive, which means they adjust to different screen sizes with no extra work by you.
• You get to define the relationships, forms, views, business rules and more at the data layer inside of the data verse.
• This gives you enough control to get your business results without having to write all the formulas yourself.

Question 8

What is a Portal app?

Answer 8

• Portals bring the power of no code solutions to building externally facing websites.
• Through the Power Apps interface, you can build an anonymous or authenticated website that allows users to interact with data held in Dataverse.
• The same drag and drop experience you enjoy when building apps is available to build these rich interactive websites.