1. Describe the business value of Power Platform

Question 1

Which four key products is the Power Platform comprised of?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Describe Power BI

Answer 2

Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a business analytics service that delivers insights for analyzing data. It can share those insights through data visualizations which make up reports and dashboards to enable fast, informed decisions.

Question 3

Describe Power Apps

Answer 3

Power Apps provides a rapid low code development environment for building custom apps for business needs. Power Apps enables the creation of web and mobile applications that run on all devices.

Question 4

Describe Power Automate

Answer 4

Power Automate lets users create automated workflows between applications and services. It helps automate repetitive business processes such as communication, data collections, and decision approvals.

Question 5

Describe Power Virtual Agents

Answer 5

Easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and employees—no coding required.

Question 6

Describe the Common Data Service (CDS)

Answer 6

Common Data Service is a scalable data service and app platform which lets users securely store and manage data from multiple sources and integrate that data in business applications using a common data model to ensure ease and consistency to users.

Question 7

Describe how Power Platform implements security

Answer 7

To manage security for Power Apps you can access https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com. Here you will find options for creating and managing environments, monitoring licenses, working with Data Loss Prevention policies and managing CDS Data Integration projects. This allows you to manage the Power Apps throughout your tenant from one single place.

Question 8

Describe how Apps and Users are managed

Answer 8

Microsoft 365 admin center is used to create user accounts. The user account registers the user with Microsoft Online Services environment. In addition to registration with the online service, the user account must be assigned a license in order for the user to have access to the service.

Question 9

Identify the four admin centers

Answer 9

Power Platform Admin Center (https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com): The new unified administrative portal for Power Platform admins. Includes: CDS environment management, Microsoft Power Automate support tickets, view Power Apps, and Power Automate admin analytics.

Power Apps Admin Center (https://admin.powerapps.com): Creating and managing environments including security starts here.

Power BI admin portal to manage a Power BI tenant.

Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com/adminportal): Manage users and their license assignment.

Question 10

Describe how the platform supports compliance

Answer 10

Trust Center: Centralized resource for obtaining information on Microsoft’s portfolio of products.

Data Location: Environments can be created in a particular geo.

Power Automate Audit Log: Events include Created flow, Edited flow, Deleted flow, Edited Permissions, Deleted Permissions, Started a paid trial, Renewed a paid trial.