2. Understand the core components of Power Platform

Question 1

Describe the Common Data Service

Answer 1

A cloud-based solution that structures data and business logic to support interconnected applications and processes in a secure and compliant manner. Managed and maintained by Microsoft, CDS is available globally but deployed geographically to comply with your potential data residency.

Question 2

Describe the Common Data Model

Answer 2

A logical design that includes a set of open-sourced, standardized, extensible data entities and relationships that Microsoft and its partners have published in an industry-wide initiative called the Open Data Initiative. This collection of predefined entities, attributes, semantic metadata, and relationships form the basis of the Common Data Model.

Question 3

Describe Entities

Answer 3

An entity is like a table in a database. A logical structure containing records that are made up of fields.

• Standard: The base set of entities that are created for every instance of a CDS. You can add more fields to any entity, but you can only delete fields from a custom entity.
• Complex: Entities that contain complex, server-side logic.

Question 4

Describe Fields

Answer 4

Fields are a way to store a discrete piece of information within a record in an entity. You might think of them as a column in Excel.

Question 5

Describe Relationships

Answer 5

Entities that relate to one another have a relational connection. Relationships between entities exist in many forms, but the two most common are one-to-many and many-to-many, both of which are supported by Common Data Service.

Question 6

Describe Environments

Answer 6

Used to store, manage, and share your organization’s business data, apps, and flows. Each environment allows you to provision one Common Data Service database for use within that environment. Common Data Service environments allow you to manage user access, security settings, and the storage that is associated with that database.

Question 7

Describe Business Process Flows

Answer 7

You can help ensure that people enter data consistently and follow the same steps every time they work with a customer by creating a business process flow.

Question 8

Describe Business Rules

Answer 8

You can create business rules and recommendations to apply logic and validations without writing code or creating plug-ins. Define business rules for an entity that apply to all the entity forms and at the server level. Business rules defined for an entity apply to both canvas apps and model-driven apps if the entity is used in the app.

Question 9

Describe Triggers

Answer 9

Triggers are only used in Power Automate and prompt a flow to begin. Triggers can be time based, such as a flow which begins every day at 8:00 am, or they could be based off of an action like creating a new record in a table or receiving an email. You will always need a trigger to tell your workflow when to run.

Question 10

Describe Actions

Answer 10

Actions are used in Power Automate and Power Apps. Actions are prompted by the user or a trigger and allow interaction with your data source by some function. For example, an action would be sending an email in your workflow or app or writing a new line to a data source.

Question 11

Describe Connectors

Answer 11

Connectors enable you to connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud. Consider connectors the bridge across which information and commands travel. There are more than 275 connectors for the Power Platform, enabling all of your data and actions to connect cohesively.

Question 12

Describe Custom Connectors

Answer 12

While the Power Platform offers more than 200 connectors, you also have the option to build a custom connector. This will allow you to extend your app by calling a publicly available API, or a custom API you’re hosting in a cloud provider, such as Azure.

Question 13

Describe AI Builder

Answer 13

AI Builder lets users and developers add AI capabilities to the workflows and Power Apps they create and use. AI Builder is a turnkey solution that allows you to easily add intelligence to your workflows and apps and predict outcomes to help improve business performance without writing code.

Question 14

Name the four Custom AI Models

Answer 14

Prediction

Form Processing

Object Detection

Text Classification

Question 15

Name the five Pre-Built AI models

Answer 15

Business Card Reader

Key Phrase Extraction

Language Detection

Text Recognition

Sentiment Analysis

Question 16

Describe how the Power Platform can consume AI Builder data

Answer 16

You can use your published AI models, as well as some AI Builder prebuilt models in Power Automate and Power Apps