Basic Flashcards
What are the four key products in Microsoft Power Platform?
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Power Virtual Agents
What are Power Apps?
Rapid low code development environment for building custom apps (web and mobile for all devices). It has services, connectors, and a scalable data service and app platform to allow simple integration and interaction with existing data.
What is Power Automate?
Create automated workflows between applications and services. Helps automate repetitive processes such as communication, data collection and decision approvals.
Power Automate allows for the creation of enterprise-grade process automation
What is Power BI?
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.
A Power BI dashboard could potentially replace a standing meeting to report out on company metrics.
What are Power Virtual Agents?
Enables anyone to create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-code graphical interface. Power Virtual Agents is part of Microsoft Power Platform, therefore integration into existing systems is streamlined with out-of-the-box integration with Power Automate and its ecosystems of hundreds of connectors. Users can enable chatbots to perform an action by simply calling a Power Automate flow.
What are the cross cutting features of Microsoft Power Platform?
- AI Builder
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Connectors
What is AI builder in Power Platform?
Lets users and developers add AI capabilities to the workflows and Power Apps they create.
What is Dataverse in Power Platform?
A scalable data service and app platform which lets users securely store and manage data from multiple sources and integrate that data in applications. Dataverse is the common currency that enables the components of Power Platform to work together.
What are connectors in Power Platform?
Enable connections between apps, data and devices in the cloud. Bridge across which information and commands travel.
Which “new” factors impact business that are relevant for Power Platform?
- Changing workforce expectations: organizations need to be able to deliver more custom, streamlined, and collaborative digital experiences in order to fit in with younger employees.
- Increased cost for custom application development: high cost for IT work and maintaince.
- Need to become more agile: business strategies and needs change rapidly and we need to test and adapt quickly.
- Need to scale development efficiently: lack of IT employees means we need hybrid development teams in order to empower and grow.
What is fusion development?
Collaborative approach to creating solutions:
1. Citizen dev with knowledgde of the problem builds a prototype of the application using Power Apps.
2. Developers fill in the gaps that go beyond the technician’s ability. Such as developing the APIs necessary for commands and dashboards to work.
3. Gather feedback
4. Iterate
How do Power Platform solutions typically improve organisations?
Improve one or more value drivers:
- Performance improvement
- Direct or indirect cost savings
- Risk mitigation
- Business transformation
What are the two types of data sources in the context of connectors?
Tabular data: returns data in a structured table format. Power Apps can directly read and display these tables. If the data source supports it, Power Apps can create, edit and delete data from these data sources. Examples: Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL server.
Function-based data: 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.
What is the difference between standard and premium connectors?
Connectors are divided into standard and premium. Some popular standard connectors are SharePoint, Outlook, and YouTube.
Premium connectors require additional licensing for your app and/or users.
A few premium connectors are SQL Server, Survey Monkey, and Mail Chimp.
Can Power Apps be used inside other Microsoft 365 Apps?
All Microsoft Power Platform business solutions can be used and implemented into Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams. This allows users to play Power Apps within Teams or run Power Automate from actions and events within Teams.
What are 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 row in a table or receiving an email.
You will always need a trigger to tell your workflow when to run.
What are 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.
What is the difference between actions and triggers?
Triggers start a workflow, can be triggered by an action. An action allows interaction with a data source or for example send an email.
What are custom connectors?
We have the option to build custom connectors. This will allow you to extend your app by calling a publicly available API, or a custom API you are hosting in a cloud provider, such as Azure.
Why is it important to consider data compliance in Power Apps?
The organization’s data is likely one of the most important assets you are responsible for safeguarding as an administrator.
Users generally have good intentions, but they can easily overlook the potential for exposure from data leakage to services and audiences that should not have access to the data.
What are data loss prevention (DLP) policies?
Policies that can act as guardrails to help prevent users from unintentionally exposing organizational data.
At which scopes can DLPs be defined?
DLP policies can be scoped at the environment level or tenant level, offering flexibility to craft sensible policies that strike the right balance between protection and productivity. For tenant-level policies, you can define the scope to be all environments, selected environments, or all environments except ones you specifically exclude.
How are connectors classified?
Connectors can be classified as either business or non-business. Connectors that host business-use data should be classified as business and connectors that host personal-use data should be classified as non-business.
Any connectors that you want to restrict usage of across one or more environments should be classified as Blocked
Where can connector classifications be changed?
When a new policy is created, all connectors are defaulted to the Non-Business group. From there they can be moved to Business or Blocked based on your preference. You can manage connectors when you create or modify the properties of a DLP policy from the Microsoft Power Platform admin center
Which roles can create a DLP policy?
To create a DLP policy, you need to be a tenant admin or have the Environment Admin role.
How to Power Platform respect data protection?
Data in transit between user devices and the microsoft datacenters are secured. Connections established between customers and microsoft datacenters are encrypted, and all public endpoints are secured using industry-standard TLS. API access from the customer endpoint to the server is also protected.
What is a general frame of mind for transforming businesses with power platform?
Consider abusiness and what processes take up valuable time and are a burden to customers or employees. How can we leverage Microsoft Power Platform to improve them?
What three key actions on data is enabled by power platform?
- Gain insights from data (Analyze)
- Drive intelligent business processes via apps (Act)
- Automate business processes (Automate)
What is Microsoft Dataverse?
It is a cloud-based, low-code data service and app platform. It allows us to leverage the security and connectivity of Microsoft services. Dataverse connects easily to all aspects of Power Platform.
With standard tables, columns and easy ways to define relationships between tables, dataverse was built fro powerful and scalable solutions.
How is Microsoft Dataverse delpoyed?
Dataverse is avilable globally, but deployed geographically to comply with potential data residency. It is not designed for stand-alone use on your servers.
What is Dataverse desinged purpose?
To be the central data repository for business data. It powers many Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions.
What are the five central categories of features offered by Dataverse?
- Security: handles authentication with Azure Active Directory to allow for conditional access and multi-factor authentication. It supports authorization down to the row and column level and provides rich auditing capabilities.
- Logic: allows us to apply business logic at the data level. These rules could be related to duplicate detection, business rules, workflows etc.
- Data: offers you the control to shape your data, allowing you to discover, model, validate, and report on your data.
- Storage: stores your physical data in the Azure cloud. This cloud-based storage removes the burden of worrying about where your data lives or how it scales.
- Integration: connects in different ways to support your business needs. APIs, webhooks, eventing, and data exports give you flexibility to get data in and out.
What is Dataverse underneath?
A Dataverse database is a single instance of Microsoft Dataverse which stores data in a set of standard and custom data structures called tables. A table is a logical set of rows that is used to store data.
Can we share business solutions in Power Platform?
Microsoft Dataverse will start with the same set of tables to store data, but you can always extend and customize a Microsoft Dataverse database to meet specific business needs. This means that we can share business solutions that reference standard tables in Microsoft Dataverse across your organization or with any other organization by using it anywhere in the world.
Is Dataverse scalable?
Yes. It supports large data sets and complex data models. ables can hold millions of items, and you can extend the storage in each instance of a Microsoft Dataverse database to four (4) terabytes per instance.