Power Automate Flashcards
What is Power Automate?
A cloud-based service that enables you to automate business processes and tasks.
What would you use Power Automate for?
Automating recurring, or tedious, business tasks.
What are the three types of flows in Power Automate?
Cloud Flow
Desktop Flow
Business Process Flow
What is a cloud flow?
A flow you build with a trigger and one or more actions.
What are the types of cloud flow?
Automated flows
Instant Flows
Scheduled flows
When would you use an automated flow?
When an automation needs to be run in response to an event. (e.g. an email coming in)
What is a desktop flow?
A robotic process automation (RPA) that automates manual tasks on a desktop or within a browser.
When would you use a scheduled flow?
When an automation needs to be run at a set time.
What is a Business process flow?
A flow for augmenting the experience when using Model-driven apps and Dataverse.
When would you use a desktop flow?
When you need to automate a process in a legacy application, or a tedious manual task in a modern application.
When would you use a business process flow?
When you want to create a guided experience in Model-driven apps.
When would you use an instant flow?
When you want an automation to start at the click of a button.
