PL-600 Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Question and Answers

Box 1: Virtual Table

A virtual table is a custom table in Microsoft Dataverse that has columns containing data from an external data source. Virtual tables appear in your app to users as regular table rows, but contain data that is sourced from an external database, such as an Azure SQL Database. Rows based on virtual tables are available in all clients including custom clients developed using the Dataverse web services.

Scenario:

First Up uses an on-premises system to manage current and historical patient data including medications and medical visits.

The company plans to reference historical data in the existing system. The records held in these systems will not be migrated to the new solution except for medication information.

The solution must provide a worker appointment booking system that can access worker historical job placement data.

First Up staff members must be able to view and update worker records. They must be able to see current and historical job placement data on the same form in the new solution.

Box 2: Lookup (N:1)

Each worker can have many security clearances, so need a 1:N relationship.

Scenario: The solution must support tracking of security clearance information for a worker including the date, status, and certifying agency.

Box 1: Field controls

You must standardize the format used by agents to enter customer phone numbers.

Box 2: Workflow

Log issues as cases. The case form must show variable sections based on the case type.

Scenario:

The reporting and analytics team must be able to create reports that include data from all facilities and all workers.

Management reports must present an overview of the entire organization. Other reports may be limited to specific offices.

B: Power Apps apps can include reports that provide useful business information to the user. These reports are based on SQL Server Reporting Services and provide the same set of features that are available for typical SQL Server Reporting Services reports.

C: Microsoft Dynamics 365 online and Model-Driven PowerApps offers several advanced reporting options. Advanced reports are often necessary when business requirements demand complex calculations, returning multiple data sets, grouping large sets of data based on rules, and retrieving data from different data sources.

Box 1: Power Platform Local Business Owner Team

Owner team: An owner team owns records and has security roles assigned to the team. A user's privileges can come from their individual security roles, those of the teams that they're part of or the ones they inherit. A team has full access rights on the records that the team owns. Team members are added manually to the owner team.

Scenario: Employee authentication with the existing system is provided by an on-premises Active Directory instance that is linked to Azure Active Directory.

Box 2: Azure Active Directory Security Group Team

An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group team. Similar to owner team, an Azure AD group team can own records and can have security roles assigned to the team.

Note: The administration of app and data access for Microsoft Dataverse has been extended to allow administrators to use their organization's Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) groups to manage access rights for licensed Dataverse users.

Box 3: Azure Active Directory B2B Guest Access

An Azure AD B2B collaboration user is an external user, typically from a partner organization, that you invite to sign into your Azure AD organization using their own credentials. This B2B collaboration user (also generally referred to as a guest user) can then access the apps and resources you want to share with them. A user object is created for the B2B collaboration user in the same directory as your employees. B2B collaboration user objects have limited privileges in your directory by default, and they can be managed like employees, added to groups, and so on.

Scenario: Before First Up signs a contract to place workers at a client company, a member of the audit team visits the company and interviews company management. Audit members use different types of devices including Android and iOS devices. First Up has no plans to require the use of a single type of device.

Box 1: Microsoft Teams

First up employees must be able to contact each other by using a secure system to ask and answer questions about medical cases.

Microsoft Teams key capabilities:

Connected

Secure

Managed

Collaborative and productive

Box 2: Microsoft 365 Business Voice

Workers must be able to communicate in near real-time with worker support agents.

Microsoft 365 Business Voice makes it easy for small and medium organizations to turn Microsoft Teams into a powerful and flexible telephone system. It's a replacement for traditional telephony providers and in-house phone systems that can be difficult and costly to manage.

Box 1: Assign: Cascade None

Scenario: Worker still records must be archived after ten years and are then removed from the main system.

Assign: The referenced table record owner is changed.

Cascade None: Do nothing.

Scenario: IT staff needs a mobile solution to see IT cases at the top of the menu since this is their primary focus.

Managers need to see all customer dashboards at the top of their menu on their mobile device.

Box 1: Power Automate

Self-service purchase is available for Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate), Project, and Visio.

Box 2: Azure Active Directory B2B

Scenario: First Up Consulting recruits information technology (IT) workers for temporary or permanent positions at client companies.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) business-to-business (B2B) collaboration is a feature within External Identities that lets you invite guest users to collaborate with your organization. With B2B collaboration, you can securely share your company's applications and services with guest users from any other organization, while maintaining control over your own corporate data. Work safely and securely with external partners, large or small, even if they don't have Azure AD or an IT department. A simple invitation and redemption process lets partners use their own credentials to access your company's resources.

Note, Scenario:

Workers must be able to sign into a portal by using their own email address. Workers must be required to use a secure method of authentication to be able to view their data.

User security roles must be customized to ensure that users are able to interact only with the specific data in which they need access.

Box 3: Dynamics 365 Field Service

Dynamics 365 Field Service functionality include:

An interactive schedule board helps dispatchers assign work orders to the best resources based on location, availability, skill set, priority, and more. This is done via a manual drag-and-drop method, a semi-automated scheduling assistant, or fully automated with Resource Scheduling Optimization.

The schedule board displays each resource--whether an employee, contractor, or equipment--and their scheduled work orders. Resources and their assigned jobs are also displayed on a map along with routes and traffic patterns in real time.

Luggage: Custom activity table

An activity can be thought of as any action for which an entry can be made on a calendar. An activity has time dimensions (start time, stop time, due date, and duration) that help determine when the action occurred or will occur. Activities also contain data that helps determine what action the activity represents, for example, subject and description.

Passenger: Customer table

The account and contact tables in Microsoft Dataverse are essential for identifying and managing customers, selling products and services, and providing superior service to the customers. A customer address table is used to store address and shipping information for a customer.

Scenario: The company has a custom app for managing and tracking passenger luggage. The app uses Microsoft Dataverse.

Agents need to view which pieces of luggage match to each passenger, and then need to add the total on the passenger record.

A virtual table is a custom table in Microsoft Dataverse that has columns containing data from an external data source. Virtual tables appear in your app to users as regular table rows, but contain data that is sourced from an external database, such as an Azure SQL Database. Rows based on virtual tables are available in all clients including custom clients developed using the Dataverse web services.

Scenario:

First Up uses an on-premises system to manage current and historical patient data including medications and medical visits.

The company plans to reference historical data in the existing system. The records held in these systems will not be migrated to the new solution except for medication information.

The solution must provide a worker appointment booking system that can access worker historical job placement data.

First Up staff members must be able to view and update worker records. They must be able to see current and historical job placement data on the same form in the new solution.

Scenario: Agents need a way to track reservation issues.

Use Dynamics 365 Customer Service to:

Track customer issues through cases

Box 1: Dashboard

Agents need dashboards to show a current count of all reservations on the entity.

Box 2: Power BI

Management requires paginated reports for stakeholders.

Scenario: The testing team reports that one of the canvas apps is not working as expected. An error message displays as specific pages load.

A: The App checker is now available to help provide a clear list of formula issues in your app, and to provide items to fix to make your app accessible. The App checker is an area that the PowerApps team will continue to invest in, and build on in order help to make debugging, performance and best practice decisions an easier and more guided experience.

C: With the solution checker feature, you can perform a rich static analysis check on your solutions against a set of best practice rules and quickly identify these problematic patterns. After the check completes, you receive a detailed report that lists the issues identified, the components and code affected, and links to documentation that describes how to resolve each issue.

Scenario:

Customers can select a meal when they make a reservation and can save the meal choices as a customer preference.

The company offers two types of meals: standard and vegetarian. Meal types can be temporarily unavailable. The airline is considering offering other meal types, such as gluten-free and low-sodium options.

In PowerApps Option set is one of the field types you can use in your Entity. The information type that Option Set stores is a list of text values. And here comes the Option Set advantage – once you define its text values you can centrally managed it.

Example:

Box 1: Microsoft Teams

Maintenance supervisors must not have access to Dynamics 365 Customer Service. The supervisors must be able to communicate with the contracts team about contracts.

Box 2: Dynamics 365 Workspace

Aircraft maintenance vendors must have only view and upload privileges to their invoices and receipts.

The Expense management mobile workspace lets users capture and upload a receipt, so that they can attach it to an expense report later.

Scenario: IT specialists want to design Power BI reports. They need to understand the underlying table relationships of the system.

Business process modeler (BPM) in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) is a tool that you can use to create, view, and modify repeatable implementations that are based on business process libraries. BPM helps you align your business processes with industry-standard processes that are described by the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC)

Explanation:

Scenario: The security rule for agents must contain the privileges in the default Customer Service

Representative security role.

Create a security role by Copy Role:

Step 1 (E): Copy the Customer Service Representative role.

Step 2 (F): Select the New Role Name.

Step 3: (B): When Copying Role is complete, navigate to each tab, ie Core Records, Business Management, Customization, etc.

Set the privileges on each tab.

Business process flows provide a guide for people to get work done. They provide a streamlined user experience that leads people through the processes their organization has defined for interactions that need to be advanced to a conclusion of some kind.

Use business process flows to define a set of steps for people to follow to take them to a desired outcome.

With business processes flows available as an entity, you can now use advanced finds, views, charts, and dashboards sourced from business process flow data for a given entity, such as a lead or opportunity.

Scenario:

Agents need a solution to replace paper reservation checklists.

Agents need dashboards to show a current count of all reservations on the entity.

Agents need a way to track reservation issues.

Agents need a visual indicator in the interface to determine the reservation step to provide a seamless customer experience.

Scenario: Ensure that employees can sign in to all Microsoft apps by using one set of credentials per employee.

Synchronized identity. Synchronize on-premises directory objects with Microsoft 365 and manage your users on-premises. You can also synchronize passwords so that the users have the same password on-premises and in the cloud, but they will have to sign in again to use Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is a module for customer service automation that streamlines case and knowledge management, enables personalized customer service with a 360-degree customer view, and provides visibility into customer service department performance with dashboards and reports.

Box 1: Review the fields that are on the form

Keep the number of table columns (fields) to a minimum.

The more table columns (formerly referred to as fields) you have in a form, the more data that needs to be downloaded to view each record.

Box 2: Review one to many relationships to verify whether cascade settings are necessary.

Box 1: Non-functional

Non-functional requirements commonly describe non-behavior aspects of the solution such as performance requirements.

Box 2: Functional

Functional requirements describe what the solution needs to do or its behaviors.

Box 3: Functional

Box 4: Non-functional

Examples of common non-functional requirement types include:

Availability

Compliance/regulatory

Data retention/residency

Performance (response time, and so on)

Privacy

Recovery time

Security

Scalability

Box 1: Use Virtual tables

A virtual entity is a custom entity in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises) that has fields containing data from an external data source. Virtual entities appear in your app to users as regular entity records, but contain data that is sourced from an external database, such as an Azure SQL Database. Records based on virtual entities are available in all clients including custom clients developed using the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Web Services.

Box 2: Use Dynamics 365 Web API.

Dynamics 365 Web Services API: Many times, straight database-to-database integrations aren’t a possibility. In these cases, the development of a solution may depend on utilization of the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement web services API (Application Programming Interface).

Box 1: Disable duplicate detection

Duplicate detection has rules for sending emails.

Box 2: Disable all workflows, plug-ins, and Power Platform admin center

Box 3: Disable auditing

Auditing affects the size of the log file.

Box 1: Functional

Functional requirements describe what the solution needs to do or its behaviors.

Box 2: Non-functional

Non-functional requirements commonly describe non-behavior aspects of the solution such as performance requirements.

Box 3: Non-functional

Examples of common non-functional requirement types include:

Availability

Compliance/regulatory

Data retention/residency

Performance (response time, and so on)

Privacy

Recovery time

Security

Scalability

Box 1: Create and embed a Power Bi radial gauge

A radial gauge chart has a circular arc and shows a single value that measures progress toward a goal or a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). The line (or needle) represents the goal or target value. The shading represents the progress toward that goal. The value inside the arc represents the progress value. Power BI spreads all possible values evenly along the arc, from the minimum (left-most value) to the maximum (right-most value).

In this example, you're a car retailer tracking the sales team's average sales per month. The needle represents a 140 cars sales goal. The minimum possible average sales is 0 and the maximum is 200. The blue shading shows that the team is averaging approximately 120 sales this month.

Box 2: Add an inspection order to the work order form

You can add inspections to work orders in Dynamics 365 Field Service.

Field Service inspections are digital forms that technicians use to quickly and easily answer a list of questions as part of a work order. The list of questions can include safety protocols, pass-and-fail tests for a customer asset, an interview with a customer, or other audits and assessments performed before, during, or after a work order.

Example:

Business rule can create business recommendations based on business intelligence.

Scenario: Analytics and reporting

The solution must:

Provide metrics including existing and upcoming demand by inspection station, average time spent per user at a station, and average time a machine spends at each inspection point.

Provide metrics per inspector including number of inspections performed by month, and number of inspections per rating type (pass, fail).

Provide a printed quality certificate to be included with each machine.

Box 1: Create a lookup to Dynamics 365 Field Service

Scenario: Machines are assigned serial numbers and placed in stock until they are shipped to customers.

Entity lookup: Allows technicians to choose a Dynamics 365 record. In the inspection designer interface, admins must select an entity and a field to display. For a chosen entity, the Name field and mandatory fields are the entity attributes that can be displayed in the lookup.

Box 2: Create a one-to-many relationship and set the behavior to Parental

Scenario: Inspection orders must:

Allow entry of quality ratings of passed or failed for each quality metric identified for the machine being rated.

Be automatically marked as failed if one inspection step rating is marked as failed.

Each inspection order can have one or many inspection steps, and each inspection step has a rating.

Note: Each pair of tables that are eligible to have a 1:N relationship can have multiple 1:N relationships between them. Yet usually only one of those relationships can be considered a parental table relationship.

Box 1: Security role

Microsoft Dataverse uses a role-based security model to help secure access to the database.

Scenario:

You must prevent users from changing inspection order data once an inspection is marked as final.

Supervisors must be able to modify standard checklists. Other employees must be prevented from modifying checklists.

Box 2: Data flow

Dataflows are a self-service, cloud-based, data preparation technology. Dataflows enable customers to ingest, transform, and load data into Microsoft Dataverse environments, Power BI workspaces, or your organization's Azure Data Lake Storage account.

Scenario: Provide a visual representation of the testing measurement limits for each step. Include an indication of how the measured value compares to measurement limits and whether the measurement is within tolerance. Users must be able to configure the visualizations to display the minimum value and maximum value, and whether the reading is within the tolerance of a single targeted value. It must also be able to be used for maintenance inspections once the machine has been installed.

Box 1: Schedule board

Note: The Dynamics 365 Field Service schedule board provides an overview of resource availability and bookings you can make.

When you’re looking at the schedule board for the current day, you’ll see a blue line that indicates the current time of day. You can also see a picture of all the resources listed on the schedule board. To quickly view contact information for a resource, hover over their name to view the contact card.

Box 2: Azure IoT Central connector

Azure IoT Central makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT devices at scale. With the IoT Central V3 connector, you can trigger workflows when a rule has fired, and take actions by executing commands, updating properties, getting telemetry from devices, and more. Use this connector with your Azure IoT Central V3 application.

This connector is available in the following products and regions: