PL-500: Microsoft.PL-500.ExamTopics.2026-05-02.156q.vcex

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You are implementing an automation that involves a publicly accessible external API. The API is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform and requires Basic authentication.

Automations must execute without reliance on additional infrastructure.

You need to connect with and perform actions against the external API.

Solution: Create a cloud flow. Use the HTTP connector.

Does the solution meet the goal?

Yes
No

Correct answer: B

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You are implementing an automation that involves a publicly accessible external API. The API is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform and requires Basic authentication.

Automations must execute without reliance on additional infrastructure.

You need to connect with and perform actions against the external API.

Solution: Create a cloud flow. Use the HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID connector.

Does the solution meet the goal?

Yes
No

Correct answer: A

You are developing a single automation that involves a custom connector. The custom connector works with an on-premises system. No other developers or business users require access to the automation.

You need to finalize the automation.

What should you do?

Use a desktop tow
Use a business process flow.
Deploy the on-premises data gateway in personal mode.
Deploy the on-premises data gateway in standard mode.

Correct answer: C

You are building an approval process for business travel.

The approval process must meet the following requirements:

The solution must be deployed to the production environment. The human resources (HR) system uses a different login and password for test and production.
The process must assign an approval task by using the system account.
After the approval process is approved, it must create an entry in the on-premises HR system and create an entry in the requestor manager’s calendar.
The approval process must be triggered whenever an employee places a new travel request on a Microsoft SharePoint list.

You need to recommend the approach to configure authentication and credentials.

Which features should you recommend? To answer, move the appropriate features to the correct requirements. You may use each feature once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to move the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

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You create an automated flow to update a Microsoft SharePoint Online list based on an update that occurs in Microsoft Dataverse. The flow runs approximately 20 times per day.

Users report that the workflow does not complete successfully.

You need to update the flow to ensure that the automation runs once only.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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You create a solution that uses a custom connector to call an external API. The API has a test and production instance.

The connector must use the API instance related to the environment where it is deployed.

You need to configure the custom connector,

In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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You are creating a purchase requisition model-driven application for a company.

Access to the app must be limited to only a few specific employees.

After the app is deployed to production, you need to share it with the specified users.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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You have an automation solution that uses a desktop flow. The flow reads data from a file that is stored on a UserA’s machine and writes the data to an application. You import the solution to an environment that is connected to UserB’s machine.

UserB reports that the flow fails. An alert indicates that the path to a file does not exist. You confirm that the file present on the UserB’s desktop.

You need to resolve the issue.

What should UserB do?

Delete and recreate the file.
Use the Get Windows environment variable action to read the USERNAME environment variable and use the value in the path to the user's desktop.
Modify the action to retry if the process cannot find the file.
Change access rights for the file to allow read operations for the PAD process.

Correct answer: B

You have an automation solution that uses a desktop flow. The flow reads data from a file that is stored on a UserA’s machine and writes the data to an application. You import the solution to an environment that is connected to UserB’s machine.

UserB reports that the flow fails. An alert indicates that the path to a file does not exist. You confirm that the file present on the UserB’s desktop.

You need to resolve the issue.

What should UserB do?

Delete and recreate the file.
Change access rights for the file to allow read operations for the PAD process.
Change the location of the file to a specific path that is not dependent on the signed-in user.
Modify the action to retry if the process cannot find the file.

Correct answer: C

You create an unattended Office 365 automation.

The automation stops running.

You suspect that the runtime identity used by the automation caused the automation to stop running.

Which two issues can the runtime identity cause in this scenario? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

The location of a specific user interface element has changed.
The automation is attempting to open files that cannot be opened or edited based on per-user access permissions.
The unattended automation process suppressed an alert that was generated.
The automation is not set up to handle an additional sign-in UI element.

Correct answer: B, D

A company plans to use Microsoft Power Platform.

The company requires multiple test environments for users. The company wants to ensure that the Microsoft Power Platform environments are appropriate for the following cases:

UserA wants to test Microsoft Power Platform features for a limited time.
UserB wants to test solutions.

You need to select the environment type for each use case.

Which environment types should you select? To answer, drag the appropriate environment type to the correct scenarios. Each environment type may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.