Free PL-500 Sample Questions — Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

You create a custom connector that retrieves data from an API. The host URL of the API requires a connection with a dynamic subdirectory path. You need to ensure the custom connector's requests are completed successfully. Which two features should you use? Each correct answer presents a part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Use references
• B. Define a base URL
• C. Define a policy
• D. Use custom code

You are designing a user interface automation that uses a Power Automate for desktop flow. The solution must allow you to use wildcard characters including question marks and asterisks to define a window on a desktop. You need to select the window mode for the automation. Which window mode should you use?

• A. By title and/or class
• B. By variable
• C. By window instance/handle
• D. By window UI element

You have a flow that interacts with different SharePoint sites. You add the flow to a solution. You redeploy the solution to production each time you make a change to the flow. You do not want to change the SharePoint site URL every time you redeploy the solution. You need to configure the solution. Which solution component should you use?

• A. Connection reference
• B. Web resource
• C. Managed identity
• D. Environment variable

You manage the machines used for Power Automate for desktop automations. You create machine groups to organize the machines. Users must perform automations on the machines. You need to share the machine groups with the users. Which portal or application should you select?

• A. Power Automate machine runtime app
• B. Power Automate for desktop app
• C. Microsoft Power Platform admin center portal
• D. Power Automate portal

A company uses activity logging to measure performance for invoice processing. Users report that the data analytics department takes too long to manually analyze data. The company requires an automatic process to speed up activity log analysis and provide insights. You need to select the Microsoft Power Platform feature to meet the company requirement. Which feature should you select?

• A. Power Automate for cloud
• B. Process mining
• C. Task mining
• D. Power Automate for desktop

You have an automation solution that uses a desktop flow. The flow reads data from a file that is stored on a user’s machine and writes the data to an application. You import the solution to an environment that is connected to another user’s machine. The user 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 user’s desktop. You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?

• A. 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
• B. Change access rights for the file to allow read operations for the PAD process
• C. Move the file to the user’s OneDrive storage
• D. Change the access rights for the file to allow read operations for the current user

You are building automations within Microsoft Power Platform for Contoso. The automations have the following key requirements: • A single parent automation is already configured. The automation must be used to trigger an additional child automation. • The parent automation already exists within the ContosoAutomations solution. The existing child automation is outside of the solution • All automations must be deployed together. • No dependency on physical compute environments is allowed. You need to configure the automations. What should you do?

• A. Use a connection reference
• B. Delete the parent flow. Recreate it outside of the solution
• C. Delete the child flow. Recreate it in the ContosoAutomations solution
• D. Remove the parent flow from the ContosoAutomations solution

A company uses Microsoft 365 apps. You are building a flow that is triggered when a new email arrives. If an email message contains a Microsoft Excel workbook attachment, the solution must post the Excel data to an external customer relationship management (CRM) system that runs on a user’s workstation. The CRM system is not accessible by using an API. You need to design the solution. Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Create a desktop flow
• B. Create desktop flow and define an input variable of type file
• C. Implement the Retrieve email messages action from a desktop flow
• D. Implement the When a new email arrives trigger in a cloud flow
• E. Implement the Create file action from the OneDrive connector in a cloud flow

You are developing an RPA solution that requires browser automation. You are testing the flow. You observe that the flow does not interact with web page elements in Microsoft Edge. You need to troubleshoot the issue. What should you do?

• A. Ensure the Power Automate for desktop browser extension is downloaded and enabled in Microsoft Edge
• B. Open Power Automate machine runtime and select Troubleshoot
• C. Ensure the UI flows/Selenium extension is downloaded and enabled in Microsoft Edge
• D. Enable error handling on the action to retry on failure

You develop a desktop flow. The flow performs five actions in sequence. If an error occurs, you must restart the flow from the first action. You add the five actions to an On block error action. You need to configure error handling. Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Change the exception handling mode to Go to the beginning of the block
• B. Change the exception handling mode to Go to next action
• C. Select Throw error
• D. Configure an On error condition for the first action
• E. Select Continue flow run

You are developing a Power Automate desktop flow to process new employee documentation. The flow has a variable for confidential bank account numbers. Users are able to view bank account numbers while the flow is tested. You need to ensure the bank account numbers are not visible in the flow. What should you do?

• A. Turn on Secure Inputs in a cloud flow
• B. Mark the variable as sensitive
• C. Change the external name
• D. Mark variables produced as disabled

You are developing automation solutions that process sensitive employee data for a company. You plan to implement the sensitive variables feature in Power Automate for desktop. What are three characteristic of the sensitive variables feature? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. You can reference and manipulate variables that are marked as sense from within desktop flows
• B. You can view the value of variables marked as sensitive within desktop flow logs by using the Microsoft Power Platform admin center
• C. Sensitive variables are not visible within desktop flow logs in the Power Automate portal
• D. You can mark any variable as sensitive
• E. Only variables that are passwords can be marked as sensitive

You need to configure the flow for processing invoices that arrive in the AP mailbox. Which three elements should you use? Each correct answer presents pat of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. AI model
• B. Document type
• C. Location
• D. Form type
• E. Pages
• F. Form

You are creating automation solutions for a company. You create a cloud flow that includes a Scope action. What is the purpose of the Scope action?

• A. Run a group of actions based on conditional input
• B. Run a group of actions based on input from a switch statement
• C. Group actions together and ensure that all actions succeed or fail as a group
• D. Terminate a flow run

You develop automation solutions for a company. When a new record is added to a Microsoft Dataverse table, the solution must add the contents of the record to a Microsoft Word Online (Business) template. The solution must convert the template to a PDF document and email the PDF document to a stakeholder. You need to design the solution. Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Use the Convert Word Document to PDF and Send an email actions in a cloud flow
• B. Use the Convert Word Document to PDF and Send an email actions in a desktop flow
• C. Use the Populate a Microsoft Word Online (Business) template action in a desktop flow
• D. Use the Populate a Microsoft Word Online (Business) template action in a cloud flow
• E. Create a cloud flow that uses the When a row is added or modified trigger in Microsoft Dataverse