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Question 15
Scenario: Mercs for Money is a collection of mercenaries gathered together by Wade Wilson who organized the group and is now a successful Professional Services enterprise. Looking to improve the operations of the organization, Wade has contracted you to assist with several IT projects.
Wade has decided to let freelancer mercenaries publish e-books on the Mercs for Money website in exchange for commissions on the sales. The plan is to implement a Power Apps portal solution to make announcements about upcoming books to the general public. Wade wants to be sure that book authors can securely access their data.
Which of the following should he employ?
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A
Customize layouts
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B
Browse content anonymously
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C
Access data in Dataverse / CDS
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D
Authenticate external users
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: D
Explanation
The independent authors have to be authenticated in order to be authorized to participate in the CDS / Dataverse data.
What is the Power Apps Portal?
When you need to build custom business applications that connect to your data across the web and mobile devices, Power Apps is the solution. Built on Microsoft’s Azure framework, Power Apps allows you to create the functionality you need throughout your company with little to no coding experience required. It reduces the cost of custom development and makes tailored tools more accessible with templates and an intuitive user interface.
Power Apps Portals is a capability of the Power Platform where you can build responsive customer portals that allow external users from your organization to interact with the data stored in the Common Data Service. Customized portals fueled by the Common Data Service open the door to a new level of data access, security, productivity, and customer service.
With your data easily accessible to anyone inside and outside of your organization, you control the narrative. Here are some of the major features that the new Power Apps Portal offers:
Anonymous Browsing
Power Apps Portals allows you to give any user secure access to the data you make available anonymously. You set the authentication requirements, customize the data you want to make public, and control the experience.Simplified Login Options
If you don’t want to take the anonymous route, you can provide secure access to internal and external users through commercial authentication providers like LinkedIn or Google. This gives users the option to sign in with a Power Apps account or use an external account.Enterprise-Grade Security
The Common Data Service supports the underlying data platform for Power Apps and Power Apps Portals. Security can be implemented as a simple security model with broad data access to a more complex, advanced security model, where users have specific record and field level access.Intuitive Portal Designer
Microsoft’s new no-code portal designer was built for ease of use. With a simplified drag-and-drop feature, custom branding, and bootstrap theme options, in addition to Dataverse / Common Data Services components (i.e. forms, views, and dashboards), anyone can create and manage content like pages and templates to build better customer experiences.Fast Data Access Without Additional Users
Power Apps are created for employees who can connect using their corporate Azure Active Directory account. With Power Apps Portals, you don’t have to set up external users with their own accounts, which eliminates the licensing and admin time required to give external partners, vendors, and customers access to your website.Data Integration
The Common Data Service allows you to bring data from all the apps you use with Microsoft Automate (formerly Flow). You can enhance your portals with forms, views, lists, charts, and dashboards to improve the customer experience.
A. Customizing layouts on the Power Apps portal can enhance the user experience and improve the overall design of the platform. While layout customization is important for user engagement, it does not directly address the security measures needed for book authors to securely access their data.
B. Allowing users to browse content anonymously may be suitable for general public access to announcements about upcoming books on the Power Apps portal. However, for book authors who need secure access to their data, anonymous browsing is not sufficient to ensure data security.
C. Accessing data in Dataverse / CDS is important for managing and storing the data related to the e-books published on the Mercs for Money website. However, this choice does not directly address the security concerns of allowing book authors to securely access their data.
D. Authenticating external users is crucial for ensuring that only authorized individuals, such as book authors, can securely access their data on the Power Apps portal. This helps protect sensitive information and maintain data security within the system.
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