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Question 18
Scenario: Donahue Development is an Australian Research & Development company owned and directed by businessman Trevor Donahue. Part of the company's business is involved in real estate where the company uses Microsoft Dataverse to track apartment availability as for rent, for sale, or both.
Required: Create a new column to store whether an apartment's availability.
Which column type should be used?
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A
Yes/No
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B
Choice
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C
Customer
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D
Choices
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: D
Explanation
The Choices column type can select multiple options between multiple values.
The Choice column type can select only one option between multiple values.
The Yes/No column type can select only one option between two values.
Customer references to an Account or a Contact.
Types of columns
The names used for types depend on the designer used. Power Apps uses a convention that includes the way the data is formatted. The solution explorer type uses a name aligned with the database data type with a format modifier.
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The following table includes the corresponding AttributeTypeDisplayName API type.
A. Yes/No column type is not suitable for storing whether an apartment is available for rent, for sale, or both. This column type only allows for binary (yes/no) responses, which does not align with the requirement of tracking multiple availability statuses for each apartment.
B. Choice column type is not the most appropriate for storing whether an apartment is available for rent, for sale, or both. This column type is typically used for single-choice selections, whereas the scenario requires the ability to select multiple availability options for each apartment.
C. Customer column type is not the correct choice for storing whether an apartment is available for rent, for sale, or both. This column type is typically used for storing customer information, such as names, addresses, and contact details, and is not designed for tracking availability statuses of apartments.
D. Choices column type should be used to store whether an apartment is available for rent, for sale, or both. This column type allows users to select multiple options from a predefined list, making it suitable for tracking multiple availability statuses for each apartment.
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