Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 17
Scenario: The Tivan Group is a prestigious and notoriously powerful group in the galactic community. Responsible for the founding of Knowhere, the Group is considerably wealthy and are often the source of exponential contributions to the galaxy. Taneleer Tivan, the infamous Collector, controls the group and is implementing Microsoft Azure into the company.
The IT team has been busy learning about Power Apps since they have never used it before. Tanleer is trying to determine which of the following use actions and triggers.
Which of the following offers actions and triggers?
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A
Gateway
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B
Connector
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C
Flow
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D
Solution
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: C
Explanation
In this scenario, the correct answer is: Flow
A Flow in Power Automate is what contains actions and triggers.
Triggers: Start the flow (e.g., when a record is created).
Actions: What the flow does after it's triggered (e.g., send an email, update a record).
This is exactly what Taneleer Tivan and his IT team are exploring as part of implementing automation.
What the other options do (and why they're not correct here):
Connector: Enables communication between Power Platform and external services (like SharePoint, Outlook, etc.). It supports actions and triggers, but it does not offer them directly. It's the Flow that uses the triggers and actions from connectors.
Gateway: Allows on-premises data to be securely used with cloud services like Power Apps. It has nothing to do with triggers or actions.
Solution: A container to package components like apps, flows, tables, etc., for distribution or deployment. It organizes but doesn’t directly offer actions/triggers.
Connector components
Each connector offers a set of operations classified as actions and triggers. Once you connect to the underlying service, these operations can be easily leveraged within your apps and workflows.
Actions
Actions are changes directed by a user. For example, you would use an action to look up, write, update, or delete data in a SQL database. All actions directly map to operations defined in the swagger.
Triggers
Several connectors provide triggers that can notify your app when specific events occur. For example, the FTP connector has the OnUpdatedFile trigger. You can build either a Logic App or a flow that listens to this trigger and performs an action whenever the trigger fires.
There are two types of triggers:
Polling Triggers—These triggers call your service at a specified frequency to check for new data. When new data is available, it causes a new run of your workflow instance with the data as input.
Push Triggers—These triggers listen for data on an endpoint, that is, they wait for an event to occur. The occurrence of this event causes a new run of your workflow instance.
A. Gateways in Power Apps are used to securely connect on-premises data sources to the cloud. They do not offer actions and triggers like Flows do, as their primary function is to establish a secure connection between on-premises data sources and the cloud.
B. Connectors in Power Apps are used to connect to external data sources, services, and systems. They provide a way to access and interact with data from various sources, but they do not offer actions and triggers like Flows do.
C. Flows in Power Apps offer actions and triggers for automating workflows and processes. Flows allow users to create automated workflows that can be triggered by events and perform actions based on predefined conditions. This makes Flows a powerful tool for automation and integration within the Power Platform.
D. Solutions in Power Apps are used to package and deploy apps, flows, and other components. While solutions help manage and organize Power Apps components, they do not offer actions and triggers like Flows do. Solutions focus on deployment and management rather than automation.
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