Microsoft PL-500 Exam (page: 2)
Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer
Updated on: 28-Jul-2025

Viewing Page 2 of 33

Case study
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Background
City Power and Light is one of the biggest energy companies in North America. They extract, produce and transport oil. The company has more than 50 offices and 100 oil extraction facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They use railways, trucks, and pipelines to move oil and gas from their facilities.

The company provides the following services:

-Produce oil from oil sands safely, responsibly, and reliably.
-Refine crude of into high-quality products.
-Develop and manage wind power facilities.
-Transport oil to different countries/regions.

City Power and Light uses various Microsoft software products to manage is daily actives and run its machine-critical applications.

Requirements

ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks
A user named Admin1 creates a cloud flow named ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks. Admin1 applies a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to the flow. Admin1 shares the flow with a user named PipelineManager1 as co-owner. You must determine the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.

MaintenanceScheduler
You create a cloud flow that uses a desktop flow. The desktop flow connects to third-party services to fetch information. You must not permit the desktop flow to run for more than 20 minutes.

You must configure sharing for MaintenanceScheduler to meet the following requirements:

-User1 must be able to work with you to modify the desktop flow.
-User2 must be able to access and review the run history for the flow.
-You must grant User3 permissions to run but not modify the desktop flow.

ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Packaging
You must package the automations in a solution. All required components must be included in the solution.

Issues

ProductionMonitor flow
You create a cloud flow named ProductionMonitor which uses the Manually trigger a flow trigger. You plan to trigger ProductionMonitor from a cloud flow named ProdManager.

You add a Run a Child flow action in ProdManager to trigger ProductionMonitor. When you attempt to save ProdManager the following error message displays:



CapacityPlanning flow
Developers within the company use could flows to access data from an on-premises capacity planning system.

You observe significant increases to the volume of traffic that the on-premises data gateway processes each day. You must minimize gateway failures.

DataCollector flow
You have a desktop flow that interacts with a web form. The flow must write data to several fields on the form.

You are testing the flow. The flow fails when attempting to write data to any field on the web form.

RailStatusUpdater flow
The RailStatusUpdater flow occasionally fails due to machine connection errors. You can usually get the desktop flow to complete by resubmitting the cloud flow run. You must automate the retry process to ensure that you do not need to manually resubmit the cloud flow when machine connection errors occur.

HOTSPOT (Drag and Drop is not supported)
You need to configure the solution for the ERPDataOperations flow.

Which configuration values should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:



Box 1: When a new email arrives
ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

Box 2: Input
Input and output variables
Power Automate enables data exchange between cloud and desktop flows through the input and output variables. These variables are passed to and from desktop flows, allowing you to create sophisticated flows.

Additionally, you can use input variables to set values manually when the flows are triggered through the console.


Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-variables#input-and-output-variables




Case study
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Background
City Power and Light is one of the biggest energy companies in North America. They extract, produce and transport oil. The company has more than 50 offices and 100 oil extraction facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They use railways, trucks, and pipelines to move oil and gas from their facilities.

The company provides the following services:

-Produce oil from oil sands safely, responsibly, and reliably.
-Refine crude of into high-quality products.
-Develop and manage wind power facilities.
-Transport oil to different countries/regions.

City Power and Light uses various Microsoft software products to manage is daily actives and run its machine-critical applications.

Requirements

ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks
A user named Admin1 creates a cloud flow named ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks. Admin1 applies a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to the flow. Admin1 shares the flow with a user named PipelineManager1 as co-owner. You must determine the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.

MaintenanceScheduler
You create a cloud flow that uses a desktop flow. The desktop flow connects to third-party services to fetch information. You must not permit the desktop flow to run for more than 20 minutes.

You must configure sharing for MaintenanceScheduler to meet the following requirements:

-User1 must be able to work with you to modify the desktop flow.
-User2 must be able to access and review the run history for the flow.
-You must grant User3 permissions to run but not modify the desktop flow.

ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Packaging
You must package the automations in a solution. All required components must be included in the solution.

Issues

ProductionMonitor flow
You create a cloud flow named ProductionMonitor which uses the Manually trigger a flow trigger. You plan to trigger ProductionMonitor from a cloud flow named ProdManager.

You add a Run a Child flow action in ProdManager to trigger ProductionMonitor. When you attempt to save ProdManager the following error message displays:



CapacityPlanning flow
Developers within the company use could flows to access data from an on-premises capacity planning system.

You observe significant increases to the volume of traffic that the on-premises data gateway processes each day. You must minimize gateway failures.

DataCollector flow
You have a desktop flow that interacts with a web form. The flow must write data to several fields on the form.

You are testing the flow. The flow fails when attempting to write data to any field on the web form.

RailStatusUpdater flow
The RailStatusUpdater flow occasionally fails due to machine connection errors. You can usually get the desktop flow to complete by resubmitting the cloud flow run. You must automate the retry process to ensure that you do not need to manually resubmit the cloud flow when machine connection errors occur.

You need to identify the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.
Which three actions can PipelineManager1 perform? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

  1. Set the cloud flow priority.
  2. Modify or delete a flow.
  3. Add or remove other owners.
  4. Override the DLP policy.
  5. Modify the owner’s connection credentials.
  6. View the run history.

Answer(s): B,C,E




Case study
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Background
City Power and Light is one of the biggest energy companies in North America. They extract, produce and transport oil. The company has more than 50 offices and 100 oil extraction facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They use railways, trucks, and pipelines to move oil and gas from their facilities.

The company provides the following services:

-Produce oil from oil sands safely, responsibly, and reliably.
-Refine crude of into high-quality products.
-Develop and manage wind power facilities.
-Transport oil to different countries/regions.

City Power and Light uses various Microsoft software products to manage is daily actives and run its machine-critical applications.

Requirements

ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks
A user named Admin1 creates a cloud flow named ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks. Admin1 applies a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to the flow. Admin1 shares the flow with a user named PipelineManager1 as co-owner. You must determine the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.

MaintenanceScheduler
You create a cloud flow that uses a desktop flow. The desktop flow connects to third-party services to fetch information. You must not permit the desktop flow to run for more than 20 minutes.

You must configure sharing for MaintenanceScheduler to meet the following requirements:

-User1 must be able to work with you to modify the desktop flow.
-User2 must be able to access and review the run history for the flow.
-You must grant User3 permissions to run but not modify the desktop flow.

ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Packaging
You must package the automations in a solution. All required components must be included in the solution.

Issues

ProductionMonitor flow
You create a cloud flow named ProductionMonitor which uses the Manually trigger a flow trigger. You plan to trigger ProductionMonitor from a cloud flow named ProdManager.

You add a Run a Child flow action in ProdManager to trigger ProductionMonitor. When you attempt to save ProdManager the following error message displays:



CapacityPlanning flow
Developers within the company use could flows to access data from an on-premises capacity planning system.

You observe significant increases to the volume of traffic that the on-premises data gateway processes each day. You must minimize gateway failures.

DataCollector flow
You have a desktop flow that interacts with a web form. The flow must write data to several fields on the form.

You are testing the flow. The flow fails when attempting to write data to any field on the web form.

RailStatusUpdater flow
The RailStatusUpdater flow occasionally fails due to machine connection errors. You can usually get the desktop flow to complete by resubmitting the cloud flow run. You must automate the retry process to ensure that you do not need to manually resubmit the cloud flow when machine connection errors occur.

You need to configure the desktop action for the MaintenanceScheduler cloud flow.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

  1. Launch Power Automate for desktop.
  2. Navigate to Desktop flow action settings in the cloud flow.
  3. Select the Timeout property and update the duration to P20M.
  4. Select the Timeout property and update the duration to PT20M.
  5. Select machine settings in Power Automate for desktop.

Answer(s): B,D




Case study
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Background
City Power and Light is one of the biggest energy companies in North America. They extract, produce and transport oil. The company has more than 50 offices and 100 oil extraction facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They use railways, trucks, and pipelines to move oil and gas from their facilities.

The company provides the following services:

-Produce oil from oil sands safely, responsibly, and reliably.
-Refine crude of into high-quality products.
-Develop and manage wind power facilities.
-Transport oil to different countries/regions.

City Power and Light uses various Microsoft software products to manage is daily actives and run its machine-critical applications.

Requirements

ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks
A user named Admin1 creates a cloud flow named ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks. Admin1 applies a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to the flow. Admin1 shares the flow with a user named PipelineManager1 as co-owner. You must determine the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.

MaintenanceScheduler
You create a cloud flow that uses a desktop flow. The desktop flow connects to third-party services to fetch information. You must not permit the desktop flow to run for more than 20 minutes.

You must configure sharing for MaintenanceScheduler to meet the following requirements:

-User1 must be able to work with you to modify the desktop flow.
-User2 must be able to access and review the run history for the flow.
-You must grant User3 permissions to run but not modify the desktop flow.

ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Packaging
You must package the automations in a solution. All required components must be included in the solution.

Issues

ProductionMonitor flow
You create a cloud flow named ProductionMonitor which uses the Manually trigger a flow trigger. You plan to trigger ProductionMonitor from a cloud flow named ProdManager.

You add a Run a Child flow action in ProdManager to trigger ProductionMonitor. When you attempt to save ProdManager the following error message displays:



CapacityPlanning flow
Developers within the company use could flows to access data from an on-premises capacity planning system.

You observe significant increases to the volume of traffic that the on-premises data gateway processes each day. You must minimize gateway failures.

DataCollector flow
You have a desktop flow that interacts with a web form. The flow must write data to several fields on the form.

You are testing the flow. The flow fails when attempting to write data to any field on the web form.

RailStatusUpdater flow
The RailStatusUpdater flow occasionally fails due to machine connection errors. You can usually get the desktop flow to complete by resubmitting the cloud flow run. You must automate the retry process to ensure that you do not need to manually resubmit the cloud flow when machine connection errors occur.

You need to configure the RailStatusUpdater cloud flow.
What should you do?

  1. Create a JavaScript function to update the run mode values of each action within the desktop flow.
  2. Manually update each desktop flow action to change the run mode.
  3. Create a desktop flow to update the run mode values of each action within the cloud flow.
  4. Create an environment variable. Update each desktop flow action to read the variable.

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Note: Windows has a built-in feature called Environment variables that allows people to store data that can be used by applications. The Microsoft documentation describes Environment variables as: “store information about the operating system environment. This information includes details such as the operating system path, the number of processors used by the operating system, and the location of temporary folders.”

When it comes to automation, there is naturally a need to manage configuration such as file paths. We can use Environment variables to store locations that we can access from Power Automate Desktop.


Reference:

https://www.serverlessnotes.com/docs/using-windows-environment-variables




Case study
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Background
City Power and Light is one of the biggest energy companies in North America. They extract, produce and transport oil. The company has more than 50 offices and 100 oil extraction facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They use railways, trucks, and pipelines to move oil and gas from their facilities.

The company provides the following services:

-Produce oil from oil sands safely, responsibly, and reliably.
-Refine crude of into high-quality products.
-Develop and manage wind power facilities.
-Transport oil to different countries/regions.

City Power and Light uses various Microsoft software products to manage is daily actives and run its machine-critical applications.

Requirements

ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks
A user named Admin1 creates a cloud flow named ManagePipelineMaintenanceTasks. Admin1 applies a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to the flow. Admin1 shares the flow with a user named PipelineManager1 as co-owner. You must determine the actions that PipelineManager1 can perform.

MaintenanceScheduler
You create a cloud flow that uses a desktop flow. The desktop flow connects to third-party services to fetch information. You must not permit the desktop flow to run for more than 20 minutes.

You must configure sharing for MaintenanceScheduler to meet the following requirements:

-User1 must be able to work with you to modify the desktop flow.
-User2 must be able to access and review the run history for the flow.
-You must grant User3 permissions to run but not modify the desktop flow.

ERPDataOperations flow
City Power and light uses an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The ERP system does not have an API.

Each day the company receives an email that contains an attachment. The attachment lists orders from the company’s rail transportation partners. You must create an automation solution that reads the contents of the email and writes records to the ERP system. The solution must pass credential from a cloud flow to a desktop flow.

RailStatusUpdater
City Power and Light actively monitors all products in transit. You must create a flow named RailStatusUpdater that manages communications with railways that transport the company’s products. RailStatusUpdater includes five desktop flow actions.

You must run the desktop flows in attended mode during testing. You must run the desktop flows in unattended mode after you deploy the solution. You must minimize administrative efforts.

Packaging
You must package the automations in a solution. All required components must be included in the solution.

Issues

ProductionMonitor flow
You create a cloud flow named ProductionMonitor which uses the Manually trigger a flow trigger. You plan to trigger ProductionMonitor from a cloud flow named ProdManager.

You add a Run a Child flow action in ProdManager to trigger ProductionMonitor. When you attempt to save ProdManager the following error message displays:



CapacityPlanning flow
Developers within the company use could flows to access data from an on-premises capacity planning system.

You observe significant increases to the volume of traffic that the on-premises data gateway processes each day. You must minimize gateway failures.

DataCollector flow
You have a desktop flow that interacts with a web form. The flow must write data to several fields on the form.

You are testing the flow. The flow fails when attempting to write data to any field on the web form.

RailStatusUpdater flow
The RailStatusUpdater flow occasionally fails due to machine connection errors. You can usually get the desktop flow to complete by resubmitting the cloud flow run. You must automate the retry process to ensure that you do not need to manually resubmit the cloud flow when machine connection errors occur.

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?

  1. Move the file to the user’s documents folder.
  2. Delete and recreate the file.
  3. Move the file to the user’s OneDrive storage.
  4. Change the location of the file to a specific path that is not dependent on the signed-in user.

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Handling files and their content is essential for most automation scenarios. You can use the file actions to manage files, retrieve their properties, read and write data, and convert them to other types.

Most file actions require paths that specify the files you want to manipulate. These paths can be hard-coded values or file datatype variables.

Similarly, you can populate a hard-coded value or a folder datatype variable to specify a destination folder in the actions that need one.



Viewing Page 2 of 33



Share your comments for Microsoft PL-500 exam with other users:

unknown-R 11/23/2023 7:36:00 AM

good collection of questions and solution for pl500 certification
UNITED STATES