Microsoft Practice Test PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

The Microsoft PL-500 practice test contains 135 questions covering the following objectives: 

Design solutions – 42 questions  

Determine how to interact with an application targeted for automation

• Evaluate whether a target application can be automated  
• Choose which automation technology to use to interact with a target application, including using selectors and user interface element inspection  
• Plan connection, payload, and other relevant information for required APIs  
• Verify access to target applications   

Determine which types of Power Automate flows to implement

• Differentiate cloud flows and desktop flows  
• Select which logical components are required for a solution, including flows, triggers connectors, canvas apps, and model-driven apps   
• Develop a strategy for running flows, including running flows serially or in parallel  
• Choose connectors for a solution, including custom connectors  

Design the solution

• Design an automation model that includes required flow types and automation methods   
• Select the types of triggers to use to meet specific business requirements  
• Choose whether to run the solution attended versus unattended  
• Develop fault tolerance requirements for the solution  
• Design required user interface elements for a solution  
• Design retry and exception handling logic   
• Design a strategy for scaling a solution and reusing solution components   
• Design required variables and variable types  

Develop solutions – 51 questions  

Create core solution components

• Create custom connectors  
• Create components to launch, connect to, and authenticate with target applications  
• Create components to perform business logic and process transactional work  
• Create components to safely exit from and close target applications  
• Create components that perform actions by calling external APIs   
• Implement actions to perform application integration tasks  
• Implement system actions to run custom scripts and change target screen resolution  
• Implement Power Automate actions to run Microsoft Office scripts  
• Create flows by using Microsoft Visio, the mobile app for Power Automate, and other tools  

Configure solution components

• Select an environment for the solution, and configure environment details   
• Map target application accounts to environments and other solution components  
• Configure connection features, and manage references to connections  
• Configure flow queues, triggers, and schedules  

Enhance solution components

• Create exception handling blocks to manage business and system exceptions  
• Create routines to handle and log errors and business exceptions  
• Create routines to manipulate Power Automate data objects, including JSON objects  
• Configure role-based security  
• Configure security for sensitive data  

Integrate AI Builder and Azure Cognitive Services with solutions

• Describe use cases for and capabilities of AI Builder  
• Describe the Bring your own AI model feature  
• Differentiate between prebuilt and custom-trained AI Builder models  
• Select the appropriate AI Builder model for a solution  

Finalize development and test solutions

• Differentiate between features and behaviors of debug and compiled solutions  
• Create and implement a test plan  
• Perform unit testing, and resolve identified issues  
• Configure and run attended and unattended desktop flows  
• Debug solutions by using Power Automate debugging features, including Run from here and breakpoints  
• Identify machine-level differences and dependencies  
• Prepare and deploy solutions to a user acceptance testing (UAT) environment  

Deploy and manage solutions –42 questions 

Configure solution infrastructure

• Configure machine management options, including machine registration and machine groups  
• Implement queue management to distribute workloads   
• Implement logging and alerts  
• Implement role-based access control (RBAC)  
• Manage credentials by using Azure Key Vault  
• Determine whether to implement data loss prevention (DLP) policies at the tenant level or the environment level  
• Implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and other options to protect sensitive and confidential data   
• Connect to on-premises data by using a data gateway  

Prepare solutions for deployment to production

• Create and manage environment variables and solution configuration files  
• Select a package type, and prepare a solution package   
• Configure priority for flows  
• Configure machines and machine groups  
• Configure child flows  

Deploy and manage solutions

• Replicate settings from development and user acceptance testing (UAT) environments to production  
• Deploy a solution to a production environment  
• Describe use cases for and capabilities of process advisor   
• Monitor solutions by using process advisor  
• Upgrade and patch solutions  

Share solutions and collaborate with others

• Describe the process for sharing solutions  
• Create a copy of a cloud flow, and send the flow to other users  
• Share a cloud flow with a user as a co-owner or run-only user  
• Share a desktop flow  
• Share machines and machine groups

Notes: 

• The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. Related topics may be covered in the exam. 
• Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.