PL-500 Free Sample Questions

A financial services company is automating its trade reconciliation process. A desktop flow, running unattended, retrieves trade data from a mainframe terminal, processes it, and compares it against data from a modern REST API. The process must be resilient to intermittent network failures when calling the REST API. The desktop flow must attempt to call the API up to three times with a 30-second delay between attempts before marking a trade as requiring manual review. Which action provides the most efficient and robust way to implement this retry logic directly within the desktop flow?

A solution architect is designing an RPA implementation for a large-scale invoice processing center. Over 50,000 invoices must be processed daily by a fleet of 20 virtual machines. The processing time for each invoice varies significantly. The primary goals are to maximize machine utilization, ensure invoices are processed in the order they are received (FIFO), and provide a central point for monitoring progress and handling exceptions. Which combination of Power Automate components is best suited to meet these requirements?

A developer needs to create a desktop flow that interacts with a legacy Java-based application. The standard UI element recorder fails to correctly identify individual controls within the application's main window. The business requires that the automation be able to click specific buttons and enter text into specific fields identified by their accessibility properties. What should the developer do to enable reliable interaction with the Java application's controls? (Select TWO)

A Power Platform administrator is reviewing the company's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. They have configured a policy that places the 'HTTP' connector in the 'Blocked' group. A developer reports that their existing cloud flow, which calls a desktop flow, is now failing. The desktop flow itself does not use any HTTP actions, but the parent cloud flow does. What is the most likely reason for the failure?

You are developing a solution that requires passing a complex object with nested properties from a parent cloud flow to a child cloud flow. The child flow must then modify one of the nested properties and return the entire updated object to the parent. Which combination of actions is required to correctly implement this data exchange?

True or False: When sharing a desktop flow with another user as a co-owner, the co-owner can edit the flow but must use their own connections to any connectors used within the flow.

A developer is using the 'Extract data from web page' action in a desktop flow to scrape a table of product information. The web page uses dynamic IDs for its HTML elements, causing the selector to fail intermittently. The table structure, however, remains consistent. Which approach should the developer use to create a more resilient selector for the table?

Case Study: Global Shipping Inc. Company Background: Global Shipping Inc. (GSI) is a logistics and supply chain management company that operates worldwide. They handle freight forwarding, warehousing, and last-mile delivery. GSI is undergoing a digital transformation initiative to automate manual processes, reduce operational costs, and improve data accuracy. They have heavily invested in the Microsoft Power Platform. Current Situation: A key bottleneck is the processing of customs declaration forms, which arrive as PDF documents in a shared mailbox. Currently, a team of data entry clerks manually reads each PDF and enters the information into three separate systems: a legacy AS/400 terminal application for freight management, a modern web-based CRM for customer records, and a Microsoft Dataverse table for analytics. Automation Requirements: 1. The solution must monitor the shared mailbox for incoming emails with PDF attachments. 2. It must extract key fields from the PDF forms, including Shipper Name, Consignee Address, Declared Value, and a list of line items. 3. The extracted data must be entered into the AS/400 terminal, the web CRM, and the Dataverse table. 4. The solution must run unattended on a pool of virtual machines to handle high volume during peak hours. 5. Credentials for the AS/400 system and web CRM must be managed securely and not be hard-coded in the automation scripts. 6. A business continuity plan is required. If the primary Azure region hosting the VMs experiences an outage, the processing should fail over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. Technical Constraints: - The AS/400 application has no modern APIs. - The web CRM has a REST API, but direct integration is a future phase; for now, UI automation must be used. - The company has a strict DLP policy that blocks most social media connectors but allows the HTTP, Dataverse, and Office 365 Outlook connectors. You are tasked with designing the high-level architecture for this automation. Which design best meets all the requirements?

A developer is building a custom connector to an internal legacy system that uses a proprietary, non-standard authentication scheme. The scheme requires generating a unique token by combining a static API key with the current timestamp, hashing the result with MD5, and passing it in a custom HTTP header named 'X-Auth-Token'. Which feature of custom connectors must be used to implement this logic?

An RPA team manages automations across multiple environments (Development, Test, Production). To avoid manual configuration changes during deployment, they use environment variables in their cloud flows to store the email address for failure notifications. The solution is deployed as managed. After deploying a new version to Production, an administrator needs to update the notification email address. What is the correct procedure for updating the environment variable's value in the Production environment?