Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

The Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer assesses your technical abilities in designing, developing, deploying, and managing solutions. The exam requires candidates to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks using Microsoft Power Automate. Their responsibilities include reviewing solution requirements, creating process documentation, designing, developing, troubleshooting, and evaluating solutions. As part of their training, candidates will improve and automate business workflows in collaboration with business stakeholders. Specifically, they support solutions and collaborate with administrators to deploy them.

Exam Details

Exam Name Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer	Exam Code PL-500
Exam Language English, Japanese, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean	Exam Fee $165 USD

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Microsoft (PL-500): Power Automate RPA Developer Sample Questions

Exam Retake Policy

If anyhow you are not able to achieve a passing score in the Microsoft PL-500 exam. However, you will have to wait for a minimum of 24 hours before you become eligible for a retake. Failure in the second attempt will result in a waiting time of 14 days before rescheduling your third attempt. The waiting period for the fourth and fifth attempts will also be 14 days. All candidates are allowed a maximum of five attempts per year.

Exam Cancellation Policy

Microsoft offers the candidates to cancel or reschedule their exams within a minimum of 24 hours prior to the exam date. However, to prevent any cancellation fee, you must cancel or reschedule your exam, at least 6 business days prior to the date scheduled for your exam. Also, if you fail to appear in the exam, you will not receive any refund of the fee.

Recertification Policy

Microsoft certification is expected to expire when the products are out of mainstream support although the person’s certificate will be recognized.

Exam Result

Right after successfully completing your Exam PL-500, you will be notified of your pass or fail status within a few minutes of completing your exam. Also, printed reports providing your exam score and feedback on your performance will also be provided to you. Your score will be forwarded to Microsoft within five business days.

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Course Outline – Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

The Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer covers the following domains:

Design automations (30–35%)

Describe Power Automate features and capabilities

Identify the Power Automate ecosystem and offerings
Identify the differences among cloud flows, and desktop flows, and business process flows
Identify when to use a desktop flow or a cloud flow, and when to use them together
Identify the different trigger types for cloud flows
Identify options for interacting with target applications and browsers
Identify the different methods for running a desktop flow
Identify considerations for running cloud and desktop flows concurrently
Identify considerations for running desktop flows attended versus unattended
Differentiate HTTP actions in cloud and desktop flows

Work with other Microsoft Power Platform offerings

Identify how canvas apps and model-driven apps work with automation
Identify use cases for connectors, custom connectors, connection references, and connections for cloud flows
Identify use cases for Microsoft Dataverse

Record and analyze processes

Create processes in Process Advisor
Identify the steps for Process mining
Identify the steps for Task mining
Identify the use cases for Process Advisor

Identify how to analyze and enhance data and documents

Identify Microsoft AI options for processing documents in desktop and cloud flows
Identify Microsoft AI options for processing data in desktop and cloud flows
Identify optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities in desktop flows
Identify use cases for the Document Automation Toolkit

Identify use cases for scripting languages in desktop flows

Identify use cases for scripting languages including PowerShell and VBScript
Identify use cases for application-specific macro languages including VBA in Microsoft Excel and Office Scripts
Identify use cases for using JavaScript
Identify how to use the document object model (DOM) in automation

Develop automations (40–45%)

Create and manage cloud flows

Create a cloud flow
Create a cloud flow that calls a desktop flow
Create and use child cloud flows including how to pass data to a child cloud flow and return data back
Perform actions in cloud flows by calling external APIs
Configure filter conditions and concurrency in cloud flows
Configure timeout and retry policies in cloud flows
Implement data objects in cloud flows
Identify common processes for parsing text including JSON, XML, and CSV in cloud flows
Configure cloud flow action to run Microsoft Office Scripts

Create and manage desktop flows

Create desktop flows to launch, connect to, and authenticate target application
Configure user interface (UI) options
Configure datatables, lists, and custom objects in desktop flows
Implement subflows in desktop flows
Add desktop actions to exit from target applications
Perform actions in desktop flows by calling external APIs
Configure timeout and retry in desktop flows
Implement data objects in desktop flows
Identify common processes for parsing text including JSON, XML, and CSV in desktop flows

Implement logic in cloud and desktop flows

Configure flow control in cloud and desktop flows including loops
Configure expressions in cloud flows
Configure variable actions for cloud and desktop flows
Configure secure input and output data in actions in cloud flows
Configure secure variables in desktop flows
Configure priority for desktop flows in a queue
Create exception handling blocks in cloud and desktop flows to handle system exceptions
Create error handling routines in cloud and desktop flows to handle business exceptions
Configure document processing by using AI Builder

Create and configure custom connectors

Create a custom connector
Implement authentication for custom connectors
Identify custom connector policy templates
Write code in a custom connector

Manage automation infrastructure

Configure credential management
Connect cloud flows to on-premises data by using the on-premises data gateway
Create and manage components in Microsoft Dataverse solutions

Test automations and finalize development efforts

Run and test a cloud flow
Run and test a desktop flow
Manage configurations by using environment variables and configuration files
Debug solutions by using Power Automate cloud and desktop flows debugging features

Deploy and manage automations (20–25%)

Prepare target environments

Implement Microsoft Power Platform application lifecycle management (ALM)
Differentiate credentials used for different environments
Deploy RPA solutions to other environments
Prepare virtual desktop environments for unattended desktop flow execution

Evaluate data loss prevention (DLP) policies for RPA execution

Identify Microsoft Power Platform data loss prevention (DLP) policies
Identify how DLP policies impact actions in cloud and desktop flows
Identify how DLP policies apply to custom connectors

Manage access to RPA components

Share a cloud flow
Share a desktop flow
Share machines and machine groups
Identify security roles required to run and monitor cloud and desktop flows
Create service accounts and service principals

Configure machine groups and queues required for desktop flow automations

Identify use cases for and capabilities of machines and machine groups
Manage machine registrations
Create and manage machine groups
Implement load balancing of desktop flows by using machine groups and queues
Work with queues and queue operations for desktop flows
Evaluate cloud and desktop flow run history from the Power Automate portal

Preparation Guide for Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

Get Familiar with the Exam Objectives

The course outline is a good resource to review prior to the exam. It is important to manage your time effectively, determine what needs to be done, and how to accomplish it. Further, you should regularly check the official website to stay updated on any course changes. In Exam PL-500, the following topics are covered:

Design solutions (25–30%)
Develop solutions (40–45%)
Deploy and manage solutions (30–35%)

Instructor-led Training – Course PL-500T00: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer

The aim of this training is your help you develop the following skills:

Designing RPA solutions
Developing RPA solutions
Deploying and managing RPA solutions

Microsoft Learning Paths

Microsoft Learning Paths offer dynamic and interactive online experiences that will help you accomplish your technical and professional goals faster. Microsoft Learn allows you to track progress, assess knowledge, and validate deployments to earn points, levels, achievements, and trophies. A series of bite-sized modules provide you with an understanding of the topic chosen. The Learning Paths for the Microsoft Exam MB-500 exam are as follows:

Microsoft Press Books

The reference books provided by Microsoft Press Store can help you prepare for the exam more efficiently. These books contain a variety of useful resources you can use during your study process. You will gain a deeper understanding of the exam objectives by reading Microsoft Press books.

Join Microsoft Community/ Online Forum

Getting more people involved in an issue increases its chances of resolution. Discussions of diverse viewpoints also enhance the quality of the content. Studies can become more comprehensive as a result of these discussions. Our participation in forums builds a sense of community, and we gain a deeper understanding of one another.

Practice Tests

Regardless of how you prepare for Exam PL-500: Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer, you will benefit greatly from practicing. Your real test results will be better if you diversify your study strategy with practice tests. Analyzing your answers can also help you determine whether they align with the exam objectives.