PL-900 - Describe Microsoft Power Pages (15% of the exam) - Section 5.1

Describe Power Pages capabilities and use cases for building external-facing business websites.

Describe Power Pages as the low-code tool for building secure, external-facing business websites using the Power Pages design studio backed by Dataverse. Recognise how authentication providers control external user sign-in, and how table permissions determine which Dataverse data each user can read or modify.

Power Pages design studioexternal portalDataverse integrationauthentication providerstable permissions

Practice question for this objective

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A regional bank wants a low-code platform for building secure, external-facing business websites that customers reach across browsers and devices. Which Microsoft Power Platform component is designed for this purpose?

APower Automate, for orchestrating automated business workflows and cloud flows
BPower Pages, for creating, hosting, and administering external-facing business sites Correct
CPower Apps, for building no-code and low-code custom mobile and web apps
DCopilot Studio, for publishing AI-driven conversational chatbot experiences

Power Pages is the Power Platform component for building secure external-facing business websites that work across browsers and devices. Power Pages is described as a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code SaaS platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites that work across web browsers and devices.

Why A is wrong: Power Automate is a real Power Platform component, but it builds automated workflows and cloud flows rather than hosting external-facing business websites, so it does not fit the bank's need.

Why B is correct: Correct. Power Pages is described as a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code SaaS platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites that work across web browsers and devices.

Why C is wrong: Power Apps builds custom mobile and web apps to collect and share data; it is suited to internal apps and intranets, whereas Power Pages targets secure external-facing websites.

Why D is wrong: Copilot Studio creates and publishes chatbot experiences and can be added to a site, but it is not itself the platform for building external-facing business websites.

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Exam traps in Describe Microsoft Power Pages

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the PL-900 bank for this domain.

Keep using Power Apps with SharePoint, the popular way to quickly stand up basic intranet sites for the organisation
Why it is wrong: Tempting because they already use this combination internally. Wrong because the grounding describes Power Apps with SharePoint as a way to build basic intranet sites, not external partner portals.
SharePoint document libraries that store the records as uploaded list items
Why it is wrong: SharePoint can store content for basic intranet apps built with Power Apps, but Power Pages reuses the shared business data held in Dataverse, not SharePoint libraries.
Power Apps Studio, the maker canvas used to lay out screens, galleries and form controls
Why it is wrong: Power Apps Studio is a real maker surface, but it authors canvas apps rather than configuring a Power Pages site, so it does not reach the site's advanced configuration records.

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