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PL-400 · Question #436

A global company based in North America maintains several Dataverse instances, including instances based in Europe. A single Microsoft Entra ID tenant is used by the organization, with the default…

The correct answer is D. Create a new sandbox environment Register the plug-in. EU data residency compliance (GDPR and the EU Data Boundary) prohibits moving actual EU-region data to North America. Option A (copy environment) and Option C (backup and restore) would both physically transfer EU production data to the NA default region, violating compliance…

Submitted by carlos_mx· Apr 18, 2026

Question

A global company based in North America maintains several Dataverse instances, including instances based in Europe. A single Microsoft Entra ID tenant is used by the organization, with the default location of North America. Compliance rules dictate that data must remain within the European Union data boundary. You develop a plugin for the company. Users encounter an issue with the plug-in within an environment located in Germany. You are unable to replicate the issue in any other environment. You need to debug the issue in a separate environment in the default region of the company and adhere to all necessary compliance rules. What should you do?

Options

  • ACopy the environment.
  • BCreate a new developer environment. Register the plug-in.
  • CBack up and restore the environment.
  • DCreate a new sandbox environment Register the plug-in.

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    16% (7)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    73% (32)

Explanation

EU data residency compliance (GDPR and the EU Data Boundary) prohibits moving actual EU-region data to North America. Option A (copy environment) and Option C (backup and restore) would both physically transfer EU production data to the NA default region, violating compliance rules. Option B (developer environment) does not provide a proper isolated debugging environment that respects EU data residency. Option D is correct: create a new sandbox environment within the EU region and register the plugin there. This gives you an isolated, reproducible environment for debugging without moving data across data boundaries.

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