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A company uses Dataverse to store information about its products and stock levels. The company requires a solution that allows existing customers and potential new customers to perform the following…

The correct answer is B. Power Pages. To provide a secure, external-facing self-service portal for customers to interact with Dataverse data, Power Pages is the recommended Power Platform component.

Submitted by jordan8· Apr 18, 2026

Question

A company uses Dataverse to store information about its products and stock levels. The company requires a solution that allows existing customers and potential new customers to perform the following self-service actions: - Locate information about available products. - Register their information for marketing materials. - Create their own orders. You need to recommend a Microsoft Power Platform component that meets the requirements. Which component should you recommend?

Options

  • APower BI
  • BPower Pages
  • CCanvas app
  • DModel-driven app

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    78% (32)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    12% (5)

Why each option

To provide a secure, external-facing self-service portal for customers to interact with Dataverse data, Power Pages is the recommended Power Platform component.

APower BI

Power BI is for data visualization and reporting, not for interactive data entry or self-service portals for external users.

BPower PagesCorrect

Power Pages is specifically designed to build low-code, secure, external-facing websites that allow external users to interact with Dataverse data without needing an internal license. It perfectly fits the requirement for customers to perform self-service actions such as viewing products, registering, and creating orders.

CCanvas app

Canvas apps are primarily for internal users or specific task-based applications; while they can be external, Power Pages provides a more robust and scalable solution for public-facing portals with authentication and content management capabilities.

DModel-driven app

Model-driven apps are built on Dataverse and are primarily designed for internal business processes and users, not for public-facing self-service by external customers.

Concept tested: Power Pages for external self-service portals

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/overview

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