Question
You create a desktop flow to interact with a certification authority's website.
You need to get data in and out of the desktop flow.
How should you set up the input and output parameters? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Explanation
Inbound: Connect by using the Dataverse connector from the desktop flow and retrieve the qualification data. — Power Automate for desktop includes Dataverse actions (List rows / Get a row by ID) that let the desktop flow authenticate to the environment and pull the qualification record's data directly at runtime, which is the supported, unattended-capable way to feed data into the automation. Copying and pasting is a manual step that defeats the automation, and running a cloud flow "to send data to the desktop flow" is not how the handoff works — a cloud flow passes values only through the desktop flow's declared input variables when it invokes the flow, not as an independent push.
Outbound: Send data from the desktop flow to a cloud flow to update the qualification record. — The desktop flow exposes output variables whose values are returned to the calling cloud flow when the "Run a flow built with Power Automate for desktop" action completes; the cloud flow then uses the Dataverse Update a row action to write the verification data back to the qualification record. Manual copy and paste is not automation, and while Dataverse actions exist in desktop flows, the exam-intended and cleanest outbound pattern is returning the captured values to the orchestrating cloud flow, which owns the record update.
