PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

You publish the dataset to powerbi.com.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You publish the semantic model to powerbi.com.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to provide a solution to provide the sales managers with the required access.

What should you include in the solution?

You need to configure access for the sales department users. The solution must me meet the security requirements. What should you do?

You need to get data from the Microsoft SQL Server tables. What should you use to configure the connection'

You need to address the data concerns before creating the data model. What should you do in Power Query Editor?

You need to create a relationship between the Weekly_Returns table and the Date table to meet the reporting requirements of the regional managers. What should you do?

You need to create a measure that will return the percentage of late orders.

How should you complete the DAX expression? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

What should you create to meet the reporting requirements of the sales department?

You need to create the semantic model.

Which storage mode should you use for the tables in the semantic model?

You need to minimize the size of the semantic model. The solution must meet the report requirements.

What should you do?

You merge data from Sales.Region, Region_Manager, Sales_Manager, and Manager into a single table named Region. What should you do next to meet the reporting requirements of the executives?

You need to design the data model and the relationships for the Customer Details worksheet and the Orders table by using Power BI. The solution must meet the report requirements.

For each of the following statement, select Yes if the statement is true, Otherwise, select No.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create the required relationship for the executive's visual. What should you do before you can create the relationship?

You need to create the Top Customers report.

Which type of filter should you use, and at which level should you apply the filter? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You use Power Query to import two tables named Order Header and Order Details from an Azure SQL database. The Order Header table relates to the Order Details table by using a column named Order ID in each table.

You need to combine the tables into a single query that contains the unique columns of each table.

What should you select in Power Query Editor?

You need to create a relationship in the dataset for RLS.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to design the data model to meet the report requirements.

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

You need to create the dataset. Which dataset mode should you use?

You attempt to connect Power BI Desktop to a Cassandra database.

From the Get Data connector list, you discover that there is no specific connector for the Cassandra database.

You need to select an alternate data connector that will connect to the database.

Which type of connector should you choose?

You have a Power BI dashboard that displays different visualizations of company sales.

You enable Q&A on the dashboard.

You need to provide users with sample questions that they can ask when using Q&A.

Which settings should you modify from the Power BI Settings?

You need to create a solution to meet the notification requirements of the warehouse shipping department.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct select is worth one point:

You have a Microsoft SharePoint Online site that contains several document libraries.

One of the document libraries contains manufactunng reports saved as Microsoft Excel files. All the manufacturing reports have the same data structure.

You need to use Power Bl Desktop to load only the manufacturing reports to a table for analysis.

What should you do?

Adding an index key and normalizing casing in the data source would help resolve issues with undefined values and errors in a case-sensitive column. The index key can provide a unique identifier, and normalizing casing ensures consistency in the data, which would likely prevent the errors you encountered in the Power BI semantic model.

You have a Power BI data model that imports a date table and a sales table from an Azure SQL database data source. The sales table has the following date foreign keys.

•Due Date

•Order Date

•Delivery Date

You need to support the analysis of sales over time based on all three dates at the same time.

Solution: For each date foreign key, you add inactive relationships between the sales table and the date table.

Does this meet the goal?

You have a Microsoft Power Bl dashboard.

You need to ensure that consumers of the dashboard can give you feedback that will be visible to the other consumers of the dashboard.

What should you use?

You use Power Query Editor to preview the data shown in the following exhibit.

You have a query named All Sales that imports sales data into a Power BI model.

You plan to create a star schema by separating columns into separate queries and performing further transformations. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Use All Sales as the source for three other queries named Sales Fact Product Dimension, and Customer Dimension.

• Minimize maintenance effort.

What should you do to create the Sales Fact query, and for which query should you clear Enable load? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have the Performance analyzer results shown in the following exhibit.

You are using Microsoft Power Bl Desktop to profile data in Power Query Editor. Table data is displayed as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Power Bi report for the procurement department. The report contains data from the following tables.

There is a one-to-many relationship from Suppliers to Lineitems that uses the ID and Supplier ID columns. The report contains the visuals shown in the following table.

You need to minimize the size of the dataset without affecting the visuals. What should you do?

You have a query named Customer that imports CSV files from a data lake. The query contains 500 rows as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

Each file contains deltas of any new or modified rows from each load to the data lake. Multiple files can have the same customer ID.

You need to keep only the last modified row for each customer ID.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

You have a Microsoft Power Bl report. The size of PBIX file is 550 MB. The report is accessed by using an App workspace in shared capacity of powerbi.com.

The report uses an imported dataset that contains one fact table. The fact table contains 12 million rows. The dataset is scheduled to refresh twice a day at 08:00 and 17:00.

The report is a single page that contains 15 custom visuals and 10 default visuals.

Users say that the report is slow to load the visuals when they access and interact with the report

You need to recommend a solution to improve the performance of the report.

What should you recommend?

Each Region value appears only on the tow where it first occurred. Each subsequent occurrence of the Region value is blank.

You need to ensure that every row contains the connect non-blank value The solution must minimize development effort.

Which column should you select, and which action should you perform on the column? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE; Each connect selection is worth one point.

You maintain a Power Bl workspace that contains a supplier quality dashboard. The dashboard contains 10 card visuals, two map visuals and five bar chart visuals.

The dashboard mobile layout is shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

You need to modify the dashboard mobile layout to meet the following requirements:

• Only show single-value visuals.

• Minimize scrolling.

What should you do?

You publish a dataset that contains data from an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database.

The dataset must be refreshed daily.

You need to ensure that the Power BI service can connect to the database and refresh the dataset.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct

You have a Power BI app named App1. The privacy for the App1 workspace is set to Private.

A user named User1 reports that App1 does not appear in the My organization AppSource. App1 appears in the My organization AppSource for your account.

You need to ensure that User sees App1 from the My organization AppSource.

What should you do?

You have a Power Bl semantic model that contains two queries.

You discover that a report based on the model has performance issues.

You plan to use Power Query to reduce the data loaded to the model.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct answer is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this scenario, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a clustered bar chart that contains a measure named Salary as the value and a field named Employee as the axis. Salary is present in the data as numerical amount representing US dollars.

You need to create a reference line to show which employees are above the median salary.

Solution: You create a percentile line by using the Salary measure and set the percentile to 50%.

Does this meet the goal?

You have a line chart that shows the number of employees in a department over time.

You need to see the total salary costs of the employees when you hover over a data point.

What is possible way to achieve this goal?

You need to create a semantic model in Power 81 Desktop. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• The model must contain a table named Orders that has one row per order. Each row will contain the total amount per order.

• The orders must be filtered to the selected CustomerlD value.

• Users must select the CustomerlD value from a list.

• The list of customers must come from an OData source.

Which three objects should you create in Power Query Editor? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You are creating a new semantic model in Microsoft Power Bl Desktop.

You connect to a recently used data source and receive an error message indicating that the password is expired.

You need to update the credentials for the data source.

What should you do?

You need to create the On-Time Shipping report. The report must include a visualization that shows the percentage of late orders.

Which type of visualization should you create?

What should you do to address the existing environment data concerns?

You plan to create a report that will display sales data from the last year for multiple regions

You need to restrict access to individual rows of the data on a per region-basis by using roles.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an on-premises data gateway.

You need to reduce the amount of data sent through the gateway by semantic models that run in Import storage mode.

Solution: You create aggregations to summarize results.

Does this meet the goal?

Your company has employees in 10 states.

The company recently decided to associate each state to one of the following three regions: East, West, and North.

You have a data model that contains employee information by state. The model does NOT include region

information.

You have a report that shows the employees by state.

You need to view the employees by region as quickly as possible.

What should you do?

You have the visual shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

You need to show the relationship between Total Cost and Total Sales over time.

What should you do?

You have a Power Bl workspace that contains several reports.

You need to provide a user with the ability to create a dashboard that will use the visuals from the reports.

What should you do?

You publish a report to a workspace named Customer Services. The report identifies customers that have potential data quality issues that must be investigated by the customer services department of your company.

You need to ensure that customer service managers can create task lists in Microsoft Excel based on the data.

Which report setting should you configure?

You need to use Power B1 to create a visual that will allow users to compare the sales performance of five sales regions for the current month.

Which visual should you use?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a Power BI model that contains two tables named Sales and Date. Sales contains four columns named TotalCost, DueDate, ShipDate, and OrderDate. Date contains one column named Date.

The tables have the following relationships:

Sales[DueDate] and Date[Date]

Sales[ShipDate] and Date[Date]

Sales[OrderDate] and Date[Date]

The active relationship is on Sales[DueDate].

You need to create measures to count the number of orders by [ShipDate] and the orders by [OrderDate]. You must meet the goal without duplicating data or loading additional data.

Solution: You create measures that use the CALCULATE, COUNT, and USERELATIONSHIP DAX functions.

Does this meet the goal?

Your company plans to use Power BI for 20 users in the sales department. The users will perform the following tasks:

Access a published Power BI app

Modify reports in an app workspace

Share dashboards created in My Workspace

You need to identify which Power BI licenses are required for the tasks. The solution must use the Power BI (free) licenses, whenever possible.

Which license should you identify for each task? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your company plans to completely separate development and production assets such as datasets, reports, and dashboards in Microsoft Power BI.

You need to recommend an application lifecycle strategy. The solution must minimize access to production assets and prevent end users from viewing the development assets.

What should you recommend?

You need to create a relationship in the dataset for RLS.

What should you do? To answer select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You build a report to help the sales team understand its performance and the drivers of sales. The team needs to have a single visualization to identify which factors affect success. Which type of visualization should you use?

You are creating reports in Power BI Desktop. The model has the following tables.

There is a relationship between the tables.

You plan to publish a report to the Power BI service that displays Order_amount by Order_date by Full_name.

You need to ensure that only the columns required for the report appear in Report View. The solution must minimize the size of the dataset that is published.

How should you configure the columns in Power BI Desktop? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a visualization to meet the reporting requirements of the sales managers.

How should you create the visualization? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a calculated column to display the month based on the reporting requirements. Which DAX expression should you use?

You need to ensure that the data is updated to meet the report requirements. The solution must minimize configuration effort.

What should you do?

You need to grant access to the business unit analysts.

What should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to calculate the last day of the month in the balance sheet data to ensure that you can relate the balance sheet data to the Date table. Which type of calculation and which formula should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a DAX measure in the data model that only allows users to see projections at the appropriate levels of granularity.

How should you complete the measure? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create the relationship between the product list and the revenue results. The solution must minimize the time it takes to render visuals.

What should you set as the relationship cardinality?

What is the minimum number of datasets and storage modes required to support the reports?

Once the profit and loss dataset is created, which four actions should you perform in sequence to ensure that the business unit analysts see the appropriate profit and loss data? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

You need to recommend a strategy to consistently define the business unit, department, and product category data and make the data usable across reports.

What should you recommend?

Which DAX expression should you use to get the ending balances in the balance sheet reports?