PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

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

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

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

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 create a visual that compares profit across 10 product categories for a selected quarter.

What is the best visual to use to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal Select the BEST answer.

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

You need to create relationships to meet the reporting requirements of the customer service department.

What should you create?

You are creating a Power Bl report by using Power Bi Desktop.

You need to include a visual that shows trends and other useful information automatically. The visual must update based on selections in other visuals.

Which type of visual should you use?

You have a Microsoft Power BI data model that contains three tables named Orders, Date, and City. There is a one-to-many relationship between Date and Orders and between City and Orders.

The model contains two row-level security (RLS) roles named Role1 and Role2. Role1 contains the following filter.

City[State Province] = "Kentucky"

Role2 contains the following filter.

Date[Calendar Year] = 2020

If a user is a member of both Role1 and Role2, what data will they see in a report that uses the model?

From Power Query Editor, you attempt to execute a query and receive the following error message.

Datasource.Error: could not find file.

What are two possible causes of the error? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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

What should you include in the solution?

You have a Power B1 dataset named Finance that is hosted in a Power B1 workspace.

The finance team at your company is NOT currently a member of any Power B1 workspace roles.

You need to enable the finance team to use Microsoft Excel to analyze the Finance dataset.

What should you do?

You have sales data in a star schema that contains four tables named Sales, Customer, Date, and Product. The Sales table contains purchase and ship dates.

Most often, you will use the purchase date to analyze the data, but you will analyze the data by both dates independently and together.

You need to design an imported dataset to support the analysis. The solution must minimize the model size and the number of queries against the data source.

Which data modeling design should you use?

You have four sales regions. Each region has multiple sales managers.

You implement row-level security (RLS) in a data model. You assign the relevant distribution lists to each role.

You have sales reports that enable analysis by region. The sales managers can view the sales records of their region. The sales managers are prevented from viewing records from other regions.

A sales manager changes to a different region.

You need to ensure that the sales manager can see the correct sales data.

What should you do?

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 report 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; You create measures that use the uSEREIATIOHSHIP DAX function to filter sales on the inactive relationships between the sales table and the date table.

Does this meet the goal?

You have a Power Bl semantic model that contains the data sources shown in the following table.

You need to configure the privacy levels of the data sources.

What should you configure (01 each data source? To answer, select (he appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct answer is worth one point.

You have a Power Bl table named Customer that contains a field named Email Address.

You discover that multiple records contain the same email address.

You need to create a calculated column to identify which records have duplicate email addresses.

How should you complete the OAX expression for the calculated column? 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 a visualization that compares revenue and cost over time.

Which type of visualization should you use?

You have two Power Bl reports named ReportA and ReportB that each uses a distinct color palette.

You are creating a Power Bl dashboard that will include two visuals from each report

You need to use a consistent dark theme for the dashboard. The solution must preserve the original colors of the reports.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have the following three versions of an Azure SQL database:

Test

Production

Development

You have a dataset that uses the development database as a data source.

You need to configure the dataset so that you can easily change the data source between the development, test, and production database servers from powerbi.com.

Which should you do?

You have the Azure SQL databases shown in the following table.

You plan to build a single PBIX file to meet the following requirements:

• Data must be consumed from the database that corresponds to each stage of the development lifecycle.

• Power Bl deployment pipelines must NOT be used.

• The solution must minimize administrative effort.

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

You have a Power Bl report that contains the visual shown in the following exhibit.

You have a Power Bl report that contains a measure named Total Sales.

You need to create a new measure that will return the sum of Total Sates for a year up to a selected date. 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.

You have a BI dataset and a connected report.

You need to ensure that users can analyze data in Microsoft Excel by connecting directly to the dataset.

You grant the users the Build permission for dataset

What Should do next?

You are creating a line chart in a Power Bl report 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 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: From the Data pane, you rename the date table as Due Date. You use a DAX expression to create Order Date and Deliver Date as calculated tables. You create active relationships between the sales table and each date table.

Does this meet the goal?

You are creating a report in Power BI Desktop.

You load a data extract that includes a free text field named coll.

You need to analyze the frequency distribution of the string lengths in col1. The solution must not affect the size of the model.

What should you do?

You use Power Query Editor to load two queries named Query 1 and Query2 Query1 results in the following error.

You attempt to open a PBiX file in Microsoft Power Bl Desktop and receive the following error message in Power Query Editor.

DataSource. Error: Could of not find file D:\Data.txt.

How should you resolve the issue?

You need to minimize me size of the dataset. The solution must meet the report requirements What should you do?

You have a large dataset that contains more than 1 million rows. The table has a datetime column named

Date.

You need to reduce the size of the data model.

What should you do?

You have a Power Bl model that contains the following data.

The Date table relates to the Sales table by using the Date columns.

The model contains the following DAX measure.

Total Sales = SUM(Sales[Sale])

You need to create another measure named Previous Quarter to display the sales one quarter before the selected period.

Which DAX calculation 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.

From Power Query Editor, you profile the data shown in the following exhibit.

The IoT GUID and IoT ID columns are unique to each row in query.

You need to analyze IoT events by the hour and day of the year. The solution must improve dataset performance.

Solution: You remove the loT GUID column and retain the loT ID column.

Does this meet the goal?

You import a large dataset to Power Query Editor.

You need to identify whether a column contains only unique values.

Which two Data Preview options can you use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

You have a Microsoft Exert spreadsheet named Excel1 that contains survey results.

You have a Power Bl dashboard named DashboardA that has Q&A enabled.

You need to ensure that users who can access DashboardA can ask Questions based on the contents of Excel 1 and pm visuals based on their queries to DashboardA. The solution must minimize development time.

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.

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 increase Automatic page refresh intervals.

Does this meet the goal?

You have a collection of reports for the HR department of your company. The datasets use row-level security (RLS). The company has multiple sales regions that each has an HR manager. You need to ensure that the HR managers can interact with the data from their region only. The HR managers must be prevented from changing the layout of the reports. How should you provision access to the reports for the HR managers?

You create a report by using Microsoft Power BI Desktop.

The report uses data from a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube located on your company’s internal network.

You plan to publish the report to the Power BI Service.

What should you implement ta ensure that users who consume the report from the Power BI Service have the most up-to-date data from the cube?

You have a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains the data shown in the following table.

You plan to build a data model for a Power Bl report.

You need to prepare the data so that it is available to the model in the format shown in the following table.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence in Power Query Editor? 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 data model that contains many complex DAX expressions. The expressions contain frequent references to the RELATED and RELATEDTABLE functions.

You need to recommend a solution to minimize the use of the RELATED and RELATEDTABLE functions.

What should you recommend?

You are using Power Bi Desktop to connect to an Azure SQL database The connection is configured 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 solution is worth one point

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.

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

What should you do?

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

Which type of visualization should you create?

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 need to create a relationship in the data model 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 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 the semantic model.

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

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

Which two types of visualizations can be used in the balance sheet reports to meet the reporting goals? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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 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?

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.

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

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

What should you do?

How should you distribute the reports to the board? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.