PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

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?

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 minimize me size of the dataset. The solution must meet the report requirements 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.

Which DAX expression should you use to get the ending balances in the balance sheet 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 ensure that the data is updated to meet the report requirements. The solution must minimize configuration effort.

What should you do?

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

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 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 dataset. Which dataset mode should you use?

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

What should you do?

You have a Microsoft Power BI data model that contains three tables named Sales, Product, and Date.

The Sales table has an existing measure named [Total Sales] that sums the total sales from the Sales table.

You need to write a calculation that returns the percentage of total sales that a selected ProductCategoryName value represents. The calculation must respect any slicers on ProductCategoryName and must show the percentage of visible total sales. For example, if there are four ProductCategoryName values, and a user filters one out, a table showing ProductCategoryName and the calculation must sum up to 100 percent.

How should you complete the calculation? 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

You need to create the semantic model.

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

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 have a project management app that is fully hosted in Microsoft Teams. The app was developed by using Microsoft Power Apps.

You need to create a Power BI report that connects to the project management app.

Which connector should you select?

You have a Microsoft Excel file on a file server.

You create a Power BI report and import a table from the Excel file.

You publish the report.

You need to ensure that the data refreshes every four hours.

What should you do first?

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?

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 have data in a Microsoft Excel worksheet as shown in the following table.

You need to use Power Query to clean and transform the dataset. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• If the discount column returns an error, a discount of 0.05 must be used.

• All the rows of data must be maintained.

• Administrative effort must be minimized.

What should you do in Power Query Editor?

You are creating a query to be used as a Country dimension in a star schema.

A snapshot of the source data is shown in the following table.

You need to create the dimension. The dimension must contain a list of unique countries.

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

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

You are profiting data by using Power Query Editor.

You have a table that contains a column named column1. Column statistics and Value distribution for column1 are shown in the following exhibit.

You have the tables shown in the following table.

The Impressions table contains approximately 30 million records per month.

You need to create an ad analytics system to meet the following requirements:

Present ad impression counts for the day, campaign, and Site_name. The analytics for the last year are required.

Minimize the data model size.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

UESTION NO: 7

You have a report that contains a bar chart and a column chart. The bar chart shows customer count by

customer segment. The column chart shows sales by month.

You need to ensure that when a segment is selected in the bar chart, you see which portion of the total sales for the month belongs to the customer segment.

How should the visual interactions be set on the column chart when the bar chart is selected?

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 have a Q&A visual that displays information from a table named Carriers as shown in the following exhibit.

You need to ensure that users can ask questions by using the term airline or carrier. The solution must minimize changes to the data model.

What should you do?

You have multiple dashboards.

You need to ensure that when users browse the available dashboards from powerbi.com. they can see which dashboards contain Personally Identifiable Information (Pll). The solution must minimize configuration effort and impact on the dashboard design.

What should you use?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is the same in each question in this series.

You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that contains the following tables.

The following columns contain date information:

- Date[Month] in the mmyyyy format

- Date[Date_ID] in the ddmmyyyy format

- Date[Date_name] in the mm/dd/yyyy format

- Monthly_returns[Month_ID] in the mmyyyy format

The Order table contains more than one million rows.

The Store table has a relationship to the Monthly_returns table on the Store_ID column. This is the only relationship between the tables.

You plan to use Power BI Desktop to create an analytics solution for the data.

You need to create a relationship between the Order table and the Store table on the Store_ID column.

What should you do before you create the relationship?

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

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

What should you create?

You have a Power Bl workspace named Inventory that contains a dataset a report and a dashboard.

You need to add an additional tile to the dashboard. The tile must show inventory by location. This information is NOT visualized in the report. The solution must minimize the impact on the report.

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

You use Microsoft Power B1 Desktop to review the data shown in the following exhibit.

For the sales department at your company, you publish a Power Bl report and a semantic model that imports data from a Microsoft Excel file located in a Microsoft SharePoint folder. The semantic model contains several measures.

You need to create a new Power Bl report from the existing data that will use many of the measures created in the initial Power Bl semantic model. The solution must minimize development effort.

Which type of data source should you use?

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

What should you include in the solution?

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

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

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 have a semantic model in import mode that contains the model 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.