PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

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You have several reports and dashboards in a workspace.

You need to grant all organizational users read access to a dashboard and several reports.

Solution: You publish an app to the entire organization.

Does this meet the goal?

You use Power Bi Desktop to create a Power Bl data model and a blank report. You need to add the Word Cloud visual shown in the following exhibit to the report.

The solution must minimize development effort

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 need to design the data model to meet the report requirements. What should you do m Power Bl Desktop?

You have the Power BI data 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.

You plan to use Power B1 to create sales invoices for customers. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Sales invoices must be exported in a PDF format

• The PDF exports must show all columns and rows clearly.

What should you create?

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

You plan to use Power BI to create a quarterly profit report that meets the following requirements:

• Emphasizes the percentage of total profits contributed by each product category in dollars and as a percentage

• Compares profit margins across sales regions

Which type of visual should you use for each requirement? To answer, drag the appropriate visuals to the correct requirements. Each visual 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 have a Power B1 report that contains three pages named Page1, Page2, and Page3. All the pages have the same slicers. You need to ensure that all the filters applied to Page1 apply to Page1 and Page3 only. What should you do?

You have a Power BI data model that contains a table named Employees. The table has the following columns:

• Employee Name

• Email Address

• Start Date

• Job Title

You are implementing dynamic row-level security (RLS).

You need to create a table filter to meet the following requirements:

• Users must see only their own employee data

• The DAX expression must work in both Power 81 Desktop and the Power BI service.

Which expression should you use?

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

You have a semantic model named Model1.

You need to ensure that users can verify that the data in Model1 meets corporate standards. What should you do?

You have a Power B1 report that contains a card. The card displays the value for year-to-date revenue.

You need to ensure that screen reader users can read the value when initially interacting with the card. The value must stay updated as the dataset is refreshed.

What should you do?

You need to create a visualization that compares revenue and cost over time.

Which type of visualization should you use?

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

The IOT ID columns are unique to each row in query.

You need to analyze 10T events by the hour and day of the year. The solution must improve dataset performance.

Solution: You change the IOT DateTime column to the Date data type.

Does this meet the goal?

You have a Power BI report named Report' and a dashboard named Dashboard'. Report1 contains a line chart named Sales by month.

You pin the Sales by month visual to Dashboard1.

In Report1, you change the Sales by month visual to a bar chart.

You need to ensure that the bar chart displays on Dashboard',

What should you do?

You have a Power BI report that uses a dataset based on an Azure Analysis Services live connection.

You need to ensure that users can use Q&A from the Power BI service for the dataset.

What should you do?

You have a table that contains the following three columns:

City

Total Sales

Occupation

You need to create a key influencers visualization as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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?

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 create the following step by using Power Query Editor.

= Table.ReplaceValue(SalesLT_Address,"1318","1319",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"AddressLine1"})

A row has a value of 21318 Lasalle Street in the AddressLine1 column. What will the value be when the step is applied?

You have the visual shown in the Original exhibit. {Click the Original tab.)

You need to configure the visual as shown in the Modified exhibit. (Click the Modified tab.)

What should you add to the visual?

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.

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?

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 a Power Bl app that contains a report named Report1.

You add a new page to Report1.

You need to ensure that users can view the new page. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you do?

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You are modeling data by using Microsoft Power BI. Part of the data model is a large Microsoft SQL Server table named Order that has more than 100 million records.

During the development process, you need to import a sample of the data from the Order table.

Solution: You add a WHERE clause to the SQL statement.

Does this meet the goal?

From Power BI Desktop, you publish a new dataset and report lo a Power Bl workspace. The dataset has a row-level security (RLS) role named HR. You need to ensure that the HR team members have RLS applied when they view reports based on the dataset. What should you do?

In Power Query Editor, you have a query named Sales Data that contains the following columns.

You need to create two queries named Product Dimension and Sales Fact based on the Sales Data query. The solution must minimize maintenance effort and the site of the semantic model.

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

NOTE Each correct selection is worth one point.

You create a dataset sourced from dozens of flat files in Azure Blob storage. The dataset uses incremental refresh.

From powerbi.com, you deploy the dataset and several related reports to Microsoft Power BI Premium

capacity.

You discover that the dataset refresh fails after the refresh runs out of resources.

What is a possible cause of the issue?

You have the dataset shown in the following exhibit.

You need to ensure that the visual shows only the 10 cities that have the highest sales profit.

What should you do?

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?

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

What should you do?

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

In Power BI Desktop, you are creating a report that will contain three pages.

You need to create a custom tooltip page and prepare the page for use.

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

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 the date foreign keys.

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

Does this meet the goal?

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 have an app workspace that contains a dashboard and four reports. All the reports are generated from a single dataset that contains sales data for your company.

The reports display the data configured as shown in the following table.

You need to ensure that the users of the reports can locate the correct report by using natural language queries.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 build a Power Bl report that displays 10T temperature data streaming from a refrigerator.

You publish the report to the Bl service.

You need to be notified when the temperature rises above four degrees Celsius.

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.

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 have a Microsoft SharePoint Online site that contains several document libraries. One of the document libraries contains manufacturing reports saved as Microsoft Excel files. All the manufacturing reports have the same data structure.

You need to load only the manufacturing reports to a table for analysis.

What should you do in Microsoft Power Bl Desktop?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 create a calculated column to display the month based on the reporting requirements. Which DAX expression 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 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 relationships to meet the reporting requirements of the customer service department.

What should you create?

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

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

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 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 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?