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Question # 4

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

A.

Add the sales department as a member of the reports workspace

B.

Add the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department as an Admin of the reports workspace.

C.

Distribute an app to the users in the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department.

D.

Share each report to the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department.

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Question # 5

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:

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Question # 6

Your organization has a team of power users who recently created 20 Power BI dashboards.

The power users share the dashboards with other users in the organization.

When the users attempt to access the dashboards, they receive the error message shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit.)

You need to ensure that all the users can access the dashboards.

What should you do first?

A.

From the Microsoft Office 365 Admin center, and the Power BI (free) subscription, and then assign a license to each user.

B.

From the Power BI Admin portal, modify the Privacy Settings.

C.

From the properties of each dashboard, modify the Share dashboard settings.

D.

Instruct each user to install Microsoft Office 2016.

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Question # 7

You have a Power BI model that contains a table named Sales and a related date table. Sales contains a measure named Total Sales You need to create a measure that calculates the total sales from the equivalent month of the previous year.

How should you complete the calculation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Question # 8

You have a report page that contains the visuals 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.

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Question # 9

You are building a Power Bl report that uses data from an Azure SQL database named erp1.

You Import the following tables.

You need to perform the following analyses:

• Orders sold over time that include a measure of the total order value

• Orders by attributes of products sold

The solution must minimize update times when interacting with visuals in the report. What should you do first?

A.

From Power Query, merge the Orders query and the Order Line Hems query.

B.

Calculate the count of orders per product by using a DAX function.

C.

Create a calculated column that adds a list of product categories to the Orders table by using a DAX function.

D.

From Power Query, merge the Order Line Items query and the Products query.

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Question # 10

You are creating a quick measure as shown in the following exhibit.

You need to create a monthly rolling average measure for Sales over time-How should you configure the quick measure calculation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Question # 11

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 five reports and two dashboards in a workspace.

You need to grant all organizational users read access to one dashboard and three reports

Solution: In Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra. you create a group that contains all the users. You share each selected report and the one dashboard to the group.

Does this meet the goal?

A.

Yes

B.

No

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Question # 12

You are creating a Microsoft Power Bl model that has two tables named CityData and Sales. CityData contains only the data shown in the following table.

Sales contains only the data shown in the following table.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Question # 13

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 are modeling data by using Microsoft Power Bl. 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 write a DAX expression that uses the FILTER function.

Does this meet the goal?

A.

Yes

B.

No

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Question # 14

You need to create a Power Bl theme that will be used in multiple reports. The theme will include corporate branding for font size, color, and bar chart

formatting.

What should you do?

A.

Create a theme as a PBIVIZ file and import the theme into Power Bl Desktop.

B.

Create a theme as a JSON file and import the theme into Power Bl Desktop.

C.

From Power Bl Desktop, use a built-in report theme.

D.

From Power Bl Desktop, customize the current theme.

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Question # 15

You have a PBiX file that imports several tables from an Azure SQL database.

The data will be migrated to another Azure SQL database.

You need to change the connections in the PBIX file. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you do?

A.

From Power Query Editor, modify the source of each query.

B.

Create a PBiT file, open the file, and change the data sources when prompted

C.

From Power Query Editor, create new queries.

D.

Modify the Data source settings.

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Question # 16

You have a power BI tenant that hosts the datasets shown in the following table.

You have the following requirements:

• The export of reports that contain Personally Identifiable Information (Pll) must be prevented.

• Data used for financial decisions must be reviewed and approved before use.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

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Question # 17

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?

A.

Split the visuals onto multiple pages.

B.

Implement row-level security (RLS).

C.

Replace the default visuals with custom visuals.

D.

Increase the number of times that the dataset is refreshed.

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Question # 18

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

What should you create?

A.

an additional date table named ShipDate, a one-to-many relationship from

Sales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id], and a one-to-many relationship from

Sales[sales_ship_date_id] to ShipDate[date_id]

B.

an additional date table named ShipDate, a many-to-many relationship from

Sales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id], and a many-to-many relationship from

Sales[sales_ship_date_id] to ShipDate[date_id]

C.

a one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_date_id] and another one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Weekly_Returns[week_id]

D.

a one-to-many relationship from Sales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id] and a one-to-many

relationship from Sales[sales_ship_date_id] to Date[date_id]

E.

a one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_date_id] and another one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_ship_date_id]

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Question # 19

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?

A.

Use the Auto Date/Time functionality in Microsoft Power BI and do NOT import the Date table.

B.

Duplicate the Date query in Power Query and use active relationships between both Date tables.

C.

On the Date table, use a reference query in Power Query and create active relationships between Sales and both Date tables in the modeling view.

D.

Create an active relationship between Sales and Date for the purchase date and an inactive relationship for the ship date.

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Question # 20

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?

A.

In the Weekly.Returns table, create a new calculated column named date-id in a format of yyyymmdd and use the calculated column to create a relationship to the Date table.

B.

Add the Weekly_Returns data to the Sales table by using related DAX functions.

C.

Create a new table based on the Date table where date-id is unique, and then create a many-to-many relationship to Weekly_Return.

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Question # 21

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.

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Question # 22

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.

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Question # 23

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

A.

import that uses a Microsoft account

B.

DirectQuery that uses the end-user s credentials

C.

DirectQuery that uses a database credential

D.

Import that uses a database credential

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Question # 24

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

What should you include in the solution?

A.

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table where

username = UserName()

B.

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Region_Manager table where

sales_manager_id = UserPrincipalName().

C.

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table where

name = UserName().

D.

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table where

username = sales_manager_id.

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Question # 25

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

A.

FORMAT('Date'[date], "MMM YYYY")

B.

FORMAT('Date' [date], "M YY")

C.

FORMAT('Date'[date_id], "MMM") & "" & FORMAT('Date'[year], "#")

D.

FORMAT('Date' [date_id], "MMM YYYY")

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Question # 26

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

A.

Select Column distribution.

B.

Select the sales_amount column and apply a number filter.

C.

Select Column profile, and then select the sales_amount column.

D.

Transform the sales_amount column to replace negative values with 0.

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Question # 27

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

A.

Change the data type of Sales[region_id] to Whole Number.

B.

In the Sales table, add a measure for sum(sales_amount).

C.

Change the data type of sales[sales_id] to Text.

D.

Change the data type of sales [region_id] to Decimal Number.

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Question # 28

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

A.

a measure that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])

B.

a calculated column that use a formula of COUNTA(sales [sales_id])

C.

a measure that uses a formula of COUNTROWS (Sales)

D.

a calculated column that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])

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Question # 29

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?

A.

Apply row-level security (RLS) to the Region table based on the sales manager username.

B.

Configure a bi-directional relationship between Region and Sales.Region.

C.

Create a DAX calculated column that retrieves the region manager from the Weekly.Returns table based on the sales.regionjd column.

D.

In the Region table, create a hierarchy that has the manager name, and then the sales manager name.

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Question # 30

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

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

A.

From Power Query, use a DAX expression to add columns to the Orders table to calculate the calendar quarter of the OrderDate column, the calendar month of the OrderDate column, the calendar quarter of the ShippedDate column, and the calendar month of the ShippedDate column.

B.

From Power Query, add columns to the Orders table to calculate the calendar quarter and the calendar month of the OrderDate column.

C.

From Power Bl Desktop, use the Auto date/time option when creating the reports.

D.

From Power Query, add a date table. Create an active relationship to the OrderDate column in the Orders table and an inactive relationship to the ShippedDate column in the Orders table.

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Question # 31

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.

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Question # 32

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

A.

DirectQuery

B.

Import

C.

Live connection

D.

Composite

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Question # 33

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

A.

Change lite OrderlD column in the Orders table to the text data type.

B.

Filter out discontinued products while importing the Product table.

C.

Remove the QuantityPerUnit column from the Products table

D.

Group the Categories table by the CategorylD column.

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Question # 34

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.

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Question # 35

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.

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Question # 36

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

A.

CALCULATE (

SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),

DATESQTD( 'Date'[Date] )

)

B.

CALCULATE (

SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),

LASTDATE( 'Date'[Date] )

)

C.

FIRSTNONBLANK ( 'Date' [Date]

SUM( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] )

)

D.

CALCULATE (

MAX( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] ),

LASTDATE( 'Date' [Date] )

)

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Question # 37

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

What should you do?

A.

From each report in powerbi.com. select Refresh visuals

B.

From Power Bl Desktop, download the PBIX file and refresh the data.

C.

Configure a scheduled refresh without using an on-premises data gateway.

D.

Configure a scheduled refresh by using an on-premises data gateway

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Question # 38

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?

A.

One to one

B.

Many to one

C.

One to many

D.

Many to many

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Question # 39

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.

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Question # 40

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

A.

two imported datasets

B.

a single DirectQuery dataset

C.

two DirectQuery datasets

D.

a single imported dataset

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Question # 41

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.

A.

a line chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.

B.

a clustered column chart that shows balances by date (x-axis) and account category (legend) without

filters.

C.

a clustered column chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.

D.

a pie chart that shows balances by account category without filters.

E.

a ribbon chart that shows balances by quarter and accounts in the legend.

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Question # 42

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?

A.

Create a shared dataset for each standardized entity.

B.

Create dataflows for the standardized data and make the dataflows available for use in all imported datasets.

C.

For every report, create and use a single shared dataset that contains the standardized data.

D.

For the three entities, create exports of the data from the Power Bl model to Excel and store the data in Microsoft OneDrive for others to use as a source.

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Question # 43

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.

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Question # 44

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.

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Question # 45

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.

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Question # 46

You have a Power 31 data model that contains a table named Stores. The table has the following columns:

* Store Name

* Open Date

* Status

* State

* City

You need to create a calculated column named Active Store Name that meets the following requirements:

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Question # 47

You are using the key influencers visual to identify which factors affect the quantity of items sold in an order.

You add the following fields to the Explain By field:

* Customer Country

* Product Category

* Supplier Country

* Sales Employee

* Supplier Name

* Product Name

* Customer City

The key influencers visual returns the results shown in the following exhibit.

What can you identify from the visual?

A.

Customers in Austria order 18.8 more units than the average order quantity.

B.

Customers in Boise order 20.37 percent more than the average order quantity.

C.

Product Category positively influences the quantity per order.

D.

Customers in Cork order lower quantities than average.

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