PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Question and Answers

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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

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

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

What should you create?

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

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 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 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?

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

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

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

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 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?

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 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 have two CSV files named Products and Categories.

The Products file contains the following columns:

ProductID

ProductName

SupplierID

CategoryID

The Categories file contains the following columns:

CategoryID

CategoryName

CategoryDescription

From Power BI Desktop, you import the files into Power Query Editor.

You need to create a Power BI dataset that will contain a single table named Product. The Product will table includes the following columns:

ProductID

ProductName

SupplierID

CategoryID

CategoryName

CategoryDescription

How should you combine the queries, and what should you do on the Categories query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection 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 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?

You have a Power B1 semantic model that contains two tables named Dim Location and Fact Deliveries. The relationships between the tables are configured as shown in the following table.

The model contains one measure that has the following formula.

Deliveries = COUNTROWS('fact Deliveries')

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?

In the Power BI service, you create an app workplace that contains several dashboards.

You need to provide a user named user1@contoso.com with the ability to edit and publish dashboards.

What should you do?

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 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?

Each employee has one manager as shown in the ParentEmployeelD column,

All reporting paths lead to the CEO at the top of the organizational hierarchy.

You need to create a calculated column that returns the count of levels from each employee to the CEO.

Which DAX expression should you use?

You have two tables named Customers and Invoice in a Power BI model. The Customers table contains the following fields:

CustomerID

Customer City

Customer State

Customer Name

Customer Address 1

Customer Address 2

Customer Postal Code

The Invoice table contains the following fields:

Order ID

Invoice ID

Invoice Date

Customer ID

Total Amount

Total Item Count

The Customers table is related to the Invoice table through the Customer ID columns. A customer can have many invoices within one month.

The Power BI model must provide the following information:

The number of customers invoiced in each state last month

The average invoice amount per customer in each postal code

You need to define the relationship from the Customers table to the Invoice table. The solution must optimize query performance.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

In Power BI Desktop, you have a dataset that contains a table.

You create a table visual on a Power BI report page as shown in the following exhibit

You need to configure the visual to display the referenced image instead of the URL in the Plant Image column.

What should you do?

You have a Power BI tenant.

You have reports that use financial datasets and are exported as PDF files.

You need to ensure that the reports are encrypted.

What should you implement?

You have a Power B1 report. The report contains a line chart that displays sales data for several regions.

You need to add an element to the report that will enable users to filter the sales data to include only a selected region.

Which two elements achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Microsoft Power BI 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 AppSource 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?

Note: This question is a part of a series of questions that present 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 exactly the same in each question in this series.

Start of repeated scenario

You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that has the tables shown in the Database Diagram exhibit. (Click the Exhibit.)

You plan to develop a Power BI model as shown in the Power BI Model exhibit. (Click the Exhibit).

You plan to use Power BI to import data from 2013 to 2015.

Product Subcategory [Subcategory] contains NULL values.

End of repeated scenario.

You implement the Power BI model.

You need to add a new column to the Product Subcategory table that uses the following formula.

=if [Subcategory] =null then “NA” else [Subcategory]

Which command should you use in Query Editor?

You have two Power Bl workspaces named WorkspaceA and Workspaces. WorkspaceA contains two datasets named Sales and HR.

You need to provide a user named User1 with access to the workspaces. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Create reports that use the HR dataset.

• Publish the reports to WorkspaceB.

• Prevent the ability to modify the HR dataset.

• Prevent the ability to add users to WorkspaceB.

In Power BI Desktop, you are building a sales report that contains two tables. Both tables have row-level security (RLS) configured.

You need to create a relationship between the tables. The solution must ensure that bidirectional cross-filtering honors the RLS settings.

What should you do?

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

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 semantic model.

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

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

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 design the data model to meet the report requirements.

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

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

What should you do?

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 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 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.