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Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

By : Orrin Edenfield, Edward Corcoran
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Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Orrin Edenfield, Edward Corcoran

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI enables organizations to create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all. This guide to achieving the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification will help you take control of your organization's data and pass the exam with confidence. From getting started with Power BI to connecting to data sources, including files, databases, cloud services, and SaaS providers, to using Power BI’s built-in tools to build data models and produce visualizations, this book will walk you through everything from setup to preparing for the certification exam. Throughout the chapters, you'll get detailed explanations and learn how to analyze your data, prepare it for consumption by business users, and maintain an enterprise environment in a secure and efficient way. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create and maintain robust reports and dashboards, enabling you to manage a data-driven enterprise, and be ready to take the PL-300 exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Preparing the Data
6
Part 2 – Modeling the Data
11
Part 3 – Visualizing the Data
15
Part 4 – Analyzing the Data
18
Part 5 – Deploying and Maintaining Deliverables
21
Part 6 – Practice Exams

Questions

  1. Which technique will increase the performance of data models?
    1. Adding more memory to Power BI Desktop
    2. Changing the data source to Microsoft Excel
    3. Publishing reports to Power BI Premium
    4. Removing unnecessary data from the data model
  2. Aggregating data will do what?
    1. Reduce the number of columns and rows.
    2. Reduce the number of columns only.
    3. Increase the number of rows only.
    4. Both b and c.
  3. Filtering in a Power BI report can be applied to what?
    1. All pages in a report file, a single page, only a visual.
    2. Filtering can only be applied to visuals.
    3. A single page or a visual.
    4. A dashboard, a page, or a visual.
  4. Which tool or capability should be used to determine how much of a query duration uses the formula engine or the storage engine?
    1. Query diagnostics
    2. Query analytics
    3. DAX Studio
    4. Tabular Editor
  5. When using query diagnostics, which kind of diagnostics should be used to analyze multiple steps in a query?
    1. Multiple-step diagnostics
    2. Session diagnostics
    3. Step diagnostics
    4. Model diagnostics
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