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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

Applying natural-language Q&A capability

The Q&A feature of Power BI allows you to use natural language to ask a question of the data and return a visual providing the answer. This can be useful when users are learning about the dataset and can also provide a way for less experienced users to build complex visuals.

Q&A is useful for report designers to explore data, create visuals, and build reports in a quick way using natural language. Even for experienced report designers, Q&A provides a way to start with a basic question and then still have the same visuals that could be created manually with the same fine-tuning adjustments possible on the visual after it's been created by Q&A.

Q&A is also useful for report viewers, allowing them to quickly get to the most important questions they want to ask of the report data. After viewing the Q&A-created visuals, they can easily pin the created visuals to a new or existing (if they have the required...