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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Power BI dashboards. Dashboards provide a way to bring attention to the most important information from multiple reports within a workspace.

We learned the differences between dashboards and reports, how they can be created, how visuals and reports can be pinned, and how users will use dashboards from the Power BI service on the web as well as from mobile devices anywhere. We learned the details of how pinning tiles works, dashboard layouts can be edited, tiles can be resized, and custom dashboard themes can be configured.

When it comes to optimizing dashboards, we learned that dashboards should be optimized for the screen size where they will be consumed, and the Power BI service provides a way to do this to optimize the flow of tiles on dashboards for smaller mobile device screens. We also learned how the performance inspector can help optimize dashboards to ensure the best performance.

In the next chapter, we'll explore ways...