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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

Monitoring workspace usage

Part of managing deployed workspaces includes understanding how the content they contain is used in the organization. Understanding how content such as reports and dashboards are used can help provide feedback on their improvement and the value the organization users get from them. For example, if a set of enterprise reports is created, tested, and deployed to production but never used or usage drops off, then it's possible something is missing; perhaps the analysis is correct but the way the information is presented in the report visuals make it less useful, so users stop using the reports. Knowing how users use reports that have been deployed is a key part of managing Power BI workspaces. Usage metric reports are the way the Power BI service provides insight into how end users interact with your workspace content.

Using usage reports

Usage for reports and dashboards are surfaced with the help of reports that are generated by the Power BI service...