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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 managing workspaces in Power BI.

We learned how user roles work in workspaces and how roles provide a way to manage users and groups within a workspace to ensure proper access and permissions are available to users as needed. We also learned how workspaces can have different kinds of licensing that will enable different advanced or enterprise capabilities. We learned that workspaces can be assigned different amounts of resources for hosting in a Premium capacity.

We learned how workspaces can be packaged as a Power BI app, which helps end users find and utilize the content created in reports and dashboards. Apps provide a way to curate content and distribute it among organizational users.

We also learned how software development best practices can be implemented using deployment pipelines. We learned that deployment pipelines use the basic unit of organization provided by workspaces.

Lastly, we discovered how important it is to...