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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

Implementing row-level security

A common security need for customers building reporting solutions with Power BI and needing to simplify the data model is a way to build multitenant data models. This means that data can be stored in a single table but only be viewable by the designated users who should have access to it. This capability is called row-level security.

Row-level security allows filtering to happen at the table level in a data model based on the user accessing the data. For example, an entire table might contain all the sales data for the organization across different regions or countries and some users of the report might only need to access data from their region or country. Without row-level security, we'd have to manually set up different tables for each region or country as well as a combined table with data from all regions for senior leadership. With row-level security, we can define the roles needed and apply a DAX expression to the table that will handle...