DP-500 Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power BI Questions and Answers

Box 1: FLOAT

Identify which customers should receive promotional emails based on their likelihood of purchasing promoted products.

FLOT is used in the last statement of the code: WITH (score FLOAT) as p;

From syntax: MODEL

The MODEL parameter is used to specify the model used for scoring or prediction. The model is specified as a variable or a literal or a scalar expression.

Box 2: dbo.CustomerWithProductScore

Identify which customers should receive promotional emails based on their likelihood of purchasing promoted products.

Only table CustomerWithProductScore has the required filed score.

From the syntax:

DATA

The DATA parameter is used to specify the data used for scoring or prediction. Data is specified in the form of a table source in the query. Table source can be a table, table alias, CTE alias, view, or table-valued function.

Step 1: From powerbi.com, create a new report..

The company wants custom Power BI usage reporting that includes the percent change of users that view reports in the Sales Analytics workspace each month.

Step 2: Add a report measure

Measures are used in some of the most common data analyses. Simple summarizations such as sums, averages, minimum, maximum and counts can be set through the Fields well. The calculated results of measures are always changing in response to your interaction with your reports, allowing for fast and dynamic ad-hoc data exploration.

Step 3: Add visuals to the report

Step 4: Publish the report to the Sales Analytics workspace

Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated

Step 1: Create a parameter that contains the service root URI

Step 2: Get data from OData feed source and use the parameter to populate the first part of the URL.

The URI is in the first part of the query.

Example: let

Source = OData.Feed ("https://analytics.dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_odata/v3.0-preview/WorkItemSnapshot? "

&"$apply=filter( "

&"WorkItemType eq 'Bug' "

&"and StateCategory ne 'Completed' "

&"and startswith(Area/AreaPath,'{areapath}') "

&"and DateValue ge {startdate} "

&") "

&"/groupby( "

&"(DateValue,State,WorkItemType,Priority,Severity,Area/AreaPath,Iteration/IterationPath,AreaSK), "

&"aggregate($count as Count) "

&") "

,null, [Implementation="2.0",OmitValues = ODataOmitValues.Nulls,ODataVersion = 4])

in

Source

Box 3: From Advanced Editor, duplicate the query and change the resource path in the URL.

Choose Get Data, and then Blank Query.

From the Power BI Query editor, choose Advanced Editor.

The Advanced Editor window opens.

Edit the query.

Etc.

A Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool is named SQLDW.

Customer contact data in SQLDW and the Power BI dataset must be labeled as Sensitive. Records must be kept of any users that use the sensitive data.

A (not B): Enable sensitivity labels

Sensitivity labels must be enabled on the tenant before they can be used in both the service and in Desktop.

To enable sensitivity labels on the tenant, go to the Power BI Admin portal, open the Tenant settings pane, and find the Information protection section.

In the Information Protection section, perform the following steps:

• Open Allow users to apply sensitivity labels for Power BI content.

• Enable the toggle.

D (not C): When data protection is enabled on your tenant, sensitivity labels appear in the sensitivity column in the list view of dashboards, reports, datasets, and dataflows.

E: Power BI Tenant Discovery Setting include Make certified content discoverable.

Development Process Requirements

Litware identifies the following development process requirements:

SQLDW and datalake1 will act as the development environment. Once feature development is complete, all entities in synapseworkspace1 will be promoted to a test workspace, and then to a production workspace.

Power BI content must be deployed to test and production by using deployment pipelines.

Create deployment rules

When working in a deployment pipeline, different stages may have different configurations. For example, each stage can have different databases or different query parameters. The development stage might query sample data from the database, while the test and production stages query the entire database.

When you deploy content between pipeline stages, configuring deployment rules enables you to allow changes to content, while keeping some settings intact. For example, if you want a dataset in a production stage to point to a production database, you can define a rule for this. The rule is defined in the production stage, under the appropriate dataset. Once the rule is defined, content deployed from test to production, will inherit the value as defined in the deployment rule, and will always apply as long as the rule is unchanged and valid.

You can configure data source rules and parameter rules.

Incorrect:

Not B: if you already have a steady production environment, you can deploy it backward (to Test or Dev, based on your need) and set up the pipeline. The feature is not limited to any sequential orders.

Allow sales managers to perform ad hoc sales reporting with minimal effort

Power BI report templates contain the following information from the report from which they were generated:

Report pages, visuals, and other visual elements

The data model definition, including the schema, relationships, measures, and other model definition items

All query definitions, such as queries, Query Parameters, and other query elements

What is not included in templates is the report's data.

Report templates use the file extension .PBIT (compare to Power BI Desktop reports, which use the .PBIX extension).

Note: With Power BI Desktop, you can create compelling reports that share insights across your entire organization. With Power BI Desktop templates, you can streamline your work by creating a report template, based on an existing template, which you or other users in your organization can use as a starting point for a new report's layout, data model, and queries. Templates in Power BI Desktop help you jump-start and standardize report creation.

The sales data in SQLDW is updated every 30 minutes. Records in dbo.SalesTransactions are updated in SQLDW up to three days after being created. The records do NOT change after three days.

Refresh data from an on-premises SQL Server database

The SQL Server database must be accessed by Power BI through an on-premises data gateway.

You can install an on-premises data gateway on the same local computer as SQL Server (in production, it would typically be a different computer).

Box 1: PREDICT

Provide internal users with the ability to incorporate machine learning models loaded to the dedicated SQL pool.

The example below shows a sample query using prediction function. An additional column with name Score and data type float is created containing the prediction results. All the input data columns as well as output prediction columns are available to display with the select statement.

-- Query for ML predictions

SELECT d.*, p.Score

FROM PREDICT(MODEL = (SELECT Model FROM Models WHERE Id = 1),

DATA = dbo.mytable AS d, RUNTIME = ONNX) WITH (Score float) AS p;

Box 2: WITH

Step 1: Create row-level security (RLS) roles

Create roles

Note: Provide all the customers with their own Power BI workspace to create their own reports. Each workspace will use the new dataset in the FinData workspace.

Implement subscription levels for the customers. Each subscription level will provide access to specific rows of financial data.

Deploy prebuilt datasets to Power BI to simplify the query experience of the customers.

Step 2: Create a DAX expression

Consider a model with two roles: The first role, named Workers, restricts access to all Payroll table rows by using the following rule expression:

FALSE()

Note: A rule will return no table rows when its expression evaluates to false.

Yet, a second role, named Managers, allows access to all Payroll table rows by using the following rule expression:

TRUE()

Take care: Should a report user map to both roles, they'll see all Payroll table rows.

Step 3: Add members to row-level security (RLS) roles

Configure role mappings

Once [the model is] published to Power BI, you must map members to dataset roles.

Build a new dataset in the FinData workspace by using data from the Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool.

Provide all the customers with their own Power BI workspace to create their own reports. Each workspace will use the new dataset in the FinData workspace

Users indicate that queries against the serverless SQL pool fail occasionally because the size of tempdb has been exceeded.

In the dedicated SQL pool resource, temporary tables offer a performance benefit because their results are written to local rather than remote storage.

Temporary tables in serverless SQL pool.

Temporary tables in serverless SQL pool are supported but their usage is limited. They can't be used in queries which target files.

For example, you can't join a temporary table with data from files in storage. The number of temporary tables is limited to 100, and their total size is limited to 100 MB.

Users indicate that the data in Power BI reports is stale. You discover that the refresh process of the Power BI model occasionally times out.

With Query Diagnostics, you can achieve a better understanding of what Power Query is doing at authoring and at refresh time in Power BI Desktop. While we'll be expanding on this feature in the future, including adding the ability to use it during full refreshes, at this time you can use it to understand what sort of queries you're emitting, what slowdowns you might run into during authoring refresh, and what kind of background events are happening.

Some users indicate that the visuals in Power BI reports are slow to render when making filter selections.

B: You can investigate a slow query in a Power BI report using DAX Studio, looking at the query plan and the server timings.

D: Use Power BI Desktop Performance Analyzer to optimize the report or model.