PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

You need to provide a solution to provide the sales managers with the required access.

What should you include in the solution?

You merge data from Sales.Region, Region_Manager, Sales_Manager, and Manager into a single table named Region. What should you do next to meet the reporting requirements of the executives?

You need to address the data concerns before creating the data model. What should you do in Power Query Editor?

You publish the semantic model to powerbi.com.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a relationship between the Weekly_Returns table and the Date table to meet the reporting requirements of the regional managers. What should you do?

You need to create a DAX measure in the data model that only allows users to see projections at the appropriate levels of granularity.

How should you complete the measure? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct targets. Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create the relationship between the product list and the revenue results. The solution must minimize the time it takes to render visuals.

What should you set as the relationship cardinality?

Once the profit and loss dataset is created, which four actions should you perform in sequence to ensure that the business unit analysts see the appropriate profit and loss data? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

You need to grant access to the business unit analysts.

What should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Which DAX expression should you use to get the ending balances in the balance sheet reports?

How should you distribute the reports to the board? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

What is the minimum number of datasets and storage modes required to support the reports?

You need to calculate the last day of the month in the balance sheet data to ensure that you can relate the balance sheet data to the Date table. Which type of calculation and which formula should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Which two types of visualizations can be used in the balance sheet reports to meet the reporting goals? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to ensure that the data is updated to meet the report requirements. The solution must minimize configuration effort.

What should you do?

You need to recommend a strategy to consistently define the business unit, department, and product category data and make the data usable across reports.

What should you recommend?

You need to get data from the Microsoft SQL Server tables. What should you use to configure the connection'

What should you create to meet the reporting requirements of the sales department?

You need to create a calculated column to display the month based on the reporting requirements. Which DAX expression should you use?

You need to create a visualization to meet the reporting requirements of the sales managers.

How should you create the visualization? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create the Top Customers report.

Which type of filter should you use, and at which level should you apply the filter? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create the On-Time Shipping report. The report must include a visualization that shows the percentage of late orders.

Which type of visualization should you create?

You use Power Query to import two tables named Order Header and Order Details from an Azure SQL database. The Order Header table relates to the Order Details table by using a column named Order ID in each table.

You need to combine the tables into a single query that contains the unique columns of each table.

What should you select in Power Query Editor?

You need to design the data model and the relationships for the Customer Details worksheet and the Orders table by using Power BI. The solution must meet the report requirements.

For each of the following statement, select Yes if the statement is true, Otherwise, select No.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a relationship in the dataset for RLS.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to configure access for the sales department users. The solution must me meet the security requirements. What should you do?

You need to design the data model to meet the report requirements.

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

You need to create a measure that will return the percentage of late orders.

How should you complete the DAX expression? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a relationship in the data model for RLS.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to minimize me size of the dataset. The solution must meet the report requirements What should you do?

You need to create the Top Customers report.

Which type of filter should you use, and at which level should you apply the filter? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE; Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Power B1 semantic model named Model 1 that runs in import storage node.

You need to reduce the size of Model.

Which two action should you perform? Each connect answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You are creating a Power BI report to analyze consumer purchasing patterns from a table named Transactions. The Transactions table contains a numeric field named Spend. You need to include a visual that identifies which fields have the greatest impact on Spend. Which type of visual should you use?

You have two Power Bl workspaces named WorkspaceA and Workspaces. WorkspaceA contains two datasets named Sales and HR.

You need to provide a user named User1 with access to the workspaces. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Create reports that use the HR dataset.

• Publish the reports to WorkspaceB.

• Prevent the ability to modify the HR dataset.

• Prevent the ability to add users to WorkspaceB.

You plan to create a Power Bl dataset to analyze attendance at a school. Data will come from two separate views named View1 and View? in an Azure SQL database. View1 contains the columns shown in the following table.

View2 contains the columns shown in the following table.

The views can be related based on the Class ID column.

Class ID is the unique identifier for the specified class, period, teacher, and school year. For example, the same class can be taught by the same teacher during two different periods, but the class will have a different class ID.

You need to design a star schema data model by using the data in both views. The solution must facilitate the following analysis:

The count of classes that occur by period

The count of students in attendance by period by day

The average number of students attending a class each month

In which table should you include the Teacher First Name and Period Number fields? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a BI dataset and a connected report.

You need to ensure that users can analyze data in Microsoft Excel by connecting directly to the dataset.

You grant the users the Build permission for dataset

What Should do next?

You are creating an analytics report that will consume data from the tables shown in the following table.

There is a relationship between the tables.

There are no reporting requirements on employeejd and employee_photo.

You need to optimize the data model

What should you configure for employeejd and employee.photo? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

A business intelligence (Bl) developer creates a dataflow in Power Bl that uses DirectQuery to access tables from an on premises Microsoft SQL server. The Enhanced Dataflows Compute Engine is turned on for the dataflow.

You need to use the dataflow in a report. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Minimize online processing operations.

• Minimize calculation times and render times for visuals.

• include data from the current year, up to and including the previous day.

What should you do?

You have a Power BI tenant.

You have reports that use financial datasets and are exported as PDF files.

You need to ensure that the reports are encrypted.

What should you implement?

You create a Power Bl dataset that contains the table shown in the following exhibit.

You need to make the table available as an organizational data type In Microsoft Excel.

How should you configure the properties of the table? To answer select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to create a Power Bl theme that will be used in multiple reports. The theme will include corporate branding for font size, color, and bar chart

formatting.

What should you do?

You have sales data in a star schema that contains four tables named Sales, Customer, Date, and Product. The Sales table contains purchase and ship dates.

Most often, you will use the purchase date to analyze the data, but you will analyze the data by both dates independently and together.

You need to design an imported dataset to support the analysis. The solution must minimize the model size and the number of queries against the data source.

Which data modeling design should you use?

You have a Microsoft Excel workbook that contains two tables.

From Power BI, you create a dashboard that displays data from the tables.

You update the tables each day.

You need to ensure that the virtualizations in the dashboard are updated daily.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

The data model must support the following analysis:

Total sales by product by month in which the order was placed

Quantities sold by product by day on which the order was placed

Number Of sales transactions by quarter in Which the order was placed

For each Of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select NO.

You have a Microsoft Excel file in a Microsoft OneDrive folder.

The file must be imported to a Power Bi dataset

You need to ensure that the dataset can be refreshed in powefbi.com.

Which two connectors can you use to connect to the file? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Exhibit:

You need to create a report that meets the requirements:

• Visualizes the Sales value over a period of years and months

• Adds a Slicer for the month

• Adds a Slicer for the year

Which three actions Should you perform in sequence?

You are building a financial report by using Power BI.

You have a table named financials that contains a column named Date and a column named Sales.

You need to create a measure that calculates the relative change in sales as compared to the previous quarter.

How should you complete the measure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A user creates a Power B1 report named ReportA that uses a custom theme

You create a dashboard named DashboardA.

You need to ensure that DashboardA uses the custom theme. The solution must minimize development effort.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Power B1 report that contains the visuals shown in the following table.

You need to modify the location of each visual.

What should you modify for each visual?

You have a Microsoft Power Bl dashboard. The report used to create the dashboard uses an imported dataset from a Microsoft SQL Server data source. The dashboard is shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

What occurred at 12:03:06 PM?

You are creating a report in Power BI Desktop.

You load a data extract that includes a free text field named coll.

You need to analyze the frequency distribution of the string lengths in col1. The solution must not affect the size of the model.

What should you do?

You have multiple dashboards.

You need to ensure that when users browse the available dashboards from powerbi.com, they can see which dashboards contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The solution must minimize configuration effort and impact on the dashboard design.

What should you use?

You have two Azure SQL databases that contain the same tables and columns.

For each database, you create a query that retrieves data from a table named Customers.

You need to combine the Customer tables into a single table. The solution must minimize the size of the data model and support scheduled refresh in powerbi.com.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Power BI workspace that contains a single report named Sales.

You need to add all the visuals from Sales to a dashboard. The solution must ensure that additional visual added to the page area added automatically to the dashboard.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

You have a Power Bl report that contains the table shown in the following exhibit.

The table contains conditional formatting that shows which stores are above, near, or below the monthly quota for returns. You need to ensure that the table is accessible to consumers of reports who have color vision deficiency. What should you do?

You have the CSV file shown in the following table.

You use Power Query Editor to preview the data in the file.

You need to transform the data to meet the following requirements:

• The first column must contain the month.

• The second column must contain the year.

• The third column must contain the order amount for the month and year.

Which transformation should you use first?

You have the visual shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

You need to show the relationship between Total Cost and Total Sales over time.

What should you do?

From Power BI Desktop, you publish a new dataset and report lo a Power Bl workspace. The dataset has a row-level security (RLS) role named HR. You need to ensure that the HR team members have RLS applied when they view reports based on the dataset. What should you do?

You need to create a Power BI theme that will be used in multiple reports. The theme will include corporate branding for font size, color, and bar chart formatting.

What should you do?

You plan to develop a Power BI report that has a bar chart to display the number of customers by location. You have a table named Customer that has the following columns:

• Customer ID

• CustomerName

• Address

• City

• ProvState

• Country

You need to allow users to drill down by location. The report will display the number of each customer by Country, and drill down to ProvState, and then to City. How should you configure the drill down in the bar chart?

Your company has training videos that are published to Microsoft Stream.

You need to surface the videos directly in a Microsoft Power BI dashboard.

Which type of tile should you add?

You are developing a sales report that will have multiple pages. Each page will answer a different business question.

You plan to have a menu page that will show all the business questions.

You need to ensure that users can click each business question and be directed to the page where the

question is answered. The solution must ensure that the menu page will work when deployed to any

workspace.

What should you include on the menu page?

You need to design the data model to meet the report requirements. What should you do m Power Bl Desktop?