PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Questions and Answers

You need to create the semantic model.

Which storage mode should you use for the tables in the semantic model?

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

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 the size of the semantic model. The solution must meet the report 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 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 are creating a line chart in a Power Bl report as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.

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 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?

You are creating reports in Power BI Desktop. The model has the following tables.

There is a relationship between the tables.

You plan to publish a report to the Power BI service that displays Order_amount by Order_date by Full_name.

You need to ensure that only the columns required for the report appear in Report View. The solution must minimize the size of the dataset that is published.

How should you configure the columns in Power BI Desktop? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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 have two tables named Customers and Invoice in a Power BI model. The Customers table contains the following fields:

CustomerID

Customer City

Customer State

Customer Name

Customer Address 1

Customer Address 2

Customer Postal Code

The Invoice table contains the following fields:

Order ID

Invoice ID

Invoice Date

Customer ID

Total Amount

Total Item Count

The Customers table is related to the Invoice table through the Customer ID columns. A customer can have many invoices within one month.

The Power BI model must provide the following information:

The number of customers invoiced in each state last month

The average invoice amount per customer in each postal code

You need to define the relationship from the Customers table to the Invoice table. The solution must optimize query performance.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You import two Microsoft Excel tables named Customer and Address into Power Query Customer contains the following columns:

• Customer ID

• Customer Name

• Phone

• Email Address

• Address ID

Address contains the following columns:

• Address ID

• Address Line 1

• Address Line 2

• City

• State/Region

• Country

• Postal Code

Each Customer ID represents a unique customer m the Customer table. Each Address ID represents a unique address m the Address table. You need to create a query that has one row per customer. Each row must contain City. State/Region, and Country for each customer. What should you do?

You have a dataset named Pens that contains the following columns:

Item

Unit Price

Quantity Ordered

You need to create a visualization that shows the relationship between Unit Price and Quantity Ordered. The solution must highlight orders that have a similar unit price and ordered quantity.

Which type of visualization and which feature should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You create a parameter named DataSourceExcel that holds the file name and location of a Microsoft Excel data source.

You need to update the query to reference the parameter instead of multiple hard-coded copies of the location within each query definition.

Solution: You add a Power Apps custom visual to the report.

Does this meet the goal?

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 use Power Query Editor to ingest data into Power Bl Desktop.

The total dataset contains 250,000 rows. All the rows match the format of the data as shown in the following exhibit.

You need to optimize the data model size of the table.

Which type of data should you use for the Value column and the Datetime column? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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?

You are creating a Power Bi model and report.

You have a single table in a data mode) named Product Product contains the following fields:

• ID

• Name

• Color

• Category

• Total Sales

You need to create a calculated table that shows only the top eight products based on the highest value in Total Sales.

How should you complete the DAX expression? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the coned 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.

For the sales department at your company, you publish a Power Bl report that imports data from a Microsoft Excel We located in a Microsoft SharePoint folder The data model contains several measures You need to create a Power Bl report from the existing data. The solution must minimize development effort. Which type ol data source should you use?

You have a query named Customer that imports CSV files from a data lake. The query contains 500 rows as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

Each file contains deltas of any new or modified rows from each load to the data lake. Multiple files can have the same customer ID.

You need to keep only the last modified row for each customer ID.

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 four sales regions. Each region has multiple sales managers.

You implement row-level security (RLS) in a data model. You assign the relevant distribution lists to each role.

You have sales reports that enable analysis by region. The sales managers can view the sales records of their region. The sales managers are prevented from viewing records from other regions.

A sales manager changes to a different region.

You need to ensure that the sales manager can see the correct sales data.

What should you do?

In Power BI Desktop, you are building a sales report that contains two tables. Both tables have row-level security (RLS) configured.

You need to create a relationship between the tables. The solution must ensure that bidirectional cross-filtering honors the RLS settings.

What should you do?

You have a Power Bi data model that imports data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You use Power Query to load a query that contains both renamed and custom columns. Later you attempt to reload the query and receive the following error message

Expression.Error; The column 'Category’ of the table wasn’t found.

What are two possible causes of the error? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have two CSV files named Products and Categories.

The Products file contains the following columns:

ProductID

ProductName

SupplierID

CategoryID

The Categories file contains the following columns:

CategoryID

CategoryName

CategoryDescription

From Power BI Desktop, you import the files into Power Query Editor.

You need to create a Power BI dataset that will contain a single table named Product. The Product will table includes the following columns:

ProductID

ProductName

SupplierID

CategoryID

CategoryName

CategoryDescription

How should you combine the queries, and what should you do on the Categories query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a Microsoft Excel workbook that is saved to Microsoft SharePoint Online. The workbook contains several Power View sheets.

You need to recreate the Power View sheets as reports in the Power Bl service.

Solution: From the Power Bl service, get the data from SharePoint Online, and then click Connect

Does this meet the goal?

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

You need to make the visual more accessible to users who have color vision deficiency.

What should you do?

You have a Microsoft Exert spreadsheet named Excel1 that contains survey results.

You have a Power Bl dashboard named DashboardA that has Q&A enabled.

You need to ensure that users who can access DashboardA can ask Questions based on the contents of Excel 1 and pm visuals based on their queries to DashboardA. The solution must minimize development time.

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.

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.

Vou have a Microsoft Power Bl Desktop report named Report! that uses an Azure SQL database as a data source. A user named User1 plans to create a report by using the same data source as Report1.

You need to simplify the connection to the data source for User1.

Which type of file should you create?

You have a Power BI report that contains four pages.

All the pages contain a slicer for a field named Country,

You need to ensure that when a user selects a county on page l, the selection is retained on page 2 and page 3. The solution must prevent page 4 from being affected by

selections on the other pages,

What should you do?

You have a semantic model that contains a table named Employees. The table contains the following columns:

• Employee ID

• First Name

• Last Name

• Department

• Salary

Each employee is uniquely identified by using Employee ID.

You need to create a DAX measure that will calculate the average salary of all the employees in the sales department.

Which DAX expression should you use?

You have a Power B1 data model that contains two tables named Products and Sales.

A one-to-many relationship exists between the tables.

You have a report that contains a report-level filter for Products.

You need to create a measure that will return the percent of total sales for each product. The measure must respect the report-level filter when calculating the total.

How should you complete the DAX measure? To answer drag the appropriate DAX functions to the correct targets- Each function may be used once, more than once, or not at all the spirt bar between panes or scroll to view content

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

Your company has affiliates who help the company acquire customers.

You build a report for the affiliate managers at the company to assist them in understanding affiliate performance.

The managers request a visual showing the total sales value of the latest 50 transactions for each affiliate. You have a data model that contains the following tables.

You need to develop a measure to support the visual.

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.