Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) Practice Exam
Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) Practice Exam
About Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) Exam
The Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) exam has been developed to assess your ability to perform technical tasks including -
- Preparing the data
- Modeling the data
- Visualizing and analyze the data
- Deploying and maintaining assets.
Candidates for the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) exam should be proficient at using Power Query and writing expressions by using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). These professionals know how to assess data quality. Plus, they understand data security, including row-level security and data sensitivity.
Knowledge and Skills Required
Candidates for the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) are required to -
- Deliver actionable insights by working with available data and applying domain expertise
- Provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations
- Enable others to perform self-service analytics
- Deploy and configure solutions for consumption
Roles and Responsibilities
The Power BI data analyst perform the following roles -
- Works closely with business stakeholders to identify business requirements
- Collaborate with enterprise data analysts and data engineers to identify and acquire data
- Transform the data, create data models, visualize data, and share assets by using Power BI.
Course Outline
The Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) Exam covers the following topics as per exam updates as of January 31, 2023-
Domain 1 - Understand and Prepare the data (25–30%)
1.1 Get data from data sources
- Identify and connect to a data source
- Change data source settings, including credentials, privacy levels, and data source locations
- Select a shared dataset, or create a local dataset
- Choose between DirectQuery, Import, and Dual mode
- Change the value in a parameter
1.2 Clean the data
- Evaluate data, including data statistics and column properties
- Resolve inconsistencies, unexpected or null values, and data quality issues
- Resolve data import errors
1.3 Transform and load the data
- Select appropriate column data types
- Create and transform columns
- Transform a query
- Design a star schema that contains facts and dimensions
- Identify when to use reference or duplicate queries and the resulting impact
- Merge and append queries
- Identify and create appropriate keys for relationships
- Configure data loading for queries
Domain 2 - Understand Model the data (25–30%)
2.1 Learn to Design and implement a data model
- Configure table and column properties
- Implement role-playing dimensions
- Define a relationship's cardinality and cross-filter direction
- Create a common date table
- Implement row-level security roles
2.2 Create model calculations by using DAX
- Create single aggregation measures
- Use CALCULATE to manipulate filters
- Implement time intelligence measures
- Identify implicit measures and replace with explicit measures
- Use basic statistical functions
- Create semi-additive measures
- Create a measure by using quick measures
- Create calculated tables
2.3 Optimize model performance
- Improve performance by identifying and removing unnecessary rows and columns
- Identify poorly performing measures, relationships, and visuals by using Performance Analyzer
- Improve performance by choosing optimal data types
- Improve performance by summarizing data
Domain 3 - Understand Visualize and analyze the data (25–30%)
3.1 Learn to Create reports
- Identify and implement appropriate visualizations
- Format and configure visualizations
- Use a custom visual
- Apply and customize a theme
- Configure conditional formatting
- Apply slicing and filtering
- Configure the report page
- Use the Analyze in Excel feature
- Choose when to use a paginated report
3.2 Enhance reports for usability and storytelling
- Configure bookmarks
- Create custom tooltips
- Edit and configure interactions between visuals
- Configure navigation for a report
- Apply sorting
- Configure sync slicers
- Group and layer visuals by using the Selection pane
- Drill down into data using interactive visuals
- Configure export of report content, and perform an export
- Design reports for mobile devices
- Incorporate the Q&A feature in a report
3.3 Identify patterns and trends
- Use the Analyze feature in Power BI
- Use grouping, binning, and clustering
- Use AI visuals
- Use reference lines, error bars, and forecasting
- Detect outliers and anomalies
- Create and share scorecards and metrics
Domain 4 - Deploy and maintain assets (15–20%)
4.1 Create and manage workspaces and assets
- Create and configure a workspace
- Assign workspace roles
- Configure and update a workspace app
- Publish, import, or update assets in a workspace
- Create dashboards
- Choose a distribution method
- Apply sensitivity labels to workspace content
- Configure subscriptions and data alerts
- Promote or certify Power BI content
- Manage global options for files
4.2 Manage datasets
- Identify when a gateway is required
- Configure a dataset scheduled refresh
- Configure row-level security group membership
- Provide access to datasets
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- Practice objective questions with section-wise scores
- In-depth and exhaustive explanation for every question
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What are our Practice Exams?
- Practice exams have been designed by professionals and domain experts that simulate real-time exam scenario.
- Practice exam questions have been created on the basis of content outlined in the official documentation.
- Each set in the practice exam contains unique questions built with the intent to provide real-time experience to the candidates as well as gain more confidence during exam preparation.
- Practice exams help to self-evaluate against the exam content and work towards building strength to clear the exam.
- You can also create your own practice exam based on your choice and preference
