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Question 1

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?

Options:

Create a shared dataset for each standardized entity.

Create dataflows for the standardized data and make the dataflows available for use in all imported datasets.

For every report, create and use a single shared dataset that contains the standardized data.

For the three entities, create exports of the data from the Power Bl model to Excel and store the data in Microsoft OneDrive for others to use as a source.

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Question 2

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.

Options:

a line chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.

a clustered column chart that shows balances by date (x-axis) and account category (legend) withoutfilters.

a clustered column chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.

a pie chart that shows balances by account category without filters.

a ribbon chart that shows balances by quarter and accounts in the legend.

Question 3

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

Options:

two imported datasets

a single DirectQuery dataset

two DirectQuery datasets

a single imported dataset

Question 4

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.

Options:

Question 5

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.

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Question 6

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.

Options:

Question 7

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

Options:

CALCULATE (SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),DATESQTD( 'Date'[Date] ))

CALCULATE (SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),LASTDATE( 'Date'[Date] ))

FIRSTNONBLANK ( 'Date' [Date]SUM( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] ))

CALCULATE (MAX( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] ),LASTDATE( 'Date' [Date] ))

Question 8

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.

Options:

Question 9

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

What should you do?

Options:

From each report in powerbi.com. select Refresh visuals

From Power Bl Desktop, download the PBIX file and refresh the data.

Configure a scheduled refresh without using an on-premises data gateway.

Configure a scheduled refresh by using an on-premises data gateway

Question 10

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?

Options:

One to one

Many to one

One to many

Many to many

Question 11

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.

Options:

Question 12

You have a dataset that contains revenue data from the past year.

You need to use anomaly detection in Power Bl to show anomalies in the dataset.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Question 13

You are using the key influencers visual to identify which factors affect the quantity of items sold in an order.

You add the following fields to the Explain By field:

* Customer Country

* Product Category

* Supplier Country

* Sales Employee

* Supplier Name

* Product Name

* Customer City

The key influencers visual returns the results shown in the following exhibit.

What can you identify from the visual?

Options:

Customers in Austria order 18.8 more units than the average order quantity.

Customers in Boise order 20.37 percent more than the average order quantity.

Product Category positively influences the quantity per order.

Customers in Cork order lower quantities than average.

Question 14

You hove a folder that contains 50 JSON files.

You need to use Power 81 Desktop to make the metadata ol the files available as a single semantic model. The solution must NOT store the data of the JSON files.

Which type of data source should you use. and which transformation should you perform? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Question 15

You have a Power B1 report that contains a bar chart. The bar chart displays sales by country. You need to ensure that a summary of the data shown on the bar chart is accessible by using a screen reader. What should you configure on the bar chart?

Options:

the tab order

alt text

conditional formatting

the layer order

Question 16

You create a Power B1 report named RPT1 that contains sales data. The data contains 10 million rows. RPT1 contains 15 different visuals.

Users state that RPT1 is slow to load.

You need to investigate the cause of the issue.

What should you use?

Options:

Power Query Editor

Performance analyzer

Query Diagnostics

DAX query view

Question 17

You have the data lineage 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.

Options:

Question 18

You have the Power BI data model shown in the following exhibit.

Select the appropriate yes or no.

Options:

Question 19

You have a CSV file that contains user complaints. The file contains a column named Logged. Logged contains the date and time each compliant occurred. The data in Logged is in the fol-lowing format: 2018-12-31 at 08:59. You need to be able to analyze the complaints by the logged date and use a built-in date hierarchy. What should you do?

Options:

Create a column by example that starts with 2018-12-31.

Apply a transformation to extract the last 11 characters of the Logged column and set the data type of the new column to Date.

Apply a transformation to extract the first 11 characters of the Logged column.

split the Logged column by using at as the delimiter.

Question 20

You have a Power Bl visual that uses indicators to show values that are out of range as shown in the following exhibit.

Options:

Question 21

What is the minimum number of Power BI datasets needed to support the reports?

Options:

a single imported dataset

two imported datasets

two DirectQuery datasets

a single DirectQuery dataset

Question 22

You have a Power BI dashboard that displays different visualizations of company sales.

You enable Q&A on the dashboard.

You need to provide users with sample questions that they can ask when using Q&A.

Which settings should you modify from the Power BI Settings?

Options:

Subscriptions

Dashboards

Datasets

Workbooks

Question 23

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 Power BI report that imports a date table and a sales table from an Azure SQL database data source. The sales table has the following date foreign keys:

• Due Date

• Order Date

• Delivery Date

You need to support the analysis of sales over time based on all three dates at the same time.

Solution; You create measures that use the uSEREIATIOHSHIP DAX function to filter sales on the inactive relationships between the sales table and the date table.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 24

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?

Options:

Use the Auto Date/Time functionality in Microsoft Power BI and do NOT import the Date table.

Duplicate the Date query in Power Query and use active relationships between both Date tables.

On the Date table, use a reference query in Power Query and create active relationships between Sales and both Date tables in the modeling view.

Create an active relationship between Sales and Date for the purchase date and an inactive relationship for the ship date.

Question 25

In Power BI Desktop, you are creating a report that will contain three pages.

You need to create a custom tooltip page and prepare the page for use.

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

Options:

Configure filters on the target visual.

For the target page, set Allow use as tooltip to On.

Add and configure visuals on the tooltip page.

For the tooltip page, set Allow use as tooltip to On.

For the tooltip page, configure filters.

Question 26

Adding an index key and normalizing casing in the data source would help resolve issues with undefined values and errors in a case-sensitive column. The index key can provide a unique identifier, and normalizing casing ensures consistency in the data, which would likely prevent the errors you encountered in the Power BI semantic model.

You have a Power BI data model that imports a date table and a sales table from an Azure SQL database data source. The sales table has the following date foreign keys.

•Due Date

•Order Date

•Delivery Date

You need to support the analysis of sales over time based on all three dates at the same time.

Solution: For each date foreign key, you add inactive relationships between the sales table and the date table.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 27

In Power BI Desktop, you have a dataset that contains a table.

You create a table visual on a Power BI report page as shown in the following exhibit

You need to configure the visual to display the referenced image instead of the URL in the Plant Image column.

What should you do?

Options:

Set the Data category of the Plant Image field to Image URL

Set the Data type of the Plant Image field to Binary.

Set the Data category of the Plant Image field to Web URL.

From the Formatting tab. select Values, and then set URL icons to On for the table.

Question 28

You are developing a report page. Some users will navigate the report by using a keyboard, and some users will consume the report by using a screen reader. You need to ensure that the users can consume the content on a report page in a logical order. What should you configure in Microsoft Power Bl Desktop?

Options:

the bookmark order

the layer order

the tab order

the X position

Question 29

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 five reports and two dashboards in a workspace.

You need to grant all organizational users read access to one dashboard and three reports

Solution: In Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra. you create a group that contains all the users. You share each selected report and the one dashboard to the group.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 30

You need to use Power B1 to create a visual that will allow users to compare the sales performance of five sales regions for the current month.

Which visual should you use?

Options:

a stacked bar chart

a 100% stacked bar chart

a waterfall chart

a line chart

Question 31

You plan to use Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server to create a report. The report will be published to Power BI Report Server.

You need to ensure that all the visualization in the report can be consumed by users.

Which two types of visualizations should you exclude from the report? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Funnel charts

Custom visuals

Bubble maps

Breadcrumbs

R visuals

Question 32

A manager can represent only a single country.

You need to use row-level security (RLS) to meet the following requirements:

The managers must only see the data of their respective country.

The number of RLS roles must be minimized.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Create a single role that filters Country[Manager_Email] by using the USERNAME DAX function.

Create a single role that filters Country[Manager_Email] by using the USEROBJECTID DAX function.

For the relationship between Purchase Detail and Purchase, select Apply security filter in both directions.

Create one role for each country.

For the relationship between Purchase and Purchase Detail, change the Cross filter direction to Single.

Question 33

From Power Query Editor, you attempt to execute a query and receive the following error message.

Datasource.Error: could not find file.

What are two possible causes of the error? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

The file is locked

An incorrect privacy level was used for the data source.

The referenced file was moved to a new location

You do not have permissions to the file.

Question 34

You have a Power Bl report that contains a page. The page contains the following:

• A shape named Shape 1

• A card named Sales Summary

• A clustered bar chart named Sales by Region

You need to ensure that Sales Summary renders on top of Shape 1. What should you modify?

Options:

Tab order in the Selection pane

Layer order in the Selection pane

Maintain layer order in the General visual settings

Vertical alignment in the Canvas settings

Question 35

You have a Power BI report named Report' and a dashboard named Dashboard'. Report1 contains a line chart named Sales by month.

You pin the Sales by month visual to Dashboard1.

In Report1, you change the Sales by month visual to a bar chart.

You need to ensure that the bar chart displays on Dashboard',

What should you do?

Options:

Refresh the dataset used by Report1 and Dashboard1.

Select Refresh visuals for Dashboard1.

Edit the details for the dashboard tile Of Dashboar1.

Pin the Sales by month bar chart to Dashboard1.

Question 36

You need to create the semantic model.

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

Options:

live connection

Dual

Import

DirectQuery

Question 37

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.

Options:

Question 38

You need to create the dataset. Which dataset mode should you use?

Options:

DirectQuery

Import

Live connection

Composite

Question 39

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

Options:

Change lite OrderlD column in the Orders table to the text data type.

Filter out discontinued products while importing the Product table.

Remove the QuantityPerUnit column from the Products table

Group the Categories table by the CategorylD column.

Question 40

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.

Options:

Question 41

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.

Options:

Answer:

Explanation:

Box 1: CALCULATE

CALCULATE evaluates an expression in a modified filter context.

Syntax: CALCULATE([, [, [, …]]])

Expression - The expression to be evaluated.

filter1, filter2,… (Optional) Boolean expressions or table expressions that defines filters, or filter modifier functions.

Box 2: FILTER

FILTER returns a table that represents a subset of another table or expression.

Syntax: FILTER(

Table- The table to be filtered. The table can also be an expression that results in a table.

Filter - A Boolean expression that is to be evaluated for each row of the table. For example, [Amount] > 0 or [Region] = "France"

Box 3: Orders[ShippedDate]> Orders[RequiredDate]

Northwind Traders defines late orders as those shipped after the required shipping date.

[Reference:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/calculate-function-dax, , https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/filter-function-dax, , , ]

Question 42

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?

Options:

bar chart

scatterplot

pie chart

Question 43

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.

Options:

Question 44

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

Options:

Add the sales department as a member of the reports workspace

Add the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department as an Admin of the reports workspace.

Distribute an app to the users in the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department.

Share each report to the Azure Active Directory group of the sales department.

Question 45

You need to minimize the size of the semantic model. The solution must meet the report requirements.

What should you do?

Options:

Filter out discontinued products while importing the Products table.

Group the Categories table by the CategorylD column.

Change the OrderlD column in the Orders table to the Text data type.

Remove the QuantityPerUnit column from the Products table.

Question 46

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

What should you do in Power BI Desktop?

Options:

From Power Query, use a DAX expression to add columns to the Orders table to calculate the calendar quarter of the OrderDate column, the calendar month of the OrderDate column, the calendar quarter of the ShippedDate column, and the calendar month of the ShippedDate column.

From Power Query, add columns to the Orders table to calculate the calendar quarter and the calendar month of the OrderDate column.

From Power Bl Desktop, use the Auto date/time option when creating the reports.

From Power Query, add a date table. Create an active relationship to the OrderDate column in the Orders table and an inactive relationship to the ShippedDate column in the Orders table.

Question 47

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.

Options:

Question 48

You need to create a solution to meet the notification requirements of the warehouse shipping department.

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

NOTE: Each correct select is worth one point:

Options:

Question 49

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?

Options:

Merge queries

Append queries

Combine files

Question 50

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?

Options:

Apply row-level security (RLS) to the Region table based on the sales manager username.

Configure a bi-directional relationship between Region and Sales.Region.

Create a DAX calculated column that retrieves the region manager from the Weekly.Returns table based on the sales.regionjd column.

In the Region table, create a hierarchy that has the manager name, and then the sales manager name.

Question 51

You publish the dataset 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.

Options:

Question 52

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

Options:

a measure that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])

a calculated column that use a formula of COUNTA(sales [sales_id])

a measure that uses a formula of COUNTROWS (Sales)

a calculated column that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])

Question 53

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.

Options:

Question 54

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

Options:

Select Column distribution.

Select the sales_amount column and apply a number filter.

Select Column profile, and then select the sales_amount column.

Transform the sales_amount column to replace negative values with 0.

Question 55

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?

Options:

In the Weekly.Returns table, create a new calculated column named date-id in a format of yyyymmdd and use the calculated column to create a relationship to the Date table.

Add the Weekly_Returns data to the Sales table by using related DAX functions.

Create a new table based on the Date table where date-id is unique, and then create a many-to-many relationship to Weekly_Return.

Question 56

You need to create relationships to meet the reporting requirements of the customer service department.

What should you create?

Options:

an additional date table named ShipDate, a one-to-many relationship fromSales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id], and a one-to-many relationship fromSales[sales_ship_date_id] to ShipDate[date_id]

an additional date table named ShipDate, a many-to-many relationship fromSales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id], and a many-to-many relationship fromSales[sales_ship_date_id] to ShipDate[date_id]

a one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_date_id] and another one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Weekly_Returns[week_id]

a one-to-many relationship from Sales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id] and a one-to-manyrelationship from Sales[sales_ship_date_id] to Date[date_id]

a one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_date_id] and another one-to-many relationship from Date[date_id] to Sales[sales_ship_date_id]

Question 57

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.

Options:

Question 58

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

Options:

FORMAT('Date'[date], "MMM YYYY")

FORMAT('Date' [date], "M YY")

FORMAT('Date'[date_id], "MMM") & "" & FORMAT('Date'[year], "#")

FORMAT('Date' [date_id], "MMM YYYY")

Question 59

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

What should you include in the solution?

Options:

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table whereusername = UserName()

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Region_Manager table wheresales_manager_id = UserPrincipalName().

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table wherename = UserName().

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table whereusername = sales_manager_id.

Question 60

You need to create the required relationship for the executive's visual. What should you do before you can create the relationship?

Options:

Change the data type of Sales[region_id] to Whole Number.

In the Sales table, add a measure for sum(sales_amount).

Change the data type of sales[sales_id] to Text.

Change the data type of sales [region_id] to Decimal Number.

Question 61

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

Options:

import that uses a Microsoft account

DirectQuery that uses the end-user s credentials

DirectQuery that uses a database credential

Import that uses a database credential

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Vendor: Microsoft

Certification: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate

Exam Code: PL-300

Exam Name: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst

Last Update: Oct 14, 2025

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