[Jul 31, 2022] Fully Updated Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) Certification Sample Questions
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NEW QUESTION 16
You need to create a calculated column to display the month based on the reporting requirements .
Which DAX expression should you use?
- A. FORMAT('Date'[date_id], "MMM") ""& & FORMAT('Date'[2022], "#")
- B. FORMAT('Date' [date_id], "MMM YYYY")
- C. FORMAT('Date' [date], "M YY")
- D. FORMAT('Date'[date], "MMM YYYY")
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 17
You have two CSV files named Products and Categories. The Products file contains the following columns:
* ProductID
* ProduetName
* SupplierID
* CategoryID
The Categories file contains the following columns:
From Power Bl Desktop, you import the files into Power Query Editor.
You need to create a Power Bl dataset that will contain a single table named Product. The Product will table includes the following columns:
Answer:
Explanation:
Answer as selected
NEW QUESTION 18
You have a Power BI report. The report contains visualizations that have interactions. You need to identify which visualizations take the longest to complete. What should you use?
- A. Query Diagnostics in Power BI
- B. SQL Server Profiler
- C. Performance Analyzer in Power BI Desktop
- D. Microsoft Edge DevTools
Answer: C
Explanation:
Use Power BI Desktop Performance Analyzer to optimize reports.
In Power BI Desktop you can find out how each of your report elements, such as visuals and DAX formulas, are performing. Using the Performance Analyzer, you can see and record logs that measure how each of your report elements performs when users interact with them, and which aspects of their performance are most (or least) resource intensive.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-performance-analyzer
NEW QUESTION 19
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.
- A. Folder
- B. Excel Workbook
- C. Text/CSV
- D. Web
- E. SharePoint folder
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 20
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?
- A. decomposition tree
- B. key influences
- C. smart narrative
- D. Q&A
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 21
Which DAX expression should you use to get the ending balances in the balance sheet reports?
- A. CALCULATE (
SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),
DATESQTD( 'Date'[Date] )
) - B. FIRSTNONBLANK ( 'Date' [Date]
SUM( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] )
) - C. CALCULATE (
MAX( BalanceSheet[BalanceAmount] ),
LASTDATE( 'Date' [Date] )
) - D. CALCULATE (
SUM( BalanceSheet [BalanceAmount] ),
LASTDATE( 'Date'[Date] )
)
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Scenario: At least one of the balance sheet reports in the quarterly reporting package must show the ending balances for the quarter, as well as for the previous quarter.
DATESQTD returns a table that contains a column of the dates for the quarter to date, in the current context.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/datesqtd-function-dax
Topic 1, Contoso Ltd, Case Study
Overview
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.
To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.
At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.
To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.
Existing Environment
Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that produces outdoor equipment Contoso has quarterly board meetings for which financial analysts manually prepare Microsoft Excel reports, including profit and loss statements for each of the company's four business units, a company balance sheet, and net income projections for the next quarter.
Data and Sources
Data for the reports comes from three sources. Detailed revenue, cost and expense data comes from an Azure SQL database. Summary balance sheet data comes from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The balance sheet data is not related to the profit and loss results, other than they both relate to dates.
Monthly revenue and expense projections for the next quarter come from a Microsoft SharePoint Online list.
Quarterly projections relate to the profit and loss results by using the following shared dimensions: date, business unit, department, and product category.
Net Income Projection Data
Net income projection data is stored in a SharePoint Online list named Projections in the format shown in the following table.
Revenue projections are set at the monthly level and summed to show projections for the quarter.
Balance Sheet Data
The balance sheet data is imported with final balances for each account per month in the format shown in the following table.
There is always a row for each account for each month in the balance sheet data.
Dynamics 365 Business Central Data
Business Central contains a product catalog that shows how products roll up to product categories, which roll up to business units. Revenue data is provided at the date and product level. Expense data is provided at the date and department level.
Business Issues
Historically, it has taken two analysts a week to prepare the reports for the quarterly board meetings. Also, there is usually at least one issue each quarter where a value in a report is wrong because of a bad cell reference in an Excel formula. On occasion, there are conflicting results in the reports because the products and departments that roll up to each business unit are not defined consistently.
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to automate and standardize the quarterly reporting process by using Microsoft Power Bl. The company wants to how long it takes to populate reports to less than two days. The company wants to create common logic for business units, products, and departments to be used across all reports, including, but not limited, to the quarterly reporting for the board.
Technical Requirements
Contoso wants the reports and datasets refreshed with minimal manual effort The company wants to provide a single package of reports to the board that contains custom navigation and links to supplementary information.
Maintenance, including manually updating data and access, must be minimized as much as possible.
Security Requirements
The reports must be made available to the board from powerbi.com. A mail-enabled security group will be used to share information with the board.
The analysts responsible for each business unit must see all the data the board sees, except the profit and loss data, which must be restricted to only their business unit's data. The analysts must be able to build new reports from the dataset that contains the profit and loss data, but any reports that the analysts build must not be included in the quarterly reports for the board. The analysts must not be able to share the quarterly reports with anyone.
Report Requirements
You plan to relate the balance sheet to a standard date table in Power Bl in a many-to-one relationship based on the last day of the month. At least one of the balance sheet reports in the quarterly reporting package must show the ending balances for the quarter, as well as for the previous quarter.
Projections must contain a column named RevenueProjection that contains the revenue projection amounts. A relationship must be created from Projections to a table named Date that contains the columns shown in the following table.
The relationships between products and departments to business units must be consistent across all reports.
The board must be able to get the following information from the quarterly reports:
* Revenue trends over time
* Ending balances for each account
* A comparison of expenses versus projections by quarter
* Changes in long-term liabilities from the previous quarter
* A comparison of quarterly revenue versus the same quarter during the prior year
NEW QUESTION 22
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: In the Power Query M code, you replace references to the Excel file with DataSourceExcel.
Does this meet the goal?
- A. Yes
- B. No
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Instead modify the source step of the queries to use DataSourceExcel as the file path.
Note: Parameterising a Data Source could be used in many different use cases. From connecting to different data sources defined in Query Parameters to load different combinations of columns.
Reference:
https://www.biinsight.com/power-bi-desktop-query-parameters-part-1/
NEW QUESTION 23
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
NEW QUESTION 24
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?
- A. Yes
- B. No
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 25
You have a CSV file that contains user complaints. The file contains a column named Logged logged contains the date and time each complaint occurred. The data in Logged is m the following 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?
- A. Add a conditional column that outputs 2018 if the Logged column starts with 2018 and set the data type of the new column to Whole Number.
- B. Apply the parse function from the Date transformations options to the Logged column.
- C. Create a column by example that starts with 2018-12-31.
- D. Create a column by example that starts with 2018-12-31 and set the data type of the new column to Date
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 26
DRAG DROP
You are using existing reports to build a dashboard that will be viewed frequently in portrait mode on mobile phones.
You need to build the dashboard.
Which four 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.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION 27
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://powerbidocs.com/2020/01/21/power-bi-top-n-filters/
NEW QUESTION 28
You need to address the data concerns before creating the data model. What should you do in Power Query Editor?
- A. Select Column profile, and then select the sales_amount column.
- B. Select the sales_amount column and apply a number filter.
- C. Transform the sales_amount column to replace negative values with 0.
- D. Select Column distribution.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Topic 2, Contoso Ltd,
Existing Environment
Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that produces outdoor equipment Contoso has quarterly board meetings for which financial analysts manually prepare Microsoft Excel reports, including profit and loss statements for each of the company's four business units, a company balance sheet, and net income projections for the next quarter.
Data and Sources
Data for the reports comes from three sources. Detailed revenue, cost and expense data comes from an Azure SQL database. Summary balance sheet data comes from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The balance sheet data is not related to the profit and loss results, other than they both relate to dates.
Monthly revenue and expense projections for the next quarter come from a Microsoft SharePoint Online list. Quarterly projections relate to the profit and loss results by using the following shared dimensions: date, business unit, department, and product category.
Net Income Projection Data
Net income projection data is stored in a SharePoint Online list named Projections in the format shown in the following table.
Revenue projections are set at the monthly level and summed to show projections for the quarter.
Balance Sheet Data
The balance sheet data is imported with final balances for each account per month in the format shown in the following table.
There is always a row for each account for each month in the balance sheet data.
Dynamics 365 Business Central Data
Business Central contains a product catalog that shows how products roll up to product categories, which roll up to business units. Revenue data is provided at the date and product level. Expense data is provided at the date and department level.
Business Issues
Historically, it has taken two analysts a week to prepare the reports for the quarterly board meetings. Also, there is usually at least one issue each quarter where a value in a report is wrong because of a bad cell reference in an Excel formula. On occasion, there are conflicting results in the reports because the products and departments that roll up to each business unit are not defined consistently.
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to automate and standardize the quarterly reporting process by using Microsoft Power Bl. The company wants to how long it takes to populate reports to less than two days. The company wants to create common logic for business units, products, and departments to be used across all reports, including, but not limited, to the quarterly reporting for the board.
Technical Requirements
Contoso wants the reports and datasets refreshed with minimal manual effort The company wants to provide a single package of reports to the board that contains custom navigation and links to supplementary information.
Maintenance, including manually updating data and access, must be minimized as much as possible.
Security Requirements
The reports must be made available to the board from powerbi.com. A mail-enabled security group will be used to share information with the board.
The analysts responsible for each business unit must see all the data the board sees, except the profit and loss data, which must be restricted to only their business unit's data. The analysts must be able to build new reports from the dataset that contains the profit and loss data, but any reports that the analysts build must not be included in the quarterly reports for the board. The analysts must not be able to share the quarterly reports with anyone.
Report Requirements
You plan to relate the balance sheet to a standard date table in Power Bl in a many-to-one relationship based on the last day of the month. At least one of the balance sheet reports in the quarterly reporting package must show the ending balances for the quarter, as well as for the previous quarter.
Projections must contain a column named RevenueProjection that contains the revenue projection amounts. A relationship must be created from Projections to a table named Date that contains the columns shown in the following table.
The relationships between products and departments to business units must be consistent across all reports.
The board must be able to get the following information from the quarterly reports:
* Revenue trends over time
* Ending balances for each account
* A comparison of expenses versus projections by quarter
* Changes in long-term liabilities from the previous quarter
* A comparison of quarterly revenue versus the same quarter during the prior year
NEW QUESTION 29
You need to get data from the Microsoft SQL Server tables. What should you use to configure the connection'
- A. DirectQuery that uses a database credential
- B. import that uses a Microsoft account
- C. Import that uses a database credential
- D. DirectQuery that uses the end-user s credentials
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 30
You have a report page that contains the visuals 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.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-interactions
NEW QUESTION 31
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION 32
You have a Microsoft Power Bl dashboard.
You need to ensure that consumers of the dashboard can give you feedback that will be visible to the other consumers of the dashboard.
What should you use?
- A. Feedback
- B. Comments
- C. Mark as favorite
- D. Subscribe
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-comment
NEW QUESTION 33
You have a collection of reports for the HR department of your company.
You need to create a visualization for the HR department that shows a historic employee counts and predicts trends during the next six months.
Which type of visualization should you use?
- A. line chart
- B. ribbon chart
- C. key influences
- D. scatter chart
Answer: A
Explanation:
The best data for forecasting is time series data or uniformly increasing whole numbers. The line chart has to have only one line.
Try forecasting: Try the new forecasting capabilities of Power View today on your own data or with the sample report available as part of the Power BI report samples. To view your own data, upload a workbook with a Power View time series line chart to Power BI for Office 365.
Reference:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-new-forecasting-capabilities-in-power-view-for-office-365
NEW QUESTION 34
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?
- A. Create an active relationship between Sales and Date for the purchase date and an inactive relationship for the ship date.
- B. Duplicate the Date query in Power Query and use active relationships between both Date tables.
- C. Use the Auto Date/Time functionality in Microsoft Power BI and do NOT import the Date table.
- D. 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.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Only one relationship can be active.
Note: If you query two or more tables at the same time, when the data is loaded, Power BI Desktop attempts to find and create relationships for you. The relationship options Cardinality, Cross filter direction, and Make this relationship active are automatically set.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-create-and-manage-relationships
NEW QUESTION 35
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.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation
Box 1: Using a workspace membership
Scenario:
The company wants to provide a single package of reports to the board that contains custom navigation and links to supplementary information.
Note: Workspace is a shared environment for a group of people. You can have multiple Power BI content in a workspace. One workspace can have hundreds of dashboards, reports, and datasets in it.
Box 2: A mail-enabled security group
Scenario: Security Requirements
The reports must be made available to the board from powerbi.com. A mail-enabled security group will be used to share information with the board.
NEW QUESTION 36
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.
- A. a pie chart that shows balances by account category without filters.
- B. a line chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.
- C. a clustered column chart that shows balances by quarter filtered to account categories that are long-term liabilities.
- D. a ribbon chart that shows balances by quarter and accounts in the legend.
- E. a clustered column chart that shows balances by date (x-axis) and account category (legend) without filters.
Answer: B,D
Explanation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-types-for-reports-and-q-and-a
NEW QUESTION 37
You are preparing a financial report in Power BI.
You connect to the data stored in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by using Power Query Editor as shown in the following exhibit.
You need to prepare the data to support the following:
Visualizations that include all measures in the data over time
Year-over-year calculations for all the measures
Which four 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.
Answer:
Explanation:
1 - Transpose the table
2 - Unpivot all the columns other than Measure
3 - Rename the Measure column as Year
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/unpivot-columns-power-query-0f7bad4b-9ea1-49c1-9d95-f588221c7098
NEW QUESTION 38
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