Question 1

Which data role enables advanced analytics capabilities through reports and visualizations?

■ Data analyst

† Data scientist

† Data engineer

Question 2

Which data analyst task has critical performance impact on reporting and data analysis?

† Analyze

† Visualize

■ Model

Question 3

What is a key benefit of data analysis?

† Decisive analytics

■ Informed business decisions

† Complex reports

Question 4

What are the building blocks of Power BI?

† Tiles, dashboards, databases, mobile devices

† Visual Studio, C#, and JSON files

■ Datasets, Visualizations, Reports, Dashboards, and Tiles

Question 5

What is the common flow of activity in Power BI?

■ Bring data into Power BI Desktop and create a report, share it to the Power BI service, view
and interact with reports and dashboards

† Bring data into Power BI mobile, create a report, then share it to Power BI Desktop.

† Create a report in the Power BI service, share it to Power BI mobile, interact with it in Power
BI Desktop.

† Create a report in Power BI mobile, share it to the Power BI Desktop, view and interact in the
Power BI Service

Question 6
A collection of ready-made visuals, pre-arranged in dashboards and reports is called what?

† The canvas

■ An app

† A dataset

† Scheduled refresh

Question 7

Which query language do you use to extract data from Microsoft SQL Server?

† DAX

■ T-SQL

† MDX

Question 8

You’re creating a Power BI report with data from an Azure Analysis Services Cube. When the
data refreshes in the cube, you would like to see it immediately in the Power BI report. How
should you connect?

■ Connect Live

† Import
† Direct Query

Question 9

What can you do to improve performance when you are getting data in Power BI?

† Only pull data into the Power BI service, not Power BI Desktop

† Use the Select SQL statement in your SQL queries when you are pulling data from a relational
database

† Combine date and time columns into a single column

■ Do some calculations in the original data source

Question 10

Which storage mode leaves the data at the data source?

† Import

■ Direct Query

† Dual

Question 11
Which technology improves performance by generating a single query statement to retrieve and
transform source data?

■ Query folding

† Adding index columns

† Adding custom columns with complex logic

Question 12

What type of import error might leave a column blank?

† Keep errors

† Unpivot columns

■ Data type error

Question 13
The primary data preparation tool in Power BI is called what?

† Report editor

■ Power Query editor

† Data editor

Question 14
The process of shaping data by converting your flat data into a table that contains an aggregation
value for each unique value in a column is called what?

■ Group by columns

† Pivot (pivoting a column)

† Manage aggregations

Question 15

What can be achieved by removing unnecessary rows and columns?

† It is not necessary to delete unnecessary rows and columns and it is a good practice to keep all
Metadata intact.

† Deleting unnecessary rows and columns can damage the structure of the data model.

■ Deleting unnecessary rows and columns will reduce the dataset size and it is a good practice to
load only necessary data into your data model.

Question 16

How many rows does Power Query scan to detect the type of data in the columns?

† 10,000

■ 1,000
† 100

Question 17

Data profiling is defined as what?

† Aggregating columns containing numeric data

■ Studying the nuances of the data

† Data modeling

Question 18

What is the risk of having null values in a numeric column?

† DAX expressions that MAX data will be incorrect

† DAX expressions that SUM data will be incorrect

■ DAX expressions that AVERAGE data will be incorrect

Question 19

What is not a best practice for naming conventions in Power BI?

† Rename columns to have spaces in them

† Replace values that have integers with human readable results

■ Abbreviated column names

Question 20

What functionality lets you see the code that is generated as part of each transformation step?

■ Advanced editor

† Data profiling

† Queries pane

Question 21

If you have two queries that contain different data with the same structure, and you want to
combine them into one query, which operation should you perform?

† Merge

■ Append

† Combine column

Question 22

The two types of tables in a star schema are what?

† Active and inactive tables

† Qualitative and quantitative data tables

■ Fact and dimension tables

Question 23

What is the difference between a fact table and a dimension table?

■ Fact tables store observations or events while dimension tables contain information about
specific entities within the data

† Fact tables contain information about specific entities while dimension tables contain
information about observational data

† Dimension tables tell you about specific roles in Power BI while fact tables tell you
information about facts that are associated with those roles in Power BI

† There is no difference

Question 24

What is Cardinality?

† Cardinality is how long it takes for the data to load

† Cardinality is the granularity of the data

■ The direction that the data flows in a relationship between two tables

† Cardinality is a type of visual element

Question 25

What is it called when multiple records in one table are associated with multiple records in
another table?

■ many-to-many relationship

† one-to-many relationship

† many-to-one relationship

Question 26

A dimension that can filter related facts differently is called what?

■ Role-playing dimension

† Snowflake dimension

† Degenerate dimension

Question 27

What type of table stores details about business entities?

† Fact table

■ Dimension table

† Date table

† Data table

Question 28

Which are calculated on demand?

† Calculated columns

† Calculated tables

■ Measures

Question 29

Which are calculated based on the filters that are used by the report user? Calculated columns or
measures?

■ Measures

† Calculated columns

Question 30
Which DAX function evaluates an expression in a modified filter context?

† SUMX

■ CALCULATE

† ALL

Question 31

Why would you want to override the default context?

† To create measures that behave according to the user’s selection

■ To create measures that behave according to your intentions, regardless of what the user
selects

Question 32

What type of Measure uses SUM to aggregate over one set of dimensions and a different
aggregation over a different set of dimension?

† Additive

† Aggregate

■ Semi-additive
Question 33

What type of functions enable you to manipulate data using time periods?

■ Time intelligence

† Comparer functions

† Value functions

Question 34

Which two functions will help you compare dates to the previous month?

† TOTALYTD and PREVIOUSMONTH

† CALCULATE and TOTALTYD

■ CALCULATE and PREVIOUSMONTH

Question 35

What benefit do you get from analyzing metadata?

■ The benefit of analyzing metadata is that you can clearly identify data inconsistencies with
your dataset.

† The benefit of analyzing the metadata is to get familiar with your data.
† The benefit of analyzing the metadata is to know the number of rows, columns and tables
being loaded into your model.

Question 36

Which tool enables you to identify bottlenecks that exist in code?

† Q&A.

† Column profiling.

■ Performance analyzer.

Question 37

What is cardinality?

† Cardinality is the granularity of the data.

† Cardinality is how long it takes for the data to load.

† Cardinality is a type of visual element.

■ Cardinality is a term that is used to describe the uniqueness of the values in a column.
Relationship cardinality refers to the number of rows from one table that are related to another
(one to one, one to many, many to many).

Question 38
Which Power BI option gives you the option to send fewer queries and disable certain
interactions?

† Direct query

■ Query reduction

† Query diagnostics

Question 39

Other than Power BI, another place for performance optimization can be performed is where?

■ At the data source

† In the Power BI service

† In Microsoft SharePoint

Question 40

Is it possible to create a relationship between two columns if they are different DATA TYPE
columns?

† Yes, if cardinality of the relationship is set to Many-to-Many.

† Yes, the above is fully supported in latest version of Power BI desktop.

■ No, both columns in a relationship must be sharing the same DATA TYPE.
Question 41

A critical aspect of data aggregation is that it allows you to focus on what?

■ The important and most meaningful data

† Disabling interactive analysis over big data

† Larger cache size and decreased query performance

Question 42

Before you start creating aggregations, you should first decide what?

† The storage mode of your aggregation

■ The granularity (level) on which to create them.

Question 43

What is the benefit of using a report tooltip?

† To give users the ability to export data from the visual.

■ To provide additional detail that is specific to the context of the data that is being hovered
over.
† To give users additional information about a report visual, such as the author and date/time it
was created.

Question 44

Do you need to import custom visuals each time you want to use them when you are developing
a new report?

■ Yes, custom visuals must be imported from AppSource each time you start developing a new
report.

† No, custom visuals are always available for selection under the Visualization pane.

† No, custom visuals only need to be imported once and will always remain in Power BI for
future use in a new report.

Question 45

Which of the following filters are not available in Power BI reports?

† Drillthrough

† Report level

■ Page type

† Page level

Question 46
How can you analyze performance of each of your report elements?

■ By using performance analyzer.

† By analyzing your metadata.

† By deleting unnecessary rows and columns to reduce your dataset size.

Question 47

Can you use bookmarks to create a slide show in Power BI?

† No, you cannot, because bookmarks are not dynamic.

■ Yes, you can, by adding buttons as navigation to go between saved bookmarks.

† No, you will require a specific visual to achieve this task.

Question 48

What is a dashboard?

† A canvas of report elements that can be built in Power BI desktop.

† Dashboards can be built by using visuals that are developed with an underlying data source.

■ A canvas of report elements that can be built in the Power BI service.

† The canvas in which you can view the data model of a report.

Question 49

What is one way that reports and dashboards differ?

■ In reports, you can have multiple pages; in dashboards, you can have only one page.

† In reports, you can use the slicers and filter by selecting a data point on a visual; in
dashboards, you can only filter a dashboard tile in focus mode, but can’t save the filter.

† You can only build reports and dashboards in Power BI service.

† They are the same.

Question 50

Can a dashboard be created from multiple reports?

† No, dashboards can only be created from a single dataset or report.

■ Yes, dashboards can be created from multiple datasets or reports.

Question 51

Where can you configure and set alerts?

■ Data alerts can be set only in Power BI service on specific visuals such as KPI cards, gauges,
and cards.
† Data alerts can be set in both Power BI service and Power BI Desktop on any kind of visual.

† Data alerts can be set in Power BI service on any kind of visual.

† Data alerts can be set only in Power BI Desktop on specific kinds of visuals such as KPI cards
and gauges.

Question 52

What is a key benefit of Power BI’s real-time streaming capabilities?

† Users are limited to the data refresh as established by the developer.

■ You can stream data and update dashboards as soon as the data is logged.

Question 53

Pinning an entire report page to a dashboard ensure what?

† Users are seeing individual tiles displaying key results.

■ Pinning a page is an easy way to pin more than one visualization at a time. Also, when you pin
an entire page, the tiles are live; you can interact with them right there on the dashboard.

Question 54
What feature allows you to ask a natural-language query about the data?

† The synonym feature

† The smart narrative visual

■ The Q&A feature

Question 55

What feature in dashboards is used to alert consumers to the sensitivity of the data?

† Dashboard themes

■ Data classification

Question 56

Why are parameters important in Power BI paginated reports?

† They are required so that Power BI can call the paginated report.

† They allow the report developer to control the refresh interval of the report.

■ They allow the user to control aspects of how the report is rendered when the report is run.
Question 57

Power BI paginated reports are created by using which tool?

■ Power BI Report Builder

† Power BI Desktop

† Power BI Service

Question 58

Power BI paginated reports is an evolved technology that was built from which original tool?

† SQL Server Analysis Services

† Microsoft SharePoint

■ SQL Server Reporting Services

Question 59

What Power BI feature can give an in-depth analysis of the distribution of data?

† The Next Level of Hierarchy feature can give in-depth analysis because it will allow you to
drill down for all subcategories and is not used to analyze the distribution.
■ The Analyze feature allows a user to understand why the distribution of data looks the way it
does.

† Only time series analysis can provide in-depth analysis on the data.

Question 60

Where are time series charts located?

† The filter pane is where all filters on visuals and pages are located.

† The fields pane is where all charts are located.

■ Time series charts can be imported from AppSource.

Question 61

What visual should be used to display outliers?

† The line chart is best-suited to display outliers.

† The clustered column chart is best-suited to display outliers.

■ The scatter chart displays outliers.

Question 62

What does the AI splits feature do?

■ AI splits work by considering all the available fields and determining which one to drill into to
get the highest/lowest value of a measure that is being analyzed.

† AI splits work by considering all available fields and determining which one to drill into to get
the highest/lowest value of the measure that is being analyzed.

† AI splits only display the difference between highest and lowest value of the measure that is
being analyzed.

Question 63

Can you access the Q&A feature by using buttons?

† Yes, you can, but you will need to add the Q&A visual to your reporting canvas and then link
your button with the visual that you have added.

■ Yes, you can access the Q&A feature by selecting the Q&A button type.

† No, to use the Q&A feature, you will need to add the Q&A visual to your reporting canvas.

Question 64

What is not a feature of the Q&A feature?

■ Searching for help topics about Power BI.

† Adding new synonyms to fields through Q&A tooling.

† Converting a Q&A answer into a visual inside your report.

Question 65

What does the decomposition tree not enable you to do?

† Conduct root cause analysis to understand a measure better.

■ Conduct what-if analysis with built-in parameters.

† Automatically analyze selected dimensions to find where a measure is highest or lowest.

Question 66

How does the admin workspace role differ from other types of workspace roles?

† Admin is the only role that can publish or update apps.

■ Admins are the only role that can remove users.

† Admin is the only role that can create, edit, or delete content in a workspace.

† Admin is the only role that can publish content to a workspace.

Question 67

What is the best description of a workspace?

† A workspace is a feature in Power BI service that allows you to view reports only.

† A workspace is a feature that allows you to view and edit the data model, build visualizations,
and transform the data.

† A workspace is a feature of Power BI Desktop that allows you to build reports only.

■ A workspace is a centralized location or repository that allows you to collaborate with

colleagues and teams to create collections of reports, dashboards, etc.

Question 68

What feature in Power BI service can you use to troubleshoot the flow of data from its source to
destination?

† Usage metrics report

† Query caching

† Quick insights

■ Lineage view

Question 69

A key tenant of data protection is sensitivity labels, which specifies what?

■ The classification of critical content in Power BI

† Access to content in the Power BI service

Question 70

What type of parameter provides a look at how different scenarios might play out?

■ What-if

† If-then

Question 71

What benefit does dynamic reports provide to end users?

† It provides static views of data that can only be manipulated by report developers.

■ It gives end users more control over the data that is displayed.

Question 72

Where are the dataset-scheduled refreshes configured?

† Power BI Desktop

■ Power BI Service
† AppSource

Question 73

What reserved parameters configure the start and end of where incremental refresh should occur?

■ RangeStart and RangeEnd

† Start and End parameters

† StartRange and EndRange

Question 74

What is the difference between Promotion and Certification when endorsing a dataset?

† Promotion is for broad usage while Certification needs permission granted on the Admin
Tenant settings.

■ Promotion does not need specific permissions while Certification requires permission from the
dataset owner to access the dataset.

Question 75

Which function will tell you the logged on username in the Power BI Service?

† LOOKUPVALUE()
■ USERPRINCIPALNAME()

† USEROBJECTID()

Question 76

Where can you test RLS by using different security roles?

† Power BI Desktop only

† Power BI Service only

■ Both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service