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Question 1

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 2

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 3

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

Options:

DirectQuery

Import

Live connection

Composite

Question 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

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.

Options:

Question 16

You have a custom connector that returns ID, From, To, Subject, Body, and Has Attachments for every email sent during the past year. More than 10 million records are returned.

You build a report analyzing the internal networks of employees based on whom they send emails to.

You need to prevent report recipients from reading the analyzed emails. The solution must minimize the model size.

What should you do?

Options:

Implement row-level security (RLS) so that the report recipients can only see results based on the emails they sent.

Remove the Subject and Body columns during the import.

From Model view, set the Subject and Body columns to Hidden.

Question 17

You are profiting data by using Power Query Editor.

You have a table that contains a column named column1. Column statistics and Value distribution for column1 are shown in the following exhibit.

Options:

Question 18

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 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?

Options:

Change the data type of the Logged column to Date.

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

Create a column by example that starts with 2018-12-31 and set the data type of the new column to Date.

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

Question 19

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

The Customer ID and Address ID columns represent unique rows.

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?

Options:

Merge the Customer and Address tables.

Transpose the Customer and Address tables.

Group the Customer and Address tables by the Address ID column.

Append the Customer and Address tables.

Question 20

You need to create a visual as shown in the following exhibit.

The indicator color for Total Sales will be based on % Growth to Last Year.

The solution must use the existing calculations only.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Question 21

You have two Power Bl reports named ReportA and ReportB that each uses a distinct color palette.

You are creating a Power Bl dashboard that will include two visuals from each report

You need to use a consistent dark theme for the dashboard. The solution must preserve the original colors of the reports.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Upload a snapshot.

Select the dark dashboard theme.

Turn on tile flow.

When pinning visuals to the dashboard, select Use destination theme.

For the browser, set the color preference to dark mode.

Question 22

You have the dashboard shown in the following exhibit.

You need to modify the dashboard to display as shown in the following exhibit.

What should you do?

Options:

Create and apply a custom dashboard theme.

Change the colors of the visuals in the report.

Apply the Dark dashboard theme.

Upload a snapshot image of the dashboard.

Question 23

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is the same in each question in this series.

You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that contains the following tables.

The following columns contain date information:

- Date[Month] in the mmyyyy format

- Date[Date_ID] in the ddmmyyyy format

- Date[Date_name] in the mm/dd/yyyy format

- Monthly_returns[Month_ID] in the mmyyyy format

The Order table contains more than one million rows.

The Store table has a relationship to the Monthly_returns table on the Store_ID column. This is the only relationship between the tables.

You plan to use Power BI Desktop to create an analytics solution for the data.

You need to create a relationship between the Order table and the Store table on the Store_ID column.

What should you do before you create the relationship?

Options:

In the Order table query, use the Table.TrasformRows function.

In the Store table query, use the Table.TrasformRows function.

In the Store table query, use the Table.TrasformColumnTypes function.

In the Order table query, use the Table.TrasformColumnTypes function.

Question 24

You have a Rawer Bl report That imports a dace 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: From the Fields pane, you rename the date table as Due Date. You use a DAX expression to create Order Date and Delivery Date as calculated tables. You create active relationships between the sales table and each date table.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 25

You have a Microsoft Excel file on a file server.

You create a Power BI report and import a table from the Excel file.

You publish the report.

You need to ensure that the data refreshes every four hours.

What should you do first?

Options:

Upload the Excel file to a Power BI workspace.

Create a subscription to the report.

Deploy an on-premises data gateway.

Edit the data source credentials.

Question 26

You create a report by using Microsoft Power BI Desktop.

The report uses data from a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube located on your company’s internal network.

You plan to publish the report to the Power BI Service.

What should you implement ta ensure that users who consume the report from the Power BI Service have the most up-to-date data from the cube?

Options:

a subscription

a scheduled refresh of the dataset

an OData feed

an On-premises data gateway

Question 27

You publish a report to a workspace named Customer Services. The report identifies customers that have potential data quality issues that must be investigated by the customer services department of your company.

You need to ensure that customer service managers can create task lists in Microsoft Excel based on the data.

Which report setting should you configure?

Options:

Don't allow end user to save filters on this report.

Change default visual interaction from cross highlighting to cross filtering.

Enable the updated filter pane, and show filters in the visual header for this report.

Allow users to add comments to this report.

Choose the type of data you allow your end users to export.

Question 28

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 29

You use Power Query Editor to preview customer feedback data.

You need to use Al Insights to add a column of enhanced data based on the customer feedback. The solution must identify the following:

• What the customers most often provide feedback about

• Whether the customers like your company’s product

• The language of the feedback

Which Al Insights service should you use for each output? To answer, drag the appropriate services to the correct outputs. Each service 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 30

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

The table contains conditional formatting that shows which stores are above, near, or below the monthly quota for returns. You need to ensure that the table is accessible to consumers of reports who have color vision deficiency. What should you do?

Options:

Add alt text that lists the values in the table.

Change the icons to use a different shape for each color.

Remove the icons and use red, yellow, and green background colors instead

Move the conditional formatting icons to a tooltip report

Question 31

You import a large dataset to Power Query Editor.

You need to identify whether a column contains only unique values.

Which two Data Preview options can you use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

Options:

Show whitespace

Column distribution

Column profile

Column quality

Monospaced

Question 32

You use an R visual to produce a map of 500,000 customers. You include the values of CustomerID, Latitude, and Longitude in the fields sent to the visual. Each customer ID is unique.

In powerbi.com, when users load the visual, they only see some of the customers.

What is the cause of the issue?

Options:

The visual was built by using a different version of R.

The data comes from a Microsoft SQL Server source.

The data is deduplicated.

Too many records were sent to the visual.

Question 33

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 modify the source step of the queries to use DataSourceExcel as the file path.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 34

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) without

filters.

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 35

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 36

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.

Question 37

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 38

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 39

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 40

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 41

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 42

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 43

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 44

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.

Options:

Question 45

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 46

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 where

username = UserName()

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Region_Manager table where

sales_manager_id = UserPrincipalName().

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table where

name = UserName().

Create a security role that has a table filter on the Sales_Manager table where

username = sales_manager_id.

Question 47

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 48

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 from

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

Sales[sales_ship_date_id] to ShipDate[date_id]

an additional date table named ShipDate, a many-to-many relationship from

Sales[sales_date_id] to Date[date_id], and a many-to-many relationship from

Sales[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-many

relationship 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 49

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 50

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 51

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

Question 52

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 53

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 54

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 55

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 56

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:

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