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Question 1

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 2

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 3

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 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

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 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

In Power BI Desktop, you are building a sales report that contains two tables. Both tables have row-level security (RLS) configured.

You need to create a relationship between the tables. The solution must ensure that bidirectional cross-filtering honors the RLS settings.

What should you do?

Options:

Create an active relationship between the tables and select Assume referential integrity.

Create an inactive relationship between the tables and select Assume referential integrity.

Create an inactive relationship between the tables and select Apply security filter in both directions.

Create an active relationship between the tables and select Apply security filter in both directions.

Question 13

You use Power 81 Desktop to load data from a Microsoft SQL Server database.

While waiting for the data to load, you receive the following error.

You need to resolve the error.

What are two ways to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Split long running queries into subsets Of columns and use power Query to the queries

Disable query folding on long running queries

Reduce number of rows and columns returned by each query.

Use Power Query to combine long running queries into one query.

Question 14

You are creating reports in Power BI Desktop. The model has the following tables.

There is a relationship between the tables.

You plan to publish a report to the Power BI service that displays Order_amount by Order_date by Full_name.

You need to ensure that only the columns required for the report appear in Report View. The solution must minimize the size of the dataset that is published.

How should you configure the columns in Power BI Desktop? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Question 15

You build a report to help the sales team understand its performance and the drivers of sales. The team needs to have a single visualization to identify which factors affect success. Which type of visualization should you use?

Options:

Key influences

Funnel chart

Q&A

Line and clustered column chart

Question 16

You are configuring a Power BI report for accessibility as shown in the following table.

You need to change the default colors of all three visuals to make the report more accessible to users who have color vision deficiency.

Which two settings should you configure in the Customize theme window? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

First-level elements colors

Theme colors

Divergent colors

Sentiment colors

Question 17

You have multiple dashboards.

You need to ensure that when users browse the available dashboards from powerbi.com. they can see which dashboards contain Personally Identifiable Information (Pll). The solution must minimize configuration effort and impact on the dashboard design.

What should you use?

Options:

Active Directory groups

tiles

data classifications

comments

Question 18

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 19

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 20

You are creating a Microsoft Power Bl imported data model to perform basket analysis. The goal of the analysis is to identify which products are usually bought together in the same transaction across and within sales territories.

You import a fact table named Sales as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

The related dimension tables are imported into the model.

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 21

You attempt to connect Purer 81 Desktop to a Cassandra database.

From the Get Data connector list you discover that there is no specific connector for the Cassandra database,

You need to select an alternate data connector that will connect to the database.

Which of connector should you choose?

Options:

Microsoft SQL Server database

ODBC

OData

OLE DB

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

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 23

In the Power BI service, you create an app workplace that contains several dashboards.

You need to provide a user named user1@contoso.com with the ability to edit and publish dashboards.

What should you do?

Options:

Modify the members of the app workspace.

Configure security for the dataset used by the app.

Share the dashboard, and then modify the Access settings of the dashboard.

From the app workspace, click Update app, and then configure the Access settings.

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 scenario, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have several reports and dashboards in a workspace.

You need to grant all organizational users read access to a dashboard and several reports.

Solution: You enable included in app for all assets.

Does this meet the goal?

Options:

Yes

Question 25

You have a Power BI semantic model named Model1 that contains two table named DimDate and FactSales. There is an active relationship between DimDate and FactSales. DimDate is marked as the date table. FactSales contains the following data.

Model1 contains the following measure:

You have a report that uses Model1. The report has a single report page that has a page level filter set to may 9, 2024. The result of the Previous Year measure is displayed in a card visual.

Which value appear in the card visual?

Options:

Question 26

Your company has training videos that are published to Microsoft Stream.

You need to surface the videos directly in a Microsoft Power BI dashboard.

Which type of tile should you add?

Options:

video

custom streaming data

text box

web content

Question 27

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 28

You have two tables named Customers and Invoice in a Power BI model. The Customers table contains the following fields:

CustomerID

Customer City

Customer State

Customer Name

Customer Address 1

Customer Address 2

Customer Postal Code

The Invoice table contains the following fields:

Order ID

Invoice ID

Invoice Date

Customer ID

Total Amount

Total Item Count

The Customers table is related to the Invoice table through the Customer ID columns. A customer can have many invoices within one month.

The Power BI model must provide the following information:

The number of customers invoiced in each state last month

The average invoice amount per customer in each postal code

You need to define the relationship from the Customers table to the Invoice table. The solution must optimize query performance.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Options:

Question 29

You have a sales system that contains the tables shown in the following table.

The Date table is marked as a date table.

DatelD is the date data type. You need to create an annual sales growth percentage measure.

Which DAX expression should you use?

Options:

SUM(sales[sales_amount]) - CALCULATE(SUM(sales[sales_amount]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('Date'[DateID])

(SUM(‘Sales’[sales_amount]) - CALCULATE(SUM(‘Sales’[sales_amount]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(‘Date’[DateID])))

/ CALCULATE(SUM(‘Sales’[sales_amount]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(‘Date’[DateID]))

CALCULATE(SUM(sales[sales_amount]), DATESYTD(‘Date’[DateID]))

CALCULATE(SUM(sales[sales_amount]), SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(‘Date’[DateID]))

Question 30

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 31

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

Options:

DirectQuery

Import

Live connection

Composite

Question 32

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 33

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 34

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 35

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 36

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 37

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 38

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 39

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 40

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 41

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 42

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 43

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 44

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 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 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 47

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 48

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 49

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 50

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 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

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 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 54

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 55

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.

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