20+ practice questions focused on Deploy and maintain assets — one of the most tested topics on the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst PL-300 exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Deploy and maintain assets PracticeYou manage a Power BI workspace that contains a dataset refreshed daily from an on-premises SQL Server. Users report that the report shows data from two days ago. You verify that the scheduled refresh ran successfully this morning. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: Option A is correct because the most likely cause is that the on-premises data gateway is using a cached version of the data due to a misconfigured data source. When the data source is misconfigured (e.g., incorrect credentials or connection string), the gateway may fall back to a previously cached dataset, causing the report to show stale data even though the scheduled refresh appears to have run successfully. This explains why users see data from two days ago despite a successful refresh this morning.
You need to deploy a Power BI report from a development workspace to a production workspace. You want to ensure that the report uses the production dataset connection string without manual changes. What should you use?
Explanation: Option C is correct because deployment pipelines in Power BI allow you to define parameter rules that automatically override data source connection strings when content is deployed from development to production. This ensures the report uses the production dataset without any manual post-deployment changes, maintaining consistency and reducing human error.
Your Power BI dataset uses DirectQuery to an Azure SQL Database. Users complain that the report is slow. You need to improve query performance without changing the data source. What should you do?
Explanation: Option A is correct because reducing the number of columns and rows retrieved by report visuals directly minimizes the amount of data sent from Azure SQL Database to Power BI via DirectQuery. Since DirectQuery sends native queries to the source for each visual interaction, fewer columns and rows mean smaller, faster queries, which reduces overall latency without altering the underlying data source.
You are deploying a Power BI solution to a customer. The customer requires that all report access be controlled via Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) groups. You have a single workspace with multiple reports. What is the best practice for managing permissions?
Explanation: Option D is correct because using an Azure AD group to manage workspace roles aligns with the customer's requirement for centralized access control via Azure AD. This approach simplifies permission management by allowing group membership changes in Azure AD to automatically propagate to Power BI workspace access, ensuring consistency and reducing administrative overhead.
You have a Power BI dataset that is refreshed every hour from an on-premises data source using an enterprise gateway. The refresh consistently fails at 2:00 AM. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The consistent failure at exactly 2:00 AM strongly points to a scheduled event on the on-premises data gateway, such as a reboot or maintenance window. Enterprise gateways can be configured to reboot periodically for updates or health reasons, and if this coincides with the refresh schedule, the gateway will be unavailable, causing the refresh to fail. Transient errors or cloud maintenance would not produce a perfectly consistent daily failure at the same time.
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