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A sales manager wants to create a Power BI report that shows monthly sales trends and allows drilling down from year to quarter to month. Which feature should they use?
2A company has a Power BI dataset that refreshes daily. Users report that the report shows stale data from two days ago. What is the most likely cause?
3A marketing team wants to share a Power BI dashboard with external partners who do not have Power BI licenses. What is the recommended approach?
4A data analyst needs to combine data from two Excel tables that have a common column 'ProductID'. Which Power BI tool should they use?
5A Power BI report uses a calculated column that shows [Sales Amount] * 1.1. Users notice the column shows incorrect values after a data refresh. What is the most likely cause?
6A manager wants to see a Power BI report on their mobile phone while offline. What should they do?
7A company has a Power BI dashboard that displays real-time data from Azure Stream Analytics. Which connection type should they use?
8A Power BI report contains a measure that calculates year-over-year growth. The measure works correctly in Power BI Desktop but shows blank values after publishing to the service. What is the most likely cause?
9Which TWO features can be used to secure data in Power BI?
10Which THREE components are required to create a Power BI dashboard?
11Which TWO are valid Power BI visualization types?
12Which THREE actions can be performed in the Power Query Editor?
13A user sees the exhibit error when opening a Power BI report in the service. What is the most likely cause?
14Based on the exhibit, what is the result of the TotalQuantity measure?
15You are a Power BI administrator for a large retail company. The company has a Power BI workspace that contains a dashboard named 'Sales Overview'. The dashboard is shared with the sales team. Recently, users have reported that the dashboard is loading slowly, and some visuals show 'Data is not available' errors. The dashboard uses a DirectQuery connection to an on-premises SQL Server database. The database team confirms that the server is not under heavy load. You need to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. What should you do first?
16Drag and drop the steps to build a model-driven app in Power Apps in the correct order.
17Drag and drop the steps to create a custom connector in Power Automate in the correct order.
18Match each Common Data Service (Dataverse) term to its description.
19Match each AI Builder model type to its use case.
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