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PL-900 Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI • Complete Question Bank

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Question 1easymultiple choice
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A sales manager wants to create a dashboard that shows sales by region and product category. The data is stored in an Excel file that is updated weekly. What is the most efficient way to ensure the dashboard reflects the latest data?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A company uses Power BI to monitor manufacturing efficiency. The dataset includes a column 'RunTime' (in minutes) and 'DownTime' (in minutes). A user wants to calculate 'Availability' as (RunTime / (RunTime + DownTime)) * 100. Which DAX measure should be used?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A financial analyst creates a Power BI report to compare quarterly revenue across years. The data has a 'Date' column and a 'Revenue' column. The analyst wants to display year-over-year growth for each quarter. Which visual and configuration would best achieve this?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A marketing team wants to share a Power BI dashboard with external stakeholders who do not have Power BI licenses. Which sharing method should the team use?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A data analyst notices that a Power BI report takes a long time to load when filtering by a specific date range. The data source is a SQL Server view that contains millions of rows. What is the most effective way to improve performance?

Question 6easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid ways to connect to data in Power BI Desktop?

Question 7mediummulti select
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Which THREE of the following are features available in Power BI Premium per capacity? (Select three.)

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The JSON represents a Power BI dataset refresh configuration. After deployment, the refresh fails with an error indicating that the data source credentials are missing. Which step must be taken to resolve the issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "name": "SalesReport",
  "dataset": "SalesDB",
  "refreshSchedule": {
    "frequency": "Daily",
    "time": "02:00",
    "timeZone": "UTC",
    "days": ["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday"]
  },
  "dataSources": [
    {
      "type": "Sql",
      "connectionString": "Server=sqlsrv;Database=SalesDB;Integrated Security=SSPI;"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 9mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A Power BI report connecting to the SalesDB database is slow. The exhibit shows a SQL Server activity snapshot. What is the most likely cause of the performance issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
EXEC sp_who2
```

Output:
```
SPID  Status   Login    HostName  BlkBy  DBName   Command   CPUTime DiskIO  LastBatch
54    sleeping sa       SERVER1   .      SalesDB  AWAITING COMMAND  0       0       2023-03-15 10:00:00.000
55    runnable  user1    CLIENT1   54     SalesDB  SELECT    5000    1200    2023-03-15 10:05:00.000
```
Question 10mediummultiple choice
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You are a data analyst at a manufacturing company that uses Microsoft 365 and Power BI. The company has a Power BI tenant with Free, Pro, and Premium Per User (PPU) licenses. Your team has created a Power BI report that visualizes production line efficiency from a SQL Server database on-premises. The report is published to a workspace assigned to a PPU capacity. You need to ensure that all 50 users in the production department can view the report on their mobile devices, with data refreshing every 30 minutes. The users have a mix of Free and Pro licenses. The report uses DirectQuery mode to the on-premises SQL Server. You have configured an on-premises data gateway in personal mode. Users report that the report is slow and sometimes fails to load. What should you do to improve performance and reliability while meeting the refresh requirement?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A Power BI developer imported the JSON data into a Power BI data model. When creating a report, they notice that the 'Sales' table does not display the product name. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "data": [
    {
      "table": "Sales",
      "columns": ["Date", "ProductID", "SalesAmount", "Region"],
      "rows": [
        ["2024-01-01", 101, 250.00, "North"],
        ["2024-01-01", 102, 150.00, "South"],
        ["2024-01-02", 101, 300.00, "North"]
      ],
      "relationships": [
        {"from": "Sales[ProductID]", "to": "Product[ProductID]"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "table": "Product",
      "columns": ["ProductID", "ProductName", "Category"],
      "rows": [
        [101, "Widget", "Tools"],
        [102, "Gadget", "Electronics"]
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 12easymulti select
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Which TWO actions are supported by Power BI to share a report with external users who do not have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) account in the tenant?

Question 13hardmultiple choice
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You are a Power BI administrator for a retail company. The sales team uses a Power BI report that connects to an on-premises SQL Server database via an on-premises data gateway. Recently, several users reported that the report is showing stale data. The report is configured to refresh daily at 8:00 AM. Upon investigation, you find that the scheduled refresh failed last night at 8:00 AM with an error: 'The data source credentials could not be encrypted using the gateway's encryption key.' The gateway is installed on a server that was rebooted for maintenance at 7:30 AM. The gateway service account is a local service account. The data source credentials were configured using a SQL Server authentication login. What should you do to resolve the issue?

Question 14mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to create a connection between Power Automate and a third-party service like Office 365 in the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
Order
1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
4Step 4
5Step 5
Question 15mediummatching
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Match each Power Automate trigger type to its description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Starts based on an event (e.g., new email)

Starts manually by a user action

Starts at a specified time or interval

A type of scheduled trigger repeating regularly

Starts from a button in a Power App

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