DP-600 Maintain a Data Analytics Solution Practice Question
You have a Fabric workspace with multiple reports. You need to ensure that the dataset is shared across reports without creating multiple copies. What is the correct approach?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Connect new reports to the existing published semantic model.
Using a 'Thin Report' architecture is the best practice for maintaining a single version of the truth. By publishing a single semantic model and connecting multiple reports to it, you simplify maintenance and improve performance. This prevents data duplication and ensures that all users are consuming consistent, synchronized metrics, which is crucial for organizational trust in the analytical solution.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Copy the PBIX file and publish it multiple times.
Why it's wrong here
Publishing the PBIX file multiple times creates redundant semantic models, leading to data sprawl, inconsistency, and wasted storage. It also makes updating the data logic more difficult, as you would have to manually replicate the changes across every single instance of the semantic model you published.
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Connect new reports to the existing published semantic model.
Why this is correct
This approach implements a 'live connection' to the central semantic model. By decoupling the report visuals from the data, you ensure that all reports use the same metrics and data structure, simplifying updates and ensuring consistency, which is a core requirement for a well-maintained analytics environment.
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Use the 'Import' mode for every report created.
Why it's wrong here
Import mode replicates the data into every single report file. This leads to massive data bloat, inefficient refresh processes, and inconsistent results if the refresh times are not perfectly aligned. It is a major anti-pattern that should be avoided in enterprise-grade analytics solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
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Embed each report in a separate workspace.
Why it's wrong here
Spreading reports across multiple workspaces adds unnecessary complexity to the management of your analytics solution. It makes security, sharing, and deployment much more difficult to govern and does not solve the underlying issue of data duplication if each report is still packaged with its own dataset.
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