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Deploy and maintain assets

This domain covers publishing and governing Power BI content after development: workspace roles, apps, deployment pipelines, gateways, scheduled and incremental refresh, and sensitivity labels. Questions present operational scenarios—Azure AD group access, shared datasets, pipeline stage rules, or failed refreshes—and ask you to choose the correct configuration, permission, or troubleshooting action.

14 questions4 easy7 medium3 hard

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What to know about Deploy and maintain assets

Be able to configure workspace roles, publish and update apps, build deployment pipelines with stage rules, and manage gateways and refresh. The most important thing: match each access or refresh requirement to the correct Power BI mechanism, not a broader permission or assumption.

Assigning workspace roles (Admin, Member, Contributor, Viewer) and distributing content via Power BI apps

Configuring deployment pipelines with Dev, Test, and Production stages and deployment rules

Managing on-premises data gateway clusters, gateway connections, and dataset credentials

Scheduling dataset refresh, configuring incremental refresh, and diagnosing refresh failures

Watch out for

Common Deploy and maintain assets exam traps

  • ▸Assuming workspace access alone grants report access; consumers typically need app permissions or the Viewer role, not Admin or Member.
  • ▸Forgetting that deployment rules bind stage-specific data source or parameter values, so pipelines fail or point at the wrong source without them.
  • ▸Blaming the gateway when an Import dataset fails because credentials expired, a parameter changed, or the source is unreachable.

Question index

All Deploy and maintain assets questions (14)

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1

You are reviewing the deployment configuration for a Power BI dataset. The exhibit shows a JSON snippet of the dataset settings. You need to ensure that data is refreshed twice a day at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM UTC. However, the refresh fails at both scheduled times. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
2

You have developed a Power BI report that uses a live connection to an Azure Analysis Services (AAS) model. The AAS model is deployed in a different Azure region. Users report that the report loads slowly, sometimes taking over 30 seconds to render a single visual. You need to improve performance without changing the data model or the report structure. What should you do?

Easy
3

Which TWO actions are required to set up a Power BI deployment pipeline with separate data sources for Development and Production?

Medium
4

You manage a Power BI deployment that uses deployment pipelines. After promoting content from Development to Test, you notice that the Test workspace dataset uses a different data source than expected. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
5

You publish a Power BI report to a workspace that uses an organizational app. After updating the report, you want users to see the changes immediately without having to reinstall the app. What should you do?

Medium
6

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?

Easy
7

You are the Power BI administrator for a large enterprise. The company has a Power BI Premium capacity with a single dataset that is used by multiple reports and dashboards. The dataset is refreshed daily at 3:00 AM, and the refresh typically completes within 2 hours. Recently, users have reported that the dataset is not showing the most recent data until after 6:00 AM. You investigate and find that the scheduled refresh is taking 4 hours to complete, and there are no errors in the refresh history. The dataset uses import mode and connects to an on-premises SQL Server data warehouse. The data model contains several large fact tables and multiple calculated tables and measures. What should you do to reduce the refresh time and ensure data is available by 5:00 AM?

Medium
8

You manage a Power BI workspace used by the sales team. After updating a dataset with new columns, some users report that their reports show old data. You verify that the scheduled refresh completed successfully. What should you do first?

Medium
9

You need to ensure that a Power BI report uses the latest data from a cloud-based Azure SQL Database. The report is configured with scheduled refresh. What is the minimum required license for the dataset owner to configure a scheduled refresh?

Easy
10

You are a Power BI administrator for a large organization. A team has published a shared dataset to a Premium workspace. They use an XMLA endpoint to programmatically refresh the dataset daily. Recently, the refresh started failing with the error: 'The operation was canceled because the session was terminated by a concurrent operation.' The dataset is not partitioned. You need to ensure the refresh completes without errors. What should you do?

Hard
11

Drag and drop the steps to create a relationship between two tables in Power BI Desktop into the correct order.

Medium
12

A user reports that a Power BI report is not refreshing data from a SQL Server database. The dataset uses Import mode. The gateway cluster shows all gateways are online. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
13

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?

Medium
14

You 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?

Medium

Frequently asked questions

What does the Deploy and maintain assets domain cover on the PL-300 exam?
Be able to configure workspace roles, publish and update apps, build deployment pipelines with stage rules, and manage gateways and refresh. The most important thing: match each access or refresh requirement to the correct Power BI mechanism, not a broader permission or assumption.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 14 Deploy and maintain assets questions in the PL-300 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
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