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Visualize and analyze the data
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- ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.
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A Power BI report includes a bar chart showing total sales by product category. The report designer wants to add a trend line to the chart to show the overall sales trend over time. Which type of visual should be used instead?
Easy2Refer to the exhibit. You have a DAX measure that calculates customer lifetime value (CLV) as total revenue divided by distinct customer count. When you use this measure in a visual with Product category, you notice that the CLV values are higher than expected. What is the most likely reason?
Hard3A data analyst creates a Power BI report that uses a date table with a continuous date range. They want to calculate the running total of sales over the last 12 months, ending on the last date in the current filter context. Which DAX expression should they use?
Medium4You are a Power BI analyst for a multinational retail company. The company's sales data is stored in an Azure SQL Database with tables: Sales (SalesID, Date, ProductID, Quantity, Amount), Products (ProductID, ProductName, Category), and Calendar (Date, Year, Month, Day). The Sales table contains 500 million rows. You are creating a Power BI report to analyze daily sales trends over the past 5 years. The report must allow users to drill from year to month to day using a hierarchy. The performance of the report is critical; users expect visuals to load within 5 seconds. The current model imports all tables without any optimization, and the date hierarchy visual takes over 30 seconds to render. You need to redesign the data model to meet the performance requirement. What should you do?
Hard5You are creating a Power BI report to analyze customer churn. You have a table with Customer ID, Churn Date, and other attributes. You want to create a measure that calculates the number of customers who churned in the last 30 days. Which THREE components do you need?
Easy6Drag and drop the steps to configure a scheduled refresh for a dataset in the Power BI service into the correct order.
Medium7You have a Power BI report that shows sales by region. Users report that the map visual is not displaying data for some countries. What is the most likely cause?
Easy8You have a Power BI report that uses a custom visual from AppSource. The visual is not rendering correctly. What should you check first?
Easy9You are building a Power BI report that uses a live connection to an Azure Analysis Services (AAS) tabular model. Users need to be able to filter data using a slicer that shows only products that have been sold in the current year. What should you do?
Medium10Which THREE of the following are valid methods to enhance the accessibility of a Power BI report? (Choose three.)
Medium11You have a report with a line chart showing monthly sales. Users need to see the exact sales value when they hover over a data point. What should you configure?
Medium12Which TWO actions can you perform using Power BI Desktop's Query Editor? (Choose two.)
Medium13A Power BI report contains a table visual that displays employee names and their total sales. The data model includes an Employee table with columns: EmployeeID, Name, Department, and HireDate. The Sales table has columns: SaleID, EmployeeID, Amount, and SaleDate. The relationship between Employee and Sales is one-to-many. The user wants to see only employees who have made at least one sale. However, the table shows all employees, including those with no sales (blank Amount). What is the most likely reason?
Hard14Which are valid ways to create a calculated table in Power BI? (Select all that apply)
Hard15Which TWO of the following are valid methods to share a Power BI report with external users who do not have an internal Microsoft Entra ID account? (Select two.)
Easy16A Power BI report shows a bar chart with sales by region. When users click on a region, they expect a line chart on the same page to filter to that region's sales over time. However, the line chart does not respond to the click. What is the most likely cause?
Hard17You have a Power BI dataset with a large fact table. You need to optimize report performance when users filter by date. What should you do?
Medium18You have a Power BI report with a matrix visual showing sales by region and product category. You want to allow users to expand and collapse groups. Which feature should you enable?
Easy19You have a measure as shown in the exhibit. The sales amount is not accumulating correctly; instead, it shows the total sales for all dates, regardless of the selected date filter. What is the problem?
Hard20You have a Power BI report that uses a custom visual from AppSource. The visual is not rendering correctly. Which three steps should you take to troubleshoot?
Medium21You have a Power BI report with a page that contains a bar chart showing sales by product category. You want to allow users to click on a bar and navigate to a different report page that shows detailed sales for that category. Which feature should you use?
Easy22A company has a dataset with a table 'Orders' containing columns: OrderDate, CustomerID, Amount. They want to create a visual that shows the total amount per month. Which of the following is the best approach?
Easy23You need to create a measure that calculates the year-over-year growth percentage for sales. Which DAX function should you use?
Easy24A company wants to create a Power BI report that shows sales performance by region. The data contains a table 'Sales' with columns: Date, Amount, RegionID, and ProductID. They also have a 'Regions' table with RegionID and RegionName. They want to display a matrix visual with RegionName on rows and Year on columns, with the sum of Amount as values. However, the report displays only 'RegionID' instead of 'RegionName'. What is the most likely cause?
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