PL-300 Visualize and analyze the data Practice Question
You have a Power BI report that includes a map visual showing store locations. You want to add a tooltip that displays the store name and total sales when users hover over a location. What do you need to do?
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
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Add the store name and sales fields to the tooltips bucket of the map visual.
The correct option is A: add the store name and sales fields to the tooltips bucket of the map visual. In Power BI, the Tooltips field well on a visual lets you bind additional fields (here, store name and total sales) so they appear automatically when a user hovers over a location, which is exactly the required behavior. Option B is wrong because bookmarks capture and switch report state rather than provide hover tooltips. Option C is wrong because drill-through requires the user to right-click and navigate to a separate page, not hover. Option D is wrong because the page tooltip property configures a report-page tooltip (often for a whole page), not the field-level hover details on the map visual.
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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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Add the store name and sales fields to the tooltips bucket of the map visual.
Why this is correct
Adding the store name and sales fields to the tooltips bucket of the map visual is the correct approach because the tooltips bucket defines exactly which field values appear when a user hovers over a data point on the map. When you place fields there, Power BI automatically generates a hover tooltip that displays those values in a formatted layout. This is a per-visual configuration, so it directly affects the map without changing any other visuals or requiring navigation. Additionally, you can further format the tooltip text and group values to improve readability.
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Create a bookmark that shows a table with store details.
Why it's wrong here
A bookmark captures the current state of the report page, including filters, slicers, sort order, and visual selections, but it does not influence how tooltips are rendered on hover. Creating a bookmark that reveals a table with store details would require the user to take an action, such as clicking a button, to navigate to that bookmark view; it would not display those details while the mouse is simply hovering over a map location. Bookmarks are designed for storytelling and navigation, not for defining hover content, so this option fails to meet the requirement.
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Add a drill-through page with store details.
Why it's wrong here
Drill-through is a navigation feature that sends the user to a separate report page when they right-click or select a data point and choose the drill-through action; it does not provide a hover-based tooltip. Setting up a drill-through page with store details would force the user to leave the current page to see the information, whereas the requirement is to see details on hover within the map visual. Even if the drill-through page contains the same fields, the user must actively trigger the navigation, so it is not equivalent to a tooltip.
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Set the page tooltip property to show store details.
Why it's wrong here
Power BI tooltips are defined per visual, not per page; there is no 'page tooltip property' that you can set to make store details appear for a specific map visual without configuring that visual's tooltip well or assigning a tooltip page to it. The map visual's hover behavior is controlled entirely by its own tooltip settings, so changing a page-level property—if it existed—would not change what the map displays on hover. This option confuses a report-level setting with the per-visual tooltip configuration that is required.
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