PL-300 Visualize and analyze the data Practice Question
You 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?
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Drillthrough
Drillthrough is the correct feature for navigating from a summary visual to a detail page for a specific data point. Cross-filtering only filters other visuals on the same page. Bookmarks are for saved views. Report page tooltips are for hover details. Custom visuals are not needed.
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Bookmarks
Why it's wrong here
Bookmarks capture the entire visual state of a report page, including filter selections, slicer values, and cross-highlighting, but they are not designed to react to a specific bar in a chart. They are invoked via the Bookmarks pane or buttons, and they restore a saved view rather than navigate based on the clicked data point's field values, so they cannot provide per-data-point page navigation.
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Report page tooltips
Why it's wrong here
Report page tooltips are hover-activated overlays that display extra context, such as a card or a small chart, when the pointer pauses over a data point. They do not accept a click to transfer the user to another page, and they disappear immediately when the cursor moves away. Since navigation requires a deliberate user action and page change, tooltips remain purely informational and cannot fulfill the requirement.
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Cross-filtering
Why it's wrong here
Cross-filtering is an on-page interaction model where selecting a data point in one visual filters or highlights other visuals that share the same field, but it never changes the current report page. This behavior is confined to the same canvas and only adjusts which records are visible in other visuals; it does not offer a way to jump to a different, more detailed page based on the selected bar's context.
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Drillthrough
Why this is correct
Drillthrough is a built-in Power BI feature that enables navigation from a data point on a source visual to a separate, binded target report page. When the user right-clicks a bar and selects the drillthrough target, the target page is automatically filtered to the clicked data point's field values (e.g., the specific category), providing a contextual detail view. This matches the requirement exactly because it is triggered by a per-data-point action and results in a page transition.
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