1. What are the essential applications of the Power BI?

2. What are the different types of filters in Power BI Reports?

3. Name out three important Power BI tools?
4. What is the general business need for Power BI?
5. What are the important components of the Power BI toolkit, and what do they do?
6. What is Power BI Desktop?
7. What are the drawbacks of using Power BI?
8. What is content packs?
9. Why use selection pane in Power BI?
10.What is Power BI?
11.What are the different views in Power BI Desktop?
12.Why use Power BI?
13.What is self-service business intelligence?
14.What data sources can Power BI connect to?
15.Where is data stored in Power BI?
16.What is Power BI embedded?
17.What are the important features of Power BI dashboard?
18.What is Bookmark?
19.What is BI?
20.What are the parts of Microsoft self-service business intelligence solution?
21.What is the purpose of the ‘Get Data’ icon in Power BI?
22.What data sources can Power BI connect to?
23.What are Building Blocks in Power BI?

DAX
1. What does DATEDIFF function do?
2. What are the data types of Dax?
3. What is the DATEPART function?
4. State the difference between Count and CounD function.
5. What is the use of statewith function?
6. What is the use of INDEX Function in Power BI?
7. What is DAX function?
8. Explain DATEDD function in Power BI.
9. What is the main difference between LTRIM and RTRIM?
10.What is the common table function for grouping data?
11.Write a DAX for dynamic security?
12.What is the calulated column?
13.What is DAX?
14.State the major differences between MAX and MAXA functions
15.What is special or unique about the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE
functions?
16.Difference between Sum & Sumx?
17.What is CORR function? When we use it?
18.What are the different Excel BI add-in?
19.How is the FILTER function used?
20.What does STARTSWITH function do?
21.How can you apply percentile function in Power BI?
22.How can you differ COVAR and COVARP?
23.How to achieve Dynamic Top N Customers?
24.State the main difference between District() and Values() in DAX?
25.In DAX we can do year to date and parallel period and such, which is great for
financial reporting. What are some prerequisites for doing time intelligence?
26.What is the difference between VAR and VARP?
27.What is the SIGN function?
28.What is IFNULL function?
29.What are the most common DAX Functions used?
30.What is RUNNING_AVG function do?
31.What does DATENAME function do?
32.What is the difference between Calculated Columns, Calculated Tables, and
Measures?
33.Suppose there are two tables and I have to put them one below the other. Can we do
in Power bi? If yes, then what is the query used?
34.What is the use of ENDSWITH function?
35.How would you create trailing X month metrics via DAX against a non-standard
calendar?
36.Describe the Gather function of the Power BI process?
37.What is the use of MID function?
38.What are some benefits of using Variables in DAX  ?
39.In DAX we can do year to date and parallel period and such, which is great for
financial reporting. What are some prerequisites for doing time intelligence?
40.How to Calculate MTD, WTD, and YTD in Power BI?
41.Explain the collect function
42.List out benefits of using Variables in DAX.
43.What is the difference between Values() and Distinct() in DAX?

Power Pivot
1. What are the filter writes in Power BI?
2. What is Power Pivot Data Model?
3. What is Power Pivot?
4. Can we have more than one active relationship between two tables in data model of
power pivot?
5. What is xVelocity in-memory analytics engine used in Power Pivot?
6. What are some of differences in data modeling between Power BI Desktop and
Power Pivot for Excel?

Power Query
1. What is query folding in Power Query?
2. What are query parameters and Power BI templates?
3. What are some common Power Query/Editor Transforms?
4. Why do we need Power Query when Power Pivot can import data from mostly used
sources?
5. What are the data destinations for Power Queries?
6. What is Power Query?
7. Which language is used in Power Query?
8. Can SQL and Power Query/Query Editor be used together?

Power Map
1. What are the primary requirement for a table to be used in Power Map?
2. What is Power Map?
3. What are the data hotspots when it comes to Power Map?

Additional Questions
1. Why is Top N not accessible by or for report level filter and page-level filter?
2. What are the three Edit Interactions options of a visual tile in Power BI Desktop?
3. What are some of the differences in report authoring capabilities between using a
live or direct query connection such as to an Analysis Services model, relative to
working with a data model local to the Power BI Desktop file?
4. What are many-to-many relationships and how can they be addressed in Power BI  ?
5. How to apply information security in Power BI report?
6. Explain about Joins?
7. How do you bring data from SQL Server to Power BI?
8. What is a substance pack, and for what reason would you utilize one?
9. Why should General Formatting be applied to data in Power BI?
10.What are the steps to go to Data Stories Gallery in Power Bi communities?
11.If you click on a single data-point in one of the multiple visuals in a report, does it
make any difference?
12.How can you compare Target and Actual Value from a Power BI report?
13.Is on-premise access possible in Power BI?
14.What is the Power BI Publisher for Excel?
15.Which field composes can be added to the Field well of a Slicer visual?
16.What context style is allowed by Power BI DAX?
17.How can u download excel files which has millions of records from a Power BI
report?
18.Why might you have a table in the model without any relationships to other tables?
19.What is the Embed Code?
20.How do u hide and unhide a specific report in Power BI?
21.How is data security implemented in Power BI ?
22.Name the datasets that can be used with streaming data tiles to create dashboards.
23.What is query collapsing?
24.How can we create a dashboard?
25.What kind of data can you store in Power BI?
26.What are Tiles in Power BI?
27.How to handle Many to Many relationships in Power BI?
28.What are the method to hide and unhide a specific report in Power BI?
29.What are the different connectivity modes in Power BI?
30.How to represent different levels of hierarchy of data in one singe visualization?
31.Name some commonly used tasks in the Query Editor?
32.How to perform joins in Power bi?
33.Give examples of data sources which will refresh in real-time.
34.Does the gateway have to be installed on the same machine as its data source?
35.What is the difference between Power BI and Power BI Pro?
36.Explain the term Custom Visuals.
37.Define the term 'M language."
38.What are the different types of refreshing data for our published reports?
39.What is Advanced Editor in Power BI?
40.How can you perform Dynamic filtering in Power BI?
41.What happens by clicking on a single information point in one of the various visual
in a report?
42.What is Power BI Designer?
43.What information is required to create a map in Power Map?
44.Can you join two unique information source in the same Power BI dashboard?
45.What are the different types of refresh in Power BI?
46.What is Bidirectional Cross-filtering in Power BI?
47.How can you analyze Power BI reports data in excel?
48.How to toggle between two options and make it interact with rest of the
visualizations in report?
49.What is Power BI Q&A?
50.Explain the process of dynamic filtering?
51.What is the latency for running queries from the gateway to a data source? What is
the best architecture?
52.Name two types of connectivity modes in Power BI?
53.Explain the term responsive slicers.
54.Is the Power BI tool available for free?
55.What is grouping? How can you use it?
56.What is data management gateway and Power BI personal gateway?
57.What is the only prerequisite for connecting to a database in Azure SQL Database?
58.Organization is owning Power BI workspace, has 10 members and wish to give
access for few members Dashboard, for few reports, for few Datasets. Can we
achieve this?
59.Explain the term incremental refresh?
60.What is Power Pivot Data Model?
61.What are the differences between a Power BI Dataset, a Report, and a Dashboard?
62.Why is TOP N not accessible for the Page and Report Level Filter?
63.Is Power BI available on-premises?
64.Name 4 types of roles-based usage of Power BI?
65.What do you use as a consolidate inquiry in Power BI?
66.What is on-premise gateway?
67.What is natural language search choice?
68.Difference between Filter & Raw Filter?
69.What are some ways that Excel experience can be leveraged with Power BI?
70.How can you identify which user has logged in to Power BI server or viewing the
report from Power BI?
71.Explain the term data alerts.
72.How do we disable the Default interactivity in Desktop?
73.What is Power View?
74.What is the option to unpivot data in the question proofreader?
75.Explain the difference between Power BI and Tableau?
76.What is a calculated column in Power BI and why would you use  them?
77.What is Edit Interactions in Power Bi?
78.Explain data source filter.
79.Can you create multiple dynamic connections between two tables?
80.What area do you go to change and reshape data in Power BI?
81.Can we refresh our Power BI reports once uploaded to cloud (Share point or
Powebi.com)?
82.State the main difference between Filter and Slicer.
83.What is the major difference between the old version and a new version of Power BI
tool?
84.Where incremental licensing refresh feature is accessible?
85.Explain z-order in Power BI?
86.Explain x-velocity in memory.
87.What are Data alarms
88.What are some of the unique data invigorations used for generating the distributed
reports within Power BI?
89.State the differences between Power BI and SSRS.
90.Is it possible to have created multiple active relationships in Power BI?
91.How does SSRS integrate with Power BI?

Quiz
1. You've imported a spreadsheet, but Power BI Desktop hasn't realised that the first
row should be used as column titles. What tool should you click on?
2. Data can be refreshed in Power BI service by using
3. As part of a large HR project you are working with a dataset of company employees,
both past and present. The data includes columns for EthnicGroup, PayTypeID,
 HireDate (the date they started work), TermDate (the date they left) and several other
columns. You want to create a new Calculated Column that determines if the person
was a bad hire based on a set of rules. If they were a bad hire then the result is 1,
otherwise the Calculated Column displays a zero. The bad hire rule is: BadHire = If
the person stayed at the company less than 61 days Example: If a person joined the
company on 27th June 2013 and left on 21st August 2013, then they would be a bad
hire. Which DAX expression would you use for this Calculated Column?
4. You want to create a DAX formula that automatically calculates the previous month
number. So if the month was June then the formula would return 5. You have already
created the DAX formula below: Today Month = MONTH (Sales[Todays Date])
Which of the DAX formulas below would be the right choice next?
5. Which is a single page, often called a canvas, that uses visualizations to tell a story?
6. Read the following paragraph carefully and decide whether the entire paragraph is
TRUE or FALSE? You need a Power BI Pro license to share your dashboard but
those you share it with do not need a license. When you share a dashboard, they can
view it and interact with it, but can't edit it. They see the same data that you see in
the dashboard and reports unless row-level security (RLS) is applied to the
underlying dataset. The colleagues you share it with can share the dashboard with
their colleagues, if you allow them to.
7. Which of the accompanying field composes can be added to the Field well of a Slicer
visual?
8. You have created a table with a column 'population' with numbers 53222122,
5322122, 33333. You want to display the 'population' column with comma signs.
How should you do this?
9. Data has been scraped from a table on a popular retirement website. However, the
Health care quality column's scores were not automatically transformed from text to
numbers when Query Editor loaded the table. You thus right-clicked the column
header, and selected Change Type > Whole Number to change them. Unfortunately,
the, Health care quality column contains a few ties in states' rankings, which was
noted on the website by the word (tie) after their numbers. Query Editor thus reports
a few errors. What is the consequence of using the Remove Errors option (ribbon or
the right-click menu option) to resolve this?
10.Which type of visualisation would you choose if you wanted to show relationships
between 3 numerical values and turn the horizontal axis into a logarithmic scale? The
worksheet data would include grouped sets of values and you wanted to show
patterns in large sets of data, for example by showing linear or non-linear trends,
clusters, and outliers?
11.You are viewing a Power BI dashboard in a browser window. What happens when
you click the Infocus mode of a tile?
12.How would you include different terms into Q&A?
13.You want to extract from a balances table the balance for the last period for which a
figure has been entered, and your friend suggests you use one of these functions:
(which one is correct?)
14.Some of the most powerful data analysis solutions in Power BI Desktop can be
created by using measures. Measures help us by performing calculations on our data
as we interact with our reports. Understanding aggregations is fundamental to
understanding measures, because every measure will perform some type of
aggregation. Which of the below is TRUE regarding measures in Power BI?
15.Which of the accompanying articulations are valid regarding outlining a Power BI
Desktop venture in DirectQuery mode?
16.Which of the accompanying in not a legitimate variable compose when programming
in the M dialect?
17.You are creating a custom column with Column name as "Metres per unit" and
Custom column formula as "=[SquareMetres] / [NumberUnits]". Which language is
custom formula written in?
18.When creating a waterfall chart, which two field options that you need to define?
19.When you share with people outside your organization, they get an email with a link
to the shared dashboard. They need a Power BI Pro license, and they have to sign in
to Power BI to see the dashboard. After they sign in, they see the shared dashboard in
its own browser window without the left navigation pane, not in their usual Power BI
portal. They have to bookmark the link to access this dashboard in the future. Which
of the following statements is FALSE when sharing visualizations outside of your
organisation?
20.A CurrentSales dataset contains a large number of product codes for items that the
company have sold in the last 12 months. Due to the nature of the business and the
wide variety of suppliers, the product codes come in a variety of formats, including
mixed case characters. You want to write a DAX expression that checks if the
product code contains the letters “ex”. Which DAX function below is the right one to
use?
21.Where do you discover the Q&A highlight?
22.When you enable Snap objects to grid, all visuals on the Power BI Desktop canvas
that you move (or resize) are automatically aligned to the nearest grid axis, making it
much easier to ensure two or more visuals align to the same horizontal or vertical
 location or size. You can also manage the overlap of each element on the design
surface, often referred to as?
23.With Power BI Publish to web, you can easily embed interactive Power BI
visualizations online, such as in blog posts, websites, through emails or social media,
on any device. You have published a visualization but unfortunately changes to the
underlying data are not immediately visible to users. What might be wrong?
24.Which level of filter behaves the same as a slicer in a report in Power BI Desktop?
25.Department table has unique departments and employee table can have many
employees in each department and both entities can be linked in relationship view
from department to Employee table using
26.Which three views are available in Power BI Desktop? 1) Dashboard 2) Report 3)
Data 4) Relationships
27.Which chart is used to compare data side by side?
28.Which chart will show correlation between 2 variables?
29.You're importing a list of top films from web using a URL. If you type in a valid
URL like this and choose to continue, what will Power BI Desktop let you import?
30.Which of the following is crosstable chart?
31.When planning an information display with Power BI Desktop, which of the
accompanying proclamations are genuine in regards to the tenets for making table
connections?
32.Having created a new blank model you want to load in data from a SQL Server
database which is hosted on the same PC as the Power BI Desktop application. You
click the Get Date ribbon option and select SQL Server from the drop down list.
What should you enter in the Server textbox?
33.Report Level filter applies to
34.Which chart is suitable for comparing two sets of measure values that are usually
hard to compare because of the differences in scale?

Behavorial Questions
1. Tell me about your educational background and the business intelligence analysis
field you’re experienced in.
2. Specify two important chart types in your BI analyst arsenal. Why do you find them
important?
3. What is your opinion about Agile software development for BI projects? do you
support employing Agile methodologies with your company’s clients?
4. What specific technical skills do you have as a BI analyst?

Scenario Based
1. We are using Power BI Desktop Currently. In next 5-6 months, we are planning to
have Azure Analysis Services. We have Oracle Servers in our Company. We have to
create data model in Power BI Desktop so that once we have AAS in place we can
resuse whatever developement we do. We have huge volume of data in many tables.
Answer the following questions:

The Questions
1. What are the essential applications of the Power BI? ↑

Power BI is mainly used by:

 PMO - Project Management Office

 Business & Data Analyst
 Developer & Database Administrator
 IT Team, IT Professional
 Consumer for End User Report
 Data Scientist
2. What are the different types of filters in Power BI Reports? ↑

Power BI provides variety of option to filter report, data and visualization. The
following are the list of Filter types.

 Visual-level Filters: These filters work on only an individual visualization,

reducing the amount of data that the visualization can see. Moreover, visual-
level filters can filter both data and calculations.
 Page-level Filters: These filters work at the report-page level. Different pages in
the same report can have different page-level filters.
 Report-level Filters: There filters work on the entire report, filtering all pages
and visualizations included in the report.
We know that Power BI visual have interactions feature, which makes filtering a
report a breeze. Visual interactions are useful, but they come with some limitations:

 The filter is not saved as part of the report. Whenever you open a report, you can
begin to play with visual filters but there is no way to store the filter in the saved
report.
 The filter is always visible. Sometimes you want a filter for the entire report, but
you do not want any visual indication of the filter being applied.
3. Name out three important Power BI tools? ↑

Three important power BI tool are:

 Power BI Desktop—It is used for desktop computers

 Power BI service—It is an online software as a service tool
 Mobile Power BI apps—They are used for iOS and Android devices.
4. What is the general business need for Power BI? ↑

You can take the data and create robust reporting very easily. This assists in attracting
new clients toward servicing and monitoring the customers already present. It also
becomes possible to track information and set goals. Therefore, completely building
an extraction, transformation and loading solution ultimately assists the management
so they are able to make better decisions in the process. The return on investment
when it comes to Power BI is also very high. Lastly, it makes some of the unwanted
data into information, which can be utilized progressively.

5. What are the important components of the Power BI toolkit, and what do they do? ↑
 Power Query: It allows you to discover, access, and consolidate information
from different sources.
 Power Pivot: A modeling tool.
 Power View: It is a presentation tool for creating charts, tables, and more
 Power Map: Helps you to create geospatial representations of your data.
 Power Q&A: Allows you to use natural language to get answers to questions.
6. What is Power BI Desktop? ↑
Power BI Desktop is a free desktop application that can be installed right on your own
computer. Power BI Desktop works cohesively with the Power BI service by
providing advanced data exploration, shaping, modeling, and creating report with
highly interactive visualizations. You can save your work to a file or publish your data
and reports right to your Power BI site to share with others.

7. What are the drawbacks of using Power BI? ↑

Here, are the main drawbacks of Power BI:

 Dashboards and reports only shared with users having identical email domains.
 Power Bl does not mix imported data, which is accessed from real-time
connections.
 Power BI can't accept file size larger than 1 GB.
 Dashboard does not accept or pass user, account, or other entity parameters.
8. What is content packs? ↑

These are pre-built solutions build for popular services as a major part of the Power
BI experience.

9. Why use selection pane in Power BI? ↑

Selection Pane helps you to take control over visuals which require to be displayed
and which should not be displayed. It allows you to combine multiple visual pages in
the group and is also used in bookmarking.

10. What is Power BI? ↑

Power BI is a cloud-based data sharing environment. Once you have developed

reports using Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View, you can share your insights
with your colleagues. This is where Power BI enters the equation. Power BI, which
technically is an aspect of SharePoint online, lets you load Excel workbooks into the
cloud and share them with a chosen group of co-workers. Not only that, but your
colleagues can interact with your reports to apply filters and slicers to highlight data.
They are completed by Power BI, a simple way of sharing your analysis and insights
from the Microsoft cloud.

Power BI features allow you to:

 Share presentations and queries with your colleagues.

 Update your Excel file from data sources that can be on site or in the cloud.
 Display the output on multiple devices. This includes PCs, tablets, and HTML 5-
enabled mobile devices that use the Power BI app.
 Query your data using natural language processing (or Q&A, as it is known).
11. What are the different views in Power BI Desktop? ↑

There are three different views in Power BI, each of which serves a different purpose.

Report View: Users can add visualizations and additional report pages and publish the
same on the portal from here. Data View: Data shaping can be performed through
Query Editor tools. Relationship View: Users can manage relationships between
datasets in this view.

12. Why use Power BI? ↑

Here are four primary reasons for using Power BI tool:

 Pre-built dashboards and reports for SaaS Solutions.

 Power BI allows real-time dashboard updates.
 Offers Secure and reliable connection to your data sources in the cloud or on-
premises
 Power BI offers fast deployment, hybrid configuration, and secure environment.
 Helps you in data exploration using natural language query
13. What is self-service business intelligence? ↑
 SSBI is an approach to data analytics that enables business users to filter,
segment, and, analyze their data, without the in-depth technical knowledge in
statistical analysis, business intelligence (BI).
 SSBI has made it easier for end users to access their data and create various
visuals to get better business insights.
  Anybody who has a basic understanding of the data can create reports to build
intuitive and shareable dashboards.
14. What data sources can Power BI connect to? ↑

The list of data sources for Power BI is extensive, but it can be grouped into the
following:

 Files: Data can be imported from Excel (.xlsx, xlxm), Power BI Desktop files
(.pbix) and Comma Separated Value (.csv).
 Content Packs: It is a collection of related documents or files that are stored as
a group. In Power BI, there are two types of content packs, firstly those from
services providers like Google Analytics, Marketo or Salesforce and secondly
those created and shared by other users in your organization.
 Connectors to databases and other datasets such as Azure SQL, Databaseand
SQL, Server Analysis Services tabular data, etc.
15. Where is data stored in Power BI? ↑

When data is ingested into Power BI, it is basically stored in Fact and Dimension
tables.

Fact tables: The central table in a star schema of a data warehouse, a fact table stores
quantitative information for analysis and is not normalized in most cases. Dimension
tables: It is just another table in the star schema that is used to store attributes and
dimensions that describe objects stored in a fact table.

16. What is Power BI embedded? ↑

PowerBI embedded is an Azure-based cloud Service which enabled Web developers

to create and integrate PowerBI reports. Users/Developers can create their reports
using PowerBI desktop, without the need to write any code. Then, the PowerBI
desktop report can be published to a PowerBI embedded workspace and consumed by
end users

17. What are the important features of Power BI dashboard? ↑

It allows you to drill through the page, bookmarks, and selection pane. It allows you
to create various tiles like web content, images, textbox, and integrate URLs. Allows
you to set report layout to mobile view.

18. What is Bookmark? ↑

Bookmark in Power BI helps you to capture the configured view of a report page in a
specific time. This includes filter and state of visual which can use a short cut to come
back to the report that you can add as a bookmark.

19. What is BI? ↑

Business intelligence is a technology-driven method. It helps you to analyze data and

to provide actionable information which helps corporate executives, business
managers, and other users to take decisive business decisions.

20. What are the parts of Microsoft self-service business intelligence solution? ↑

Microsoft has two parts for Self-Service BI:

 Excel BI Toolkit: It allows users to create an interactive report by importing

data from different sources and model data according to report requirement.
 Power BI: It is the online solution that enables you to share the interactive
reports and queries that you have created using the Excel BI Toolkit.
21. What is the purpose of the ‘Get Data’ icon in Power BI? ↑

When users click on the Get Data icon in Power BI, a drop-down menu appears and it
shows all data sources from which data can be ingested. Data can actually be directly
ingested from any source including files in Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, and
SharePoint formats and databases such as SQL, Access, SQL Server Analysis
Services, Oracle, IBM, MySQL, and much more. Also, Power BI datasets and Power
BI data flows are compatible. Data can also be taken in from Azure and other online
sources.

22. What data sources can Power BI connect to? ↑

The following data sources that support DirectQuery in Power BI are as follows:

 Amazon Redshift
 Azure Data Explorer
 AtScale (Beta)
 Azure SQL Database
 Azure HDInsight Spark
 Google BigQuery
 Azure SQL Data Warehouse
 HDInsight Interactive Query
23. What are Building Blocks in Power BI? ↑

The following are the Building Blocks (or) key components of Power BI:

 Visualizations: Visualization is a visual representation of data.Example: Pie

Chart, Line Graph, Side by Side Bar Charts, Graphical Presentation of the
source data on top of Geographical Map, Tree Map, etc.
 Datasets: Dataset is a collection of data that Power BI uses to create its
visualizations.Example: Excel sheets, Oracle or SQL server tables.
 Reports: Report is a collection of visualizations that appear together on one or
more pages.Example: Sales by Country, State, City Report, Logistic
Performance report, Profit by Products report etc.
 Dashboards: Dashboard is single layer presentation of multiple visualizations,
i.e we can integrate one or more visualizations into one page layer.Example:
Sales dashboard can have pie charts, geographical maps and bar charts.
 Tiles: Tile is a single visualization in a report or on a dashboard.Example: Pie
Chart in Dashboard or Report.
1. What does DATEDIFF function do? ↑

This function gives a difference between 2 dates based on the specified Date part.

2. What are the data types of Dax? ↑

Data types of Dax are:

 Numeric
  Boolean
 DateTime
 String
 Decimal
3. What is the DATEPART function? ↑

It returns date function as an integer. However, DATENAME function does the same
thing, except it returns the name of the part of the date.

4. State the difference between Count and CounD function. ↑

Count function returns to count, excluding NULL values whereas Countd returns
distinct values which exclude NULL values.

5. What is the use of statewith function? ↑

This function returns the logical answers TRUE if the sub-string is the starting string
for the superstring. If it is not, it will return false.

6. What is the use of INDEX Function in Power BI? ↑

INDEX function helps you to retrieve the index of the respective row.

7. What is DAX function? ↑

It is a formula expression language called (DAX) that can be used with various
visualization tools like Power BI. It is also known as a functional language, where the
full code is kept inside a function.

8. Explain DATEDD function in Power BI. ↑

DATEDD function helps you to convert any input to a date format. This input can
number, string, or a data type input.

9. What is the main difference between LTRIM and RTRIM? ↑

LTRIM function helps you to remove the white space from the LEFT of the string.
RTRIM helps you to remove it from the right the last index.

10. What is the common table function for grouping data? ↑

SUMMARIZE()

 Main groupby function in SSAS.

 Recommended practice is to specify table and group by columns but not
metrics.You can use ADDCOLUMNS function.

SUMMARIZECOLUMNS

 New group by function for SSAS and Power BI Desktop; more efficient.
 Specify group by columns, table, and expressions.
11. Write a DAX for dynamic security? ↑

We can implement through the following DAX

USERNAME(), USERPRICIPALNAME()

12. What is the calulated column? ↑

It is a calculating expression of DAX which allows calculation on data stored in a new

column.

13. What is DAX? ↑

To do basic calculation and data analysis on data in power pivot, we use Data
Analysis Expression (DAX). It is formula language used to compute calculated
column and calculated field.

 DAX works on column values.

 DAX can not modify or insert data.
 We can create calculated column and measures with DAX but we can not
calculate rows using DAX.
Sample DAX formula syntax:

For the measure named Total Sales, calculate (=) the SUM of values in the
[SalesAmount] column in the Sales table.

14. State the major differences between MAX and MAXA functions ↑

If you want to calculate numeric values, then use MAX. However, if it is for non
numeric values, then you should use MAXA.

15. What is special or unique about the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE

functions? ↑

These are the only functions that allow you modify filter context of measures or
tables.

 Add to existing filter context of queries.

 Override filter context from queries.
 Remove existing filter context from queries.

Limitations:

 Filter parameters can only operate on a single column at a time.

 Filter parameters cannot reference a metric.
16. Difference between Sum & Sumx? ↑

Both SUM and SUMX are Aggreagate Functions where:

SUM works on a Single Column vs SUMX can take the Table as Input SUMX has
row-context where as SUM doesn’t have SUMX is an iterative Function where as
SUM is not.

17. What is CORR function? When we use it? ↑

CORR is a correlation function. It gives a correlation between two variables. It mostly

ranges from -1 to 1.
18. What are the different Excel BI add-in? ↑

Below are the most important BI add-in to Excel:

 Power Query: It helps in finding, editing and loading external data.

 Power Pivot: Its mainly used ****for data modeling and analysis.
 Power View: It is used to design visual and interactively reports.
 Power Map: It helps to display insights on 3D Map.
19. How is the FILTER function used? ↑

The FILTER function returns a table with a filter condition applied for each of its
source table rows. The FILTER function is rarely used in isolation, it’s generally used
as a parameter to other functions such as CALCULATE.

 FILTER is an iterator and thus can negatively impact performance over large
source tables.
 Complex filtering logic can be applied such as referencing a measure in a filter
expression. FILTER(MyTable,[SalesMetric] > 500)
20. What does STARTSWITH function do? ↑

STARTSWITH function returns the logical answers in a way, TRUE if the sub-string
is the starting string for super-string. FALSE if not so.

21. How can you apply percentile function in Power BI? ↑

PERCENTILE function allows you to returns the data value of the specific percentile
number.

22. How can you differ COVAR and COVARP? ↑

The main difference between the two is that: COVAR directly gives the same co-
variance, whereas COVARP is the population covariance.

23. How to achieve Dynamic Top N Customers? ↑

Dynamic Top N will be achieved with RANKX Function and What-if Parameter.
24. State the main difference between District() and Values() in DAX? ↑

The only difference between two functions is that with District help you to calculate
the null values.

25. In DAX we can do year to date and parallel period and such, which is great for
financial reporting. What are some prerequisites for doing time intelligence? ↑

The main prerequisite is you need a date table, more specifically, a continuous date
table with a whole range of dates (no breaks in the dates). That way you can calculate
over that continuous line. You can build that date table using the M language in the
Power Query Editor, use DAX or if you already have one in your model or data
source you can bring it into Power BI.

The second element you need is to define the relationship with the date table and the
other appropriate tables.

Remember all dates should be present without exception and you need a proper
relationship for time intelligence to function the way you intend it to.

26. What is the difference between VAR and VARP? ↑

VAR is the variance formula for population(n). VARP is the function of variance for
sample(n-1).

27. What is the SIGN function? ↑

Sign function returns the direction of the values. If it returns 1, if positive then 1, if 0
then 0.

28. What is IFNULL function? ↑

If the value is not NULL iFNULL function result is the first expression, if it is not,
then it will return the second expression.

29. What are the most common DAX Functions used? ↑

Below are some of the most commonly used DAX function:

 SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, COUNTROWS, DISTINCTCOUNT

 IF, AND, OR, SWITCH
 ISBLANK, ISFILTERED, ISCROSSFILTERED
 VALUES, ALL, FILTER, CALCULATE,
 UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT, NATURALINNERJOIN,
NATURALLEFTEROUTERJOIN,SUMMARIZECOLUMNS, ISEMPTY,
 VAR (Variables)
 GEOMEAN, MEDIAN, DATEDIFF
30. What is RUNNING_AVG function do? ↑

RUNNING_AVG function gives the average value to all the cells/pane/region

processed for. It works to give the average by making all those inclusive values
accordingly.

31. What does DATENAME function do? ↑

DATENAME function shows the name of the specific part of the date that is given.

32. What is the difference between Calculated Columns, Calculated Tables, and
Measures? ↑

Calculated Columns

 Added to tables by applying DAX formula on the existing data.

 DAX formula defines values in new columns rather than querying data sources.
 Useful when data sources do not contain data presented in the desired format.

Calculated Tables

 Created using DAX formula to define values.

 Created in both Report and Data views.
 Work well for intermediate calculations and the data that users want to be stored
in the model.
Measures

 Use other DAX functions to create complex calculations.

 Used for highlighting running totals, comparing sales, sales forecasting, and
other purposes.
 Created in both Report and Data views.
33. Suppose there are two tables and I have to put them one below the other. Can we do
in Power bi? If yes, then what is the query used? ↑

We need to use Append Queries option in Power Query Editor. If you want to append
the 2 tables in Power BI Desktop we need to use DAX Function UNION by creating a
new table by clicking New Table.

34. What is the use of ENDSWITH function? ↑

ENDSWITH function helps you to return the logical result to the given string. In case
If the sub-string is available at the end of the sub string, then it returns TRUE.

35. How would you create trailing X month metrics via DAX against a non-standard
calendar? ↑

The solution will involve:

1. CALCULATE function to control (take over) filter context of measures.

2. ALL to remove existing filters on the date dimension.
3. FILTER to identify which rows of the date dimension to use.

Alternatively, CONTAINS may be used:

 CALCULATE(FILTER(ALL(‘DATE’),…….))
36. Describe the Gather function of the Power BI process? ↑

The Gather function in Power BI collects and transforms data. As with the case of
Query Editor, the data is gathered using the Gather function from multiple sources and
stored in a single location. This facilitates smooth and prompt data analysis.
Following the collection, the data is transformed, which necessarily entails the
removal of errors and any inconsistency. The end product of this process is clean data,
which is aligned with the rest of the data stores in Power BI.

37. What is the use of MID function? ↑

MID function returns the string character from the specified index position.

38. What are some benefits of using Variables in DAX ? ↑

Below are some of the benefits:

 By declaring and evaluating a variable, the variable can be reused multiple times
in a DAX expression, thus avoiding additional queries of the source database.
 Variables can make DAX expressions more intuitive/logical to interpret.
 Variables are only scoped to their measure or query, they cannot be shared
among measures, queries or be defined at the model level.
39. In DAX we can do year to date and parallel period and such, which is great for
financial reporting. What are some prerequisites for doing time intelligence? ↑

The main prerequisite is you need a date table, more specifically, a continuous date
table with a whole range of dates (no breaks in the dates). That way you can calculate
over that continuous line. You can build that date table using the M language in the
Power Query Editor, use DAX or if you already have one in your model or data
source you can bring it into Power BI.

The second element you need is to define the relationship with the date table and the
other appropriate tables.

Remember all dates should be present without exception and you need a proper
relationship for time intelligence to function the way you intend it to.

40. How to Calculate MTD, WTD, and YTD in Power BI? ↑

We can use DAX Formulas to find MTD, YTD and WTD as given below:
YTD_Sales =
CALCULATE(Sum(Sales[Sales_Product]),YEAR(Sales[CreatedDate])=YEAR(TOD
AY())) , MTD_Sales =
CALCULATE(sum(Sales[Sales_Product]),MONTH(Sales[CreatedDate])=MONTH(T
ODAY())), WTD_Sales =
CALCULATE(sum(Sales[Sales_Product]),WEEKNUM(Sales[CreatedDate])=WEEK
NUM(TODAY()))

41. Explain the collect function ↑

Collect function excludes null value. It does aggregate spatial values. You can't
transform data to another format.

42. List out benefits of using Variables in DAX. ↑

Here, are benefits of using DAX function:

 By declaring and evaluating a variable, the variable can be reused multiple times
in a DAX expression, which helps you to avoid additional queries of the source
database.
 Variables can make DAX expressions more useful and logical.
 Variables is only scoped, which should be measure or query which can't be
among measures.
43. What is the difference between Values() and Distinct() in DAX? ↑

Both are used to do the same function of calculating values; the only difference is
DISTINCT () can calculate null values as well.

1. What are the filter writes in Power BI? ↑

Filters are applicable in:

 Visualization level
 Page Level
 Report Level
2. What is Power Pivot Data Model? ↑
It is a model that is made up of data types, tables, columns, and table relations. These
data tables are typically constructed for holding data for a business entity.

3. What is Power Pivot? ↑

Power Pivot is an add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010 that enables you to import millions
of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook. It lets you
create relationships between heterogeneous data, create calculated columns and
measures using formulas, build PivotTables and PivotCharts. You can then further
analyze the data so that you can make timely business decisions without requiring IT
assistance.

4. Can we have more than one active relationship between two tables in data model of
power pivot? ↑

No, we cannot have more than one active relationship between two tables. However,
can have more than one relationship between two tables but there will be only one
active relationship and many inactive relationship. The dotted lines are inactive and
continuous line are active.

5. What is xVelocity in-memory analytics engine used in Power Pivot? ↑

The main engine behind power pivot is the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine. It
can handle large amount of data because it stores data in columnar databases, and in
memory analytics which results in faster processing of data as it loads all data to
RAM memory.

6. What are some of differences in data modeling between Power BI Desktop and Power
Pivot for Excel? ↑

Here are some of the differences:

 Power BI Desktop supports bi-directional cross filtering relationships, security,

calculated tables, and Direct Query options.
  Power Pivot for Excel has single direction (one to many) relationships,
calculated columns only, and supports import mode only. Security roles cannot
be defined in Power Pivot for Excel.
1. What is query folding in Power Query? ↑

Query folding is when steps defined in Power Query/Query Editor are translated into
SQL and executed by the source database rather than the client machine. It’s
important for processing performance and scalability, given limited resources on the
client machine.

2. What are query parameters and Power BI templates? ↑

Query parameters can be used to provide users of a local Power BI Desktop report
with a prompt, to specify the values they’re interested in.

 The parameter selection can then be used by the query and calculations.
 PBIX files can be exported as Templates (PBIT files).
 Templates contain everything in the PBIX except the data itself.

Parameters and templates can make it possible to share/email smaller template files
and limit the amount of data loaded into the local PBIX files, improving processing
time and experience .

3. What are some common Power Query/Editor Transforms? ↑

Changing Data Types, Filtering Rows, Choosing/Removing Columns, Grouping,

Splitting a column into multiple columns, Adding new Columns ,etc.

4. Why do we need Power Query when Power Pivot can import data from mostly used
sources? ↑

Power Query is a self-service ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool which runs as an
Excel add-in. It allows users to pull data from various sources, manipulate said data
into a form that suits their needs and load it into Excel. It is most optimum to use
Power Query over Power Pivot as it lets you not only load the data but also
manipulate it as per the users needs while loading.

5. What are the data destinations for Power Queries? ↑

There are two destinations for output we get from power query:

1. Load to a table in a worksheet.

2. Load to the Excel Data Model.
6. What is Power Query? ↑

Power query is a ETL Tool used to shape, clean and transform data using intuitive
interfaces without having to use coding. It helps the user to:

 Import Data from wide range of sources from files, databases, big data, social
media data, etc.
 Join and append data from multiple data sources.
 Shape data as per requirement by removing and adding data.
7. Which language is used in Power Query? ↑

A new programming language is used in power query called M-Code. It is easy to use
and similar to other languages. M-code is case sensitive language.

8. Can SQL and Power Query/Query Editor be used together? ↑

Yes, a SQL statement can be defined as the source of a Power Query/M function for
additional processing/logic. This would be a good practice to ensure that an efficient
database query is passed to the source and avoid unnecessary processing and
complexity by the client machine and M function.

1. What are the primary requirement for a table to be used in Power Map? ↑

For a data to be consumed in power map there should be location data like:

 Latitude/Longitude pair
  Street, City, Country/Region, Zip Code/Postal Code, and State/Province, which
can be geolocated by Bing

The primary requirement for the table is that it contains unique rows. It must also
contain location data, which can be in the form of a Latitude/Longitude pair, although
this is not a requirement. You can use address fields instead, such as Street, City,
Country/Region, Zip Code/Postal Code, and State/Province, which can be geolocated
by Bing.

2. What is Power Map? ↑

Power Map is an Excel add-in that provides you with a powerful set of tools to help
you visualize and gain insight into large sets of data that have a geo-coded
component. It can help you produce 3D visualizations by plotting upto a million data
points in the form of column, heat, and bubble maps on top of a Bing map. If the data
is time stamped, it can also produce interactive views that display, how the data
changes over space and time.

3. What are the data hotspots when it comes to Power Map? ↑

The data can either be available in Excel or it can be available remotely. For
simplicity of setting up your data make sure the majority of your data is inside an
Excel table where each of the columns is setup to a unique record. The segment
headings or the column headings ought to have a message as opposed to genuine data
with the objective that Power Map is there to decipher it in an accurate manner
especially when it plots the geographic directions. The utilization of some of the
important names makes the classification fields accessible in the Power Map Tour
Editor Sheet. In order to utilize table structures, both time and geology within the
Power Map have to incorporate the better part of the data within the table lines. In
order to do this you might have to:

• You wish to stack the data from an outside source.

• In Excel click on the menu data > the association you need within the Get external
data gathering.

• Take the means or results within the wizard that begins.

• On the last advance of the wizard, make certain Add this data to the Data Model is
checked.

1. Why is Top N not accessible by or for report level filter and page-level filter? ↑

Top N is not accessible for page-level filter and report level filter as they both are
associated with different visuals.

2. What are the three Edit Interactions options of a visual tile in Power BI Desktop? ↑

The 3 edit interaction options are Filter, Highlight, and None.

Filter: It completely filter a visual/tile based on the filter selection of another

visual/tile.

Highlight: It highlight only the related elements on the visual/tile, gray out the non-
related items.

None: It ignore the filter selection from another tile/visual.

3. What are some of the differences in report authoring capabilities between using a live
or direct query connection such as to an Analysis Services model, relative to working with
a data model local to the Power BI Desktop file? ↑

With a data model local to the PBIX file (or Power Pivot workbook), the author has
full control over the queries, the modeling/relationships, the metadata and the metrics.

With a live connection to an Analysis Services database (cube) the user cannot create
new metrics, import new data, change the formatting of the metrics, etc – the user can
only use the visualization, analytics, and formatting available on the report canvas.
With a direct query model in Power BI to SQL Server, for example, the author has
access to the same features (and limitations) available to SSAS Direct Query mode.

 Only one data source (one database on one server) may be used, certain DAX
functions are not optimized, and the user cannot use Query Editor functions that
cannot be translated into SQL statements.
4. What are many-to-many relationships and how can they be addressed in Power BI ? ↑

Many to Many relationships involve a bridge or junction table reflecting the

combinations of two dimensions (e.g. doctors and patients). Either all possible
combinations or those combinations that have occurred.

 Bi-Directional Crossfiltering relationships can be used in PBIX.

 CROSSFILTER function can be used in Power Pivot for Excel.
 DAX can be used per metric to check and optionally modify the filter context.
5. How to apply information security in Power BI report? ↑

A DAX look can be valuable on a table sifting its lines at question time. Dynamic
security include the utilization of USERNAME works in security job definition.
Typically a table is made in the model that relates clients to explicit measurements
and a job.

6. Explain about Joins? ↑

We have Six types of Joins in Power BI which we use it in Power Query Editor:

Inner Join Left Outer Join Right Outer Join Full Outer Join Left Anti Right Anti Inner
Join: If we want only the matching records from both the tables then will use Inner
join/Simple join

Left Outer Join: If we want all the records from left table and only matching records
from right table then will use left Outer join/left join.

Right Outer Join: If we want to display all the records from right table and only
matching records from left table then will Right Outer join/Right Join.
Full Outer Join: If we want display all the records from both the tables then will use
Full Outer Join

Left Anti: Displays only the mismatched records from Left Table

Right Anti: Displays only the mismatched records from the Right Table.

7. How do you bring data from SQL Server to Power BI? ↑

Step 1: Click on Get Data in Power BI Desktop Step 2: Select SQL Server from the
list Step 3: Fill the Details of the Server and Database Step 4: Click on Import or
Direct Query based on the Requirement.

8. What is a substance pack, and for what reason would you utilize one? ↑

A substance pack is an instant, predefined gathering of representations and reports

utilizing your picked administration (for instance, Sales power). You’d utilize one
when you need to get fully operational rapidly, rather than making a report without
any preparation.

9. Why should General Formatting be applied to data in Power BI? ↑

By formatting data, users can help Power BI categorize and identify data, making it
much easier to work with.

Enter a custom formula to create a new column, including calculations using values
from the other columns To create a new column, click on Add Custom Column In the
new column name box, type the name of the column and add the formula to the
custom column formula box; for example, [ShipDate] – [OrderDate] Select a column
from the available columns list and click on Insert or double-click to add it to the
custom column formula text box. Then, click on OK The new column is appended to
the table, and the formula is visible in the Formula Bar Custom Column Formula: =
Table.AddColumn(#"Sorted Rows", "DaysOrderToShip", each [ShipDate] -
[OrderDate]) The above code is the formula to create a custom column, which
calculates the days from when an order was placed to when it got shipped.

10. What are the steps to go to Data Stories Gallery in Power Bi communities? ↑

Steps to go to Data Stories Gallery:

 First, open PowerBI.com in a favorite browser.

 By hovering on Learn
 Click on Community
 Scroll down little, and you will find Data Stories Gallery.
 Anyone can submit her or his Data Story as well.
11. If you click on a single data-point in one of the multiple visuals in a report, does it
make any difference? ↑

Yes, it makes a difference. When we click on a single data-point, the data gets
selected and copied to the dashboard. The copied data can be pasted then anywhere
according to the requirement of the users.

12. How can you compare Target and Actual Value from a Power BI report? ↑

You need to use Gauge chart to compare two different measure.

13. Is on-premise access possible in Power BI? ↑

No, it is not possible to access Power BI services on private or internal service cloud.
However, by using Power BI desktop, you can connect with the on-premises data
sources.

14. What is the Power BI Publisher for Excel? ↑

You can use Power BI publisher for Excel to pin ranges, pivot tables and charts to
Power BI.

 The user can manage the tiles – refresh them, remove them, in Excel.
  Pinned items must be removed from the dashboard in the service (removing in
Excel only deletes the connection).
 The Power BI Publisher for Excel can also be used to connect from Excel to
datasets that are hosted in the Power BI Service.
 An Excel pivot table is generated with a connection (ODC file) to the data in
Azure.

The Publisher installs all necessary drivers on local machine to establish connectivity .

15. Which field composes can be added to the Field well of a Slicer visual? ↑

Computing segments should be made with a DAX articulation.

16. What context style is allowed by Power BI DAX? ↑

Power BI DAX content style is both Row and Filter.

17. How can u download excel files which has millions of records from a Power BI
report? ↑

To download large extracts of data, we can host the excel file to a share point, which
will generate a .xlsx link, which can be embedded to “Text” or “Button”. On clicking
on the Text link or Button. The excel file gets downloaded directly which is hosted in
share point or some other base location.

18. Why might you have a table in the model without any relationships to other tables? ↑

There are mainly 2 reasons why we would have tables without relations in our model:

 A disconnected table might be used to present the user with parameter values to
be exposed and selected in slicers (e.g. growth assumption.)
o DAX metrics could retrieve this selection and use it with other
calculations/metrics.
 A disconnected table may also be used as a placeholder for metrics in the user
interface.
o It may not contain any rows of data and its columns could be hidden but all
metrics are visible.
19. What is the Embed Code? ↑

Power BI online contains an option for publishing on web that will generate a link
address for the Power BI report. You can share these links to others, which is called
embed code.

20. How do u hide and unhide a specific report in Power BI? ↑

We have to go to selection Pane in the menu bar and hide/unhide the report and the
action can be passed to book mark.

21. How is data security implemented in Power BI ? ↑

Power BI can apply Row Level Security roles to models.

 A DAX expression is applied on a table filtering its rows at query time.

 Dynamic security involves the use of USERNAME functions in security role
definitions.
 Typically a table is created in the model that relates users to specific dimensions
and a role.
22. Name the datasets that can be used with streaming data tiles to create dashboards. ↑

Hybrid datasets and Streaming datasets can be used with streaming data tiles to create
dashboards.

23. What is query collapsing? ↑

The process of converting the steps in power query editor to SQL and executing it by
the source database is called query collapsing.

24. How can we create a dashboard? ↑

First upload a dataset and then upload the same, create multiple reports and infuse
everything together as an appealing dashboard.

25. What kind of data can you store in Power BI? ↑

In Power BI, you can store mainly two types of data.

Fact Tables:

The central table in a star schema of a data warehouse is a fact table that stores
quantitative information for analysis, which is not normalized in most cases.

Dimension Tables:

It is a table in the star schema which helps you to store attributes and dimensions
which describe objects that are stored in a fact table.

26. What are Tiles in Power BI? ↑

Tile is an important feature of power BI services and can be said as a picture of the
data which can be pinned to the dashboard.

27. How to handle Many to Many relationships in Power BI? ↑

You can use Crossfiltering option in Power BI to address the Many to Many
relationships.

28. What are the method to hide and unhide a specific report in Power BI? ↑

To hide and unhide specific report, you have to go to selection Pane in the menu bar,
and press hides/unhide toggle button to bookmark.

29. What are the different connectivity modes in Power BI? ↑

Import Mode Direct Query Mode

30. How to represent different levels of hierarchy of data in one singe visualization? ↑

Step 1. Create a hierarchy by grouping the required data from the data tab and pull
that into Axis Tab and Enable drill down option by clicking on down arrow on the
chart. Step 2. Pull all the hierarchical columns separately in to the axis pane in the
order of their hierarchy and enable the drill down action by clicking on down arrow
on the chart. Note: Both Step 1 and Step 2 will serve the same purpose.

31. Name some commonly used tasks in the Query Editor? ↑

 Connect to data

 Shape and combine data

 Group rows
 Pivot columns
 Create custom columns
 Query formulas
32. How to perform joins in Power bi? ↑

Joins will be performed in Model Tab in Power BI Desktop.

33. Give examples of data sources which will refresh in real-time. ↑

PowerBI currently supports different types of streaming datasets. You can directly
stream data using a push URL to PowerBI.com service. PowerBI also supports
streaming data sources from PubNub, which is an Infrastructure as a Service provider.
The third option is to Azure Stream Analytics which is built on top of Azure Service
Bus and Event Hub. You can select the streaming data to go-to PowerBI as your
destination. Here is a sample report with streaming data.

34. Does the gateway have to be installed on the same machine as its data source? ↑

No, the gateway connects to its data source by using the provided connection
information. In this sense, think of the gateway as a client application. It just needs to
connect to the server that has the provided name.

35. What is the difference between Power BI and Power BI Pro? ↑

Power BI: It provides different features for the users to get started with data search in
a unique way. Power BI Pro: It holds some extra features added to the Power BI
features like higher storage capacity, data refresh scheduling and interactive live data
sources.

36. Explain the term Custom Visuals. ↑

Graphs or visual which are not included in Power BI desktop are imported for better
visualization.

37. Define the term 'M language." ↑

It is a programming language used in Power Query. It's a functional, case-sensitive

language which is similar to other programming languages and easy to use.

38. What are the different types of refreshing data for our published reports? ↑

There are four main types of refresh in Power BI. Package refresh, model or data
refresh, tile refresh and visual container refresh.

 Package refresh

This synchronizes your Power BI Desktop, or Excel, file between the Power BI
service and OneDrive, or SharePoint Online. However, this does not pull data from
the original data source. The dataset in Power BI will only be updated with what is in
the file within OneDrive, or SharePoint Online.

 Model/data refresh

It referrs to refreshing the dataset, within the Power BI service, with data from the
original data source. This is done by either using scheduled refresh, or refresh now.
This requires a gateway for on-premises data sources.

 Tile refresh

Tile refresh updates the cache for tile visuals, on the dashboard, once data changes.
This happens about every fifteen minutes. You can also force a tile refresh by
selecting the ellipsis (…) in the upper right of a dashboard and selecting Refresh
dashboard tiles.

 Visual container refresh

Refreshing the visual container updates the cached report visuals, within a report,
once the data changes.

To know more about data refresh and understand how to implement data refresh, you
can check the following link.

39. What is Advanced Editor in Power BI? ↑

Advanced Editor can be used to see the query that Power BI runs against data sources
to import data.

The query is written in M-code, the Power Query Formula Language To view the
query code from Power BI Desktop, choose Edit Queries from the Home tab From
either the Home or the View tab, click on Advanced Editor to work on the query. The
Advanced Editor window opens, displaying the code for the currently selected query
When we make transformations to our data in Query Editor, the steps are saved to the
Applied Steps in the Query Settings These steps are also applied to the code in the
Advanced Editor

40. How can you perform Dynamic filtering in Power BI? ↑

Dynamic Filtering in Power BI is done using the following steps:

Once all the data are set up, publish a detail report to Power BI. Publish it to group
workspace. Create a filter link Create a DAX calculated column. Public overview
report

41. What happens by clicking on a single information point in one of the various visual in
a report? ↑
When you click on single information point data gets select and copied to the
clipboard. Moreover, the copied data can be pasted in any place according to your
requirement.

42. What is Power BI Designer? ↑

It is a stand alone application where we can make Power BI reports and then upload it
to Powerbi.com, it does not require Excel. Actually, it is a combination of Power
Query, Power Pivot, and Power View.

43. What information is required to create a map in Power Map? ↑

Power Map can display visualizations which are geographical in nature. That's why
some kind of location data is needed, for example, city, state, country or latitude and
longitude.

44. Can you join two unique information source in the same Power BI dashboard? ↑

Yes, we can join two unique information source in the same Power Bi dashboard. We
can also merge comparable reports in your Power Bi account into using single
dashboard.

45. What are the different types of refresh in Power BI? ↑

Package Refresh Model/data Refresh Tile Refresh Visual Container Refresh

46. What is Bidirectional Cross-filtering in Power BI? ↑

Bidirectional cross-filtering in Power BI Desktop allows data modelers to determine

how they want filters to flow for data using relationships between tables. With
bidirectional cross-filtering, the filter context is propagated to a second related table
on the other side of a table relationship. This can help data modelers solve the many-
to-many problem without writing complicated DAX formulas. Thus, bidirectional
cross-filtering simplifies the job for data modelers.

47. How can you analyze Power BI reports data in excel? ↑

You need to follow the below-given steps:

 Open Power BI Admin portal, go to tenant settings and select -> Analyze.
 Check that Power BI Administrator has enabled Excel option or not.
 Then at the upper right corner, click settings to download and install Excel
updates.
 Next, go to the left-hand side navigation pane, go to the workspace, click on the
dataset, click on Eclipses (three dots) and select Analyze in Excel.
 download ODC file, save, and double click on it.
 After that needs to provide power BI user id and password.
48. How to toggle between two options and make it interact with rest of the visualizations
in report? ↑

Toggling Action can be achieved in Power BI reports, when in case there are two are
more dimensions. This can be showcased using an “Enlighten Slicer” in Power BI
which can be imported form Market Place.

49. What is Power BI Q&A? ↑

Power BI Q&A is a natural language tool which helps in querying your data and get
the results you need from it. You do this by typing into a dialog box on your
Dashboard, which the engine instantaneously generates an answer similar to Power
View. Q&A interprets your questions and shows you a restated query of what it is
looking from your data. Q&A was developed by Server and Tools, Microsoft
Research and the Bing teams to give you a complete feeling of truly exploring your
data.

50. Explain the process of dynamic filtering? ↑

The following are the steps of dynamic filtering:

Set all the data of a report ready to be published Publish it into group workspace
Create a filter link Create a DAX calculated column Public overview report
51. What is the latency for running queries from the gateway to a data source? What is
the best architecture? ↑

We recommend that you have the gateway as close to the data source as possible to
avoid network latency. If you install the gateway on the actual data source, the
introduced latency is minimized.

52. Name two types of connectivity modes in Power BI? ↑

Two types of connectivity modes used in Power BI are:

 Import
 Direct Query
53. Explain the term responsive slicers. ↑

On a report page, you can easily resize a responsive slicer to various sizes and shapes,
and the data contained in it should be rearranged according to it. In case if the visual
becomes too small to be useful, an icon representing the visual ability to take its place,
thus saving the space on the report page.

54. Is the Power BI tool available for free? ↑

You can access Power BI for free. However, if you wish to use all the feature of
Power BI, then you can use its pro subscription account. The subscription account
offers an enhanced version of several features that are available with Power Bi free
account.

55. What is grouping? How can you use it? ↑

Power BI Desktop allows you to group the data into small chunks. For grouping, you
should use Ctrl + click to select multiple elements in the visual. Right-click one of
those elements which appear in groups window.

56. What is data management gateway and Power BI personal gateway? ↑

Gateway acts a bridge between on-premises data sources and Azure cloud services.
Personal Gateway:

 Import Only, Power BI Service Only, No central monitoring/managing.

 Can only be used by one person (personal); can’t allow others to use this
gateway.

On-Premises Gateway:

 Import and Direct Query supported.

 Multiple users of the gateway for developing content.
 Central monitoring and control.
57. What is the only prerequisite for connecting to a database in Azure SQL Database? ↑

The only prerequisite for before connecting to a database is that the user need to
configure firewall setting to allows remote connections.

58. Organization is owning Power BI workspace, has 10 members and wish to give access
for few members Dashboard, for few reports, for few Datasets. Can we achieve this? ↑

To attain this need to create Content Pack,

Need to select Specific Group of people (User Email ids or Distribution lists) (OR)
My Entire Organization in then we choose give access to Dashboards or Reports or
Datasets.

59. Explain the term incremental refresh? ↑

Increment refresh is a newly added data so that there is no need to truncate or load the
entire data.

60. What is Power Pivot Data Model? ↑

It is a model that contains data writes, tables, sections, and table relations. These data
tables help you to develop for holding data for a business substance.

61. What are the differences between a Power BI Dataset, a Report, and a Dashboard? ↑
Dataset: The source used to create reports and visuals/tiles.

 A data model (local to PBIX or XLSX) or model in an Analysis Services Server

 Data could be inside of model (imported) or a Direct Query connection to a
source.

Report: An individual Power BI Desktop file (PBIX) containing one or more report
pages.

 Built for deep, interactive analysis experience for a given dataset (filters,
formatting).
 Each Report is connected to atleast one dataset
 Each page containing one or more visuals or tiles.

Dashboard: a collection of visuals or tiles from different reports and, optionally, a

pinned.

 Built to aggregate primary visuals and metrics from multiple datasets.

62. Why is TOP N not accessible for the Page and Report Level Filter? ↑

ToP N is not accessible for the Page and Report Level Filters because their channels
are associated with different visuals.

63. Is Power BI available on-premises? ↑

No, Power BI is not available as a private, internal cloud service. However, with
Power BI and Power BI Desktop, you can securely connect to your own on-premises
data sources. With the On-premises Data Gateway, you can connect live to your on-
premises SQL Server Analysis Services, and other data sources. You can also
scheduled refresh with a centralized gateway. If a gateway is not available, you can
refresh data from on-premises data sources using the Power BI Gateway – Personal.

64. Name 4 types of roles-based usage of Power BI? ↑

Microsoft has categories Power BI users as below:

Consumers (also called as End-Users) of Power BI who gets insights of the data in the
form of reports and used for decision making. Designers who Collect, Wangle,
Explore, Transform, Model, and Evaluate Data and then design reports, publish
reports to Power BI Web Service and create dashboards. Administrators who are
responsible for User governance using Office 365 (like Provisioning of Power BI
Access to workspaces Licenses) and Administering User Security (like assigning
Power BI admin roles and assigning Premium capacity roles) Developers who helps
Power BI consumers and designers to build integrating / embedding custom visuals in
Power BI Reports and building streaming datasets.

65. What do you use as a consolidate inquiry in Power BI? ↑

Join Queries are used as a consolidate inquiries in Power BI

66. What is on-premise gateway? ↑

On-premise gateway acts as a bridge which helps you to transfer the data, which is on-
premise (not on the cloud) safely and securely.

67. What is natural language search choice? ↑

The natural language search choice is language-based learning for communicating

with information as a part of Power BI suite for Office 365 advertising.

68. Difference between Filter & Raw Filter? ↑

Raw Filter works only on Column where FILTER Function on Measure.

69. What are some ways that Excel experience can be leveraged with Power BI? ↑

Below are some of the ways through which we can leverage Power BI:

 The Power BI Publisher for Excel:

o Can be used to pin Excel items (charts, ranges, pivot tables) to Power BI
Service.
o Can be used to connect to datasets and reports stored in Power BI Service.
  Excel workbooks can be uploaded to Power BI and viewed in the browser like
Excel Services.
 Excel reports in the Power BI service can be shared via Content Packs like other
reports.
 Excel workbooks (model and tables) can be exported to service for PBI report
creation.
 Excel workbook Power Pivot models can be imported to Power BI Desktop
models.
70. How can you identify which user has logged in to Power BI server or viewing the
report from Power BI? ↑

The way to identify the user is to create a DAX column and embed “username ()” or
“principalusername ()”, which will retrieve information on the user has logged in.

71. Explain the term data alerts. ↑

Alert works on data that is refreshed, Power BI looks for an alert, and it reaches the
alert threshold or the limit then the alter will be triggered.

72. How do we disable the Default interactivity in Desktop? ↑

Highlight the Visual and go to edit interactions and Click on None on the remaining
visuals.

73. What is Power View? ↑

Power View is a data visualization technology that lets you create interactive charts,
graphs, maps, and other visuals which bring your data to life. Power View is available
in Excel, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Power BI.

The following pages provide details about different visualizations available in Power
View:

 Charts
 Line charts
 Pie charts
  Maps
 Tiles
 Cards
 Images
 Tables
 Power View
 Multiples Visualizations
 Bubble and scatter charts
 Key performance indicators (KPIs)
74. What is the option to unpivot data in the question proofreader? ↑

Unpivot line is a choice to unpivot any data in the question proofreader.

75. Explain the difference between Power BI and Tableau? ↑

The following are the differences between Power BI and Tableau:

Power BI focusses only on modeling and reporting, while Tableau is the best tool
according to data visualization. Power BI is less expensive, while Tableau is very
expensive. Power BI is associated with Microsoft Azure, while Tableau uses python
Machine learning. Power BI has a simple and easy to use interface while Tableau has
a customized dashboard. Power BI becomes slow while handling massive amounts of
data, while Tableau easily handles any amount of data.

76. What is a calculated column in Power BI and why would you use them? ↑

Calculated Columns are DAX expressions that are computed during the model’s
processing/refresh process for each row of the given column and can be used like any
other column in the model.

Calculated columns are not compressed and thus consume more memory and result in
reduced query performance. They can also reduce processing/refresh performance if
applied on large fact tables and can make a model more difficult to maintain/support
giventhat the calculated column is not present in the source system.

77. What is Edit Interactions in Power Bi? ↑

Power Bi provides you to very cool features of visual Interaction, by default this
feature is enable, that’s means when you select any slicer value or click any visual by
default all visuals get filtered on the basis of click or select value. And we can control
this feature to using Edit Interactions.

78. Explain data source filter. ↑

It is a parameter to filter the data into machines.

79. Can you create multiple dynamic connections between two tables? ↑

No, we can't create more that one multiple dynamic connections.

80. What area do you go to change and reshape data in Power BI? ↑

Data Editing helps you to change and reshape data in Power BI.

81. Can we refresh our Power BI reports once uploaded to cloud (Share point or
Powebi.com)? ↑

Yes we can refresh our reports through Data Management gateway(for sharepoint),
and Power BI Personal gateway(for Powerbi.com)

82. State the main difference between Filter and Slicer. ↑

If you are using the normal filter user cannot interact with the dashboard. On the other
hand, slicer allows users to have an interaction with Reports as well as Dashboards.

83. What is the major difference between the old version and a new version of Power BI
tool? ↑
The latest version has more robust features, and it is famous with the name Power BI
Desktop. This is an all in one solution for Power View, Power Pivot, and Power
Query in the backend. Power BI offers many add-ins for Excel, which is useful for
better visualizations.

84. Where incremental licensing refresh feature is accessible? ↑

Incremental refresh feature mainly used for high-end scalability of data by publishing
only on that workspace in Power BI Service where Premium capacity is needed.

85. Explain z-order in Power BI? ↑

Z-order is a design strategy which is used for arranging visual over shapes. It can be
defined as an implementation method which can be applied whenever reports have
multiple elements.

86. Explain x-velocity in memory. ↑

It is the main engine which is used in power pivot. It allows you to load the large set
of data into Power BI data.

87. What are Data alarms ↑

Ready work on information that is revived ,when information is invigorated BI

searches for a caution and on the off chance that it achieves the ready edge or the
utmost, at that point the alarm will be activated.

88. What are some of the unique data invigorations used for generating the distributed
reports within Power BI? ↑

There are four main types of invigorating steps when it comes to Power BI. Bundle
invigorate can model or revive your data.

• Visual compartment - This type of invigorating is a visual compartment refresh

stored in a report type within a report once the data starts to change. In order to find
out if the data invigorate worked and view how to actualize the data, you can check on
the accompanying connections.

• Tile Invigorate - Tile invigorate refreshes the stores for the tile visuals on the
dashboard once the data begins to change. This happens at regular type intervals. You
may also constrain a tile for invigorating through the option of the ellipsis (which is
three dots like this ...)on the upper right of the dashboard and choosing Refresh
Dashboard Tiles.

• Bundle Invigorate – This would then synchronize the Power BI Desktop or Excel
document between the Power BI benefit and OneDrive, or SharePoint Online. This
does not pull the data from the first data source though. When the data comes to
Power BI it can refresh it once it is inside the OneDrive record.

• Display/data revive – This refers to the type of revising to the dataset inside the
Power BI benefit with data from the initial data source. This would either be finished
by utilizing booked revive or invigorate now. That usually requires an entry point for
the for the on-premises data sources, in the form of access tokens or login credentials.

89. State the differences between Power BI and SSRS. ↑

Power BI:

 Power BI gives strong data manipulation feature in its backend but provides
access only to simple visualizations.
 In free version, Power BI limits the use 1 GB data.
 Power BI allows several data sources supported by Tableau. With the integration
of Office 365 suite, it allows connection with Share point. Power BI also allows
online support to the user for direct visualization through Search Engines but is
limited to Bling search.
 There is a free version available in Power BI which allows the user to 1GB data
set limit. Pro Software is paid but is cheaper in the market while compared to
other BI tools.
  Power BI is free version and Power Pro is paid. Pro is available to the user at a
cost of 9.99USD/month with 10 GB data limit and 1 million rows/hour data
streaming.
 Implementation process in Power BI is quite simple. It uses cloud storage.

SQL Server Reporting Services:

 SQL server Reporting Services is generally used to make pixel perfect reports
and provides limited dash board options.
 SSRS does not have any limit. Also, it allows users to connect larger data sets,
which is not possible in Power BI.
 SSRS also allows various data sources for connections to make business
intelligence reports.
 Upon request, the cost details are exposed to the user.
 This software license is available on request and is available on cloud platforms
such as Azure, AWS and some other major platforms.
 Compared to Power BI, SSRS contains complex implementation process.
90. Is it possible to have created multiple active relationships in Power BI? ↑

No, we can't set multiple active relationships in Power BI.

91. How does SSRS integrate with Power BI? ↑

Below are some of the way through which SSRS can be integrated with Power BI:

 Certain SSRS Report items such as charts can be pinned to Power BI

dashboards.
 Clicking the tile in Power BI dashboards will bring the user to the SSRS report.
 A subscription is created to keep the dashboard tile refreshed.
 Power BI reports will soon be able to be published to SSRS portal
1. You've imported a spreadsheet, but Power BI Desktop hasn't realised that the first row
should be used as column titles. What tool should you click on? ↑

A) Enable column titles

B) Move titles above data

C) Use first row as headers

D) Promote top row

Answer: C

2. Data can be refreshed in Power BI service by using ↑

A) Gateway

B) Power BI Desktop

C) Apps

D) Refresh service

Answer: A

3. As part of a large HR project you are working with a dataset of company employees,
both past and present. The data includes columns for EthnicGroup, PayTypeID,
HireDate (the date they started work), TermDate (the date they left) and several other
columns. You want to create a new Calculated Column that determines if the person was
a bad hire based on a set of rules. If they were a bad hire then the result is 1, otherwise the
Calculated Column displays a zero. The bad hire rule is: BadHire = If the person stayed
at the company less than 61 days Example: If a person joined the company on 27th June
2013 and left on 21st August 2013, then they would be a bad hire. Which DAX expression
would you use for this Calculated Column? ↑

A) Slicer

B) IF(OR((([HireDate]-[TermDate])) >= 61,ISBLANK([TermDate])),0,1)

C) IF(((([HireDate]-[TermDate])*-1) < 61),1,0)

D) IF((([TermDate]-[HireDate])*-1) >= 61,0,1)

Answer: A
4. You want to create a DAX formula that automatically calculates the previous month
number. So if the month was June then the formula would return 5. You have already
created the DAX formula below: Today Month = MONTH (Sales[Todays Date]) Which
of the DAX formulas below would be the right choice next? ↑

A) Previous Month = Sales[Today Month]-1

B) Previous Month = PREVIOUSMONTH(Sales[Today Month])

C) Previous Month = STARTOFMONTH(Sales[Today Month])-1

D) Previous Month = IF (Sales[Today Month] =1, 12,Sales[Today Month]-1)

Answer: D

5. Which is a single page, often called a canvas, that uses visualizations to tell a story? ↑

A) Power BI Service dashboard

B) Power Bi Desktop Dashboard

C) Power Bi Desktop Sheet

D) Power BI Service Multiple sheet

Answer: A

6. Read the following paragraph carefully and decide whether the entire paragraph is
TRUE or FALSE? You need a Power BI Pro license to share your dashboard but those
you share it with do not need a license. When you share a dashboard, they can view it and
interact with it, but can't edit it. They see the same data that you see in the dashboard and
reports unless row-level security (RLS) is applied to the underlying dataset. The
colleagues you share it with can share the dashboard with their colleagues, if you allow
them to. ↑

A) TRUE

B) FALSE
Answer: B

7. Which of the accompanying field composes can be added to the Field well of a Slicer
visual? ↑

A) Local sections returned by a question.

B) Computed segments made with a DAX articulation.

C) Measures made by a DAX articulation.

D) Gatherings made inside a table utilizing the "New Group" Command in Power BI
Desktop.

Answer: B

8. You have created a table with a column 'population' with numbers 53222122, 5322122,
33333. You want to display the 'population' column with comma signs. How should you
do this? ↑

A) Right-click on the POPULATION column and choose FORMAT...

B) Go to the FIELD FORMATTING category of the table's properties, choose the

POPULATION field and tick the THOUSANDS SEPARATOR box

C) You can't.

D) Go to the underlying table in DATA view, select the POPULATION column, and
on the MODELING tab of the ribbon tick the THOUSANDS SEPARATOR icon.

Answer: D

9. Data has been scraped from a table on a popular retirement website. However, the
Health care quality column's scores were not automatically transformed from text to
numbers when Query Editor loaded the table. You thus right-clicked the column header,
and selected Change Type > Whole Number to change them. Unfortunately, the, Health
care quality column contains a few ties in states' rankings, which was noted on the
website by the word (tie) after their numbers. Query Editor thus reports a few errors.
What is the consequence of using the Remove Errors option (ribbon or the right-click
menu option) to resolve this? ↑

A) Removes the applied step that has errors.

B) Removes the error warnings but keeps all data intact.

C) Blanks the cell values which have errors.

D) Removes any rows with errors.

Answer: D

10. Which type of visualisation would you choose if you wanted to show relationships
between 3 numerical values and turn the horizontal axis into a logarithmic scale? The
worksheet data would include grouped sets of values and you wanted to show patterns in
large sets of data, for example by showing linear or non-linear trends, clusters, and
outliers? ↑

A) Scatter Chart

B) Bubble Chart

C) Treemap

D) Pie Chart

Answer: B

11. You are viewing a Power BI dashboard in a browser window. What happens when
you click the Infocus mode of a tile? ↑

A) The Power BI desktop file opens.

B) The report from which the tile was pinned opens.

C) The Power BI desktop file gets downloaded.

D) The tile you selected expands and takes the full space.

Answer: D

12. How would you include different terms into Q&A? ↑

A) In Power BI Desktop, go into the Relationships see, select the table, and select
Modeling and Synonyms.

B) In the Power BI benefit, go into the Relationships see, select the table, and select
Modeling and Synonyms.

C) In Power BI Desktop go to the report - > select the visual, modelling, Q and A
Terms.

D) None of these

Answer: A

13. You want to extract from a balances table the balance for the last period for which a
figure has been entered, and your friend suggests you use one of these functions: (which
one is correct?) ↑

A) FINALBALANCE

B) LASTNONBLANK

C) BALANCE

D) LATESTVALID

Answer: B

14. Some of the most powerful data analysis solutions in Power BI Desktop can be
created by using measures. Measures help us by performing calculations on our data as
we interact with our reports. Understanding aggregations is fundamental to
understanding measures, because every measure will perform some type of aggregation.
Which of the below is TRUE regarding measures in Power BI? ↑

A) IF(OR((([HireDate]-[TermDate])*-1) >= 61,ISBLANK([TermDate])),0,1).

B) You can reference another measure in a DAX expression by just typing an opening
bracket ([).

C) Every time you interact with your report, you are changing the context in which a
measure calculates and displays its results.

D) You can create a new measure by clicking on the New Measure button in the
ribbon on Power BI Desktop’s Home tab.

Answer: A

15. Which of the accompanying articulations are valid regarding outlining a Power BI
Desktop venture in DirectQuery mode? ↑

A) You can not change over section information composes when altering an inquiry.

B) You can not add computed segments to the information show.

C) All inquiries inside the venture must be founded on a solitary source database.

D) You can not add measures to the information demonstrate.

Answer: A

16. Which of the accompanying in not a legitimate variable compose when programming
in the M dialect? ↑

A) Capacity

B) Dataframe

C) Rundown
D) Record

Answer: B

17. You are creating a custom column with Column name as "Metres per unit" and
Custom column formula as "=[SquareMetres] / [NumberUnits]". Which language is
custom formula written in? ↑

A) C

B) C++

C) Q

D) M

Answer: D

18. When creating a waterfall chart, which two field options that you need to define? ↑

A)Category

B)X Axis

C)Y Axis

D)Size

Answer: A & C

19. When you share with people outside your organization, they get an email with a link
to the shared dashboard. They need a Power BI Pro license, and they have to sign in to
Power BI to see the dashboard. After they sign in, they see the shared dashboard in its
own browser window without the left navigation pane, not in their usual Power BI portal.
They have to bookmark the link to access this dashboard in the future. Which of the
following statements is FALSE when sharing visualizations outside of your
organisation? ↑
A) They can't edit any content in this dashboard or report.

B) They can change any filters/slicers available on the reports connected to the
dashboard and save their changes.

C) People outside your organization can't see any data if role- or row-level security is
implemented on on-premises Analysis Services tabular models.

Answer: B

20. A CurrentSales dataset contains a large number of product codes for items that the
company have sold in the last 12 months. Due to the nature of the business and the wide
variety of suppliers, the product codes come in a variety of formats, including mixed case
characters. You want to write a DAX expression that checks if the product code contains
the letters “ex”. Which DAX function below is the right one to use? ↑

A) SEARCH( “ex”, [ProductCode] )

B) FIND( “ex”, [ProductCode] )

Answer: A

21. Where do you discover the Q&A highlight? ↑

A) At the highest point of a dashboard in the Power BI benefit.

B) By tapping on Modeling and Synonyms in Power BI work area.

C) At the highest point of a report in the Power BI benefit.

D) None of these.

Answer: C

22. When you enable Snap objects to grid, all visuals on the Power BI Desktop canvas
that you move (or resize) are automatically aligned to the nearest grid axis, making it
much easier to ensure two or more visuals align to the same horizontal or vertical location
or size. You can also manage the overlap of each element on the design surface, often
referred to as? ↑

A) Vertical stacking

B) Stack-order

C) a-order

D) z-order

Answer: D

23. With Power BI Publish to web, you can easily embed interactive Power BI
visualizations online, such as in blog posts, websites, through emails or social media, on
any device. You have published a visualization but unfortunately changes to the
underlying data are not immediately visible to users. What might be wrong? ↑

A) You must refresh the data manually after publishing to the web.

B) You cannot refresh data after publishing to the web, the visuals are static.

C) The user does not have the appropriate row level security permissions.

D) It takes up to an hour for data to refresh.

Answer: D

24. Which level of filter behaves the same as a slicer in a report in Power BI Desktop? ↑

A) Visual Level Filter

B) Page Level Filter

C) Report Level Filter

D) Query Level Filter

Answer: B

25. Department table has unique departments and employee table can have many
employees in each department and both entities can be linked in relationship view from
department to Employee table using ↑

A) 1 to 1 relationship

B) One to many Relationship

C) Many to Many Relationships

D) Many to one Relationship

Answer: B

26. Which three views are available in Power BI Desktop? 1) Dashboard 2) Report 3)
Data 4) Relationships ↑

A) 1,2, and 3.

B) 1,2, and 4.

C) 2,3, and 4.

D) 1,2,3, and 4.

Answer: C

27. Which chart is used to compare data side by side? ↑

A) Line

B) Combo

C) Bullet

D) WaterFall
Answer: D

28. Which chart will show correlation between 2 variables? ↑

A) Pie Chart

B) Scatter

C) Bar Chart

D) Line Chart

Answer: B

29. You're importing a list of top films from web using a URL. If you type in a valid URL
like this and choose to continue, what will Power BI Desktop let you import? ↑

A) The inner or outer text for any valid HTML tag.

B) The HTML for the page.

C) Any parts of the HTML page rendered with the DATA_PACKET tab.

D) One or more of the valid HTML tables on the web page.

Answer: D

30. Which of the following is crosstable chart? ↑

A) Cross Table

B) Matrix

C) Line

D) Guage
Answer: B

31. When planning an information display with Power BI Desktop, which of the
accompanying proclamations are genuine in regards to the tenets for making table
connections? ↑

A) A connection between two tables must be characterized utilizing a solitary field

from each table.

B) No less than one section characterized in a table relationship must contain

interesting qualities.

C) You can characterize different connections between two tables in an information

demonstrate however just a single of the connections can be set apart as dynamic.

Answer: C

32. Having created a new blank model you want to load in data from a SQL Server
database which is hosted on the same PC as the Power BI Desktop application. You click
the Get Date ribbon option and select SQL Server from the drop down list. What should
you enter in the Server textbox? ↑

A) local

B) [blank]

C) host

D) localhost

Answer: D

33. Report Level filter applies to ↑

A) One Page

B) All Pages
C) One Visualization

D) Multiple Visualizations in same page

Answer: B

34. Which chart is suitable for comparing two sets of measure values that are usually
hard to compare because of the differences in scale? ↑

A) KPI Chart

B) Guage Chart

C) Combo Chart

D) Stacked Bar Chart

Answer: C

1. Tell me about your educational background and the business intelligence analysis field
you’re experienced in. ↑

How to Answer

A business intelligence analyst can concentrate on various industries, such as finance,

economics, IT, statistics, manufacturing, and more. Share with the interviewer which
area you specialized in while obtaining your university degree, and briefly outline
where your career journey has taken you so far. Make sure to demonstrate a keen
interest in the company’s industry or business sphere.

Answer Example

“I’m a Finance Graduate specialized in Business Administration. My education has

helped me greatly on my business intelligence career path, as my interest and
expertise evolved in fields such as business law, microeconomics, and financial
accounting.”
2. Specify two important chart types in your BI analyst arsenal. Why do you find them
important? ↑

The hiring authority wants to see that you have basic knowledge when it comes to the
diagrams and charts that you will be using during your business analyst career. Some
examples include:

The interviewer wants to check your basic knowledge of charts you’ll be using in your
BI analyst’s tasks. Some examples include:

area charts; bar charts; clustered column charts; combo charts; doughnut charts;
funnel charts; gauge charts; line charts; pie charts; scatter plots; waterfall charts. You
are probably familiar with most of these, so just choose two options which you have
experience with and can easily talk about.

Answer Example

“The two types of charts I use most often are area charts and bar charts. In my role as
BI analyst, area charts have helped me display where a specific trend is headed in the
future, which, in turn, makes planning easier. Bar charts, on the other hand, can show
clearly which products are most popular among customers or display the number of
unique visitors on a landing page based on various criteria.”

3. What is your opinion about Agile software development for BI projects? do you
support employing Agile methodologies with your company’s clients? ↑

How to Answer

Agile software development has received a warm welcome from companies

worldwide since its onset. Agile stimulates collaboration with a team’s clients and the
end-users, enabling more cross-functional projects to run smoothly. However, there
are still some who strongly prefer the structured development methodology of
Waterfall, for example. So, before sharing your thoughts on Agile with the
interviewer, make sure you know where the company stands on Agile.
Answer Example

“As far as I know, Agile software development is much more collaborative in

comparison to other software development models. I believe Agile can be the best
solution in many projects. However, maybe that’s not always the case. That said, I’d
love to get familiar with the methodologies employed here. At the end of the day, it’s
the end results that matter most, and not the methodologies behind the projects.”

4. What specific technical skills do you have as a BI analyst? ↑

How to Answer

Your BI analyst experience and skillset are closely related to the focus of your career.
Depending on whether you are a data BI analyst, an IT BI analyst, or a strategic BI
analyst, your answer to this question will be different.

If you’re applying for a data-focused role, your technical skillset may include
proficiency in data analysis software and visual presentation tools, such as Power BI.
A BI analyst in the IT field would probably have exposure to some software
development programs. While a strategic BI analyst would be well-familiar with
business case analysis software and applications. Taking that into consideration, share
with the interviewer the technical skills you will bring to the company.

Answer Example

“As a data BI analyst, I’ve been exposed to data mining and big data software, such as
LIONsolver and Oracle. I’m highly skilled in Microsoft Excel which I use for data
modeling and Power BI where I create rich visuals and client presentations.”

1. We are using Power BI Desktop Currently. In next 5-6 months, we are planning to
have Azure Analysis Services. We have Oracle Servers in our Company. We have to
create data model in Power BI Desktop so that once we have AAS in place we can resuse
whatever developement we do. We have huge volume of data in many tables. Answer the
following questions: ↑
Question: Shall we use Import method or Direct Query Method for our developement
if we have all the tables in Oracle Server?

 Depends on what "Huge Volume" means. Import will be faster, and give you the
most flexibility in utilizing any ETL actions in the Query Editor in PBI. Direct
Query is going to be slower and much of your ETL will need to be done on the
DB side. You may have to do this if either the processing of the Power BI file
takes to long, or gets to large.

Question: What should we do share our report with the users within our organization?
If we use import method, the secured data would be pushed to cloud which we don't
want currently as we don't have license yet.

 If you can't push data to the cloud, then you are stuck using Direct Query which
will keep your data on premises. Any sort of sharing in Power BI will require a
Pro license.

Question: If we use Direct Query method, we need to create Personal Gateway to

connect to database so that we can see data in the reports.

 I would install the "normal" gateway (Enterprise) instead of personal. Personal is

tied directly to one account, the Enterprise one is what you want to set up.

Question: There are some limitations in the Direct Query Method e.g. Merge Two
columns not supported in Direct Query. If have many limitations in Direct Query
approach, is it worth doing the development using this approach?

 It wouldn't be wasted development as the source for your AAS model in the
future could use the same source information instead of doing that in Power
Query

Question: Is it safe if we publish the datamodel to the service and have on premise
personal gateway to connect to db? Because I am putting tns entry of my database on
services.

 Both gateways are secure... I'd still recommend not using the personal gateway.
the other option allows more than one person to manage the gateway.
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