📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the creation and configuration of Power BI reports and dashboards. You will transform semantic models into interactive data visualizations. The focus is on report authoring, enhancing usability, and performing data analysis directly within the report canvas.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Create reports by adding visuals, choosing appropriate visual types, and configuring page layouts and formatting.
- Enhance reports for usability and storytelling by configuring bookmarks, creating custom tooltips, and applying conditional formatting.
- Identify patterns and trends by using analytics features like reference lines, forecasting, and outlier detection.
- Implement report interactivity by configuring slicers, filters, and editing visual interactions to build dynamic reports.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- Report Authoring: You will build proficiency in designing and creating multi-page Power BI reports from a given semantic model.
- Data Storytelling: You will develop the ability to use features like bookmarks and navigation to guide users through data insights.
- Analytical Interpretation: You will gain skills in using the Analytics pane and DAX to perform time series analysis and identify key data points.
- Report Optimization: You will learn to configure report elements for optimal user experience and performance, including slicer and filter management.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Gain hands-on experience in Power BI Desktop by creating reports with diverse visuals like matrix, scatter, and map visuals.
- Master the configuration of visual interactions, understanding how cross-filtering and cross-highlighting work on the report canvas.
- Practice extensively with the Analytics pane to apply features like trend lines, constant lines, and forecasting.
- Understand how to configure report navigation using buttons, bookmarks, and page navigators for a seamless user experience.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers key concepts related to 2: Model the data.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Core concepts of 2: Model the data
- Best practices and implementation
- Real-world application scenarios
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- Technical proficiency in 2: Model the data
- Problem-solving abilities
- Practical implementation skills
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Review official documentation and study guides
- Practice with hands-on exercises
- Focus on understanding core principles
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the management and distribution of Power BI assets within the Power BI service. It focuses on creating workspaces, deploying reports, and maintaining datasets. You will handle the final stage of the business intelligence lifecycle, ensuring content is accessible and secure.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- You will learn to create and manage workspaces, assign workspace roles, and configure deployment pipelines for dev, test, and prod environments.
- You will learn to publish reports and dashboards, configure a workspace app, and manage its audience.
- You will learn to manage datasets by configuring scheduled refresh, setting up a data gateway, and providing access using the Build permission.
- You will learn to implement governance by promoting or certifying Power BI content and managing row-level security (RLS) group membership.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- You will build skills in Power BI service administration, including workspace configuration and user access management.
- You will build the ability to manage the asset lifecycle using deployment pipelines for controlled content promotion.
- You will build proficiency in data governance by implementing dataset security through RLS and managing content endorsement policies.
- You will build skills to configure and troubleshoot dataset refresh operations, including managing data source credentials and gateway connections.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Master the differences between workspace roles like Admin, Member, Contributor, and Viewer to answer permission-based questions.
- Practice creating a deployment pipeline and deploying content between stages to understand the CI/CD process in Power BI.
- Get hands-on experience configuring a scheduled refresh for a dataset, both with and without a data gateway.
- Focus on the process of creating RLS roles in Power BI Desktop and then assigning users to those roles in the Power BI service.
