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The document contains 5 questions and answers about using Power BI and DAX to prepare and analyze data for various reporting requirements, including addressing data quality issues, formatting dates, changing data types to create relationships between tables, and creating measures and calculated columns to summarize sales data. The questions cover tasks like data profiling, modeling, and DAX formula writing for visualizations.

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PL 300 Questions

The document contains 5 questions and answers about using Power BI and DAX to prepare and analyze data for various reporting requirements, including addressing data quality issues, formatting dates, changing data types to create relationships between tables, and creating measures and calculated columns to summarize sales data. The questions cover tasks like data profiling, modeling, and DAX formula writing for visualizations.

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Microsoft

PL-300 Exam
Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
Questions & Answers
Demo
Questions & Answers PDF Page 2

Version: 4.0

Question: 1

You need to address the data concerns before creating the data model. What should you do in Power
Query Editor?

A. Select Column distribution.


B. Select the sales_amount column and apply a number filter.
C. Select Column profile, and then select the sales_amount column.
D. Transform the sales_amount column to replace negative values with 0.

Answer: C

Explanation:

Question: 2

You need to create a calculated column to display the month based on the reporting requirements.
Which DAX expression should you use?

A. FORMAT('Date'[date], "MMM YYYY")


B. FORMAT('Date' [date], "M YY")
C. FORMAT('Date'[date_id], "MMM") & "" & FORMAT('Date'[year], "#")
D. FORMAT('Date' [date_id], "MMM YYYY")

Answer: A

Explanation:

Question: 3

You need to create the required relationship for the executive's visual. What should you do before you
can create the relationship?

A. Change the data type of Sales[region_id] to Whole Number.


B. In the Sales table, add a measure for sum(sales_amount).
C. Change the data type of sales[sales_id] to Text.
D. Change the data type of sales [region_id] to Decimal Number.
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Answer: A

Explanation:

Scenario: Executives require a visual that shows sales by region.

Need to change the sales_id column from Varchar to Whole Number (Integer).

Question: 4

What should you create to meet the reporting requirements of the sales department?

A. a measure that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])


B. a calculated column that use a formula of COUNTA(sales [sales_id])
C. a measure that uses a formula of COUNTROWS (Sales)
D. a calculated column that uses a formula of SUM (Sales [sales_id])

Answer: C

Explanation:

The sale department requires reports that contain the number of sales transactions.

The COUNTROWS function counts the number of rows in the specified table, or in a table defined by an
expression.

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/countrows-function-dax

Question: 5

You need to create a relationship between the Weekly_Returns table and the Date table to meet the
reporting requirements of the regional managers. What should you do?

A. In the Weekly.Returns table, create a new calculated column named date-id in a format of yyyymmdd
and use the calculated column to create a relationship to the Date table.
B. Add the Weekly_Returns data to the Sales table by using related DAX functions.
C. Create a new table based on the Date table where date-id is unique, and then create a many-to-many
relationship to Weekly_Return.

Answer: A

Explanation:
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Scenario: Region managers require a visual to analyze weekly sales and returns.

To relate the two tables we need a common column.

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