Power BI Interview questions

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Q1) What is Power BI Desktop application?

Power BI Desktop is an application that can be installed. This works nicely with Power BI by
providing data exploration and shaping and creating report with quality visualization. You
can save your work to a file and publish your reports in Power BI site.

Q2) What data sources can Power BI connect with for data exploration?

Files(XLSX & CSV)

Content Packs
Connectors to databases and other datasets such as Azure & SQL etc.

Q3) What are content packs?

They are collection of related documents and files that are stored as in a set.

Q4) What are all the types of Content packs?

Two types of content packs.
Services providers like Google Analytics, Market.
Salesforce Shared by other users in your organization.

Q5) What are Building Blocks in Power BI?

 Visualizations
 Datasets
 Reports
 Dashboards
 Tiles

Q6) What is Visualization?

Visualization is a visual representation of dataset that extracts information from the data
based on the business.
 Q7) What is report in Power BI?
Report is basically a collection of visualization charts that appear together on one or more
pages within power BI.

Q8) What is Dashboard in power BI?

Dashboard is single layer presentation sheet of multiple visualizations reports.

Q9) What is Tiles in power BI?

Tiles is basically a single visualization in a report or on a power BI dashboard.

Q10) What are all the different types of filters available in Power BI Reports?

 Visual-level Filters
 Page-level Filters
 Report-level Filters

Q11) What is Visual level filter?

Visual level filters works on only an individual/single visualization, reducing the amount of
data that the visualization can see in power BI.

Q12) What is page level filter?

Page level filters work at the report-page level in power BI. Multiple pages in the same
report can have multiple page-level filters.

Q13) What is report level filter?

Report level filters work on the entire report within power BI project. Filtering all pages and
visualizations will include within the report.

Q14) What are all the parts of Power BI?

 Power BI is a cloud-based business service.

 Excel BI Tool Kit
 Power Query
 Power Pivot
 Power View
 Power Map

Q15) What is Power BI is a cloud-based business service?

Power BI is a cloud-based business service enables the client to interpret information with
higher efficiency and execution.

Q16) What is Excel BI Tool Kit?

The Excel BI Toolkit comprises of Excel and four add-ins that enable us to do the transfer
function, shape transform, create, and to show our analyses.

Q17) What are all the types of Data Refresh Options available in Power BI?

 Package refresh
 Model or data refresh
 Tile refresh
 Visual container refresh

Q18) What is DAX in power BI?

DAX(Data Analysis Expression) do basic calculation and data analysis on data in power pivot.
DAX is a formula language used to compute calculated column and calculated field within
power BI.

Q19) Where we can apply DAX functions?

 DAX works on column level values.

 DAX can’t modify or insert data.
 DAX can create calculated column

Q20) Mention some of the most common DAX Functions used?

 SUM
 MIN
 MAX
 AVG
 COUNTROWS
 DISTINCTCOUNT
 IF
 AND
 OR
 SWITCH

Q21) What is unique about the CALCULATE functions?

This is the only function that allows us to modify filter context of measures or tables.

Q22) What is the default visual interaction?

 The DVI is “Drill Mode On”. In the event, we keep it off, we need to change those settings
without fail. Rather set the Default to ‘Drill Mode On’.
 Drilling Mode will be on, if the aggregates are at initial level.

Q23) What are all the connectivity modes available?

 Import
 DirectQuery

Q24) What is Power Pivot?

Power Pivot helps in analysing our data. It empowers users to import large scale of data
from numerous data sources into a single Excel sheet for better users interface.

Q25) What are all the benefits of using variables?

Variables will make unconstrained DAX expressions which are consistent to interpret with
data. Variables can’t be shared among queries or be characterized at the model level.

Q26) what are the ways to create a bar chart?

 Drag any one measure into the worksheet and drag one more dimension along it. Now you
go to the show me pane, and choose the bar chart tile.. it can be both vertical and
horizontal

Q27) What are the types of Data Refresh in Power BI?

By choice there are 4 different types of refresh that can happen. They are,
 Package refresh
 Model or data refresh
 Tile refresh
 Visual container refresh

Q28) What is DAX ?

For basic calculation and data analysis on data in power pivot we can use DAX. It is a formula
language to compute calculated columns and calculated fields.
 Pros and cons of Dax
 Dax works on multiple column values and Dax cannot modify or insert data
 We can calculate calculated column and measures, but we cannot calculate using rows.

Q29) Write a Sample formula for DAX syntax:

For the measure named Total Sales, calculate = SUM of values in the [SalesAmount ]
column.
 Measures
 equal signs
 DAX syntax
 Parenthesis
 Reference Table and
 Column name

Q30) Do I need to sign up with my work email?

It does not support email addresses provided by regular email services or
telecommunications providers. So you should sign up using your professional address.
List the work email addresses that are supported.
Working email addresses ending in .edu and .org are always supported.
 Those ending in .gov are not currently supported.

Q31) What is xVelocity in-memory analytics engine?

The main engine, xVelocity in-memory analytics engine. This machine can handle large
amount of data as it stores data in columnar databases and in enhances memory analytics
which results in faster processing of data as it loads all data to RAM memory.

Q32) Is Power BI available within campus?

No, Power BI is not available as a private or an internal cloud service. However, with Power
BI and Power BI Desktop you can connect to your own on-premises data sources. With the
On campus Data Gateway, you can connect to your on campus SQL Server Analysis Services
server as well.
Q33) Where else can we view on-premises?
 SQL Server with the Power BI iOS.
 SQL Server on the iPhone.
 SQL Server on the iPad.

Q34) What are the Power BI mobile devices?

Power BI has its own apps for Android phones, iOS devices, and Windows 10 devices.
Download Power BI apps from below:
 Apple App Store
 Google Play and
 Windows Store

Q35) What are the Connectors to databases and other datasets?

Azure SQL Database and
SQL Server Analysis Services.

Q36) What are the Organizational content packs?

BI professions and system integrators use this tool to build their own content packs to share
purpose-built dashboards, reports, and datasets within their organization.

Q37) What are the different BI add ins?

 Power Query
 Power Pivot
 Power View
 Power Map

Q38) What do I need to install in order to use Power BI?

Just a Web browser and email.
You can use Power BI Desktop for free up to 60 days.

Q39) Where can you download the Power BI mobile apps?

 App Store
 Google Play and
 Windows Store

Q40) What are the policies for on-premises?

Power BI Desktop’s use rights do not limit you to one copy of Power BI Desktop for each
individual user at the company may install and use one copy on their premises.

Q41) Where do I get started with Power BI?

 Power BI Blogs
 Seminars
 Getting started videos on YouTube Channels
 Join a community and ask questions

Q42) How can I buy Power BI?

You can purchase Power BI licenses directly at www.powerbi.com.

Q43) Does Power BI meet national, regional, and industry-specific compliance

requirements?
Without a doubt, and to learn more about Power BI compliance, at the Microsoft Trust
Centre.

Q44) What has happened to the Power BI Office 365 experience?

It has been dropped.

Q45) 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.

Q46) What do you know about Power BI?

Power BI provides a cloud based data sharing platform, developed by Microsoft
Corporation. Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool which is capable
of converting data from several sources of data and places it in the user interface,
dashboard and also prepares business intelligence reports. Power BI is a multiple utility
services software; it can provide multiple amount of software, services and connectors,
Power BI mobile applications for various environments, Power BI cloud service based on
SaaS and Power BI desktop. Power BI is basically used in commercial application specifically
by business people who need to create BI reports.

Q47) How Power BI is different from Excel BI toolkit?

Through an Excel BI toolkit, one can get data from various sources to create user
interactable report. As per the requirements in the report, the user has to model the
data. Power BI allows the user support solutions online, through which the user can share
the queries and the interactable reports which is built through the Excel BI toolkit.

Q48) What do you know about Power BI Desktop

Power BI desktop is an application supported by Power BI tool which is used for report
creations basically. Power BI Desktop is made available to the users in 32 and 64 bit
versions. Power BI is readily available as open source to all the users. With the enhanced
support from Power BI service, Power BI desktop lets user to explore the data, to model, to
shape and to create reports with good interactable visualization feature. Users can save
their work or they are allowed to post their data and reports to Power BI suite to share the
posted information with others.

Q49)Name the basic building blocks of Power BI?” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus”
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 Dashboards, Datasets, Reports, Data visualization, Tiles, power BI desktop, Power map,
power pivot, power query and power view.

Q50) What is the need for Power BI?

Power BI has a wide variety of features. We need Power BI because of the following things:
 In a single platform, business intelligence and self servicing needs were met
 To build interactable data visualization in data centres.
 To establish connection for Excel queries and dash boards of Power BI for fast analysis and
business data sharing to others.
 For accurate and quick solutions.

Q51) State the features of Power BI.

The features of Power BI are stated below:
 Power BI possesses advanced data driven platform which lets users for interactive data
visualization.
 Assures enhanced security and inbuilt control features for business organizations
 Not only ensures well organized and faster custom application creation but also automates
the workflow to improve the productivity of business.

Q52) State the advantages of Power BI.

The advantages of Power BI are stated below:
 User can create their data sources too easily and quickly to visualize data.
 Serves for multiple purposes such as data visualization, personalized reports, decision
support engines to business organizations and groups.
 Establishes faster connection with local DB or to excel spread sheets.

Q53) What do you mean by Self Service Business Intelligence?

 It is a system for well organized and systematic data analytics which allows business
individuals or organizations to analyze, filter and segment data without any deep technical
understanding in math operations and business intelligence.
 This system enables a user with basic knowledge of data analytics to build reports in
dashboard and share data to others.
 Allows users to access their own data and to build several visuals to obtain better
knowledge in their business.

Q54) What are the data sources supported by Power BI? Explain
Power BI supports wide variety of data sources and users can choose data source from the
available data source connections from Get data option. Power BI allows connections with
Azure Cloud, SQL DB, various flat files etc., It also supports various web and mobile
platforms such as Google Analytics, Facebook etc., It in fact allows the very old ODBC
connections as well.

Q55) Explain Content pack in Power BI.

Content pack is an inbuilt service available in Power BI. Content packs enables their users to
view their dashboards where their personalized data is stored and can create reports for the
data. Microsoft supports content packs for widely used services and Power BI is one among
them. Some of the other services which contains inbuilt content pack are Azure Mobile
engagement, Marketo, Adobe Analytics, Salesforce.com etc., Content packs provides tools
to support organizations, business professionals and system integrating professionals to
create their own content packs and can share data in dashboards and to create reports and
datasets.

Q56) What is the use of filters in Power BI reports? Explain.

Filters are used to perform several functions to filter data, report and visualization. There
are various filters available to perform these functions. They are:
 Page-level filters: Page-level filters perform its tasks at the page level in reports. So, every
page in a report will contain a page level filter.
 Visual level filters: Visual level filters are used for visualization through an individual’s dash
board and is used to reduce the amount of data in the visualization. Moreover, this filter is
used to filter not only data but calculations as well.
 Report level filters: Unlike page level filters, these filters perform filtering over the complete
report individually. It filters all pages and also visualizations present in the report.

Q57) State the differences between Power BI and Tableau.

Tableau Power BI
Tableau allows access not only to simple but to Power BI produce strong data manipulation in
 strong visualizations as well. It is one of the backend but provides access only to simple
best data visualization tools in the BI market. visualizations.
In case of Tableau, it allows the user to In free version, Power BI lets the user to only 1
connect larger datasets. GB data.
Power BI allows several data sources
supported by Tableau. With the integration of
Tableau is the best available tool in the BI Office 365 suite, it allows connection with
market. It supports wide variety of data Share point. Power BI also allows online
sources to visualize data. It allows the user to support to the user for direct visualization
select a dataset in the dataset to visualize data through Search Engines but is limited to Bling
for a selected dataset. alone.
There is a free version available in Power BI
Tableau is costlier while compared to Power BI which lets the user to 1GB data set limit. Pro
but provides a better price for small and Software is paid but is cheaper in the market
medium scale companies. while compared to other BI tools.

Q58) State the differences between Direct Query method and Import method.
Direct Query method Import method
Import method also does data transformation
Data manipulation is much limited in this and manipulation tasks. If the data is
method and the data will be present in the published in PBI, it is limited to 1 GB. Here the
SQL DB. data will be present in Power BI Azure.
As the name implies, the queries are direct Import method requires to schedule refresh
and does not requires refresh scheduling. and has to be refreshed 8 times in a day.
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Q59) State the advantages of Direct query method.

Following are the advantages of Direct query method:

 User can build larger data sets data visualizations through Direct query method, but Power
BI desktop supports data visualizations on smaller data sets alone.
 There is no dataset limit for Direct query method and 1 GB dataset limit is not applicable in
this method.
 User can visualize current data report alone while using direct query.

Q60) State the limitations of Direct query method.

Following are the limitations present in Direct query method:

 User can perform data aggregation for unlimited number of rows but returning data is
limited to 1 million rows alone.
 All the tables have to come from a single data base only.
 While using complex queries, the query editor returns an error. This error has to be
removed before running a new query.
 Relationship filtering can be allowed only in one direction while using Direct query method.
 There is no support for special treatments in direct query method for time related data
present in the tables.

Q61) Tell me about Power pivot.

Power pivot is a technique used in data model and analysis. It is available as an add on to be
used with Excel 2010. Because of this feature, millions of rows of data from various data
sources can be imported to one Excel work book. Power pivot helps the user to build
relationship to heterogeneous data, to build the computed columns and measures through
formulas and to build pivot charts and pivot tables. It also enables the user in data analysis
through which the business people can take decisions on time independently without any
support from IT professionals.

Q62) What do you know about Power Pivot data model?

Power pivot data model is a data model composed of tables, columns, data types and table
relations. Generally, this data model is built to hold data for business operations. It could be
either for an individual to a business organization.

Q63) What do you mean by DAX?

DAX is the Data Analysis Expression which is used to perform data analysis and primary
calculations of data in the Power pivot. DAX performs math computing through formulas. It
works on column values and calculated field but cannot work on rows. Also, DAX will not
alter a data or insert a new data.
Q64) State the differences between Power BI and SSRS.

Power BI SQL Server Reporting Services

Power BI gives strong data manipulation SQL server Reporting Services is generally used
feature in its backend but provides access only to make pixel perfect reports and provides
to simple visualizations. limited dash board options.
SSRS does not have any limit. Also, it allows
In free version, Power BI limits the use 1 GB users to connect larger data sets, which is not
data. possible in Power BI.
Power BI allows several data sources SSRS also allows various data sources for
supported by Tableau. With the integration of connections to make business intelligence
Office 365 suite, it allows connection with reports.
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 Upon request, the cost details are exposed to
while compared to other BI tools. the user.
Power BI is free version and Power Pro is paid.
Pro is available to the user at a cost of This software license is available on request
9.99USD/month with 10 GB data limit and 1 and is available on cloud platforms such as
million rows/hour data streaming. Azure, AWS and some other major platforms.
Implementation process in Power BI is quite Compared to Power BI, SSRS contains complex
simple. It uses cloud storage. implementation process.

Q65) State the differences between Power BI and Power BI PRO.

Power BI Power BI Pro

Is a free version with storage limited up to 1GB Is a paid version with more storage capacity
for data. options
Pro software added with bunch of features
through which user can refresh data daily,
Power BI is a basic tool for beginners to get more storage option, direct and live data
started and to search data. sources including interaction option etc.,

Q66) Explain about data modeling in Power BI.

Power BI provides yet another feature called Data modeling, which allows the users to
connect several data sources in the business intelligence (BI) tool through a relationship.
Relationship explains the way data sources were connected to one another and build
interactable data visualizations over various data sources. Data modeling also lets the user
to create customized math calculations in the existing table using formulas. The columns in
the tables were transferred live to Power BI for interactive data visualization. Because of this
feature, business people could be able to define new metrics so as to do customized math
calculations for the defined metrics.

Q67) How do you create calculated columns in Power BI?

By joining two or more elements present in the existing data, users can build calculated
columns in Power BI. Users are allowed to define new metrics by stating math calculations
in an existing column. They are also allowed to join two columns to make it as one single
column.
Q68) How do you define a dataset?
Data set can be defined as a collection of various information (data) through which
representations can be made by Power BI. For Example, Microsoft Excel Work book, SQL
server table etc.,

Q69) What do you mean by dashboards in Power BI?

Dashboards in Power BI are used to visualize data, reports etc., Dashboard makes several
perceptions to make it single.

Q70) How do you create dash boards in Power BI?

Users can create their own dash boards in Power BI by attaching the visualizations available
in Business intelligence reports. The visualizations built from these reports through Power BI
service are accessible for attaching to build dashboards.

Q71) What do you mean by reports in Power BI?

Report contains various data collected from various sources. Several data are grouped on
page in a report. For example, data collected for products profit, sales of a company, data
from a city etc.,

Q72) What do you mean by tiles in Power BI dashboard?

Tile is one more feature available in Power BI service. It is said to be a data snap shot which
can be attached to your dashboard. It is a single visualization present in a report or on
individual’s dashboard.

Q73) What do you know about Power Query?

Power Query is an ETL tool which means extract, transform, load three data base functions
in one tool. Through this tool, user can pull data out from one data base and can place that
data in another data base. The method of reading a data is called as Extract. The method of
transforming the data, i.e changing data from the existing form to a new form as per the
need is called as Transform. The method of writingQ45) the data to the target database is
called Load. This extract, transform and load function can be done through interfaces and
does not require any script. Using Power Query, user can import data from several sources,
can combine, append data from several sources and can shape the data as per their
requirement.
 Q74) What is the language used in Power query to perform ETL?
Power query uses M-code, a recent programming language among developers. Since this
language is quite simple to learn and similar to other existing programming languages, users
started to use this language.

Q75) Explain Focus mode present in Power BI dash board.

Focus mode is an enhanced feature in the Power BI dash board, which lets the user to focus
their dash board, i.e., they can visualize their dashboards too closer. In case, multiple values
were present in the dash board, this focus mode option enables the user to have a close
view. User can also view columns in tables closely through focus mode. User can closely
view all the data or report in the dashboard through focus mode. Focus mode also allows
the user to attach a visual to some other dashboard through PIN icon present in the
dashboard.

Q76) As per your knowledge, tell me the platforms which Power BI application supports?

Power BI application is available for the following platforms:

 i-phone and i-pad
 Android platform
 Windows platform – windows desktop and tablets

Q77) Tell me about Data Gateway in Power BI service.

Data gateway enables the user to connect in built data sources to the Power BI service. Data
gateway allows any other version without any admin configuration to connect with. It is also
called a Personal Gateway. Through logging on the Power BI service, user can set up this
personal gateway service.

Q78) Explain how to create visualizations in Power BI.

Power BI allows the user to create simple visualizations alone. Visualizations help users to
view their data and to help them to interact with the dashboard. Visualizations present
users to view data too effectively. It is the basic and important building block to any BI tool.
Several data visualization components were available in Power BI such as bar charts, maps,
pie charts and complex components like gauges, funnels, waterfalls etc., and various other
components.
Q79) What do you mean by Combination charts in Power BI?
Combination charts are charts supported by Power BI which can plot various measures over
a single chart. These charts plot all the measure values. Any requirement of different
measure can be plotted using combination chart. Stacked column charts and Line charts are
the widely used combination chart types in Power BI.

Q80) How do you modify colors in charts?

Users are allowed to alter the chart colors in Power BI. There will be an option to change the
color while selecting any visualization. This color change option will be present under the
Format tab in the visualization dash board. Some of the options in the format tab are: Data
colors, Legend, Title, Detail label, Border, Background, General and Lock aspects.

Q81) How will you add shapes, images and text box to your visualization in Power BI?
To provide enhanced visualizations to users measures, there is a need to add text, images
and shapes. If user needs to add some messages, to add header or footer, any signatures to
data visualization, user can use this option. This option is available to user in their Power BI
dashboard to add shapes, images and text box. User is allowed to add different shapes in
data visualization. User can enter anything in the text box and edit the text using rich text
editor. This text box is available in user’s report canvas. Images can also be added to add
images, logos etc., to data visualization. Any image can be selected by browsing your
system. Also user is allowed to resize selected images.

Q82) Is it possible to create duplicate reports? If yes, how?

Some situations require the usage of same visuals and same layout for various pages. There
is an option available in Power BI to duplicate a page. Power BI has a duplicate page option,
and if you use it, a fresh page will be created with similar visuals and layout like the original
page. To create a duplicate page, from the dash board menu, right click on the page and
select duplicate page option.

Q83) How do you integrate Microsoft Excel to Power BI?

Power BI allows users to integrate excel workbook to Power BI. User can import data
present in excel sheets from the local disk of a system to Power BI. But, user has to check
whether every column in excel work book contain proper name before importing data from
excel to Power BI.

Q84) How do you share reports through Power BI Desktop?

Power BI desktop allows the user to share their data and reports to other business users.
Users can share data, dashboards and business intelligence reports with other business
people, individuals and to their colleagues who were present in their organization.

Q85) What do you know about Power BI designer?

Power BI designer is a mix of Power view, Power query and Power pivot. It is a stand- alone
application which allows the users of power BI to build Power BI reports. The created report
is further uploaded to powerbi.com. Power BI designer does not require Microsoft Excel.

Q86) What are the DAX functions available in Power BI?

Power BI allows its users to use various function types to examine data and to create new
metrics, new columns. These functions are available from several categories such as: text,
date, aggregate, counting, logical and information. User can easily view the list of all these
available functions. If you type something in the formula space, you can view the list of
available functions for the typed character. This option is similar to find a contact option
from a mobile device.

Q87) State the list of aggregate functions and counting functions in DAX? Q87) State the
list of aggregate functions and counting functions in DAX?
Some of the aggregate functions present in DAX are: Average, Min, Max, Sum and SumX.
Some of the counting functions available are: Count, Distinct Count, Count Rows, Count
Blank and CountA.

Q88) What are the calculation types available in DAX?

Power BI allows the users to build two basic calculations using DAX: Calculated measures
and Calculated Columns.

Q89) What are the logical and date functions available in DAX?

Logical functions: AND, OR, NOT, IF and IF ERROR

Date functions: Hour, Date, Weekday, EOMonth and Now.

Q90) What are the information and text functions available in DAX?

Information functions: ISTEXT, ISNONTEXT, ISBLANK, ISERROR and ISNUMBER.

Text Functions: Search, Fixed, upper, concatenate and Replace.
 Q91) How do you select admin role in Power BI?

For those who need admin privileges to access the BI admin portal without office 365 suite
access, admin role is granted to Power BI. Users who require admin access can follow the
following steps.
 Go to Office 365 Suite Admin Center
 Choose Users option, further choose Active users
 Go to Roles tab and click on the Edit option
 Then, go to the customized administrator tab and then select the option Power BI
administrator.

Q92) What are the Power BI versions available and how about the pricings?

 Power BI is a open source tool, available at free of cost but is limited to 1GB data and can
make 10k rows/hour.
 Power BI Pro is freely available for 60 days as a trial version and further, user can pay
9.99USD/month and /user. User is allowed for 10GB data storage and can make 1 million
rows/hour.
 Power BI also contain a premium version for premium users. Premium version contains a
flexible pricing as per node/month.
 Power BI contains an on-premises report server which is capable of publishing reports. In
this option, user can change their cloud platform whenever they need.

Q93) Tell me about REST API and its association with Power BI.

REST APIs are used to operate the data present in Power BI in real time environments. With
the combination of REST API with Power BI, user can build dashboards, datasets, add/delete
rows and can receive groups. This Power BI REST API can be built through many
technologies. Some of them are :
 Ruby
 .Net
 JQuery
Users require Azure active directory token to get access applications in Power BI
dashboards.
 Q94) Explain the security level of Power BI.

Power BI requires Azure active directory (AAD) access for every user who uses Power BI
service. Users require login credentials to build their BI account, which could be also an
email account. Users need a unique username to access this account. Azure cloud actually
provides security to Power BI. It includes various levels of security. They are:
 AAD Based Security
 Multi-tenant platform Security
 Networking Security

Q95) What are the repositories available in Power BI data storage?

There are two types of repositories available in Power BI for data storage. They are:
 Azure BLOB storage and
 Azure SQL DB
To upload users data, Azure Blob storage is used and to store system data, Azure SQL
database is used. Azure cloud is responsible to provide authentication, data and network
security to the Power BI users.

Q96. What do you mean by BI?

BI stands for Business Intelligence. It’s a group of technologies that help in analyzing the
entire data. It also offers actionable insights to users, corporate executives, and managers to
make the best decisions.

Q97. Mention some of the Power BI components?

There are different Power BI components namely
 Power Pivot (for in-memory tabular data modeling)
 Power Map (for 3D geospatial visualizing)
 Data Management Gateway
 Power BI Mobile (For iOS, Android, and Windows phones)
 Power Query(for transformation and data mash-up)
 Power View(for data visualizations view)
 Data Catalog
 Power Q/A (for natural language Q/A)
 Power Bi Desktop(a companion development tool)

Q98. What are the important parts included in the Microsoft self-service Business
Intelligence solution?
There are two important Business Intelligence solutions included in the Microsoft self-
service namely
 Power BI
 Excel BI Toolkit

Q99. What do you mean by Power BI?

Power BI is the data-sharing environment in a cloud that enables users to visualize, analyze
the nformation with high speed, greater understanding, and efficiency. It also enables users
to connect to a different range of data using interactive reports, compelling visualizations,
and user-friendly dashboards.

Q100. What do you mean by Excel BI Toolkit?

The Excel Power BI Toolkit enables users to develop attractive reports by importing various
types of data from different model data acc and sources to requirements.

Q101. 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.

Q102. Mention the difference between Self-service BI and managed enterprise BI?
Self-Service BI:
 In this type of BI, they help a different enterprise to process data from different data
sources. The source can be in any type of format.
 It also enables the companies to process data, conducts different operations in the business
easily.
 Data analyzing is also made easier.
 There are no requirements for third party vendors.
 The user can generate actionable and intuitive dashboards without the need for
complicated programming codes.
Managed Enterprise BI:
 In this type of BI, the data flows from various sources and there is no order for any
companies to take in and control the data sources.
 The organizations fail to conduct different business operations as they cannot analyze,
report, or collaborate to gather valuable insights.
 In this BI, there are lack of proper information as well time constraints are present when
analyzing data.
 This type of BI also needs third party vendors to help organizations in a different way.
 There is a requirement for complex programming skills to generate reports.

Q103. Mention the Power BI Cost?

Power BI and Power BI desktop are free of cost. If you need a premium package, then the
users should pay $9.99 per month for Power BI Pro. The one advantage here is that the
users can pay the amount after completing their 60 days of a free trial.

Q104. What do you mean by Power BI Desktop?

It’s one of the free desktop applications installed on your system. The Power BI Desktop
along with the Power BI service offers advanced shaping, creating reports, modeling, data
exploration with the best visualizations. All your works can be saved to a file. You can also
publish that information, and report them to others using the Power BI Suite.

Q105. Mentions some of the Power BI Building blocks?

There are five important components of Power BI building blocks namely
 Datasets: Its a group of data that helps users to create their own visualizations.
 Dashboards: It’s presenting your different visualizations in a single layer. It means you will
be able to integrate different visualization in a single layer of the page.
 Visualization: Its the data’s visual representation. For example Line graph, graphical
presentation of top of treemaps, pie chart, side by side bar charts, and so on.
 Reports: Its the group of visualizations that appear as a group on different pages. Sales by
state, logistics performance report, country, profit by-products report, and more are some
of the examples.
 Tiles: Its the dashboard or report’s single visualization.

Q106. What are the fundamentals required to use Power BI?

 You should have a work email address and a web browser.
 Make sure you do not have your work email address ending in .gov or .mil as they are not
supported at present.

Q107. What are the formats available for Power BI?

 Power BI Service: An online Software as a Service (SaaS)
 Power BI Desktop: For desktop computers
 Mobile Power BI apps: For Android and iOS devices.

Q108. Mention the work email address supported currently?

Your work email address should end with .edu or .org.

Q109. Why do you need a content pack?

A content pack is described as the predefined and readymade collection of reports and
visualizations utilizing your chosen service like Salesforce. You need them when you need to
create a report immediately instead of taking much time to create it from scratch.

Q110. What do you mean by DAX and explain its basic concepts?
DAX is derived as Data Analysis Expression, which is a group of constants, operators, and
functions used in formulas to return and calculate values. In short, they are used to develop
new information from the existing data. There are three basic concepts included in DAX
namely
 Functions: This type of concept use particular values, otherwise called as arguments in the
right order to execute a calculations, just identical to Excel functions. The categories
included in the functions are time intelligence, logical, statistical, parent/child, date/time,
information, mathematical, text, and more.
 Syntax: This indicates the writing format of a formula. It indicates the elements used to
comprise it. The function in Syntax is SUM. You will get an error message in case your syntax
is wrong.
 Context: Filter context and row context are two types of context. Row context is used when
a formula include a function that is used to apply the filter to pick the single row in a single
table. The filter context is used when there is a number of filters applied in a calculation that
indicates a value or result.

Q111. Mention some of the data type categories?

 File
 Power BI
 Online Services
 Database
 Azure

Q112. Mention a few data sources in the Get Data menu?

 Power BI datasets
 Text
 Excel
 Web
 SQL Server and analysis services

Q113. What do you mean by ‘Get Data’ in Power BI?

This feature provide data connectivity to a different number of data sources. The Get Data
can be seen on the Power BI Desktop’s main page menu bar. You can make use of this
option to connect the app of Power BI Desktop with the related data source. You will be
able to connect this to the local system data files, Azure SQL database, Google Analytics,
Excel files, Facebook, Power BI datasets, and more. You can also connect them to the on-
premise data source and cloud-based source with the help of direct connects, online
services, and gateways.

Q114. What does Report indicate in Power BI?

 It’s the collection and combination of various visualizations related to specific business
topics. It’s also the structured and graphical data presentations used in the analysis. Reports
reveal the data’s important insights and are also informative. Users can easily publish and
share reports that are created in Power BI. It can be done using Power Bi website and Power
BI desktop, mobile platforms, and cloud-based platforms.

Q115. What are the important capabilities included in the Power BI?

 Datasets
 Tiles
 Navigation pane
 Help and feedback buttons
 Ad Hoc analysis
 Mobile device compatibility
 Trend indicators
 Data visualization tools
 Complete reporting
 Customizable dashboards
 Reports
 Get Data
 Ad Hoc reporting
 Q&A question box
 Row-level security
 OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)
 Interactive reports authoring

Q116. Where are the data of Power BI stores?

All the imported Power BI data from various sources of data are stored in either Dimension
tables and Fact tables.
 Dimension table: It’s a database table that holds every attribute values for the stored data in
the fact table. It held in a star schema that is attached to the fact table.
 Face table: It is the primary or central table of any start schema. It holds the quantitative or
measured values. It contains the primary keys and these are not normalized usually.
 Q117. Why do you need a Power BI tool?
There are many reasons to state why you should go for Power BI tools. Some of them
include.
 Power BI enables updates on real-time dashboards.
 It enables secure environment, hybrid configuration, and rapid deployment.
 It holds dashboards that are prebuilt and also reports for SaaS solutions.
 It provides reliable and secure connections of all your sources of data in the on-premise or
cloud.
 Enables you to explore your data with the help of a natural language query.

Q118. What are the data types supported by DAX?

Data Analysis Expression supports the following data types.

 Boolean
 String
 Numeric
 Decimal
 Datetime

Q119. Mention some of the Power BI applications?

Power BI is mostly used by
 Data & Business analyst
 IT professionals and team
 Data Scientist
 Program Management Office
 Database Administrator and Developer
 Consumer for End User Report

Q120. What you mean by Grouping and how to use it in BI?

Power BI Desktop enables the users to group the data into smaller chunks. You need to use
Control + click to select different elements in the visual for the grouping purpose. You can
right-click on any of the elements, that appear in the groups’ window.
 Q121. Mention some of the Power BI Dashboard features?
 It enables you to develop different tiles like images, text boxes, web content, and combine
URLs.
 It enables you to drill through the selection pane, bookmarks, and page.
 It enables you to set a report layout for the mobile view.

Q122. What is the language used in Power Query?

M-Code is the language used in Power Query. It’s a new programming language developed
to be user-friendly, case sensitive and it’s identical to other languages.

Q123. Mention some of the data shaping techniques?

 Adding Indexes
 Removing rows and columns
 Applying for a Sort order

Q124. Are there any prerequisites to connect to a database in Azure SQL Database?
Yes, you need to configure the firewall settings to enable remote connections before
connecting it to the database in Azure SQL Database.

Q125. Mention some of the advantages of using variables in DAX?

 Variables are capable of making DAX expressions more logical.inituitive to interpret.
 By evaluating and declaring a variable, it can be reused at different times in the DAX
expression, it means you can avoid any of the extra queries of the source database.
 Variables are designed to query or measure. They are not able to share them with the
model level.

126. What is BI?

The BI is an acronym for Business Intelligence which includes technologies practises and
applications for collection, integration, evaluation and presentation of organizational
information using different charts. The main motive behind this business intelligence tool is
to support business managers, corporate executives, employees, and other persons in
taking more data-driven and more informed decisions.
 127. What is Self-Service Business Intelligence?

Self-service business intelligence is an approach to data analytics in which the users are no
need to possess the high technical knowledge to filter, segment, and examine the data
related to them. The SSBI does not demand your technical and statistical knowledge in
performing business intelligence tasks.
SSBI’s have a simplified process for end-users to access data and analyse it to make effective
decisions.
The SSBI’s can be easily operated by those who have a basic understanding of data and can
create shareable dashboards and reports.

128. What do you know about Power BI?

Power BI is a cloud-based business intelligence tool, that lets you clearly visualize and
analyze your organizational information. In Power BI you can develop reports using Power
Pivot, Power Query, Power View and also you can share your insights with your co-workers.
Power BI lets you upload all your excel books into the cloud and you can grant access to a
specific group of people or groups you want. Your colleagues not only access your reports
but also you allow them to interact with the reports in the form of applying slicers and filters
to improve the data. Power BI allows for seamless integration between multiple software
and services.
Power BI lets you perform below things:
 Easy to share presentations and reports with your colleagues.
 You can update the excel file from the data source that can be either in the cloud or on-site.
 You can display the dashboards on multiple devices which include PC’s, tablets and also
mobiles enabled with HTML 5 by downloading the Power BI App.
 You can use natural language processing to query your data.

129. List the data sources that Power BI can connect to?

Power BI can seamlessly connect to a wide range of data sources, below mentioned are the
different sources.
Files: Data can be sourced from Power BI Desktop files Excel (.xlsx, xlxm), (.pbix), and from
the CSV files.
 Content Packs: The content packs are a collection of related files or documents that are
stored as a group. We have two types of content packs available in Power BI, the first type is
from the service providers such as Google Analytics, Salesforce, and Marketo and the
second type is created and shared by the individuals in your organization.
Connectors: which includes databases such as Database And SQL, Azure SQL, comparing
analysis service tabular data, etc.

130. List the important components of Power BI?

Below mentioned are the main components of Power BI:

 Data Integration
 Data Presentation
 Data Processing

131. What are the key components of Power BI?

Below mentioned are the key components or building blocks of Power BI

Visualizations: It is nothing but a graphical representation of data. For example Pie Chart,
Bar Charts, Line Graph, TreeMap, a graphical presentation with Geographical Map, etc.
Reports: Report is a set of visualizations that comes in one or more pages. For example Sales
by Continent, Country, State, City, profit of a product, logistic performance report, etc.
Datasets: Dataset is a grouped data that is being used by Power BI for graphical
representation purpose. Ex. Excel sheets, SQL server tables.
Dashboards: Dashboard is a single screen to present multiple graphics. Dashboards allow
users to bring multiple visualizations into a single page layer. Ex. A marketing dashboard
can have geographical maps, pie charts, and bar charts.
Tiles: Tile is a visualization on a dashboard or a report. Ex. Pie Chart in a report or
dashboard.

132. What is a Filter and explain different types of Filters available in Power BI?

Filters are the criteria set by us to get only the intended information from the whole data.
Filters work based on the defined criteria. For example, we have sales data from the US and
you want to see only New York information then you can give Criterion as New York to
eliminate the other data.
 In Power, BI FIlters can be applied at three levels which are Visual-level, Page-level, and
Report-level.
Visual-level: Here Filter is applicable to only individual visualizations and reduces the data
amount shown by Visualization. Besides these visual-level filters can also filter both
calculations and data.
Page-level: These are the filters that work on a page level in a report. In a report, each page
can have a different filter i.e page- level filters.
Report-level: These are the filters that work at the report level and are used to filter the
pages and visualizations presented in a report.
Filters are highly useful but they are associated with some limitations which are as follows
You can not save the filters that you have applied to a report. Whenever you open a report
you need to apply all those filters again that you have applied previously. You can not save
the filters you made to a report in a saved report.
You can not hide a filter that is being applied to a report. The filters you have applied can be
seen by the people who have access to your report.

133. What is meant by Content packs in Power BI?

The Power BI content packs are pre-built solutions that come with various objects. Content
packs in Power BI show you a path to share different power BI objects such as datasets,
reports, or dashboards with your colleagues or individual groups. The content packs are
accessed or shared through the Power BI site. Microsoft has released content packs for
major services such as Marketo, Salesforce.com, Adobe Analytics, CircuitID, Azure Mobile
Engagement, comScore Digital Analytix, SQL Sentry, Quickbooks Online, and tyGraph.
To use the content packs you should be using Power BI Pro which helps you to implement
and share content packs. Content paks include:
 Reports
 Datasets
 Dashboards
 Excel Workbooks

134. What are Major Power BI tools?

There are three important tools in Power BI which are:

Power BI Desktop – used for Desktops
Power BI Service – tool as an online Software as a Service (SaaS)
Mobile Power BI apps – used for Android and iOS devices.

135. What is meant by the term ‘Report’ in Power BI?

Reports in Power BI are defined as a collection of different types of visualizations related to
a single business topic. A report contains the datasets used in the presentation of analysis.
Reports are highly informative and contain valuable insights extracted from the data. In
Power BI User can easily share reports with others via Power BI Desktop, mobile platforms,
cloud-based platforms, and power Bi website.

136. Explain about Dashboards in Power BI?

A Power BI Dashboard is a canvas using which we can present various visualizations to
represent datasets. A dashboard helps us in presenting the data of reports in a graphical
format that can be easily understood by anyone. It contains only the important elements
extracted from a report. A dashboard is a single page prepared from multiple pages of a
report. Dashboards help in getting quick insights rather than going through complete
reports. Dashboards are mainly used to get quick insights out of data to understand
business functionality.

137. What is a Power BI Service?

Power BI is a cloud-based analytical solution and offers the service regarding the same. The
cloud-based service is nothing but sharing and viewing the dashboards and reports on cloud
platforms. One can use a work email to access the Power BI reports on the Power BI site.
Power BI is a web-based platform in which you can share the reports that are made of
Power BI Desktop and create dashboards. Power BI Service versions are available in three
different options such as Free, Pro, and premium. And also Power BI Service is called by
names such as “Power BI Workspace” “Power BI.com”, “Power BI Web Portal”, and “Power
BI Site”.

138. Where the data is basically stored in Power BI?

To visualize the data we need to download/import data into the Power BI tool. There are
two areas in which data gets stored in Power BI when you import from data sources that are
Fact tables and Dimension tables.
 Fact Tables: A fact table stores Quantitative information for analysis purpose and it is not
possible to normalize in most of the situations.
Dimension table: This table is to store dimensions and attributes that describe stored in a
fact table.

139. What are the various views available in Power BI Desktop?

There are three different views available in Power BI and each one serves a specific purpose.
Report View: In the report view, a user can add additional report pages and also
visualizations and publish them on the same portal using Report View.
Data View: Data view helps in looking at your data after that has been loaded into the
model.
Relationship View: A user can check to control the relationships between the data sets by
using a relationship view.

140. What are the different types of data sets available in Power BI?

Major Data sources used in Power BI Desktop are:

 All
 Database
 File
 Azure
 Power BI
 Online Services
 Other

141. Explain about Responsive Slicers?

You can easily adjust the responsive slicers according to the required sizes and shapes and
the data contained in a report should be realigned according to it.

142. What is an Advanced editor in Power BI?

Advanced Editor helps in viewing the query run by Power BI to Import data sources.
The Query is written in Power Query formula language
 When you wish to view the query code from the Power BI click on the Edit queries
presented in the Home tab.
You can use either the View tab or Home tab to click on Advanced editors to use. The
advanced window editor will display the code used for the selected query.
When we make modifications to data using a query editor, the steps are automatically saved
in Applied steps.

143. List two types of Connectivity modes used in Power BI?

Two types of connectivity modes are

 Direct Query
 Import

144. what is DAX?

DAX is an acronym for Data Analysis expression which is used to conduct data analysis in
power pivot. DAX is a formula language used to compute calculated fields and calculated
columns.
 DAX cannot modify or add data
 It works on column values
 It is not possible to calculate measures using DAX

145. List the most commonly used DAX functions?

Below mentioned are some of the most commonly used DAX functions:
 SUM, MAX, AVG, MIN, DISTINCTCOUNT, COUNTROWS.
 IF, SWITCH, OR, AND,
 ISFILTERED, ISBLANK, ISCROSSFILTERED
 FILTER, VALUES, CALCULATE, ALL,
 INTERSECT, UNION, NATURALINNERJOIN, EXCEPT, NATURALLEFTEROUTERJOIN, ISEMPTY,
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS,
 GEOMEAN, DATEDIFF, MEDIAN,
 VAR (Variables

146. What are some benefits that we get from using variables in DAX?
Following are the benefits:
A single variable can be used multiple times in DAX expression by declaring and evaluating
the variable. Which eliminates additional querying from the source database.
Variables make DAX expressions more logical to interpret.
Variables have only limited scope to their query or measure, it is not possible to define them
at the model level, or shared among measures.

147. Explain the different Power BI add-in?

Following are the major Power BI add-in to Excel:

Power Query: It helps in selecting, editing, and Importing external data.
Power Pivot: this add-in used for data analysis and modeling.
Power View: It makes the task easier in designing Interactive visualizations.
Power Map: This add-in allows you to display insights in 3D.
Power Pivot – Power BI Interview Questions and Answers

148. What is a Power Pivot data model?

Power Pivot is a powerful add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010. Pivot helps you in importing
millions of rows of data from various data sources into a single Excel workbook. It allows the
users to create calculated columns, develop relationships between heterogeneous and also
lets you build PivotTables and PivotCharts. All these things will help you in conducting
further analysis of data to make business decisions without depending on IT teams.
149. Explain the Power Pivot Data Model?
A Pivot model is made of data types, table relations, columns, and tables. These data models
are normally created for storing business information.
150. What is the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine in Power BI?
The xVelocity in-memory analytics engine plays is a powerful thing behind the Power Pivot.
It handles large amounts of data because it stores data in columnar databases, and in-
memory processing (it loads all data into RAM) makes data processing faster than ever
before.

151. Explain about Power Query?

It is an ETL tool used to reconstruct, clean, and transform data with the help of initiative
interfaces without writing a single line of code. It helps a user in the following ways.
Power query is capable of importing data from various sources such as databases, big data,
files, Social media, etc.
Construct data based on requirements by removing and adding data.
Joins and appends data from various sources.

152. List some of the common Power Query Transformations?

The common Power Query Transformations include Filtering Rows, Changing Data Types,
Grouping, Removing Columns, Adding New Columns, Splitting columns, etc

153. Can we use SQL and Power Query together?

Yes, we can use them together. A SQL statement can be used as a source of Power Query for
making additional logical processing. This will help in ensuring that an efficient query is
passed to the source and avoids unnecessary complexities.

154. Which language is used in Power Query?

M-code is a new programming language used in power query. M-code is a simple language
and similar to other programming languages and it is a case sensitive language.

Q155. Explain the extraordinary version of power BI?

The strength BI laptop is the software that’s used by the BI developers to build intuitive
reports from the raw statistics which may be from numerous source systems. once the
reviews are equipped we will put up the reviews to Power BI service. The energy BI desktop
is free.
Strength BI provider: that is a SaaS primarily based a part of Power BI & it’s miles frequently
mentioned as strength BI online or energy BI Cloud. The cause of power BI service is to
percentage the reviews and Dashboards build by way of the builders to the quit customers.
The electricity BI provider is license-based totally.
Power BI Mobile: The power BI cell is to view the reports at the move out of your mobile
telephones. we can download strength BI mobile from Android Play keep and Apple – App
store.
Power BI Report Server: Often the reviews which we construct are greater Sensitive & the
reviews can’t be posted to the Power BI Cloud. To Tackle this state of affairs and to post the
reviews to a carrier that is On-Premise, Microsoft has come with a Product referred to as
Power BI Report Server.

Q156. Explain the Components of Power BI?

Power Query: The ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) Part of the BI is taken care of in Power
Query. It is a Data Transformation Engine. It allows us to Connect a range of information
sources ranging from Excel to Streaming data.
Power Pivot: The Data Modelling Part of the BI Process is performed with the assist of
Power Pivot. The Relationships between the tables are hooked up right here and
Calculations are written via Power Pivot Part of Power BI. It makes use of DAX (Data Analysis
Expressions) language to mannequin the data.
Power View: It lets to create Powerful visuals, charts & Graphs from the tables. It can join to
the records sources accessible in the Models and lets you to filter information for every
visual or a web page or a complete report.
Power Map: The Geographical information can be visualized by the usage of Power Map
and it used Microsoft Bing to get the Best visuals primarily based on Latitude and Longitude,
Country, State, County, City, etc.
Power BI Desktop: It is a single device Integrated with Power Query, Power View , Power
Pivot and Power Maps.

Q157. Explain how Power BI Stores the data?

Power BI Stores Data in phrases of Fact and Dimension tables.
Fact Tables: The Fact information shops the quantitative data. The Simple way of Explaining
a Fact desk is It incorporates numeric fields which can be aggregated alongside with the
Foreign keys which are used to set up relationships between the Dimension tables.
Dimension Tables: The Dimension tables or the Lookup are in distinction with the Fact
tables, this table incorporates textual content fields which are descriptive in nature. It
consists of a Primary Key which are in Integer information kinds to join with the reality
tables.

Q158. What are the operations which are frequently carried out in PowerBI Query?
1. We can join to Various records sources & extract the required records and Shape the
statistics as per our need.
2. We can Create New columns the use of the columns are existing in the dataset.
3. Duplicate, Merge, Split, Rename the columns.
4. Replace the Columns values.
5. Pivot and Transpose the columns.
6. And tons more.

Q159. What are the special modes which are on hand in Power BI to import data?

1. Direct question mode à No Limitations in the Size

2. Import mode à Up to 1Gb of facts per dataset

Q160. What do you imply via DAX?

DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) which are predominantly useful in querying & returning the
information from the tables handy in the Data model. To do calculations and to function
facts evaluation in Power BI we want to use DAX calculations.
We can Write Measures and Calculated Columns or Calculated Tables the usage of DAX
Expressions.

Q161. What is the distinction between Measure and Dimension?

Measures: The Measure are used to calculate aggregations such as Sum, Min, Max, Average
& Count at the desk level. It is calculated at the time of the question which says that the
Measures are no longer saved somewhere in the database or in the model. They truely
exist.
Calculated Column: The Primary distinction between the measure and the calculated
column in the Evaluation context. The Evaluation of a calculated columns is completed at
the row degree the place as the comparison context of a measure is at the desk level.
Summary:
 Use a calculated column when you choose to consider every row.
 Use a measure when you want an aggregate.
 Q162. What are the special interactions handy in Power BI?

There are three one-of-a-kind Interactions on hand in Power BI.

 Filter à It definitely filters the visuals or a tile when different charts are selected.
 Highlight à It Highlights solely the associated values in a chart or visuals primarily based on
the options primarily based on the different charts.
 None à It ignores the Filter picks from the other Charts or the visuals.

Q163. What are the distinctive filters on hand in Power BI?

 There are three extraordinary Interactions reachable in Power BI.

 Visual Level à It filters facts solely on an Individual chart or a Graph . It can filter each the
information and calculations.
 Page-Level à When a Page stage filter is utilized all the charts and Graphs are filtered with
the corresponding filter which is applied. We can have specific web page stage filters utilized
at exclusive pages of the filter.
 Report Level à A single filter for the whole record which ability all the charts / Graphs at
exceptional pages are utilized with the corresponding filters.
Q164. Explain Bookmark in Power BI?
Bookmarks are sort of Shortcut used in Power BI to navigate to a sure web page that is
configured at a factor of time. We can toggle between a foremost file web page and a
bookmark for handy comparison. Bookmarks are static and all the filter or interactions
which are configured won’t exchange till we edit the bookmarks.

Q165. How can we slice and cube the information in a Power BI record Page?
We can slice and cube the facts of the usage of Slicers. Slicers are visible filters that offer
interactivity to the stop customers and permit the customers and slice and cube the data.

Q166. How many instances we can refresh a dataset in Power BI Pro and Power BI
Premium?
A dataset can be refreshed eight instances a day in Power BI Pro and forty-eight instances in
Power BI Premium. If we have 5 extraordinary datasets, we can refresh forty instances a day
(8*5)
 Q167. How can we mix records from two tables X & Y that are coming from a Teradata
tables which have equal Structure?
We can use “Append Queries” in Power Query editor to mix the tables due to the fact of the
gain of having the identical desk structure.

Q168. What is the distinction between Merge and Append Queries in Power Query Editor?
Append: Result of two greater tables are mixed as a single query. If there are two tables
with 50 & one hundred rows respectively, we can append the distinction queries as a single
query. For Append it is suggested that each the tables need to be in a identical desk
structure. The quantity of columns in each the tables must be in a equal name. In case a
new column is introduced in any one of the table, the appended question will additionally
have the greater column and desk which will preserve null price for the archives which are
associated to the dataset which does now not have the extra columns. Also, the Append
question will permit duplicates.
Merge: Merge Queries are type of Combining two exceptional queries based totally on a
matching values. Merge queries will no longer appear for the Columns to mix the records
however the row values. Merge are comparable to Joins in phrases are SQL and there are 6
unique joins supplied in Power BI.
Q169. What is the Syntax of DATEADD DAX Function?

DATEADD(,,)
* Dates à A Date columns , It can be from the Calendar Table.
* Number_of_intervals à Interval to add or Subtract the date cost from the given Date.
* Interval à The Interval can be 12 months or Month or Quarter or Day.
19. What is the distinction Between Filter and Slicer?
Filters are used to restriction the records measurement or we can Target some particular
areas with the aid of Providing a filter. Filter does now not grant the interactions between
the consumer and the Dashboard. Whereas Slicer are extra interactive & it is extra for
Slicing and dicing the data.

Q170. How are specific datatypes are handy in Power BI?

 Decimal Numbers & Whole Numbers
 Text
 Date & Date time
 Boolean
 Binary

Q171. What are the exclusive roles accessible in Power BI Service?

 Admin
 Contributor
 Member
 Viewer

Q172. What is Cardinality?

Cardinality capacity the relationship which is set up between two tables in the Modelling
view of Power BI. We can discover if the tables have awesome of multi cases per price for
the becoming a member of columns between the two tables.

Q173. What are the exceptional Cardinalities reachable in Power BI?

 One to One
 One to Many
 Many to Many are the three one-of-a-kind cardinalities reachable in Power BI.

Q174 What is the issue in phrases of Size of Data in Power BI Premium and Power BI Pro?

In Power BI Pro we can cope with up to 1Gb of statistics & in Power BI Premium we can
Handle 10 Gb of Data per User.