Practice test 1
- When a selected visual is shown over the entire canvas, what is this feature called?
- Enhanced mode
- Expanded mode
- Focus mode
- Fullscreen mode
- If a report has slicers and a clustered column chart with a trend line, how often will the trend line update?
- When data is refreshed
- When a new visual is added
- When a slicer or filter changes or when data is refreshed
- When a filter is applied
- To understand the top key influencers of a specific amount, such as for the order quantity to be exactly 5, which analysis type would you need to use in the key influencers visual?
- Numeric
- Statistical
- Categorical
- Continuous
- Power BI is used by:
- Only enterprise organizations
- Only university students
- A variety of enterprise and citizen developers
- Only cutting-edge developers
- To sort records by a whole number-type column from lowest to highest, what operation do you need to use?
- Sort low to high
- Sort ascending
- Sort descending
- Sort alphabetical
- What are the required parameters of the RANKX function?
- Table, expression
- Table, expression, order
- Value, order
- Table, order
- To use responsive slicers, the slicer must contain:
- A date range
- A time range
- Relative dates
- A selection list of values
- What four possible cardinalities does Power BI have?
- Many-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-some, and one-to-one
- Many-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-one
- Many-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-two
- Many-to-two, one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-one
- Which visual is the most similar representation of tabular data to a database table?
- Stacked bar chart
- Clustered column chart
- Table visual
- Pie chart
- Which page do you set drillthrough up on?
- The starting page
- The target page
- The Power BI admin portal
- The workspace settings
- To implement row-level security, what needs to be applied to the table?
- M query
- WHERE clause
- DAX expression
- SQL query
- What are the three stages supported by deployment pipelines?
- Training, test, and production
- Training, integration testing, and production
- Development, test, and production
- Development, UAT, and production
- Using Power BI will be familiar for users of which service?
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Excel
- To bring data together from multiple queries where the structure is different but there are matching columns from both tables, we use:
- A left outer join query
- A right outer join query
- An append query
- A merge query
- The three types of geographical map visuals are:
- Map, filled map, and GIS map
- Map, filled map, and ArcGIS map
- Map, colored map, and GIS map
- Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Bing Maps
- To change the data type of a column in the Power Query Editor, what do you need to use?
- Type selector under the Files tab
- Data type selector under the Queries tab
- Type selector under the Data tab
- Data type selector under the Transform tab
- Which option is a way to reduce the data size?
- Multiplication
- Aggregation
- Duplication
- Miniaturization
- Why is it important to cleanse and transform data?
- Date representations in datasets might be different.
- Data types of the matching columns might be different in datasets you need to merge.
- Datasets you need to merge might require creating columns.
- All of the above.
- If your data contains demographic data about customers and you want to understand buying habits for certain age ranges, what technique would you use to analyze your data?
- Merging
- Ranging
- Aging
- Binning
- Power BI uses two engines. What are the names of these two engines?
- Calculation and storage
- Formula and persistence
- Formula and storage
- V8 and diesel
- The auto date/time option in the data load options will do what?
- Automatically save the current date and time to your report.
- Automatically add dates to all tables loaded.
- Create a hidden date hierarchy table.
- Create a hidden timetable.
- Visuals from published reports can be added to a dashboard with a process called:
- Glueing
- Pinning
- Copy and paste
- Sharing
- What does DAX stand for?
- DatabAses for eXcel
- Data Advanced Expressions
- Data Analysis for "X"
- Data Analysis eXpressions
- To view descriptive statistical information about each column of your data, which tool do you need to use?
- Column information under the Data tab
- Column statistics under the View tab
- Column profile under the View tab
- Column profile under the Data tab
- By default, the Power Query Editor uses how many rows of data?
- All of the data
- The first 100 rows
- The first 500 rows
- The first 1,000 rows
- Power BI content and datasets are published to what?
- A database
- A workspace
- An environment
- A workbench
- Which sets of methods are valid ways the Power Query Editor can add columns?
- Column from Example, Custom Column, and Key Column
- Column from Example, Custom Column, and Index Column
- Column from Example, Invoke Custom Function, and IF/THEN Column
- Column from Example, Custom Column, and Column from Join
- What methods can be used with AI to generate data using the Power Query Editor?
- Language detection, language translation, sentiment analysis, and image tagging
- Language detection, key phrase extraction, mind reading, and image tagging
- Language detection, key phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, and image tagging
- Language detection, key phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, and text to speech
- Scheduled data refreshes take place within a time window you set in the service. What is the length of the time window?
- 5 minutes
- 10 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- Which data sources can Power BI can connect to?
- Databases
- Filesystems
- Software-as-a-service providers
- All of the above
- Power BI is designed to work with:
- Many data sources
- Only one data source
- Only two data sources
- One or two data sources
- Which is an example of a non-additive measure?
- Percent increase
- Unit price
- Sales amount
- Purchase order total
- Direct query performance optimization often includes:
- Reducing the size of data in the data model and indexing data in the data model
- Indexes on the source data, dimension-to-fact table key integrity, materializing data and dates, and distributed tables for MPP databases
- Only considering distributed tables for MPP databases
- Indexing the source files in a search engine
- The usage metrics report capability in Power BI includes pre-built reports with what information?
- Premium Per User and Per Capacity usage, report usage, report performance, and report list
- Premium Per User capacity usage, report usage, report performance, and report list
- Report usage, report performance, and report list
- Report usage and report performance
- Which mode needs to be installed for multiple users to access on-premises data sources?
- Personal mode on-premises data gateway
- Multi-user mode on-premises data gateway
- Standard mode on-premises data gateway
- Enterprise mode on-premises data gateway
- To change the colors used on a visual, which section do you need to change?
- Change your visual.
- Edit your visual.
- Format your visual.
- Color your visual.
- What is the recommended tool for optimizing measures?
- Microsoft Edge
- Visual Studio Code
- DAX Studio
- Power Query Editor
- Power BI supports what kind of visuals?
- Only built-in
- Only custom
- Built-in and open source
- Built-in and custom
- It is often hard for businesses to do what?
- Know how much they will pay for Power BI.
- Use Power BI to understand their data.
- Pay their employees what they are worth.
- See a complete picture of what is happening across the enterprise.
- When using sensitivity labels in Power BI, when does downstream inheritance happen?
- When downstream data becomes unusable
- When downstream data is made available for everyone to use
- When the same sensitivity labels are applied to downstream data products
- When the same sensitivity labels are applied to all data products
- The filtering pane allows filtering by:
- Visual and page
- Visual, page, and all pages
- Visual, page, all pages, and reports
- Visual, page, all pages, and dashboards
- To update data in a Power BI dataset, what capability must you use?
- Data reload
- Update dataset
- Update model
- Data refresh
- What is the default canvas type for a report?
- 4:3
- 3:2
- 10:5
- 16:9
- What are two common types of encoding used by Power BI to compress data?
- Value and distinct
- Value and hash
- Value and Snappy
- Snappy and ZIP
- For advanced natural-language queries using domain-specific words, you may need to use what?
- The built-in, general-purpose linguistic model
- A custom linguistic model
- A custom theme
- A custom data model
- When enabling column quality in Power Query Editor, what values are shown for each column?
- Number of valid, duplicate, and empty
- Percent of valid, duplicate, and empty
- Percent of valid, error, and empty
- Number of valid, error, and empty
- What feature of Power BI reports allows you to capture the current state of a report page?
- Snapshot
- Favorites
- Bookmarks
- Freeze page
- What does being "data-driven" mean?
- Using autonomous automobiles
- Business process improvement
- Using data to make business decisions
- Using the latest technology
- What is Power BI?
- Software you download
- Software and a service
- Only a service
- Only a mobile app
- DAX functions must return how many values?
- Two
- One or more
- One
- Minimum of one
- When you create a report that allows end users to jump to a target page in your report that focuses on a selected data value, what feature are you using?
- Drillthrough
- Bookmarks
- Hyperlinks
- Favorites
- What configuration should be changed to use a measure in a drillthrough?
- Cross-filter direction set to both.
- Cross-filter direction set from starting page to target page.
- Allow drillthrough when summarized.
- Allow drillthrough when used as a category.
- What are the three layout options for the bookmark navigator?
- Grid, upright, and level
- Grid, vertical, and level
- Grid, upright, and horizontal
- Grid, vertical, and horizontal
- Which transformation replaces empty or null values in a column with the value from the adjacent row, defined as either up or down methods?
- Fill
- Replace
- Generate
- Create data
- The formula engine interacts with data stored where?
- It doesn't interact with data.
- The storage engine and directly with data sources.
- Directly with data sources.
- The storage engine.
- Slicers can be used to remove data from a report visual:
- Permanently from Power BI
- Temporarily until the next refresh
- Only while selected in the slicer
- Permanently from the source
- What does the "BI" in Power BI stand for?
- Business intelligence
- Better intelligence
- Business interactive
- Business information
- XMLA is the protocol used by:
- Extensible Markup Analytics
- Microsoft Analytics Cloud
- Power BI Analytics Services
- Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
- What Azure service is used for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) encryption in Power BI?
- Azure Power BI Embedded
- Azure Private Link
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure Key Vault
- When a calculated column is added to a query with 100 rows, how many values are added to the storage of the query?
- 0
- 100
- 50
- 25