You're reading from Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238562

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

IT Certification

Authors (2):

Edward Corcoran

Orrin Edenfield

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Preparing the Data

2. Chapter 1: Overview of Power BI and the PL-300 Exam FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Connecting to Data Sources

4. Chapter 3: Profiling the Data

5. Chapter 4: Cleansing, Transforming, and Shaping Data

6. Part 2 – Modeling the Data

7. Chapter 5: Designing a Data Model

8. Chapter 6: Using Data Model Advanced Features

9. Chapter 7: Creating Measures Using DAX

10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Model Performance

11. Part 3 – Visualizing the Data

12. Chapter 9: Creating Reports

13. Chapter 10: Creating Dashboards

14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Reports

15. Part 4 – Analyzing the Data

16. Chapter 12: Exposing Insights from Data

17. Chapter 13: Performing Advanced Analysis

18. Part 5 – Deploying and Maintaining Deliverables

19. Chapter 14: Managing Workspaces

20. Chapter 15: Managing Datasets

21. Part 6 – Practice Exams

22. Chapter 16: Practice Exams

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Practice Question Answers

Using workspaces

Power BI workspaces are places in the Power BI service where datasets, reports, and dashboards can be hosted or published for multiple users to use. Power BI Desktop is typically used to publish reports and datasets to workspaces; however, the service provides a REST API in which custom applications can interact with workspaces, including the management of assets on workspaces or even publishing. There are other workspace assets, such as dashboards and dataflows, that are created within a workspace using PowerBI.com but the primary authoring tool is Power BI Desktop.

Let's next explore the ways in which workspaces can be managed through roles and permissions.

Using workspace roles

Workspaces allow users to be given permission to objects stored in the workspace. Those permissions center around distinct roles, such as Admin (or administrator), Member, Contributor, and Viewer. These roles each have unique permissions inside the workspace. For example, the...