Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide: A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional

Gain the knowledge and skills needed to become a certified Microsoft Power BI data analyst and get the most out of Power BI

Key Features

• Get the skills you need to pass the PL-300 certification exam with confidence
• Create and maintain robust reports and dashboards to enable a data-driven enterprise
• Test your new BI skills with the help of practice questions

Book Description

Microsoft Power BI enables organizations to create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all. This guide to achieving the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification will help you take control of your organization's data and pass the exam with confidence.

From getting started with Power BI to connecting to data sources, including files, databases, cloud services, and SaaS providers, to using Power BI's built-in tools to build data models and produce visualizations, this book will walk you through everything from setup to preparing for the certification exam. Throughout the chapters, you'll get detailed explanations and learn how to analyze your data, prepare it for consumption by business users, and maintain an enterprise environment in a secure and efficient way.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to create and maintain robust reports and dashboards, enabling you to manage a data-driven enterprise, and be ready to take the PL-300 exam with confidence.

What you will learn

• Connect to and prepare data from a variety of sources
• Clean, transform, and shape your data for analysis
• Create data models that enable insight creation
• Analyze data using Microsoft Power BI's capabilities
• Create visualizations to make analysis easier
• Discover how to deploy and manage Microsoft Power BI assets

Who this book is for

This book is for data analysts and BI professionals who want to become more competent in Microsoft Power BI. Although the content in this book will help you pass the PL-300 exam, there are plenty of other practical applications beyond exam preparation in the chapters. No prior experience with Power BI is needed.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Power BI and the PL-300 Exam
2. Connecting to Data Sources
3. Profiling the Data
4. Cleansing, Transforming, and Shaping Data
5. Designing a Data Model
6. Using Data Model Advanced Features
7. Creating Measures Using DAX
8. Optimizing Model Performance
9. Creating Reports
10. Creating Dashboards
11. Enhancing Reports
12. Exposing Insights from Data
13. Performing Advanced Analytics
14. Managing Workspaces
15. Managing Datasets
16. Practice Exams

Orrin Edenfield has 20 years of experience designing and implementing data & analytics solutions. Orrin contributes to Microsoft certification exams as well as architecture best practices and blueprints, helping to solve BI problems using Power BI and more. A Cloud Solution Architect, Orrin helps customers solve technical obstacles and helps develop Azure platforms.

Ed Corcoran has spent 20 years in data warehousing and business intelligence work. A Cloud Solution Architect, Ed helps customers use Microsoft data & analytics services to solve technical obstacles and help develop customer implementation projects to ensure easy adoption. Ed also collaborates with product engineering to aid development of Microsoft products and Azure platforms.