DP-900 - Describe an Analytics Workload on Azure (29% of the exam) - Section 4.3

Describe data visualization in Microsoft Power BI including reports, dashboards, and paginated reports.

Describe how Power BI Desktop authors interactive reports published to the Power BI service, and how dashboards pin visuals from multiple reports for at-a-glance monitoring. Distinguish those interactive reports from paginated reports built for pixel-perfect printable output, and recognise dataflows as reusable self-service data preparation.

Power BI DesktopPower BI servicereports and dashboardspaginated reportsdataflows

Practice question for this objective

Free sampleDescribe an Analytics Workload on Azureeasy

Power BI Desktop is a Microsoft Windows application in which you import data from a wide range of sources, build an analytics data model, and create reports with interactive visualizations. Is this statement correct?

AYes Correct
BNo

Power BI Desktop is the Windows authoring tool for importing data, building the model, and creating interactive reports. The grounding describes Power BI Desktop as a Windows application where you import data from many sources, combine and organize it in an analytics data model, and create reports containing interactive visualizations.

Why A is correct: Correct. The grounding describes Power BI Desktop as a Windows application where you import data from many sources, combine and organize it in an analytics data model, and create reports containing interactive visualizations.

Why B is wrong: Answering No would wrongly assign Desktop's authoring role to the cloud service; the service offers only limited modeling and editing, while full authoring happens in Power BI Desktop.

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Exam traps in Describe an Analytics Workload on Azure

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the DP-900 bank for this domain.

The Power BI phone app, used to view published content on mobile devices
Why it is wrong: The phone app lets users consume reports and dashboards on mobile, not author models.
Defining relationships between the fact and dimension tables of the model
Why it is wrong: Relationships are defined when modeling in Desktop; they do not keep published data current with source changes.
Install the Power BI Desktop app on each consumer machine
Why it is wrong: Desktop authoring is not a service task and is not required for consumers.

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