PL-300 - Deploy and Maintain Assets (18% of the exam) - Section 4.1

Create and manage workspaces and assets including apps and deployment pipelines.

Create Power BI workspaces, assign workspace roles to control who can edit or view content, and publish Power BI apps to distribute curated reports to a wider audience. Use deployment pipelines to promote content through development, test, and production stages, and inspect lineage view to understand dependencies between datasets and reports.

Power BI workspacesworkspace rolesPower BI appsdeployment pipelineslineage view

Practice question for this objective

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A new analyst opens Power BI Desktop and tries to create a collaborative workspace from the application menu. Where must this workspace be created instead?

ACreate the workspace from File menu options in the Power BI Desktop application.
BCreate the workspace from the Microsoft Fabric admin portal under tenant settings.
CCreate the workspace in the Power BI service in a browser at app.powerbi.com. Correct
DCreate the workspace from the Power BI Report Server portal on the on-premises web service.

Create and manage workspaces in the Power BI service in a browser, not in Power BI Desktop. Workspace creation lives in the Power BI service (app.powerbi.com), not in Power BI Desktop. Desktop can publish into an existing workspace but exposes no creation settings.

Why A is wrong: Power BI Desktop only lets you publish to an existing workspace; it has no creation interface.

Why B is wrong: The Fabric admin portal governs tenant policy, not day-to-day workspace creation by individual users.

Why C is correct: Correct. Workspace creation lives in the Power BI service (app.powerbi.com), not in Power BI Desktop.

Why D is wrong: Power BI Report Server hosts paginated reports on-premises and does not provide the Power BI service workspace experience.

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Exam traps in Deploy and Maintain Assets

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the PL-300 bank for this domain.

Assign the user a Microsoft 365 E3 licence so the workspace creation pane shows for the account.
Why it is wrong: M365 E3 alone does not include the Power BI Pro entitlement required to create a collaborative workspace.
Publish a new app from the workspace and set its initial audience permissions.
Why it is wrong: First-time app publishing is reserved for Admin and Member; Contributors can only update an app when delegated.
Publish two apps from the same workspace and link them under a shared app collection.
Why it is wrong: Power BI does not support multiple apps per workspace; the platform allows one app per workspace by design.

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