Design and manage analytics solutions using Power BI (PL-300T00)
Learn to model, visualize, and analyze data with Power BI, use DAX and Microsoft Fabric, and securely publish and share reports and dashboards online.
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Course Overview
Learn methods and best practices for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. This course covers accessing and processing relational and non-relational data, building and optimizing semantic models, creating reports and dashboards, and securely distributing analytics content.
Designed for data and business intelligence professionals, the course also addresses Microsoft Fabric, Copilot in Power BI, DAX calculations, report design, analytics, workspace management, and deployment to the Power BI service.
Course Benefits
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a data analyst.
- Access data from relational, non-relational, file-based, and online sources.
- Clean, transform, combine, and load data in Power BI.
- Select and configure an appropriate Power BI semantic model framework.
- Write DAX formulas, calculations, and time intelligence expressions.
- Create visual calculations and optimize model performance.
- Design accessible, interactive, and mobile-friendly Power BI reports.
- Apply analytical techniques such as clustering, time series analysis, and what-if analysis.
- Use Microsoft Fabric and Copilot to support analytics and report development.
- Publish and manage workspaces, semantic models, reports, apps, and dashboards in the Power BI service.
- Configure refresh, gateways, content distribution, governance, and data security.
Delivery Methods
Live expert-led online training from anywhere. Guaranteed to run .
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
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Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

Course Outline
- Discover data analysis
- Overview of data analysis
- Roles in data
- Tasks of a data analyst
- Get started building with Power BI
- Use Power BI
- Building blocks of Power BI
- Tour and use the Power BI service
- Introduction to end-to-end analytics using Microsoft Fabric
- Explore end-to-end analytics with Microsoft Fabric
- Explore data teams and Microsoft Fabric
- Enable and use Microsoft Fabric
- Module assessment
- Get started with Copilot in Power BI
- Use Copilot in Power BI to prepare and model data
- Create reports with Copilot in Power BI
- Get your data ready for AI usage in Power BI
- Module assessment
- Get data in Power BI
- Get data from files
- Get data from relational data sources
- Create dynamic reports with parameters
- Get data from a NoSQL database
- Get data from online services
- Select a storage mode
- Get data from Azure Analysis Services
- Fix performance issues
- Resolve data import errors
- Clean, transform, and load data in Power BI
- Shape the initial data
- Simplify the data structure
- Evaluate and change column data types
- Combine multiple tables into a single table
- Profile data in Power BI
- Use Advanced Editor to modify M code
- Choose a Power BI model framework
- Describe Power BI model fundamentals
- Determine when to develop an import model
- Determine when to develop a DirectQuery model
- Determine when to develop a composite model
- Choose a model framework
- Module assessment
- Configure a semantic model
- Configure relationships
- Configure tables
- Configure columns
- Configure hierarchies
- Configure measures
- Configure parameters
- Write DAX formulas for semantic models
- Understand DAX calculation types
- Write DAX formulas
- DAX data types
- Work with DAX functions
- Use DAX operators
- Use DAX variables
- Create DAX calculations in semantic models
- Create calculated tables
- Create calculated columns
- Understand implicit measures
- Create explicit measures
- Use iterator functions
- Use DAX time intelligence functions in semantic models
- Use DAX time intelligence functions
- Additional time intelligence calculations
- Create visual calculations in Power BI Desktop
- Understand visual calculations
- Create visual calculations
- Use parameters in visual calculations
- Module assessment
- Optimize a model for performance in Power BI
- Describe semantic model optimization techniques
- Review performance of measures, relationships, and visuals
- Use variables to improve performance and troubleshooting
- Reduce cardinality
- Optimize DirectQuery models with table-level storage
- Create and manage aggregations
- Scope report design requirements
- Identify the audience
- Determine report types
- Define user interface requirements
- Define user experience requirements
- Explore designs in a Power BI report
- Design Power BI reports
- Design the analytical report layout
- Design visually appealing reports
- Use report objects
- Select report visuals
- Apply filters and slicers to reports
- Understand filtering techniques and considerations
- Case study: Configure report filters based on feedback
- Enhance Power BI report designs for the user experience
- Design reports to show details
- Design reports to highlight values
- Design reports that behave like apps
- Work with bookmarks
- Design reports for navigation
- Work with visual headers
- Design reports with built-in assistance
- Tune report performance
- Optimize reports for mobile use
- Perform analytics in Power BI
- Explore statistical summary
- Identify outliers with Power BI visuals
- Group and bin data for analysis
- Apply clustering techniques
- Conduct time series analysis
- Use the Analyze feature
- Create what-if parameters
- Use specialized visuals
- Manage workspaces in Power BI service
- Understand Power BI service
- Understand workspaces
- Publish to Power BI service
- Manage semantic models in Power BI
- Use a Power BI gateway to connect to on-premises data sources
- Configure a semantic model scheduled refresh
- Configure incremental refresh settings
- Manage and promote semantic models
- Boost performance with query caching using Fabric or Premium capacity
- Use lineage and impact analysis
- Choose a content distribution method
- Understand sharing models
- Create a Power BI app
- Apply data governance principles
- Track report or dashboard usage
- Create dashboards in Power BI
- Configure data alerts
- Explore data by asking questions
- Review Quick Insights
- Add a dashboard theme
- Pin a live report page to a dashboard
- Set mobile view
- Secure data access in Power BI
- Configure row-level security with the static method
- Configure row-level security with the dynamic method
- Use single sign-on for DirectQuery sources
- Restrict access to Power BI model objects
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft Power BI class:
- Understanding of core data concepts.
- Knowledge of working with relational data in the cloud.
- Knowledge of working with non-relational data in the cloud.
- Knowledge of data analysis and visualization concepts.
Experience in the following would be useful for this Microsoft Power BI class:
Completion of DP-900T00: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals is recommended.
Prerequisite Courses
Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:
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