You have a folder of monthly transaction extracts.
You plan to create a report to analyze the transaction data.
You receive the following email message: "Hi. I've put 24 files of monthly transaction data onto the shared drive. File Transactions201901.csv through Transactions201912.csv have the latest set of columns, but files Transactions201801.csv to Transactions201812.csv have an older layout without the extra fields needed for analysis. Each file contains 10 to 50 transactions." You get data from the folder and select Combine & Load. The Combine Files dialog box is shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Case Study 1 - Litware, Inc.
Overview
Litware, Inc. is an online retailer that uses Microsoft Power Bl dashboards and reports. The company plans to leverage data from Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft Excel files, text files, and several other data sources.
Litware uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to authenticate users.
Existing Environment
Sales Data
Litware has online sales data that has the SQL schema shown in the following table.
In the Date table, the dateid column has a format of yyyymmdd and the month column has a format of yyyymm. The week column in the Date table and the weekid column in the Weekly_Returns table have a format of yyyyww. The regionid column can be managed by only one sales manager.
Data Concerns
You are concerned with the quality and completeness of the sales data. You plan to verify the sales data for negative sales amounts.
Reporting Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements:
- Executives require a visual that shows sales by region.
- Regional managers require a visual to analyze weekly sales and
returns.
- Sales managers must be able to see the sales data of their respective region only.
- The sales managers require a visual to analyze sales performance
versus sales targets.
- The sale department requires reports that contain the number of sales transactions.
- Users must be able to see the month in reports as shown in the
following example: Feb 2020.
- The customer service department requires a visual that can be
filtered by both sales month and ship month independently.
- The maximum allowed latency to include transactions in reports is
five minutes.
Hotspot Question
You publish the dataset to powerbi.com.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Case Study 3 - Northwind Traders
Overview. General Overview
Northwind Traders is a specialty food import company.
The company recently implemented Power BI to better understand its top customers, products, and suppliers.
Overview. Business Issues
The sales department relies on the IT department to generate reports in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The IT department takes too long to generate the reports and often misunderstands the report requirements.
Existing Environment. Data Sources
Northwind Traders uses the data sources shown in the following table.
Source2 is exported daily from a third-party system and stored in Microsoft SharePoint Online.
Existing Environment. Customer Worksheet
Source2 contains a single worksheet named Customer Details. The first 11 rows of the worksheet are shown in the following table.
All the fields in Source2 are mandatory.
The Address column in Customer Details is the billing address, which can differ from the shipping address.
Existing Environment. Azure SQL Database
Source1 contains the following table:
Orders
Products
Suppliers
Categories
Order Details
Sales Employees
The Orders table contains the following columns.
The Order Details table contains the following columns.
The address in the Orders table is the shipping address, which can differ from the billing address.
The Products table contains the following columns.
The Categories table contains the following columns.
The Suppliers table contains the following columns.
The Sales Employees table contains the following columns.
Each employee in the Sales Employees table is assigned to one sales region. Multiple employees can be assigned to each region.
Requirements. Report Requirements
Northwind Traders requires the following reports:
Top Products
Top Customers
On-Time Shipping
The Top Customers report will show the top 20 customers based on the highest sales amounts in a selected order month or quarter, product category, and sales region.
The Top Products report will show the top 20 products based on the highest sales amounts sold in a selected order month or quarter, sales region, and product category. The report must also show which suppliers provide the top products.
The On-Time Shipping report will show the following metrics for a selected shipping month or quarter:
The percentage of orders that were shipped late by country and shipping region
Customers that had multiple late shipments during the last quarter
Northwind Traders defines late orders as those shipped after the required shipping date.
The warehouse shipping department must be notified if the percentage of late orders within the current month exceeds 5%.
The reports must show historical data for the current calendar year and the last three calendar years.
Requirements. Technical Requirements
Northwind Traders identifies the following technical requirements:
A single dataset must support all three reports.
The reports must be stored in a single Power BI workspace.
Report data must be current as of 7 AM Pacific Time each day.
The reports must provide fast response times when users interact with a visualization.
The data model must minimize the size of the dataset as much as possible, while meeting the
report requirements and the technical requirements.
Requirements. Security Requirements
Access to the reports must be granted to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) security groups only.
An Azure AD security group exists for each department.
The sales department must be able to perform the following tasks in Power BI:
Create, edit, and delete content in the reports.
Manage permissions for workspaces, datasets, and report.
Publish, unpublish, update, and change the permissions for an app.
Assign Azure AD groups role-based access to the reports workspace.
Users in the sales department must be able to access only the data of the sales region to which they are assigned in the Sales Employees table.
Power BI has the following row-level security (RLS) Table filter DAX expression for the Sales Employees table.
[EmailAddress] = USERNAME()
RLS will be applied only to the sales department users. Users in all other departments must be able to view all the data.
You need to design the data model to meet the report requirements.
What should you do in Power BI Desktop?
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is the same in each question in this series.
You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that contains the following tables.
The following columns contain date information:
- Date[Month] in the mmyyyy format
- Date[Date_ID] in the ddmmyyyy format
- Date[Date_name] in the mm/dd/yyyy format
- Monthly_returns[Month_ID] in the mmyyyy format
The Order table contains more than one million rows.
The Store table has a relationship to the Monthly_returns table on the Store_ID column. This is the only relationship between the tables.
You plan to use Power BI Desktop to create an analytics solution for the data.
You need to create a relationship between the Monthly_returns table and Date[Date_ID].
What should you do before you create the relationship?
You are creating a line chart in a Power Bl report as shown in the following exhibit.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
