Power BI Fundamentals and Microsoft Ecosystem Questions
Fundamentals of Power BI usage, including Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, data modeling with DAX, report and dashboard design, data connectivity within the Microsoft ecosystem (Excel, SQL Server, Azure Synapse/Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake), and governance, security, deployment patterns, and best practices for BI solutions in Microsoft-centric environments
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How would you set up monitoring and auditing for Power BI usage and activity in a mid-size enterprise? Describe the log sources you would collect (Office 365 audit logs, Power BI activity events, dataset usage metrics), how to ingest or forward them into Azure Log Analytics or a SIEM, and what proactive alerts or dashboards you would create.
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Implement a DAX measure that returns a running total of Sales[Amount] by month, respecting filters and slicers on the report and handling months with no transactions. Explain how evaluation context affects the result and why you chose your approach. Provide the DAX measure and brief rationale.
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How does Power BI integrate with Excel? Explain options such as using Excel files as data sources, storing PBIX files on OneDrive or SharePoint for automatic sync, the 'Analyze in Excel' feature that creates an OLAP connection to a Power BI dataset, and differences between Power Query in Excel versus Power Query in Power BI Desktop.
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When should you use Paginated Reports (Power BI Report Builder) instead of regular interactive Power BI reports? Provide a business example such as invoices or regulatory filings, discuss rendering differences and pagination behaviour, parameter handling, subscription support, and licensing considerations for publishing paginated reports.
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Describe how to implement basic Row-Level Security (RLS) in Power BI Desktop using roles and DAX filters. Explain how you test roles locally, publish to Service, and map users or Azure AD groups to roles. Provide a simple example role that restricts data to a single Region based on a Region column.
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