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3 Main Components of Power BI
BI Desktop
BI Service
BI Apps
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Is it possible to create reports in BI service?
Yes
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What are the basic building blocks in Power BI?
Visualisations
Datasets
Reports
Dashboards
Tiles
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Goal of Data Analytics
Turn data into actionable insights
Inform decision making
Compelling narrative and accessible information
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Dashboard
A single-page collection of visuals built from a report
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Reports
A collection of visuals built from a dataset. Can span several pages
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What is the common flow of activity in Power BI?
Bring data into Power BI Desktop
Create a report
Share it to the Power BI service
View and interact with reports and dashboards in the service and Power BI mobile
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What is a collection of ready-made visuals, pre-arranged in dashboards and reports?
An app

You can get apps that connect to many online services from the AppSource
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What allows you to shape your data?
Power Query
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Examples of Shaping Data
Promote First Row as Header
Rename columns
Remove top rows
Remove columns/ remove other columns
Pivot/Unpivot Columns
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Can you edit Query names in Power Query?
Yes
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Can you replace one value in a cell in Power Query?
In Power Query, you can't select one cell and change one value, like you might have done in Excel.
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What can you do with null values in your data?
You can change them to 0 so that averages can calculate correctly.
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In what instances is removing duplicates useful?
You can copy a query table, and then remove duplicates to create a unique set of values e.g. for a look up table.
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Why is it useful to use spaces instead of underscores for naming conventions?
Easier for Natural Language queries in Power BI
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Does Power BI capture the whole data source when looking at column profile, distribution or quality?
No. The default is 1000 rows but you can reset to capture entire table.
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What is the impact of incorrect data types
Unable to create hierarchies e.g. dates
Creating proper relationships in tables
Unable to create calculations
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Where can you change column data type?
Home - Transform (PowerQuery)
Select Icon next to the column header
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How can you combine multiple tables?
Append or Merge
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What happens when you append tables?
Rows are added as long as the data contains the same column structure (Concatenate)

You can append multiple tables (more than 2)
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What happens when you merge tables?
Columns are added, and there must be a column that is the KEY. Similar to Join.
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Can you append queries as new?
Yes. You can either append or append queries as new (creates new table)
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Explain the following Joins?

Left
Full
Inner
Left- Displays all rows from the first table and only the matching rows from the second.

Full - Displays all rows from both tables.

Inner - Displays the matched rows between the two tables.
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What's useful to do before you visualise data?
Profile the data
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