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Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate

Demonstrate methods and best practices that align with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI.

At a glance

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Overview

As a candidate for this certification, you should deliver actionable insights by working with available data and applying domain expertise. You should:

  • Provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations.
  • Enable others to perform self-service analytics.
  • Deploy and configure solutions for consumption.

As a Power BI data analyst, you work closely with business stakeholders to identify business requirements. You collaborate with enterprise data analysts and data engineers to identify and acquire data. You use Power BI to:

  • Transform the data.
  • Create data models.
  • Visualize data.
  • Share assets.

You should be proficient at using Power Query and writing expressions by using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). You know how to assess data quality. Plus, you understand data security, including row-level security and data sensitivity.

You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

Important

The English language version of this certification will be updated on October 21, 2024. Review the study guide linked in the Certification resources section for details about upcoming changes.

Skills measured

  • Prepare the data
  • Model the data
  • Visualize and analyze the data
  • Deploy and maintain assets

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You will have 100 minutes to complete this assessment.

Exam policy

This exam will be proctored, and is not open book. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.

If you fail a certification exam, don’t worry. You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the amount of time varies. For full details, visit: Exam retake policy.

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This exam is offered in the following languages:

English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Indonesian (Indonesia)

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Certification resources

Exam PL-300 study guide

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