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PL-300 Exam Dumps
  • Exam Code: PL-300
  • Vendor: Microsoft
  • Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
  • Exam Name: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
  • Updated: May 9, 2026 Free Updates: 90 days Total Questions: 464 Try Free Demo

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Coverage of Official Microsoft PL-300 Exam Domains

Our curriculum is meticulously mapped to the Microsoft official blueprint.

Prepare the Data (30%)

Master the art of data ingestion. Focus on Power Query transformations, connecting to diverse sources (SQL, Dataverse, Fabric), and choosing the right storage mode (Import, DirectQuery, or DirectLake).

Model the Data (30%)

The "Boss Level" of the exam. Mastery of Star Schema design, defining relationships, and writing complex DAX measures including Time Intelligence and Calculation Groups

Visualize and Analyze the Data (30%)

Crafting high-impact reports. Focus on dashboard design, usability (bookmarks/tooltips), and leveraging AI visuals and Copilot to tell compelling data stories.

Manage and Secure Power BI (20%)

Governance and distribution. Deep dive into workspace management, implementing Row-Level Security (RLS), and utilizing Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels for data protection.

Microsoft PL-300 Exam Domains Q&A

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Question 1 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

You manage a Power BI model has a table named Sales and product.

You need to ensure that a sales team can view only data that has a CountryRegionName value of United States and a ProductCategory value of Clothing.

What should you do from Power BI Desktop?

  • A.

    From Power BI Desktop, create a new role that has the following filter.[countryRegionName]= “United States” & & [ProductCategory]= “Clothing”

  • B.

    Add the following filters in Query Editor.CountryRegionName is United StatesProductCategory is Clothing

  • C.

    From Power BI Desktop, create a new role that has the following filters.[CountryRegionName]= “United States”

  • D.

    Add the following filters to a report.CountryRegionName is United SatesProductCategory is Clothing

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: D

Explanation:

[References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/power-bi-how-to-report-filter, , , , , ]

Question 2 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

You have the following table named Location.

PL-300 Q2

The GeoCode column represents the country where each customer is located.

You create a map visualization as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

PL-300 Q2

You need to ensure that the map displays the country locations.

What should you do?

  • A.

    Replace the values in the GeoCode column with postal codes or zip codes.

  • B.

    Change the name of the GeoCode column to Country.

  • C.

    Change the name of the Location table to Country.

  • D.

    Change the Default Summarization of the GeoCode column.

  • E.

    Add a Geoportal column to the Location table.

  • F.

    Change the Data Type of the GeoCode column.

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: B

Explanation:

[References:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-map-tips-and-tricks, , , ]

Question 3 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

Note: This question is a part of a series of questions that present 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 exactly the same in each question in this series.

Start of repeated scenario

You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that has the tables shown in the Database Diagram exhibit. (Click the Exhibit.)

PL-300 Q3

You plan to develop a Power BI model as shown in the Power BI Model exhibit. (Click the Exhibit).

PL-300 Q3

You plan to use Power BI to import data from 2013 to 2015.

Product Subcategory [Subcategory] contains NULL values.

End of repeated scenario.

You implement the Power BI model.

You need to add a measure to rank total sales by product. The results must appear as shown in the following table.

PL-300 Q3

Which DAX formula should you use?

  • A.

    Product Ranking= RANKX (Product, [SalesAmount], , DESC, Skip)

  • B.

    Product Ranking= RANKX (ALL, (‘Product’), [SalesAmount], , DESC, Dense)

  • C.

    Product Ranking= RANKX (ALL, (‘Product’), [SalesAmount], , DESC, Skip)

  • D.

    Product Ranking= RANKX (ALL (‘Product’), [SalesAmount], , Asc, Dense

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: B

Explanation:

[References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492185.aspx, , , , , ]

Question 4 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this scenario, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a clustered bar chart that contains a measure named Salary as the value and a field named Employee as the axis. Salary is present in the data as numerical amount representing US dollars.

You need to create a reference line to show which employees are above the median salary.

Solution: You create a percentile line by using the Salary measure and set the percentile to 50%.

Does this meet the goal?

  • A.

    Yes

  • B.

    No

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: A

Explanation:

The 50th percentile is also known as the median or middle value where 50 percent of observations fall below.

[Reference:, https://dash-intel.com/powerbi/statistical_functions_percentile.php, , , , , ]

Question 5 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this scenario, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a clustered bar chart that contains a measure named Salary as the value and a field named Employee as the axis. Salary is present in the data as numerical amount representing US dollars.

You need to create a reference line to show which employees are above the median salary.

Solution: You create a constant line and set the value to .5.

Does this meet the goal?

  • A.

    Yes

  • B.

    No

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: B

Explanation:

Instead create a percentile line by using the Salary measure and set the percentile to 50%.

Note: The 50th percentile is also known as the median or middle value where 50 percent of observations fall below.

[Reference:, https://dash-intel.com/powerbi/statistical_functions_percentile.php, , , , ]

Question 6 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this scenario, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have several reports and dashboards in a workspace.

You need to grant all organizational users read access to a dashboard and several reports.

Solution: You create an Azure Active Directory group that contains all the users. You share each report and dashboard to the group.

Does this meet the goal?

  • A.

    Yes

  • B.

    No

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: A

Explanation:

Statements and questions are tricky and confusing. When the access is granted for the group (all users) for ALL (each) dashboards and ALL (each) reports in the workspace, then the will have read access to the specific (A, one) Dashboard and several reports, because they are part of all dashboards and reports. There is no statement, that for the other dashboards (except the one) and the other reports (except the several) that access must be prevented. They are also accessible (maybe it is not desired but not stated here).

Question 7 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

Your organization has a team of power users who recently created 20 Power BI dashboards.

The power users share the dashboards with other users in the organization.

When the users attempt to access the dashboards, they receive the error message shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit.)

PL-300 Q7

You need to ensure that all the users can access the dashboards.

What should you do first?

  • A.

    From the Microsoft Office 365 Admin center, and the Power BI (free) subscription, and then assign a license to each user.

  • B.

    From the Power BI Admin portal, modify the Privacy Settings.

  • C.

    From the properties of each dashboard, modify the Share dashboard settings.

  • D.

    Instruct each user to install Microsoft Office 2016.

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: A

Explanation:

[References: http://www.nubo.eu/en/blog/2016/12/Enable-PowerBI-On-Office-365/, , , , , ]

Question 8 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

A manager can represent only a single country.

You need to use row-level security (RLS) to meet the following requirements:

The managers must only see the data of their respective country.

The number of RLS roles must be minimized.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

  • A.

    Create a single role that filters Country[Manager_Email] by using the USERNAME DAX function.

  • B.

    Create a single role that filters Country[Manager_Email] by using the USEROBJECTID DAX function.

  • C.

    For the relationship between Purchase Detail and Purchase, select Apply security filter in both directions.

  • D.

    Create one role for each country.

  • E.

    For the relationship between Purchase and Purchase Detail, change the Cross filter direction to Single.

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: A, C

Explanation:

In Power BI Service the username and userprincipalname both return the email address, it ' s only in Power BI Desktop that username is domain/username rather than the email address. So I agree that userprincipalname is better generally as you always get the same value, the answer is correct and you can use username as your RLS since the role will be applied in the Service. See https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/USERNAME-v-s-USERPRINCIPALNAME-in-RLS-for-Power-BI-Embedded/ba-p/1867670 for more information.

Question 9 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

You have a data model that contains many complex DAX expressions. The expressions contain frequent references to the RELATED and RELATEDTABLE functions.

You need to recommend a solution to minimize the use of the RELATED and RELATEDTABLE functions.

What should you recommend?

  • A.

    Merge tables by using Power Query.

  • B.

    Hide unused columns in the model.

  • C.

    Split the model into multiple models.

  • D.

    Transpose.

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: A

Explanation:

Combining data means connecting to two or more data sources, shaping them as needed, then consolidating them into a useful query.

When you have one or more columns that you’d like to add to another query, you merge the queries.

Note: The RELATEDTABLE function is a shortcut for CALCULATETABLE function with no logical expression.

CALCULATETABLE evaluates a table expression in a modified filter context and returns A table of values.

[Reference:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-shape-and-combine-data, , ]

Question 10 Microsoft PL-300
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:

You have a Power BI tenant.

You have reports that use financial datasets and are exported as PDF files.

You need to ensure that the reports are encrypted.

What should you implement?

  • A.

    dataset certifications

  • B.

    row-level security (RLS)

  • C.

    sensitivity labels

  • D.

    Microsoft Intune policies

Correct Answer & Rationale:

Answer: C

Explanation:

General availability of sensitivity labels in Power BI.

Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels provide a simple way for your users to classify critical content in Power BI without compromising productivity or the ability to collaborate. Sensitivity labels can be applied on datasets, reports, dashboards, and dataflows. When data is exported from Power BI to Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files, Power BI automatically applies a sensitivity label on the exported file and protects it according to the label’s file encryption settings. This way your sensitive data remains protected no matter where it is.

[Reference:, https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-bi-data-protection-ga-and-introducing-new-capabilities/, , , ]

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