This course covers the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational sources. Finally, this course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution.

About our Certification Fast Track Training

With our Certification Fast Track Training, you participate in official Microsoft training - but instead of a full week from Monday to Friday, the training is split into two smaller sections.

The Instructor-led part of the training is focused on hands on and best practices. The theoretical part of the courseware will be studied self-paced, in order not to loose precious practice time during your instructor led training days. Exam preparation is an important part of this training delivery - hence we include a Practice Test which will ensure that you will start your exam well prepared. To complete the offer the Exam Voucher is already included as well.

As a participant, you can use the time in between the training days to deepen or repeat content. In addition, you have the advantage of not being absent from work for an entire week, so that day-to-day business is not neglected.

Process of Certification Fast Track Training

After your registration you will receive an introduction to the program. You will also receive reminder e-mails from us along the way.

Below are your 5 steps of your Certification Fast Track training:

1. Self study part of the theory and labs (max 18 hours, which can be spread out over several weeks)
2. Take your 2-day Instructor Led Training, hands on practice and theory (The first 2 days of the displayed dates in the schedule)
3. Continue to practice your labs, studying your theory and complete the provided Official Microsoft Practice Test. The practice test shows you which topics need more attention.
4. Take your 1-day Instructor Led Exam Preparation Training. The instructor will clear out any questions that you have left (The last day of the displayed dates in the schedule). 
5. Use your MCP exam voucher to complete your exam within two weeks after the Exam Prep Training.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course are data professionals and business intelligence professionals who want to learn how to accurately perform data analysis using Power BI. This course is also targeted toward those individuals who develop reports that visualize data from the data platform technologies that exist on both in the cloud and on-premises.

Course Outline

Get started with Microsoft data analytics

Businesses need data analysis more than ever. In this learning path, you will learn about the life and journey of a data analyst, the skills, tasks, and processes they go through in order to tell a story with data so trusted business decisions can be made. You will learn how the suite of Power BI tools and services are used by a data analyst to tell a compelling story through reports and dashboards, and the need for true BI in the enterprise.

• Discover data analysis
• Get started building with Power BI

Prepare data for analysis with Power BI

You'll learn how to use Power Query to extract data from different data sources, choose a storage mode, and connectivity type. You'll also learn to profile, clean, and load data into Power BI before you model your data.

• Get data in Power BI
• Clean, transform, and load data in Power BI

Model data with Power BI

Learn what a Power BI semantic model is, which data loading approach to use, and how to build out your semantic model to get the insights you need.

• Describe Power BI Desktop models
• Choose a Power BI model framework
• Design a semantic model in Power BI
• Write DAX formulas for Power BI Desktop models
• Add measures to Power BI Desktop models
• Add calculated tables and columns to Power BI Desktop models
• Use DAX time intelligence functions in Power BI Desktop models
• Optimize a model for performance in Power BI
• Enforce Power BI model security

Build Power BI visuals and reports

Turn data into interactive, actionable insights with Power BI Desktop visuals and reports.

• Scope report design requirements
• Design Power BI reports
• Configure Power BI report filters
• Enhance Power BI report designs for the user experience
• Perform analytics in Power BI
• Create paginated reports

Manage workspaces and datasets in Power BI

In this Learning Path, you'll learn how to publish Power BI reports to the Power BI service. You'll also learn how to create workspaces, manage related items, and data refreshes for up-to-date reports. Additionally, implement row-level security to restrict user access to relevant data without the need for multiple reports.

• Create and manage workspaces in Power BI
• Manage semantic models in Power BI
• Create dashboards in Power BI
• Implement row-level security