PowerBI Interview Questions and Answers
PowerBI Interview Questions and Answers
2). What are the parts of Microsoft self-service business intelligence solution?
Ans: Microsoft has two parts for Self-Service BI
Excel BI Toolkit – It allows users to create interactive report by importing data from different sources
and model data according to report requirement.
Power BI – It is the online solution that enables you to share the interactive reports and queries that
you have created using Excel BI Toolkit.
12). What is special or unique about the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE functions?
Ans: These are the only functions that allow you modify filter context of measures or tables.
Add to existing filter context of queries.
Override filter context from queries.
Remove existing filter context from queries.
Limitations:
Filter parameters can only operate on a single column at a time.
Filter parameters cannot reference a metric.
15). How would you create trailing X month metrics via DAX against a non-standard calendar?
Ans: The solution will involve:
1. CALCULATE function to control (take over) filter context of measures.
2. ALL to remove existing filters on the date dimension.
3. FILTER to identify which rows of the date dimension to use.
Alternatively, CONTAINS may be used:
CALCULATE(FILTER(ALL(‘DATE’),…….))
21). What are some of differences in data modeling between Power BI Desktop and Power Pivot for
Excel?
Ans: Here are some of the differences:
Power BI Desktop supports bi-directional cross filtering relationships, security, calculated tables, and
Direct Query options.
Power Pivot for Excel has single direction (one to many) relationships, calculated columns only, and
supports import mode only. Security roles cannot be defined in Power Pivot for Excel.
22). Can we have more than one active relationship between two tables in data model of power pivot?
Ans: No, we cannot have more than one active relationship between two tables. However, can have
more than one relationship between two tables but there will be only one active relationship and many
inactive relationship. The dotted lines are inactive and continuous line are active.
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