Exam PL-300 study guide
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Certification
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.
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Last Updated
04/20/2026
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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.
As a Power BI data analyst, you work closely with business stakeholders to identify business requirements. You collaborate with analytics engineers and data engineers to identify and acquire data. You use Power BI to:
- Prepare the data
- Model the data
- Visualize and analyze data
- Manage and secure Power BI
You should be proficient at using Power Query and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).
Skills earned upon completion
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This exam will be proctored. 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.
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Assessed on this exam
- Prepare the data
- Model the data
- Visualize and analyze the data
- Manage and secure Power BI
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