Design and implement a data model

7 practice questions under this official exam objective (PL-300) — each with the community-verified answer, a full option-by-option explanation and instant feedback.

PL-300 A-grade

Counting Product Categories Sold Using DAX CALCULATE

This PL-300 hotspot asks for a DAX measure that counts how many distinct product categories had products sold in a selected period. The correct expres

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PL-300 A-grade

Supporting Analysis with Multiple Date Foreign Keys in Power BI

This question addresses how to handle multiple date foreign keys (Due, Order, Delivery) in a Power BI data model. It establishes that simply renaming

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PL-300 S-grade

Which three actions create monthly star-schema totals with minimal model size?

This PL-300 question asks for three actions that produce monthly transaction totals for current and prior years while preserving a star schema and min

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PL-300 S-grade

Handling role-playing dates in Power BI with one renamed and two calculated date tables

A sales table carries three date foreign keys (Due Date, Order Date, Delivery Date), and the proposed design renames one date table as Due Date and cr

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PL-300 S-grade

Shrinking a Power BI model for monthly transaction totals with a star schema

A semantic model with Date, Account, and Transactions tables must show monthly transaction totals for the current and prior year, follow a star schema

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PL-300 A-grade

Does Removing the Salesperson Table Meet Model1's Size Goal?

In this PL-300 scenario, Model1's Sales fact table already stores both SalespersonID and CityID, so removing the redundant one-column Salesperson dime

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PL-300 A-grade

Does Removing ProductID Shrink the Model Yet Keep City Analysis?

In this PL-300 model-size scenario, deleting the ProductID column from the one-million-row Sales table removes roughly a million string/integer values

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