Transform and load the data

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 S-grade

Speeding up refresh of referenced Power Query queries by moving Query1 to a dataflow

Query1 loads customer data and is referenced by three other queries, and refresh of the semantic model is slow; the fix must improve refresh time whil

15 comments
PL-300 S-grade

Why model-level aggregations do not reduce gateway traffic for Import mode

An on-premises data gateway carries full Import refresh data, and the proposed fix of creating aggregations to summarize results is evaluated against

10 comments
PL-300 A-grade

Unpivoting a wide month-year grid into month, year, and amount columns

A CSV previewed in Power Query holds order amounts in a wide month-by-year grid, and the target shape is three columns: month, year, and the order amo

9 comments
PL-300 S-grade

Minimizing effort when reducing a Power Query Date column to just the year

A Date column previewed in Power Query Editor must be reduced to contain only the year, with the least administrative effort, so the question hinges o

8 comments
PL-300 A-grade

Incremental refresh reduces gateway traffic by refreshing only new partitions

In the on-premises gateway scenario, the proposed solution configures incremental refresh on semantic models running in Import storage mode to cut the

6 comments
PL-300 A-grade

Reducing loaded data in Power Query with grouping and column removal

A report on a two-query semantic model underperforms, and Power Query must be used to cut the data volume loaded into the model, with two complementar

5 comments
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

5 comments