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MS 20778: Microsoft Power BI Certification Course, Power BI Certification Training

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Analyze Data with Power BI (20778): Overview

Businesses or governments that respond to market changes quickly get an edge over the competition. Data is an ever-increasing thing in every space. Data analytics helps us know what has happened or is happening (descriptive analytics), why it happened or happening (diagnostic analytics), what’s going to happen (predictive analytics) and what can be done (prescriptive analytics).

The need to harness the datasets has raised the demand for data scientist or business intelligence analyst. Power BI certification training prepares you to perform the job in the best possible manner. SpireTec helps corporates and IT professionals to make use of the Power BI capabilities and gain data insights.

What’s Covered in Power BI (20778) Course

Understand self-service BI
Describe the Power BI suite of products
Connect to data sources and optimize data models
Shape and combine data from different sources
Model data
Create reports and manage solutions
Describe the Power BI developer API
Describe the Power BI mobile app

Who Should Take Power BI Certification Training?

BI Professionals

Aspiring or experienced BI Professionals should take this Microsoft Power BI Certification course to develop skills regarding data analytics. It helps them perform better at their workspace and get better compensation.

Business Users

If you run a business, Power BI Certification can help you analyze data effectively and easily. You can learn customer’s preferences, obstacles in the business operations, challenges in the market and what needs to be done.

Students

IT and Non-IT students can take help of the Power BI Certification Training to learn the art of data analysis and processing. It not only helps them score better grades but also to stay future ready with high employability.

Prerequisites for Microsoft Power BI Certifications

The following skills have been set as prerequisites as they make it easy for you to understand and make the best of the training investment.

Understanding of Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality
Basic knowledge of data warehouse schema topology (including star and snowflake schemas)
Exposure to basic programming concepts (such as looping and branching)
An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable
Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications – particularly Excel

Recommended course

55045: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 End to End Business Intelligence

Full Description

20778: Analyzing Data with Power BI

Module 1: Introduction to Self-Service BI Solutions

Introduces business intelligence (BI) and how to self-serve with BI.

Lessons

Lab: Exploring an Enterprise BI solution

Viewing reports
Creating a Power BI report
Creating a Power BI dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the trends in BI
Describe the process of data analysis in Power BI.
Use the key visualizations in Power BI.
Describe the rationale for self-service BI.
Describe considerations for self-service BI.
Understand how you can use Microsoft products to implement a BI solution.

Module 2: Introducing Power BI

This module introduces Power BI desktop and explores the features that enable the rapid creation and publication of sophisticated data visualizations.

Lessons

Power BI
The Power BI service

Lab: Creating a Power BI dashboard

Connecting to Power BI data
Create a Power BI dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Develop reports using the Power BI Desktop app.
Use report items to create dashboards on the Power BI portal.
Understand the components of the Power BI service including licensing and tenant management.

Module 3: Power BI

At the end of this module, students will be able to explain the rationale and advantages of using Power BI.

Lessons

Using Excel as a data source for Power BI
The Power BI data model
Using databases as a data source for Power BI
The Power BI service

Lab: Importing data into Power BI

Importing Excel files into Power BI
Viewing reports from Excel files

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the data model and know how to optimize data within the model.
Connect to Excel files and import data
Use on-premises and cloud Microsoft SQL Server databases as a data source, along with the R script data connector
Take advantage of the features of the Power BI service by using Q&A to ask questions in the natural query language, and create content packs and groups.

Module 4: Shaping and Combining Data

With Power BI desktop you can shape and combine data with powerful, built-in tools. This module introduces the tools that are available for preparing your data and transforming it into a form ready for reporting.

Lessons

Power BI desktop queries
Shaping data
Combining data

Lab: Shaping and combining data

Shape power BI data
Combine Power BI data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Perform a range of query editing skills in Power BI
Shape data, using formatting and transformations.
Combine data together from tables in your dataset.

Module 5: Modeling data

This module describes how to shape and enhance data.

Lessons

Relationships
DAX queries
Calculations and measures

Lab: Modeling Data

Create relationships
Calculations

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe relationships between data tables.
Understand the DAX syntax, and use DAX functions to enhance your dataset.
Create calculated columns, calculated tables and measures.

Module 6: Interactive Data Visualizations

This module describes how to create and manage interactive data visualizations

Lessons

Creating Power BI reports
Managing a Power BI solution

Lab: Creating a Power BI report

Connecting to Power BI data
Building Power BI reports
Creating a Power BI dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use Power Bi desktop to create interactive data visualizations.
Manage a Power BI solution.

Module 7: Direct Connectivity

This module describes various connectivity options using Power BI.

Lessons

Cloud data
Connecting to analysis services

Lab: Direct Connectivity

Direct connectivity from Power BI desktop
Direct connectivity from the Power BI service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use Power BI direct connectivity to access data in Azure SQL data warehouse, in addition to big data sources such as Hadoop
Use Power BI with SQL Server Analysis Services data, including Analysis services models running in multidimensional mode.

Module 8: The Developer API

This module describes the developer API within Power BI.

Lessons

The developer API
Custom visuals

Lab: Using the developer API

Using custom visuals

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the developer API.
Use the developer API to create custom visuals.

Module 9: Power BI mobile app

This module describes the Power BI mobile app.

Lessons

Power BI mobile apps
Using the Power BI mobile app
Power BI embedded

Fees & Schedule

Delivery Mode	Course Duration	Fees
Live Virtual Training	3 Days	Ask for Quote
Onsite Classroom Training	3 Days	Ask for Quote
Customized Training	3 Days	Ask for Quote

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The instructor was very welcoming and spent the me so that we could get to know each other. I could tell that the instructor was very knowledgeable on the subject and connuously kept me involved in the conversation.
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Mr. Abhishek was friendly and knows his subject. He helped in sharing every documents, we will need for further studies and exam for Power BI.

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The trainig was good and well organized. Very motivated and patience in understanding our questions.

State Informatics Limited
He set up a collaborative medium between instructor and students. You can ask questions and he will give you a presenter view where you can share what you have learnt. Instructor Abhishek Kumar is a terrific subject expert. I recommend it to everyone as well. A job well done!

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FAQ's

The method of instructing and the way to explain is excellent and easy to remember. I think he is very good instructor and he is very flexible to take any questions..

Chevron

Instructor was very knowledgeable and very well spoken. For me, the best part of this training course was having a knowledgeable instructor who could answer any of my questions.

US Army

Thank you so much for your time and especially your expertise with us. We really appreciate this discussion session.We gained a lot of technical knowledge today.

SWHealth

Thanks Abhishek for all your help and guidence on this training. Excellent Work is done. I checked with team and they are extremly pleased.

Swhealth

Mr. Abhishek Kumar displayed thorough knowledge of material. His enthusiasm and energy shined throughout the course.

Instructor was able to help me resolve an issue i was having as a real work problem in sharepoint.

The instructor was good especially because he has hands on experience on SharePoint.

Excellent training with proper support.

Instructor was very knowledgeable. Followed course outline in a clear manner and interjected non-course contained material at points in order to clarify.

Instructor was very knowledgeable about the information which was very helpful when it came to answering questions.

Instructor was excellent. He explained the concepts before showing how to do things which was so helpful. Can't say enough good about him.

Abhishek did a great job. Excellent Instructor for BI.

The classroom environment was fine. I did the class from my home. And, the connection speed was outstanding.Very good instructor.

I have completed the course 20778 Analyzing data with Power BI. The instructor Mr. Abhishek Kumar delivered interactive sessions which were impressively informative. He went through the content in detail which showcased that he has a thorough knowledge of the subject matter.

Learned a lot of things and more than I excepted to learn. Was a very nice experience to learn from Abhishek.

Banque des Mascareignes

Excellent and Very Knowledgeable. Highly Recommedded Mr Abhishek for Office 365 Training.

Banque des Mascareignes

The instructor was very welcoming and spent the me so that we could get to know each other. I could tell that the instructor was very knowledgeable on the subject and connuously kept me involved in the conversation.

Abhishek was a great instructor. Very knowledgeable, and very nice.

Mr. Abhishek was friendly and knows his subject. He helped in sharing every documents, we will need for further studies and exam for Power BI.

State Informatics Limited

The trainig was good and well organized. Very motivated and patience in understanding our questions.

State Informatics Limited

He set up a collaborative medium between instructor and students. You can ask questions and he will give you a presenter view where you can share what you have learnt. Instructor Abhishek Kumar is a terrific subject expert. I recommend it to everyone as well. A job well done!