Power BI - Data Analyst Interview Questions!!
Power BI - Data Analyst Interview Questions!!
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1. Self Introduction.
2. Which visuals have you used in your projects?
3. Can you describe your client project?
4. What was your role in the project?
5. What are the key components of Power BI?
6. What is the difference between DATESBETWEEN and DATESINPERIOD functions?
7. Have you used row-level security in your project? Explain in detail.
8. Did you have access to a premium Power BI account?
9. Provide a brief explanation of bookmarks with a scenario-based example.
10. What is cardinality, and what are its types?
11. What are dimension tables and fact tables?
12. Which data source did you use in your project, and what is the size of the data?
13. If your PBIX file is slow to load, what could be the cause, and how would you improve its performance?
14. What is incremental refresh? Please explain briefly. Have you worked on it?
15. What is a Gateway, and what are its types?
16. Explain the types of joins in Power BI.
17. How do you handle data modeling in Power BI?
18. What are the different types of filters in Power BI?
19. How do you create calculated columns and measures in Power BI?
20. What is the difference between a dashboard and a report in Power BI?
21. Can you explain the concept of Power Query?
22. How do you implement drill-through functionality in Power BI?
23. How do you optimize performance in Power BI?
24. How do you use the Q&A feature in Power BI?
25. How do you manage large datasets in Power BI?
26. How do you handle relationships with many-to-many cardinality?
27. What challenges have you faced while working with Power BI?
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1. What you done your project and what is your roles & responsibilities?
2. What are the transformations used in your project?
3. What are the different sources you have used in your project?
4. What is difference between Import Mode and Direct Query?
5. What is Fact table and Dimension table?
6. Difference between Star Schema and Snowflake Schema?
7. What is Merge and Append in power query editor?
8. What are the building blocks of Power BI?
9. What is Query Folding in Power Query?
10. What is Power BI Q&A?
11. What are the components of Power BI?
12. What is Conditional Formatting in Power BI?
13. How do you handle errors in Power Query?
14. Three processes to replace replaces null values?
15. Difference between referencing and duplicating a query in Power Query.
16. What is the M language, and how does it relate to Power Query?
17. How do you schedule data refreshes in Power Query?
18. What are custom columns in Power Query, and how do you create them?
19. What is the 'Group By' function in Power Query, and how is it used?
20. Explain how to remove duplicates from a dataset in Power Query.
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1. Self Introduction
2. Which data sources have you used in your projects?
3. What is DAX? Explain it in detail.
4. What is the difference between a Dimension and a Measure in Power BI?
5. What types of DAX functions have you used in your projects?
6. What is the difference between the MAX and MAXX aggregate functions?
7. How does the SUM function differ from the SUMX function in Power BI?
8. If there are four categories (A, B, C, D) and a sales column in a table, how can you find the sales for
category A?
9. In a Matrix visual, if you insert a column for Category A and its sales, and add a third column for Country,
with a total of 4 countries, how will the output appear in the matrix?
10. Write a SQL query to retrieve the following details:
Region, Category, Total Sales Amount, Average Sales Amount. Month with the Highest Sales
Use the sales, products, and customers tables. Group the results by region and category, and ensure the
query calculates the required metrics correctly.
1. Can you briefly tell me about yourself, the projects you have worked on, the technology you have used,
and your day-to-day responsibilities in your current project?
2. Suppose there is a large query with multiple joins and logic written within it, which used to execute in 10
to 15 minutes but has recently started taking more than 30 minutes. What would be your approach to
diagnose and resolve this issue? What would you look into within the query to identify what might have
changed?
3. Can you explain the types of indexes available in SQL and how they work? How many types of indexes
are supported by SQL?
4. What are DDL, DML and DQL commands in the SQL?
5. Suppose there is an organization with an employee table containing employee ID, employee name,
department, and salary. How would you find the 5th highest salary in that table?
6. Difference between Rank and Dense Rank function?
7. How do you calculate the number of years an employee has spent in the current organization using DAX
in Power BI?
8. Suppose you have two fact tables, Fact A and Fact B, and three dimension tables, Dimension A,
Dimension B, and Dimension C. Fact A is connected to all three dimension tables, and Fact B is also
connected to the same three dimension tables. How can you establish a relationship between Fact A and
Fact B?
9. Difference between Calculated Column and Measure?
10. Difference between Table and Matrix in Power BI?
11. If I have 2 tables in data modeling in power bi and relationship between them is many to many how i can
avoid that?
12. Explain me the scenario and please provide me the best optimized solution to handle this. Let's say you
have 100 excel files, each and every Excel file is meant for each and everyday sales data or order data?
13. How many types of Active Relationship in Power BI?
14. Can you please tell me why we would used dateadd function Power BI?
15. Can you tell me the SUM and SUMX difference in Power BI?
16. Have you used custom visual charts?
17. What is difference between Direct Query and Live Connection?
18. Are you aware about Microsoft Fabric?
19. Major challenges you have faced in current Power BI Projects?
20. How you have used Power BI Service for what purpose?
21. How you deployed report from one environment to Another?
22. Can you please tell me workspace management?
23. What are the different versions of Power BI?
24. Have you ever faced a failure due to data type errors? Can you share any experiences related to this?
25. Have you used Power Automate and Power Apps?
26. When you gathering the requirement from the client what is your go to approach?
27. Have you worked with data flows?
28. What kind of changes you are doing when once report back to your end from client?
29. What types of transformations have you applied in your reports or data models?
30. Can you name some important KPIs for the insurance and sales domains?
6. RLS and it's type. How to implement RLS with organizational hierarchy?
8. Deployment pipelines in Power BI service and it's usage in real time scenario?