55204-A: Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2014 Level 1

Course Description

SkillDynamo’s 55204-A: Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2014 Level 1 course develops practical, role-relevant capability in creating, formatting, deploying, and managing foundational SQL Server Reporting Services reports with Report Designer. The learning path progresses from essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work with realistic scenarios, guided decisions, hands-on activities, and evidence-based checks. The course content is independently written for SkillDynamo using the supplied source page for title, topic alignment, and publication-date verification.

By completion, learners will be able to apply the core skills in workplace situations, explain their decisions, identify common risks, and create a practical improvement plan.

What You Will Learn

• Understand SSRS architecture, projects, reports, and deployment flow
• Create shared and embedded data sources and datasets
• Design table, matrix, and list reports
• Use grouping, sorting, filtering, parameters, and expressions
• Apply formatting, pagination, headers, footers, and report properties
• Create charts and basic visual report elements
• Preview, validate, deploy, and export reports
• Troubleshoot data, layout, rendering, and deployment issues

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through instructor-led demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, evidence-based solution reviews, and a final improvement plan connected to practical workplace outcomes.