Copilot in Power BI — Lesson 1: Copilot Readiness and Prompting

Learning Objectives

• Understand licensing, tenant settings, capacity, data grounding, and prerequisites
• Write prompts with audience, question, context, measures, format, and constraints
• Protect confidential information and follow organizational AI policy

Detailed Topics

• Understand licensing: Understand licensing, tenant settings, capacity, data grounding, and prerequisites
• Write prompts with audience: Write prompts with audience, question, context, measures, format, and constraints
• Protect confidential information and follow organizational AI policy: Protect confidential information and follow organizational AI policy

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, application, automation, analysis, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Create and evaluate a set of Power BI Copilot prompts.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Copilot Readiness and Prompting in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.