Power BI Developer — Lesson 4: Operations, Performance, and Delivery Readiness

Learning Objectives

• Configure refresh, gateways, deployment pipelines, and endorsements
• Use Performance Analyzer, model review, and DAX diagnostics
• Create monitoring, support, governance, and improvement checklists

Detailed Topics

• Configure refresh: Configure refresh, gateways, deployment pipelines, and endorsements
• Use Performance Analyzer: Use Performance Analyzer, model review, and DAX diagnostics
• Create monitoring: Create monitoring, support, governance, and improvement checklists

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Troubleshoot a slow or failing Power BI solution and produce a production-readiness plan.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

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

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Operations, Performance, and Delivery Readiness in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.