Microsoft Power BI Super User (55400AC) — Lesson 1: Power BI Super User Foundations

Learning Objectives

• Understand Power BI components, terminology, roles, and content flow
• Connect to common business data sources
• Prepare and validate data with practical Power Query operations

Detailed Topics

• Understand Power BI components: Understand Power BI components, terminology, roles, and content flow
• Connect to common business data sources: Connect to common business data sources
• Prepare and validate data with practical Power Query operations: Prepare and validate data with practical Power Query operations

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

Create a clean, documented dataset from common business files.

• 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 Power BI Super User Foundations in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.