Excel 77-727
On completion of the MOS 77-727 Excel 2016 Core exam candidates will have a fundamental understanding of Excel 2016 and the ability to complete tasks independently. This includes the ability to create and edit a workbook with multiple sheets and representing data visually. Workbook examples that you should be able to produce after this include professional-looking budgets, financial statements, team performance charts, sales invoices, and data-entry logs.
Power Platform PL-900
Candidates for this exam aspire to improve productivity by understanding the capabilities of the Power Platform, automating basic business processes with Power Automate, performing basic data analysis with Power BI, acting more effectively by creating simple Power Apps experiences, and creating powerful chatbots by using Power Virtual Agents.
Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) [Formerly DA-100]
The Power BI data analyst delivers actionable insights by leveraging available data and applying domain expertise. The Power BI data analyst collaborates with key stakeholders across verticals to identify business requirements, cleans and transforms the data, and then designs and builds
data models by using Power BI. The Power BI data analyst provides meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations, enables others to perform self-service analytics, and deploys and configures solutions for consumption. Candidates for this exam should be proficient using Power Query and writing expressions by using DAX
Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate (DP-500)
The Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate creates, deploys and manages Enterprise-scale data analytics solutions using Azure and Power BI Premium. They govern the Power BI estate through controls (Tenant Settings, Azure Purview), as well as utilising Enterprise BI architecture (dataflows and shared datasets).
They perform core data ingestion and transformation using Azure back end (Synapse notebooks (Spark/SQL) and integrating Power BI with Azure Synapse analytics). Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate optimises data models for Enterprise workloads, DAX and data refreshes in the Analysis Services cubes (Power BI datasets). They optimise data models and use external tools like DAX Studio and Tabular Editor to manage XMLA endpoints.
Data Analyst
As a LDI Data Analyst, you will have mastered Excel as a core data analytics tool and then extended this to become a Power BI Specialist.
It may be useful to start with understanding Power BI within the context of the wider Power Platform by undertaking Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900). This will allow you to explore all the Power Platform Products at a high level (including Power Apps/Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents) to build low code solutions to analyse and manage data.
The core Power BI syllabus, however, is that of “Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification (PL-300). This is a broad syllabus which covers everything from Data Preparation/ modelling to the deployment and management of Power BI artefacts in the Power BI Service. It is both broad and deep and requires you to have good working knowledge/experience of Power BI.
Once building a strong core in Power BI, you can start to explore more advanced concepts in Power BI such as Power BI Governance by taking the relevant LDI course modules.
The LDI Data Analyst Role Path consists of the following:
- Core Data Analysis in Excel (77-727) – Syllabus | LDI Content
- Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) – Syllabus | LDI Content
- Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) –Syllabus | LDI Content
- Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate (DP-500) –Syllabus | LDI Content
