Power BI Mastery Course (₹99)

From Beginner to Job-Ready | Freshers–3 Years Experience

MODULE 1: Power BI Foundations (Interview Basics)

Goal: Clear fundamentals every interviewer expects

What is Power BI & real-world use cases
Power BI Desktop vs Service vs Mobile
Import vs DirectQuery vs Live Connection
Power BI architecture (end-to-end flow)
Power BI licenses (Free, Pro, Premium – interview view)

🎯 Interview focus: Architecture, modes, licensing

MODULE 2: Data Sources & Connectivity

Goal: Confidently talk about where data comes from

Connecting Excel, CSV, Folder data
Connecting SQL Server (concept + demo)
Import vs DirectQuery – performance implications
Refresh types: Manual, Scheduled, Incremental (concept)

🎯 Interview focus: Data source choice & refresh strategy

MODULE 3: Power Query (Data Cleaning – Must Know)

Goal: One of the most asked fresher/intermediate topics

What is Power Query & M language (concept)
Removing duplicates, blanks, errors
Data types & importance
Split, merge, replace values
Append vs Merge queries
Query folding (concept + impact)

🎯 Interview focus: Data cleaning, transformations, folding

MODULE 4: Data Modeling (HIGH-IMPACT INTERVIEW AREA)

Goal: Strong modeling = strong candidate

Fact vs Dimension tables
Star schema vs Snowflake schema
Creating relationships
Cardinality (1:M, M:M)
Filter direction (single vs bi-directional)
Role-playing dimensions (Date tables)
Bridge tables (Many-to-Many concept)

🎯 Interview focus: Modeling decisions & performance

MODULE 5: DAX Fundamentals (Core for All Levels)

Goal: Solid DAX basics without fear

What is DAX & when to use it
Calculated column vs Measure
Basic aggregation functions
SUM, COUNT, AVERAGE, DISTINCTCOUNT
IF, SWITCH
DIVIDE vs /

🎯 Interview focus: Basic DAX logic & use cases

MODULE 6: DAX Context (MOST ASKED TOPIC)

Goal: Crack intermediate interviews

Row context explained clearly
Filter context explained clearly
CALCULATE – why it is powerful
ALL vs ALLEXCEPT vs REMOVEFILTERS
HASONEVALUE, VALUES
Common DAX mistakes

🎯 Interview focus: Context, CALCULATE behavior

MODULE 7: Time Intelligence (Interview Favorite)

Goal: Confidently answer date-based questions

Importance of Date table
TOTALYTD, MTD, QTD
SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR
DATEADD, DATESBETWEEN
YoY growth calculation
Common time intelligence traps

🎯 Interview focus: Date logic & business scenarios

MODULE 8: Visualizations & Report Design

Goal: Build clean, professional dashboards

Choosing the right visual
Bar, column, line, table, matrix
KPI & Card visuals
Slicers & filters
Drill-down & drill-through
Tooltips
Visual interaction & cross-filtering

🎯 Interview focus: Visual selection & UX thinking

MODULE 9: Performance Optimization

Goal: Stand out as a smart candidate

Why Power BI reports become slow
Measures vs calculated columns (performance)
Model optimization tips
Visual-level optimization
Performance Analyzer (concept)

🎯 Interview focus: Optimization mindset

MODULE 10: Power BI Service & Security

Goal: Real corporate knowledge

Publishing reports to Service
Workspaces & roles
Reports vs Dashboards
Apps & sharing
Row-Level Security (RLS) – static & dynamic
Gateway concept

🎯 Interview focus: Sharing, security, governance

MODULE 11: Interview Preparation Module

Goal: Convert skills into a job

Most common Power BI interview questions
DAX interview patterns
Data modeling interview scenarios
How to explain projects confidently
Fresher vs experienced interview expectations

FINAL: 5 REAL-WORLD PROJECTS (PORTFOLIO READY)

🔹 Project 1: Sales Performance Dashboard (Beginner)

KPIs, trends, slicers
Basic DAX
📌 For freshers

🔹 Project 2: Finance & Profitability Analysis

Profit, margin, YoY
Time intelligence
📌 For analyst roles

🔹 Project 3: Customer Segmentation Dashboard

DISTINCTCOUNT, filters
RLS concept
📌 Business-focused project

🔹 Project 4: Operations / Inventory Dashboard

Performance optimization
Model design decisions
📌 Intermediate interviews

🔹 Project 5: Executive-Level Dashboard (Advanced)

Clean UX
Optimized model + advanced DAX
📌 3-year experience level

Bonus

Interview MCQs (Power BI + DAX + SQL basics)
Resume project descriptions
Dataset files
Certificate of Completion

Anurodh Kumar