{"id":1299,"date":"2022-09-11T22:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaw.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:04:38","slug":"certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaw.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"PL-300 Cert = Having Power BI Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1299\" class=\"elementor elementor-1299\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b743dc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b743dc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91fef9f\" data-id=\"91fef9f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f85e9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9f85e9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I ask because I&#8217;ve considered going for the PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification. I&#8217;ve taken a few training courses and have become dangerous enough to create and distribute reports in my day job. Obtaining the cert seemed like a logical way to give credibility to my skills&#8230; but then I took the Pl-300 practice tests. Ha ha.\u00a0 The results told me that\u00a0 it&#8217;s going to take a significant amount of time to pass the exam.<\/p><p>After a recent round of less than stellar results, I doubted that I even knew anything about Power BI. But I quickly silenced that doubt thinking about the reports I&#8217;ve published into the real world. Answering certification questions stretches another part of my brain, but not the part of my brain that is used when I model data, create measures, add drill-throughs, or write DAX. The certification is one way to demonstrate knowledge, but isn&#8217;t the right fit for me and that&#8217;s okay. Shout out the practice exams for helping me realize that!<\/p><p>I&#8217;m not anti-certification and may still sit for it, but my time is best invested in actually working in Power BI and building on top of my skills.<\/p><p>(I&#8217;ll report back if I sit for the certification. Please share any thoughts or comments if you encountered a similar situation prepping for the cert.)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ask because I&#8217;ve considered going for the PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification. I&#8217;ve taken a few training courses and have become dangerous enough to create and distribute reports in my day job. 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