Power BI 778 Security and Administration 2

Question 1

Which Power BI feature provides audit logs for tracking user activity such as report views and exports?

Accepted Answer

Power BI Audit Log via Microsoft 365 compliance center

Answer

Power BI activity events are logged to the Microsoft 365 compliance center, where admins can audit actions like report views, exports, and sharing.

Question 2

What is a service principal in the context of Power BI API access?

Accepted Answer

An Azure AD application identity used to authenticate API calls to Power BI without user credentials

Answer

A service principal is an Azure AD app registration used to authenticate automated processes and applications to the Power BI REST API.

Question 3

What is the purpose of the 'Viewer' role in a Power BI workspace?

Accepted Answer

Can view and interact with reports and dashboards but cannot edit or publish

Answer

Viewers can consume (read and interact with) reports and dashboards but have no editing, publishing, or administrative capabilities.

Question 4

What does 'object-level security' (OLS) in Power BI allow administrators to do?

Accepted Answer

Restrict access to specific tables or columns in a dataset based on user roles

Answer

OLS allows dataset owners to restrict access to specific tables or columns so unauthorized users cannot see or query that data.

Question 5

What Power BI feature allows you to test which data a specific user or role would see under RLS?

Accepted Answer

'View as role' in Power BI Desktop or Service

Answer

'View as role' lets you preview the report as if you were a member of a specific RLS role, verifying that filters are applied correctly.

Power BI 778 Practice Test