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Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate with Power BI (Udemy.com)

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI - Exam Guide. Get Microsoft Certification in 30 days.

4.5
7,092 reviews

Created by: John David Ariansen

Last updated June 2024

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The course is a 7.4 hour walkthrough of Power BI built around the old DA-100 exam outline. It runs through eight sections in exam order: preparing data, modeling, visualizing, analyzing, then deploying and maintaining. Preparing data gets the biggest share, with 38 lectures and nearly two hours. John David Ariansen teaches it, with the SuperDataScience Team and Ligency credited alongside him. Despite the All Levels tag, the content suits beginners best, and the only requirement is a computer with an internet connection.

Reviewers like the plain explanations. One says it starts from zero, including setup and account creation, and another learner who slowed down was soon building dashboards with real data. Ariansen is called a clear expert, though one reviewer says the first 80 or so videos never make clear which data source is in use. Another says the constant switching between datasets makes it hard to follow along. The sharper criticism is depth. Three-star reviewers say exam topics are missing and coverage is shallow.

Age matters most here. The listing shows a last update in June 2024, and a recent reviewer points out that the course still targets DA-100, which Microsoft replaced with PL-300 in May 2022. Anyone aiming at the current exam should treat this as a starter and add Microsoft's own learning path. It is short, paid, and well liked, with 60,300 students and a 4.5 average from 7,092 ratings. As a gentle first look at Power BI it still works. As sole exam prep, it falls short.

Best forBeginners who want a short, plain-spoken first tour of Power BI, from data prep to publishing.
Skip it ifYou are sitting the current PL-300 exam and need this as your only prep material.

Pros

  • Starts from zero, with setup and account creation, so true beginners are not lost
  • Short at 7.4 hours, split into 142 small lectures
  • Sections follow the exam order: prepare, model, visualize, analyze, deploy
  • One reviewer who took it step by step was soon building dashboards with real data

Cons

  • Still built around DA-100, which reviewers say was replaced by PL-300 in May 2022
  • Shallow in places; reviewers say exam topics are missing and details get skimmed
  • Switches datasets often and does not always say which file a lesson uses, so following along is hard
I intially thought the course was not interesting and difficult, not until I decided to slow down and took it one step at a time ensuring I understood each lesson before moving to the next lesson.
Chioma Nina Ani, a student

Tagged All Levels, but one reviewer says it is made for beginners with no analytics background, and others call it basic and shallow.

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What you will learn

  • How to connect to data
  • How to transform data sources
  • How to create a data model
  • How to build visualizations
  • How to share your insights with others in your organization
  • Learn all the topics covered in the Microsoft DA-100 PowerBI Exam

Course content

8 sections · 142 lectures · 7.4 hours of video 5 articles

  1. 1Introduction 5 free previews11 lectures · 20 min
  2. 2Power BI Basics7 lectures · 15 min
  3. 3Preparing Data with Power BI38 lectures · 1.9 hours
  4. 4Modeling the Data with Power BI28 lectures · 1.5 hours
  5. 5Visualize the Data with Power BI29 lectures · 1.6 hours
  6. 6Analyze the Data with Power BI16 lectures · 1 hour
  7. 7Deploy and Maintain Deliverables10 lectures · 14 min
  8. 8Conclusion3 lectures · 35 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • Anyone interested in taking the Exam DA-100
  • Those Looking to Build Their Power BI Knowledge
  • Data Analysts
  • Business Analysts
  • Students Looking to Break into the Analytics Industry

What you need before you start

  • Have a computer with an internet connection

How it compares

Against the other 68 rated Udemy courses in Power BI on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 29% of them
  • Reviews7,092#18 of 69 by number of reviews
  • Length7.4 hoursshorter than 50% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2024earlier than 82% of them

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Course Description

The BI industry is booming, and every day, more hiring managers and recruiters are looking for professionals who not only know their way around BI tools, but have certifications to back their claims.

Knowing this, what are you doing to let everyone know you mean business?

Becoming Power BI certified is a must if you want to remain competitive in the analytics job market. Employers need to know that you can use their BI stack without training, and certifications do just that—they endorse the skills that can’t be measured on a resume, portfolio, or in an interview.

By mastering Power BI, you become more efficient at work and are able to communicate and uncover deeper insights than before. You also gain the confidence to lead more projects and solve complex business challenges.

And that's where this course comes into play.

The Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate with Power BI course is modeled directly from the DA-100 exam structure, so you can rest assured that everything that you'll see in the Microsoft PowerBI exam, you'll also see it in the course, and in the same order!

So, get ready for your Power BI certification and master everything you need to know to pass the DA-100 exam. Learn to prepare, model, visualize, and analyze data; deploy and maintain deliverables in Power BI. Plus, DAX, advanced data visualization techniques, and more.
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Instructor Details

John David Ariansen

I tell stories through data. Currently I am the Director of Analytics and Co-founder of Silvertone Analytics. We focus on three main verticals - Manufacturing, Marketing and Nonprofit Impact Analysis.

Outside of my consultancy, I work with students helping them break into the analytics field and I am also on the Board of Directors for Triad Local First, a nonprofit that promotes localism here in the Greensboro, NC. On the board I advise on how to leverage data to drive strategy but I also teach classes available to the 360 local member businesses on how they can use their data to drive their decision making process. I love getting to work with these small businesses!

I post weekly content to my Youtube channel focused on Tableau and how you can grow your Analytics Career.


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Reviews

4.5

7,092 ratings on Udemy

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By Jason Laubscher on 8/26/2026

Great Course, learnt alot from this course and would highly recommend to colleagues and friends

By Sanchayan Sivanathan on 3/5/2026

Really like course only suggestion is to have kinesthetic lessons within your material outside of this exceeding my expectiations

By Kavya Nirmal on 2/16/2026

This one helped me structure and visualize my data in the right way. I learnt alot.

By HARSHA SRI DODDI on 1/30/2026

When I see this course I thought I might not understand it. But the way you are explaining this content really encouraged me in this field. I'm eager to learn the remaining all modules. Overall I'm enjoying these course so far and I'm so excited for this modules.

By Chioma Nina Ani on 6/19/2024

I intially thought the course was not interesting and difficult, not until I decided to slow down and took it one step at a time ensuring I understood each lesson before moving to the next lesson. It suddenly became interesting and I am already building inetresting dashboards with both sample and real data.

By Kenan FIRAT on 3/18/2024

The tutor is clearly is a expert in the field. In the videos till 80th are very unclear which data source are used for which tutorial I think It would be better to explain data docs at the beginning of each video. After 80th I think it going on very systematic and enjoyful. He delivered the perspective very well in powerbi analysis.

By Sirine Derouich on 4/26/2022

The content did not fulfill my expectations. This course covers basic concepts of Power BI, a lot of the exam questions' topics are not covered in this course. This course is made for beginner analysts who have no background in data analytics.

By Ruben Dario Sanchez on 12/16/2020

I consider that they can expand the information on the Power Platform, such as creating apps, RLS administration among other PBI services. It is very short only 14 minutes for Deploy and Maintain, but overall a very good guide to PBI DA-100.

By Dike Obi on 11/21/2020

very poor audio quality

By Allen Philip Abraham on 11/21/2020

I love I am breezing through the course, with some new concepts learnt here and there. I am scared that I might be missing out on not getting the entire scope of Power BI topics covered in short duration.
I love the fact though that the course attempts to cover the exam subjects, but I believe is shallow.
I am learning a ton and getting a lot of insights and alignment, but I am painfully aware of the lack of depth in certain areas.

By Emma Ogutu-Lande on 11/14/2020

So far so good. Thanks for highlighting the values of a certification.

By Leila Aparecida Martins on 11/14/2020

I am enjoying the course so far, I really want to get certification for DA 100

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  • Video Duration: icon 7.4h
  • Price: $14.99
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  • Updated: icon June 2024
  • Level: All Levels All Levels
  • Language: icon English
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  • Lectures:142 in 8 sections
  • Students:60,300
  • Subtitles:10 languages
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