Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

Teams cite PL-300 when documenting who is trained to build, share and secure Power BI reports and semantic models, and CBT Nuggets team reporting supplies per-learner completion exports as evidence. The formal mapping to any control framework is decided by the auditor's crosswalk, not by the certification itself.

PL-300 suits the data and business analysts who turn raw sources into decision-ready reporting. The linked course covers connecting data sources, cleaning and transforming data, writing DAX, managing semantic models, building reports that surface patterns and trends, and creating and securing workspaces. A certified team can own the Power BI reporting layer from ingestion through governed, shared workspaces.

CBT Nuggets Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

From the admin console, managers assign the Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

The linked live courses add up to about 9 hours of video. How long a team takes beyond that depends on its starting point with data modeling and DAX and how much time each analyst can set aside for the training and practice.

CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.