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About This Course

This section provides a brief description of the course, audience, suggested prerequisites, and course objectives.

Course description
This 3-day instructor led course gives students the ability to add BI techniques to Excel data analysis. The course
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The course outline is as follows:
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• Module 7: ‘Visualizing data in Excel’ describes how to create and format measures.

• Module 8: ‘Using Excel with Power BI’ describes how to use Excel with Power BI.

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In this course, you will use Microsoft® Hyper-V™ to perform the labs.

Note: At the end of each lab, you must revert the virtual machines to a snapshot. You can find the
instructions for this procedure at the end of each lab

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