You have a folder of monthly transaction extracts

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You have a folder of monthly transaction extracts.

You plan to create a report to analyze the transaction data.

You receive the following email message: "Hi. I’ve put 24 files of monthly transaction data onto the shared drive. File Transactions201901.csv through Transactions201912.csv have the latest set of columns, but files Transactions201801.csv to Transactions201812.csv have an older layout without the extra fields needed for analysis. Each file contains 10 to 50 transactions."

You get data from the folder and select Combine & Load. The Combine Files dialog box is shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Answer:

Explanation:

Box 1: Yes

The four columns used in the 2018 transactions are already displayed.

Box 2: Yes

The columns used are based on the entire dataset. The additional columns in the 2019 files will be detected.

Box 3: Yes

Note: Under the hoods, Power BI will automatically detect which delimiter to use, and may even promote the first row as headers. You can manually change the delimiter, or define how Power BI should handle data types. You can set it to automatically detect data types based on first 200 rows, or the entire dataset or you can even opt out the detection of data types.