u/Responsible-Mine-765

I stay in a 3 bhk flat with 5 girls, 2 sharing and one alone. I have recently observed that the electricity bill has suddenly increased multifold. Consistently over 2.5k units consumed.

This has been happening for over 4 months. We suspected it to be due to ACs and had installed separate meters for AC and they only aggregate to 400-500 units per month.

Now I am unable to understand what appliance is using around 2k unit every month. Last year same consumption the units were at max 1500 total.

At this point I am not even thinking of the costing when the units itself is so much.

Provider is Adani electronic.

Any suggestions what could be the potential reason and what can I do for it?

I had around 2 years of hands-on experience with Power BI, but I had never prepared specifically for the certification. I also didn't take any paid course.

I prepared for around 2 weeks. My main resource was thus guy called Jeremiah Hersey's YouTube playlist, where he covers around 200+ PL-300 questions.

Around 50% of the concepts/questions were things I hadn't actually used in my work. What helped was that he explained the logic behind the answers and how to approach the questions instead of just giving the answer. That helped me deal with questions I hadn't seen before.

Though that didn't age well lol

Microsoft Learn practice tests -

Test 1: 66% — before starting preparation Test 2: 92% — after the playlist Test 3: 100%

I found the Microsoft Learn questions much easier and quite different from the actual exam pattern.

I had heard people recommend MeasureUp, but I didn't use it. On the last day, I went through some additional practice questions to get exposure to different question styles.

Exam day

Going into the exam, I was jokingly telling myself, "I'll try for full marks"

But but Microsoft didn't let that plan last very long lol.

I think I got around 3 questions wrong. A couple of them were quite tricky because of the wording and options.

There were also some scenario-based questions around report sharing, permissions, and giving users the required level of access with minimum effort. I found these particularly tricky.

The scenarios themselves weren't necessarily difficult, but the wording and options made them harder to answer.

I tried including the actual questions here, but Reddit wouldn't let me post them because they fall under Microsoft's exam-content policy.

I finished the exam with around 23 minutes to spare.

Score: 946.

I knew at least 2 questions were definitely wrong, so I was quite close to what I wanted.

My advice:

• Don't rely completely on Microsoft Learn practice tests unless you have plenty of time.

• If you already have Power BI experience, focus on understanding concepts and scenarios.

• Get hands-on and build reports yourself.

• Use legitimate practice questions to understand different scenarios instead of memorising answers.

• For unfamiliar questions, try to understand why an option is correct.

For me, 2 weeks + existing Power BI experience + some additional practice was enough.

946/1000 on the first attempt.

TL;DR: 2 years of Power BI experience, 2 weeks of preparation, no paid course, and 946 on the first attempt. Understand the concepts, get hands-on, and practise different scenarios rather than just memorising answers. (Edit)