Question 20
A manufacturing dashboard must reflect database transactions nearly immediately and policy forbids persisting source rows inside Power BI. Which action is most appropriate for the stated business outcome?
Explanation
Correct Answer
DirectQuery sends supported visual queries to the source instead of storing imported fact rows, supporting live operational data without model caching.
Incorrect Answers
Direct Lake reads underlying Delta data using the tabular engine and avoids a conventional full import duplicate. It would address querying lakehouse Delta tables directly, not live operational data without model caching.
Reusing the shared semantic model centralizes metric definitions and existing managed relationships. That targets reporting on governed enterprise measures, not live operational data without model caching.
Import materializes compressed data in the model and queries it without contacting the operational source on each interaction. It may suit low-latency cached historical analytics, not live operational data without model caching.






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