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Power Pivot Fundamentals Course Overview

This course provides step-by-step instructions for how to set up a business intelligence dashboard in Excel using the Power Pivot add-on. You’ll learn the key functions and best practices for setting up a dashboard. As you progress through the course, you’ll apply everything you’ve learned to a hands-on example using data we provide. By the end, you’ll walk away with everything you need to create your own dashboards in Excel—so you can analyze and present data, track KPIs, and create powerful time-period comparisons. A dashboard being built in Excel

Power Pivot Fundamentals Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Create a Power Pivot table by drawing data from several different tables
  • Develop simple calculated metrics with consistent formatting
  • Assemble multiple pivot tables, charts, and dimensions into a dashboard that provide us with different angles of analysis
  • Apply DAX formula language to create measures and columns
  • Manipulate context to calculate more advanced metrics
  • Utilize DAX Advanced Time Intelligence to create period comparisons and KPIs
a finished dashboard with a time series.

Who should take this course?

This Power Pivot course is perfect for professionals who have a solid understanding of excel and want to expand Excel’s business intelligence capabilities. This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to begin a career in business analysis—or other roles that require displaying and analyzing data sets—with a fundamental knowledge of this core tool. As of 2020, Power Pivot functionality is not available for the Mac version of Excel. Because of this students must use Windows to complete this training.   Screenshot of the data relation view in Power Pivot.

Power Pivot Fundamentals

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This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® Certification
Power Pivot Fundamentals is part of the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® certification, which includes 43 courses.
  • Skills Learned Financial modeling and valuation, sensitivity analysis, strategy
  • Career Prep Investment banking and equity research, FP&A, corporate development
Business Intelligence & Data Analyst (BIDA)® Certification
Power Pivot Fundamentals is part of the Business Intelligence & Data Analyst (BIDA)® certification, which includes 25 courses.
  • Skills Learned Data visualization, data warehousing and transformation, data modeling and analysis
  • Career Prep Business intelligence analyst, data scientist, data visualization specialist
Data Analysis in Excel Specialization
  • Skills Learned Data Modelling & Analysis, Data Transformation, Data Visualization
  • Career Prep Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Specialist, Data Scientist, Finance Analyst
Business Intelligence Analyst Specialization
  • Skills learned Data Transformation & Automation, Data Visualization, Coding, Data Modeling
  • Career prep Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Specialist, Finance Analyst, Data Scientist

Learner Reviews


This course was simply wow. Power Pivot fundamentals was delivered professionally by the intructor. On the whole, it was an engaging, hands-on and challenging experience. The instructor feedback channel provided for full immersion students will prove a very useful tool taking this course.

Charles Pev

Very beautifully designed course
I wish i should have done it before moving toward Power BI

Talal Pasha

enjoying the knowledge gain
this has vastly improved my skills and understanding which I hope to apply in my work

Chiinga Geoffrey Chuba

Great knowledge
With CFI courses, your knowledge grows steadily.

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