However, APM has a whole section of the syllabus Section B which is focused on this area and so should be covered comprehensively in your APM materials. Activity-based costing, which is in Section A3 of the PM syllabus, feeds into activity-based management in the APM syllabus Section D.

The other specialist cost and management accounting techniques included in the PM syllabus which are also relevant to APM are target costing, lifecycle costing and environmental management accounting.

However, as these are specifically included within the APM syllabus, candidates should be able to refresh and increase their knowledge of these from their APM materials.

Budgeting and variance analysis are important areas. In APM, the focus is on whether budgets are a useful tool or not, and which types of budgets are useful in specific situations. It is useful, therefore, to be familiar with the following budgeting sections from PM syllabus:.

Standard costing and variance analysis Sections D3-D6 are core management accounting tools, so you do need to be aware of them, and be able to discuss whether they are useful techniques in a specific scenario and whether they provide useful information to management.

Candidates may also be required to calculate variances at APM, so it is important to understand how to do these — particularly those variances with strategic implications. Decision making is an area which sometimes gets examined in APM.

Candidates may be asked to evaluate a decision, so some calculation may be required in such questions. It is important, therefore, to be familiar with relevant costing principles, which are in Section C1 of the PM syllabus. An awareness of CVP analysis Section C2 is also useful, especially the ability to calculate a break-even point, although it is extremely unlikely that you would be required to draw any of the charts in APM.

In addition, a practical understanding of cost structures and cost behaviour fixed and variable will often be useful in analysing and giving advice in a scenario. Knowledge of limiting factors Section C3 is required, not just for decision making, but also because it feeds into transfer pricing.

You should know how to solve basic limited factor decisions. It would not be necessary to go into solving linear programming problems for APM. Pricing Section C4 is not specifically in the syllabus for APM, but the examining team has indicated that they would expect candidates to be able to calculate a simple cost-plus price.

Pricing is also relevant in the context of transfer pricing. An awareness of practical pricing strategies employed by companies would also be useful. Risk and uncertainly is an important factor in control of an organisation so the PM topics on risk and uncertainty should also be known.

Particularly important areas are expected values, maximax, maximin, minimax regret and the use of sensitivity analysis, and these have all been examined in APM. Performance measurement and control Sections E1-E4 is introduced at PM and is a core topic at APM.

However, many of the relevant learning outcomes from PM are also included within the APM syllabus too, so you should be able to pick up the required knowledge of this area from your APM study material rather than needing to go back and review your PM notes.

APM is a Strategic Professional exam, and the examining team expect candidates to demonstrate the skills that they would need when working in a professional environment as an advisor or consultant. This is more than is required at PM. In PM, you are required to be able to apply given techniques to the shorter scenarios in the exam.

For example, a question may ask you to calculate materials mix and yield variances for the last month. You are also required to be able to interpret numbers at PM, for example, using pre-calculated variances to assess the performance of the sales manager.

In APM questions, particularly in Section A, you will need to be able to deal with much longer scenarios. The examiner is seeing if you can apply your knowledge to practical and realistic situations. This tests your ability to deal with a larger amount of information and identify the most important issues.

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The list includes details about the analysis that was used, insights that were found, and their impact levels. Select a row to view more details. Each performance diagnostics report may contain several insights and indicate an impact level of High, Medium, or Low.

Each insight also contains recommendations to help lessen the concern. Insights are grouped for easy filtering. Impact levels represent the potential for performance issues, based on factors such as misconfiguration, known problems, or issues that are reported by other users.

You might not yet be experiencing one or more of the listed issues. For example, you may have SQL log files and database files on the same data disk.

This condition has a high potential for bottlenecks and other performance issues if the database usage is high, whereas you might not notice an issue if the usage is low.

You can select an insight to view more details about the affected resources, suggested mitigations, and reference links. You can use the Download report button to download an HTML report that contains additional rich diagnostics information, such as storage and network configuration, performance counters, traces, list of processes, and logs.

The content depends on the selected analysis. For advanced troubleshooting, the report may contain additional information and interactive charts that are related to high CPU usage, high disk usage, and processes that consume excessive memory. For more information about the performance diagnostics report, see Windows or Linux.

Performance diagnostics reports can be downloaded from the Performance Diagnostics blade within 30 days after they are created. After 30 days, you may get an error when you download a report from the Performance Diagnostics blade. To get a report after 30 days, go to the storage account and download it from a binary large object BLOB container that's named azdiagextnresults.

You can view the storage account information by using the Settings button on the toolbar. You can delete one or more performance diagnostics reports by using the Delete report button.

You can uninstall performance diagnostics from a VM. This action removes the VM extension but does not affect any diagnostics data that is in the storage account. Azure VMs, and related network and storage resources, can be moved across regions by using Azure Resource Mover.

However, moving VM extensions across regions isn't supported. For example, moving the Azure Performance Diagnostics VM extension across regions isn't supported.

You have to install it manually on the VM in the target region after the VM is moved. For more information, see Support matrix for moving Azure VMs between Azure regions.

All performance diagnostics insights and reports are stored in your own storage account. Insights are stored inside Azure tables. The reports compressed file is stored in a binary large object BLOB container that is named azdiagextnresults.

Option 1: Automatically share the latest report When you open a support ticket with Microsoft, it is important to share the performance diagnostics report. If you opted to share this information with Microsoft while you run the diagnostics by selecting the " I agree to share diagnostics information with Microsoft " check box , Microsoft will be able to access the report from your storage account using a SAS link to the output zip file for up to 30 days from the run date.

Only the latest report is available to the support engineer. Option 2: Generate a Shared Access Signature for the diagnostics report compressed file You may share a link to the reports compressed file by using Shared Access Signatures.

To do this, follow these steps:. You can also locate the performance diagnostics report compressed file by using steps 1—4 in Option 2.

Select to download the file, and then share it through email or ask the support engineer for instructions to upload the file. Currently there is no easy way to know exactly when the VM extension installation is complete.

json file and:. More details about all sections of the report explained in the full document in GitHub repository.

One important detail is that such benchmarks not only drive the severity of the warnings and the recommendations, but also can be configured to meet each organisational needs. In this page we can also see what the different thresholds are, as shown below. Not all Power BI practitioners are aware of the influence of having a large number of visual elements in the report.

More specifically, visual elements, including those with static content images, shapes, buttons,.. will render in the report canvas with certain parallelism, potentially pushing other more important visuals to be rendered at a later time.

Action Gantt page shows clearly what degree of parallelism is achieved in any given action and the dependencies when refreshing such large number of visual elements, including query preparation, query execution and wait time.

All visual elements rendered in the report page need to complete some of the following activities:. And what is very important: waiting before any of these events , which will be affected, amongst other reasons, by limited parallelism of query and render actions. As mentioned before, the complete documentation to understand how to use and interpret this tool can be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

You are ready now to take native Performance Analyzer to the next level and leverage its details for supporting large communities of Power BI authors creating faster solutions, whilst educating such community in best practices and enforcing performance limits.

Do not hesitate to contribute with your questions, comments, and recommendations. In some parts of this article or the downloadable files in Github repository, I have used and referenced articles or other resources authored by:.

And special thanks to Steve Verschaeve , Senior Customer Engineer from Microsoft, and Chris Webb , for their thorough review of the documentation and great advice on the functionality.

This is a really interesting tool and very insightful. In our case. In our setting we serve our PBI content externally using PBI Embedded with RLS with reports separate from datasets.

Can you think of a way to obtain the performance analyser json, however with an RLS role enabled? As without RLS, it is not a true reflection of the full DAX execution albeit in most cases likely an indicative measurement which is still better than none. Like Like. Advanced Performance Analyser provides suggestions mainly for the content of your report.

Yes, the JSON file contains all DAX query execution time and could make a more thorough analysis of those, but it only does for the longest one. The long answer is that, when you want to make a more thorough analysis of query execution, there are two tools that will serve you better and actually can record a live session — therefore recording your actual users usage.

Once you know what visuals are having longer running queries, you can influence in their execution either, by changing the report limited options or by changing the model. Thank you for your robust response. Was thinking this was going to be the response.

Shame as I like your way of joining the queries back to the actions done and collating it together. We use log analytics on our main workspace to capture all queries, but this alone I find it difficult to ascertain the exact action a user has done.

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