PL-300 practice 7: ship date analysis
Logistics plans by ship date, not order date. They want the units shipped per quarter.
Sales[Ship Date] has an inactive relationship to Date[Date]; the active one uses the order date.
Your task
Create Units Shipped: the units sold (Sales[Quantity]) by ship date.
About this exercise
You practise exam-style task: userelationship with CALCULATE and USERELATIONSHIP. The exercise runs on a small bike-shop model with a Sales fact table and Product, Customer and Date dimensions, the same star schema in every lesson.
Your measure, Units Shipped, fills a Power BI-style matrix grouped by Date[Year] and Date[Quarter]. As in a real report, each cell evaluates the measure in its own filter context, and the subtotals and the grand total are evaluated again in theirs rather than added up. When you check your answer, every cell is compared with the expected value, wrong cells are marked, and the hint is about the mistake you made.
Measures that already exist in the model: Sales Amount. Reference them in square brackets, for example [Sales Amount].
Where you start
Units Shipped =The result to build
| Year › Quarter | Units Shipped |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 704 |
| Q1 | 183 |
| Q2 | 164 |
| Q3 | 162 |
| Q4 | 195 |
| 2025 | 723 |
| Q1 | 153 |
| Q2 | 172 |
| Q3 | 204 |
| Q4 | 194 |
| Total | 1,431 |
Last updated 10 November 2026
Opening the exercise…