I'm curious as to how long it will take to complete the MS Power BI Data Analyst Cert on Coursera. I'm not talking about the time it will take to get the PL-300 cert itself. Just how long should it take to finish all the sections on Coursera?

They say 5 months at 10 hours a week. Is this a realistic time frame? I don't really want to spend 5 month grinding away at this. What if I could do 20ish hours a week or so? Just curious to how long it took others here to finish it.

Update 1: Posted 01/02: started the Coursera course and on 12/14. I finished the first 3 sections in 8 days. Each of the First three sections can be easily done in 2 or 3 days. Due to the holidays and trying to finish the Macquarie Uni Excel Skills for Business Specialization, I've slowed down a bit and I am only half way through section 4. It's a new year and I'm going to try to finish the remaining section in the next 2 to 3 weeks! I'm also suplementing with LinkedIn Learning's Power BI courses. I still have no idea of what I'm doing in PBI and the classes on Coursera feel slow.

Update 2: Posted 02/17: Finished the Coursera course last weekend on 02/11. So, in total, it took me about two months to finish the entire course and get the certificate from Coursera. I think most people could finish this course in 2 to 4 months easily. I still don't think I know PBI well even after this course. I don't think I could pass the PL-300 without a lot more studying. The Last 4 section were definitely harder than the first 4. I tip is to take the end of the section test first before you even start the section so you can preview it. It has 30 tough questions. So. actually take it a few times before you are ready. You only have 3 chances each day to pass it. On the last 4 sections, it took me 3 to 5 times to pass it. The mock PBI PL-300 has 50 questions and is very tough. And, you need to pass it to get the certificate. Use my strategy of taking it multiple times while you are going through the last section. I took the mock exam 6 times before I passed it. Good luck!

So, from an original post from https://www.reddit.com/user/Alarming_Wall_9609/, who recently passed the PL-300 (many, many congrats!), I've decided to post my experiences along the way on this regimen.

Please share your experiences with training towards this cert....official training, YT, on-line resources, books...

The more resources we can all share, the better. (I book-mark every reference that seems worthy)

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First, the program: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Professional Certificate | Coursera

Here is the outline:

8 separate courses...

Course 1 (19 hours) - Preparing Data for Analysis with Microsoft Excel

Course 2 (16 hours) - Harnessing the Power of Data with Power BI

Course 3 (20 hours) - Extract, Transform and Load Data in Power BI

Course 4 (24 hours) - Data Modeling in Power BI

Course 5 (28 hours) - Data Analysis and Visualization with Power BI

Course 6 (20 hours) - Creative Designing in Power BI

Course 7 (24 hours) - Deploy and Maintain Power BI Assets and Capstone project

and then....(drum roll...)

Course 8 (38 freaking hours !) Microsoft PL-300 Exam Preparation and Practice

...more to come, next post...(note, they will show below in reverse-order...the nature of message-boards, unfortunately)

Cheers!

JerBear

Wilkes-Barre USA