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[PL-300] 12, Grouping and Aggregating Rows

Tech Exam Prep··12 September 2026·4 min

About this episode

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - How single and multiple key combinations dictate table granularity during Group By operations in Power Query. - The role of standard aggregations like Count, Sum, Average, Min, Max, and Count Distinct in data reduction. - How the All Rows operation creates nested tables to retain detail while performing group-level calculations. - Exam strategies for avoiding detail loss traps through merging aggregated tables or expanding nested tables. - M code syntax patterns for Table.Group and performance trade-offs of early data aggregation for the PL-300 exam. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep