Power BI interview questions<\/a> set is the fastest way to find out what you have not understood yet, particularly around filter context.<\/p>\nThe PL-300 certification route<\/h2>\n
PL-300 is Microsoft’s own Power BI Data Analyst certification, and it is the only Power BI credential that carries weight with an Indian employer, because it is a proctored exam rather than a completion certificate. It is bought directly from Microsoft, separately from any course, and it tests preparing data, modelling, visualising and managing assets.<\/p>\n
Two things follow from that. First, a course that promises “certification” usually means its own completion certificate, not PL-300. Read that word carefully on any page. Second, you do not need a paid course to sit the exam: Microsoft’s free learning paths are written against the same skills outline the exam is built from.<\/p>\n
Where paid programmes do add PL-300, they say so. Coding Ninjas sells a variant of its analytics bootcamp that includes the Microsoft PL-300 certification alongside IBM certificates, and publishes no total fee for it, only a monthly instalment figure with no tenure attached, so a total cannot be worked out from the page. Simplilearn’s Professional Certificate Program with IITM Pravartak is \u20b91,19,999 including taxes over seven months, as listed in September 2026, and includes a Microsoft course-completion certificate hosted on Microsoft Learn, which is not the same thing as PL-300.<\/p>\n
Paid self-paced, \u20b9499 to \u20b91,902 a month<\/h2>\n
Udemy is a marketplace rather than a provider, so it has no single price. Courses sit on near-permanent sale, and one bestselling analyst bootcamp was \u20b9499 against a \u20b93,469 list price on 24 September 2026, with roughly 21.5 hours of video. For twenty hours of structured video at that price, the arithmetic barely matters; the risk is the version drift described above.<\/p>\n
DataCamp Premium is \u20b9599 a month billed annually and opens 790-plus courses rather than one, as listed in September 2026. Coursera’s Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate is \u20b91,902 a month and teaches analytics broadly, with Google’s own claim that most learners finish in under six months at about ten hours a week. Neither carries placement support, and neither will notice if you stop.<\/p>\n
Classroom training, and the price nobody prints<\/h2>\n
Power BI is taught inside most classroom analytics courses in Bengaluru rather than sold as its own product. ExcelR runs a blended model from BTM Layout and Marathahalli, and its own page lists Excel, MySQL, Tableau and Power BI over “150+ Hours \/ 6 Months”, with no rupee figure anywhere on it. Besant Technologies teaches roughly 70-plus hours across five Bengaluru branches, also on enquiry. NareshIT and Croma Campus, which both rank for this search, have no reachable fee page either.<\/p>\n
That is the pattern for this query rather than an accident. Of the twenty-five providers checked on 24 September 2026, seven published no fee at all, and the number arrives only after a counsellor call or a lead form. Ask for it in writing on the first call and ask what it excludes, because a separately-charged certification add-on is the usual surprise.<\/p>\n
Where SkilloVilla fits, and where it does not<\/h2>\n
Plainly: SkilloVilla does not sell a standalone Power BI course. If a Power BI course on its own is what you want, Microsoft Learn plus twenty hours of recorded video plus PL-300 is the better and cheaper plan, and you should take it.<\/p>\n
What SkilloVilla sells is Power BI as one module of an analyst’s toolkit. The Data Analytics with Python track<\/a> is \u20b971,999, currently \u20b958,999, over 4 to 5 months of live classes, and runs Excel, SQL, statistics and Python before a dedicated Power BI visualisation module, with 1:1 mentorship from working analysts and placement support after. The Data Analytics and Generative AI track<\/a> is \u20b984,999, currently \u20b971,999, and adds an AI-assisted analytics layer. The Bengaluru classroom programme in JP Nagar is \u20b91,49,999, currently \u20b91,19,999, and a second centre is launching in Jaipur in September 2026.<\/p>\nSkilloVilla reports alumni packages between 4 and 15 LPA with a median of 9.5 LPA, at companies including Accenture, Deloitte, Flipkart, Razorpay and Swiggy, and holds 4.2 on Google and 4.5 on Glassdoor. It sells placement assistance, which is CV work, mock interviews and referrals, and never a job guarantee. Scholarships are available based on candidate profile. The rest of the field, if you are choosing a programme rather than a tool, is in our list of the best data analytics courses in India<\/a>.<\/p>\nHow long Power BI takes to learn<\/h2>\n