You have a Fabric tenant that contains a warehouse. The warehouse uses row-level security (RLS). You create a Direct Lake semantic model that uses the Delta tables and RLS of the warehouse. When users

The correct answer is A. DirectQuery. Row-level security only applies to queries on a Warehouse or SQL analytics endpoint in Fabric. Power BI queries on a warehouse in Direct Lake mode will fall back to Direct Query mode to abide by row-level security. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-warehouse/row-level

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You have a Fabric tenant that contains a warehouse. The warehouse uses row-level security (RLS). You create a Direct Lake semantic model that uses the Delta tables and RLS of the warehouse. When users interact with a report built from the model, which mode will be used by the DAX queries?

Options

ADirectQuery
BDual
CDirect Lake
DImport

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A
78% (14)
B
6% (1)
C
11% (2)
D
6% (1)

Explanation

Row-level security only applies to queries on a Warehouse or SQL analytics endpoint in Fabric. Power BI queries on a warehouse in Direct Lake mode will fall back to Direct Query mode to abide by row-level security. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-warehouse/row-level-security

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#Direct Lake#Row-Level Security (RLS)#Semantic Model Query Modes#Fabric Warehouse

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