you can practice Excel, SQL, and Power BI 100% free with these options (no paid tools
needed):
Free Excel Practice
● Excel Online (Free) → [Link] → log in with any Microsoft account.
● Excel Practice Online → [Link] → free exercises for formulas,
pivots, charts.
● ExcelJet → [Link] → formula examples + short exercises.
● Make your own → Download free datasets (sales, finance, HR) from Kaggle/[Link]
and practice pivots & dashboards in Excel.
Free SQL Practice
● SQLZoo → [Link] (interactive SQL lessons).
● Mode SQL Tutorial → [Link]/sql-tutorial (hands-on practice with datasets).
● W3Schools SQL Try-It → [Link]/sql/[Link] (run SQL queries directly).
● LeetCode (SQL problems) → [Link]/problemset/database (great for
interview-style questions).
● Kaggle → [Link] → free datasets, you can use SQLite or notebooks to run SQL
queries.
Free Power BI Practice
● Power BI Desktop (Free) → Download from [Link]/desktop.
● Microsoft Learn → [Link]/power-bi (official free learning paths).
● [Link] → Free articles on DAX & modeling.
● [Link] → Free Power BI tutorials.
● Datasets → Use Kaggle, [Link], or [Link] datasets to create
dashboards.
Pro Tip:
Pick one dataset (e.g., Sales data from Kaggle) →
1. Use SQL to clean/filter →
2. Export to Excel for pivots/variance →
3. Import into Power BI to make a dashboard.
This way, you simulate real FP&A + reporting work for free.
Irfan
All the best