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1. A clothing retailer collects and stores data about its sales revenue. Which of the following would be part of its data ecosystem? Select all that apply.

2. What is the process of guiding business strategy using facts?

3. Fill in the blank: Curiosity, understanding context, having a technical mindset, data design, and data strategy are _____. They enable data analysts to solve problems using facts.

4. The owner of a skate shop notices that every time a certain employee has a shift, there are higher sales numbers at the end of the day. After some investigation, the owner realizes that since the employee was hired, the store earns 15% more each month. In this scenario, the manager used which quality of analytical thinking?

5. Gap analysis is a process that could help accomplish which of the following tasks? Select all that apply.

6. An advertising firm has used insights from its analytics team to create a strategy for improving sales. Now, they implement a plan to increase annual revenue. The firm is at which step of the data analysis process?

7. A data analyst adds descriptive headers to columns of data in a spreadsheet. How does this improve the spreadsheet?

8. This is a selection from a spreadsheet that ranks the 10 most populous cities in North Carolina. To alphabetize the county names in column D, which spreadsheet tool would you use?

	A	B	C	D
1	Rank	Name	Population	County
2	7	Cary	170,282	Wake, Chatham
3	1	Charlotte	885,708	Mecklenburg
4	10	Concord	96,341	Cabarrus
5	4	Durham	278,993	Durham (seat), Wake, Orange
6	6	Fayetteville	211,657	Cumberland
7	3	Greensboro	296,710	Guilford
8	9	High Point	112,791	Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth
9	2	Raleigh	474,069	Wake (seat), Durham
10	8	Wilmington	123,784	New Hanover
11	5	Winston-Salem	247,945	Forsyth

9. You are querying a database of manufacturing company suppliers. The column name for supplier identification numbers is supplier_id. What is the correct clause to retrieve only data about the supplier with identification number 85317?

10. Imagine you are sharing your data with a company stakeholder. Why might you display data with a data visualization instead of a table? Select all that apply.

Test your knowledge on the data ecosystem

1. Which of the following statements best defines data?

2. Fill in the blank: In data analytics, the data ecosystem refers to the various elements that interact with one another to produce, manage, store, _____, analyze, and share data.

3. Which of the following terms refers to the collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making?

4. An airline collects, observes, and analyzes its customers’ online behaviors. Then, it uses the insights gained to choose what new products and services to offer. What business process does this describe?

Test your knowledge on proper use of the discussion forum

1. Which of the following examples is an appropriate use of the discussion forum?

2. In order to create clear and engaging discussions in the forum, which type of writing style should you use? Select all that apply.

3. When posting in the discussion forum, what type of behavior is acceptable?

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1. The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making describes what?

2. Fill in the blank: Data ecosystems are made up of elements that _____ with each other. This makes it possible for them to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.

3. Fill in the blank: Data _____ involves creating new ways of modeling and understanding the unknown by using raw data.

4. What tactics can a data analyst use to effectively blend gut instinct with facts? Select all that apply.

5. A company defines a problem it wants to solve. Then, a data analyst gathers relevant data, analyzes it, and uses it to draw conclusions. The analyst shares their analysis with subject-matter experts, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. What does this scenario describe?

6. To get the most out of data-driven decision-making, it’s important to include insights from people very familiar with the business problem. Identify what these people are called.

7. Sharing the results of your analysis with colleagues who are very familiar with the business problem supports what practice?

8. You read an interesting article about data analytics in a magazine and want to share some ideas from the article in the discussion forum. In your post, you include the author and a link to the original article. This would be an inappropriate use of the forum.

9. Which of the following options describes data analysis?

10. In data analytics, what term describes a collection of elements that interact with one another?

11. Select the best description of gut instinct.

12. A furniture manufacturer wants to find a more environmentally friendly way to make its products. A data analyst helps solve this problem by gathering relevant data, analyzing it, and using it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes data science.

13. You have just finished analyzing data for a marketing project. Before moving forward, you share your results with members of the marketing team to see if they might have additional insights into the business problem. What practice does this support?

14. You read an interesting article in a magazine and want to share it in the discussion forum. What should you do when posting? Select all that apply.

15. Fill in the blank: The term _____ is defined as an intuitive understanding of something with little or no explanation.

16. Fill in the blank: The primary goal of a data _____ is to find answers to existing questions by creating insights from data sources.

17. Billings Upholstery has defined a problem it needs to solve: Find a more environmentally friendly way to produce its furniture. A data analyst gathers relevant data, analyzes it, and uses it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes what process?

18. Fill in the blank: The people very familiar with a business problem are called _____. They are an important part of data-driven decision-making.

19. A data analyst finishes analyzing data for a marketing project. The results are clear, so they present findings and recommendations to the client. What should they have done before that presentation?

20. You have recently subscribed to an online data analytics magazine. You really enjoyed an article and want to share it in the discussion forum. Which of the following would be appropriate in a post? Select all that apply.

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