Assessment Flashcards
Which activity does an analyst perform in the discovery phase of the data analytics life cycle?
Identifying business needs
In which phase of the data analytics life cycle does an analyst build a histogram?
Data exploration
An analyst applies a statistical formula to obtain the average temperature for a city over the last 50 years.
Which phase of the data analytics life cycle is represented by this activity?
Exploratory data analysis
An analyst has been tasked with defining data columns that could contain null values.
Which activity of the data acquisition phase is represented?
Detecting missing values
Which activity in the data analytics life cycle occurs during the data acquisition phase and requires the most time and effort from the data analyst?
Cleaning data
What might be developed by data analysts when acquiring data from a data warehouse?
The SQL queries of data within the tables
What can be identified using a box plot?
Interquartile range
What will be a consequence of poor attention to detail during the data exploration phase?
The analyst will lack insight into the structure of the data set.
Which aspect of data exploration occurs when an analyst writes code to compile a bar graph of dog food sales per month?
Verification through visualization
An oil company uses robots and sensors to detect how pipeline corrosion changes over time. The collected data is then used in a predictive model that estimates when a pipe should be replaced.
How does the predictive model serve this oil company?
To minimize interruptions from maintenance shutdowns
During which phase in the data analytics life cycle would a churn analysis be performed?
Predictive analysis
Which mistake is commonly made during the predictive analytics phase?
The model is developed before the research question is known.
Why might a data analyst resample a data set with replacement data in a data mining project?
Too little data for training and testing data sets
A data analyst has identified combinations of sales transactions that frequently occur together in data over the past 5 years.
Which phase of the data analytics life cycle is represented by this analysis?
Data mining
An analyst realizes that the data set has been reduced significantly, resulting in sample sizes that are too small.
In which phase of the data analytics life cycle did this likely occur?
Data mining
What strategy will contribute to effective data representation and reporting?
Excluding unrelated data
What are two purposes of the reporting phase of the data analytics life cycle?
Provide the conclusions from the analysis in an engaging manner
and
Provide actionable insights that can inform decision-making
During which phase of the data analytics life cycle does an analyst create a story to report data?
Data reporting
What is a common duty of a database administrator?
Maintain data on the IT infrastructure
What is an example of an external stakeholder for a data analytics project?
Regulatory body
Which party has the primary vision for a data analytics project and brings resources to complete it?
Project sponsors
What does the critical path represent in data analytics project management?
Minimum time to complete dependent tasks
A data analytics project manager has been asked to complete a project on a very short timeline.
Which action is likely to yield positive results?
Expand the team with experienced staff
Which type of project management problem occurs when a data mining task has started but a data acquisition task has not been completed?
Schedule