Google Analytics IQ (January 2019) Flashcards
Exact questions and answers on the Google Analytics IQ Exam. Updated January 2019.
What is not a benefit of Google Analytics Remarketing?
- Show customized ads to customers who have previously visited your site
- Allow customers to quickly reorder an item they have previously purchased
- Create remarketing lists based on custom segments and targets
- Create remarketing lists without making changes to your existing Analytics snippet
Allow customers to quickly reorder an item they have previously purchased
Explanation: A remarketing audience is a list of cookies or mobile-advertising IDs that represents a group of users you want to re-engage because of their likelihood to convert. You create remarketing audiences based on user behavior on your site or app, and then use those audiences as the basis for remarketing campaigns.
What report shows a visual representation of user interactions on a website?
- Behavior Flow report
- Content Drilldown report
- Landing Pages report
- Treemaps report
Behavior Flow report
Explanation: The Behavior Flow report visualizes the path users traveled from one page or Event to the next. This report can help you discover what content keeps users engaged with your site.
If a user watches a video with event tracking three times in a single session, Analytics will count how many Unique Events?
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
1
What feature collects company-specific data such as Member Status?
- Event Tracking
- Custom Filter
- Custom Dimension
- Custom Metric
Custom Dimension
Explanation: In many cases, you’ll have the option to use events, screen views, and/or a custom metric to track your most important metrics. However, custom metrics can produce more flexible and more readable custom reports and as such are a convenient way to track your most important metrics
What is not a benefit of using segments to analyze data?
- Permanently modify the data in a view
- Analyze users by single or multi-session conditions
- Compare behavior metrics for groups of users like Converters vs non Converters
- Isolate and analyze specific conversion paths using conversion segments
Permanently modify the data in a view
Explanation: A segment is a subset of your Analytics data. Segments let you isolate and analyze those subsets of data so you can examine and respond to the component trends in your business. You can also use segments as the basis for audiences. A segment is made up of one or more non-destructive filters (filters that do not alter the underlying data). Those filters isolate subsets of users, sessions, and hit.
To recognize users across different devices, what is required for User ID?
- Google Tag Manager
- Sign-in that generates and sets unique IDs
- A new Analytics account for reporting
- All of the above
Sign-in that generates and sets unique IDs
Explanation: The User ID enables the association of one or more sessions (and any activity within those sessions) with a unique and persistent ID that you send to Analytics. To implement the User ID, you must be able to generate your own unique IDs, consistently assign IDs to users, and include these IDs wherever you send data to Analytics. For example, you could send the unique IDs generated by your own authentication system to Analytics as values for the User ID. Any engagement, like link clicks and page or screen navigation, that happen while a unique ID is assigned can be sent and connected in Analytics via the User ID.
What is the set of rules that determines how sales and conversions get credited based on touch-points in the conversion path?
- Channel Groupings
- Multi-Channel Funnels
- Conversion tracking
- Attribution modeling
Attribution modeling
Explanation: An attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to touchpoints in conversion paths.
Which default traffic source dimensions does Google Analytics report for each website visitor?
- Source and Medium
- Campaign and Ad Content
- Campaign and Medium
- Source, Medium, Campaign, and Ad Content
Source and Medium
Explanation: Source/Medium is a dimension that combines the dimensions Source and Medium. Examples of Source/Medium include google/organic, example.com/referral, and newsletter9-2014/email.
Which report indicates the last page users viewed before leaving your website?
- Exit Pages report
- Pages report
- All Pages report
- Landing Pages report
Exit Pages report
Explanation: The “Exit Pages” report under “Site Content” shows the pages where users left your site. Because you don’t want users exiting from important pages like a shopping cart checkout, it’s a good idea to periodically review this report to minimize unwanted exits.
Which Goals are available in Google Analytics?
- Destination, Event, Duration, Pages/Screens per Session
- Destination, Event, Pageview, Social
- Location, Event, Time, Users per Session
- Pageview, Event, Transaction, Social
Destination, Event, Duration, Pages/Screens per Session
Which user characteristic may NOT be used to change keyword bids in AdWords?:
- time of day
- ad preference
- location
- device
ad preference
Explanation: It comes under the bid adjustment. Bid adjustments allow you to show your ads more or less frequently based on where, when, and how people search. For example, sometimes a click is worth more to you if it comes from a smartphone, at a certain time of day, or from a specific location.
What type of data does Google Analytics prohibit you from collecting?
- Personally identifable information
- Product SKU(s)
- Billing city
- Purchase amount
Personally identifable information
Explanation: The Google Analytics terms of service, which all Google Analytics customers must adhere to, prohibit sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Google Analytics. PII includes any data that can be used by Google to reasonably identify an individual, including (but not limited to) names, email addresses, or billing information.
If the Google Merchandise Store sets up a URL goal of “/ordercomplete” and a Match Type of “Begins with”, which of the following pages on www.googlemerchandisestore.com will NOT count as a goal?
- /ordercomplete/index.html
- /ordercomplete.php
- /ordercomplete/thank_you.html
- /order/complete.php
/order/complete.php
When will Google Analytics be unable to identify sessions from the same user by default?
- When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same device
- When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same day
- When the sessions share the same browser cookie
- When the sessions happen in different browsers on the same device
When the sessions happen in different browsers on the same device
explanation: If the session is happening by the same user, on the same device but in different browser, it will be treated as a session from new user by Google Analytics.
When the same default tracking code is installed on pages with different domains, what will result?
- Analytics will associate users and sessions with their respective domains
- Analytics will send an alert about duplicate data collection
- Analytics will associate users and sessions with a single domain
- Analytics will not associate users and sessions with any domain
Analytics will associate users and sessions with their respective domains
Explanation:
One of the first things you should know about when using and configuring Analytics is how the domain of the web property you are tracking is defined as a “site” for the purposes of viewing your reports. The default setup of the tracking code is designed to make it easy for you to track traffic to a single domain or subdomain (e.g. a single website URL) that does not share user data with other domains or sub-domains.
For example, if your pet store URL is dogs.example.com and you install the tracking code with its web property ID on those pages, tracking is automatically set up to track user data only for this single URL. In a similar way, if you own the primary domain, such as www.example.com, and you install tracking for all pages on this site, user and referral traffic is recorded separately for www.example.com.
What is a “secondary dimension” in Google Analytics?
- A visualization to understand the impact of data
- A dashboard widget that offers more specific analysis
- An additional report dimension for more specific analysis
- An additional report metric for more specific analysis
An additional report dimension for more specific analysis
Explanation: Secondary dimension actually let you analyze the report more specifically.
View filters may be applied retroactively to any data that has been processed.
- True
- False
False
Explanation: View Filter is a configuration setting that allows you to add, remove or modify your data during processing before it is displayed in your reports. But it is wrong to say that View filters may be applied retroactively to any data that has been processed.
What scope would you apply for a Custom Dimension that collects data for users who log in to your website?
- User
- Hit
- Session
- Product
User
Explanation: User-level scope allows you to conveniently group all of a user’s component sessions and hits by a single value. It is ideal for values that don’t change often for a particular use.
In Custom Reports, what must metrics and dimensions share in order to report accurately?
- Same scope
- Same index
- Same Custom Report
- Same view
Same scope
Explanation: Not every metric can be combined with every dimension. Each dimension and metric has a scope: user-level, session-level, or hit-level. In most cases, it only makes sense to combine dimensions and metrics that share the same scope.
What metric-dimension combination is not valid?
- Sessions / Source
- Sessions / Bounce rate
- Time on Page / Device Type
- Total Events / User Type
Sessions / Bounce rate
Explanation: Sessions and Bounce Rate come under metrics. That’s why “Sessions / Bounce rate” is not a valid metric-dimension combination.
What report compares metrics based on user acquisition date over a series of weeks?
- Users Flow report
- Active Users report
- Cohort Analysis report
- User Explorer report
Cohort Analysis report
Explanation: Cohort analysis helps you understand the behavior of component groups of users apart from your user population as a whole. Examples of how you can use cohort analysis include to see how the behavior and performance of individual.
Filters cannot perform what action on collected data?
- Include data from specific subdomains
- Convert dynamic page URLs to readable text strings
- Exclude traffic from particular IP addresses
- Include shopping preferences
Include shopping preferences
Explanation: View filters allow you to limit and modify the traffic data that is included in a view. For example, you can use filters to exclude traffic from particular IP addresses, focus on a specific subdomain or directory, or convert dynamic page URLs into readable text strings.
What feature would be used to collect how many times users downloaded a product catalog?
- Custom Dimension
- Event Tracking
- Calculated Metrics
- Custom Report
Event Tracking
Explanation: Events are user interactions with content that can be tracked independently from a web page or a screen load. Downloads, mobile ad clicks, gadgets, Flash elements, AJAX embedded elements, and video plays are all examples of actions you might want to track as Events.
Google Analytics cannot collect data from which systems by default?
- Mobile devices
- Online point-of-sale systems
- Websites
- Offline inventory database
Offline inventory database
Explanation: Google analytic cannot collect data from Offline inventory database by default. You need “Data import” for this job. Data Import lets you join the data generated by your offline business systems with the online data collected by Analytics. This can help you organize, analyze and act upon this unified data view in ways that are better aligned with your specific and unique business needs.
Which reports indicate how website referrals, organic search, and ad campaigns assisted in conversions?
- Ecommerce reports
- Goals reports
- Acquisition reports
- Multi-Channel Funnel reports
Multi-Channel Funnel reports
Explanation: By default, the channel labels that you see in Multi-Channel Funnels reports (Paid Search, Organic Search, Social Network, etc.) are defined as part of the MCF Channel Grouping. If you have specific analysis requirements, you may wish to create your own Custom Channel Grouping(s), each with its own set of labels. When you share a Custom Channel Grouping, only the configuration information is shared. Your data remains private. The following channel labels are defined as part of the MCF Channel Grouping and are the labels used by default in your reports. The channel definitions are not case sensitive.
What report shows which web pages get the most traffic and highest engagement?
- Active Users report
- All Pages report
- Frequency and Recency report
- Engagement report
All Pages report
If a user visits a web page with an embedded video, leaves without clicking on anything, and the session times out, how will Google Analytics report the session?
- As an interaction
- As a click
- As an event
- As a bounce
As a bounce
Explanation: In Analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single request to the Analytics server, such as when a user opens a single page on your site and then exits without triggering any other requests to the Analytics server during that session.
What asset is used to build a remarketing list?
Custom Metric
Custom Report
Custom Dimension
Custom Segment
Custom Segment
What feature is required to collect the number of comments users posted to a web page?
Custom Dimension
Calculated Metric
Custom Channel Groupings
Custom Metric
Custom Metric
What criteria cannot be used to create a Custom Segment?
Dimensions
Metrics
Ad type
Sequences of user actions
Ad type
Explanation: The segment builder lets you create the component filters of a segment based on Analytics dimensions and metrics. You choose a dimension or metric, a comparative operator, and you enter a value to set the condition for the filter.
Conditions and Sequences filters are also based on dimensions and metrics. they offer additional options. Sequences filters let you determine whether the sequence begins with the first user interaction or with any user interaction.
What type of Custom Report shows a static sortable table with rows of data?
Flat Table
Map Overlay
Pivot Table
Explorer
Flat Table
Explanation:
Explorer: The standard Analytics report. Includes a line graph and a data table that includes dynamic elements like a search/sort option and secondary dimensions.
Flat Table: A static, sortable table that displays data in rows.
Map Overlay: A map of the world. Different regions and countries display in darker colors to indicate traffic and engagement volume.
Which of these could NOT be tracked using Goals in Google Analytics?
Watching a video
Making a purchase
Customer’s lifetime value
Signing up for a newsletter
Customer’s lifetime value
Explanation: The Lifetime Value report lets you understand how valuable different users are to your business based on lifetime performance. This is not just a number but a complete metrics. That’s why it could not be tracked in Goal.
When does the Analytics tracking code send a pageview hit to Google Analytics?
- Every time a user loads a webpage with embedded tracking code
- Every time a user adds an item to an online shopping cart
- Every time a user clicks a video on a website
- Every time a user searches on a website
Every time a user loads a webpage with embedded tracking code
Explanation: A pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a user clicks reload after reaching the page, this is counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview is recorded as well.
What is a “metric” in Google Analytics?
- A dimension that can help you analyze site performance.
- The numbers in a data set often paired with dimensions.
- The dates in your date range.
- A segment of data separated out in a report for comparison.
The numbers in a data set often paired with dimensions.
Explanation: Metrics are quantitative measurements. The metric Sessions is the total number of sessions. The metric Pages/Session is the average number of pages viewed per session.
The default session timeout duration in Google Analytics is how many minutes?
10
5
20
30
30
Explanation: Sessions and campaigns end after a specific amount of time passes. By default, sessions end after 30 minutes of inactivity and campaigns end after six months. You can change the settings so sessions and campaigns end after the specified amount of time has passed.
Which parameters can be included with an event hit for reporting?
Category, Action, Label, Unique Events
Category, Action, Label, Total Events
Category, Action, Label, Value
Event, Category, Action, Label
Category, Action, Label, Value
Explanation: Events are user interactions with content that can be tracked independently from a web page or a screen load.An Event has the following components. An Event hit includes a value for each component, and these values are displayed in your reports:
Category
Action
Label (optional, but recommended)
Value (optional)
What Remarketing audiences cannot be defined by default?
Users who visited a specific page on a website
Users who visited a physical store
Users who speak a particular language
Users who played a video on a website
Users who visited a physical store
For autotagging, what parameter does Google Ads include in the destination URL?
utm=
urlid=
adid=
gclid=
gclid=
Explanation: If you don’t see the gclid parameter appended to your URLs after the page is fully loaded, then it’s likely that your website isn’t configured to handle query parameters in a way that lets auto-tagging work.
In views that don’t have data import enabled, Custom Dimensions values may be viewed for dates before the Custom Dimension was created.
TRUE
FALSE
FALSE
Explanation: You need to understand that Custom dimensions and custom metrics are like default dimensions and metrics in your Analytics account, except you create them yourself. You can use them to collect and analyze data that Analytics doesn’t automatically track. And Data Import lets you upload data from external sources and combine it with data you collect via Analytics. So, there is no way to see the custom dimension value before creating the custom dimension.
In Multi-Channel Funnel Reports, how are default conversions credited?
Second to last campaign, search, or ad
Last campaign, search, or ad
Equal credit along the conversion touchpoints
First campaign, search, or ad
Equal credit along the conversion touchpoints
Explanation: The Multi-Channel Funnels reports are generated from conversion paths, the sequences of interactions (i.e., clicks/referrals from channels) that led up to each conversion and transaction. In the reports, channels are credited according to the roles they play in conversions—how often they assisted and/or completed sales and conversions. Conversion path data include interactions with virtually all digital channels.
What is used to create Smart Goals?
Analytics Goals
Remarketing audience
Machine-learning algorithms
Custom Reports
Machine-learning algorithms
Explanation: Smart Goals are configured at the view level. Smart Goals use machine learning to examine dozens of signals about your website sessions to determine which of those are most likely to result in conversions. Each session is assigned a score, with the “best” sessions being translated into Smart Goals.
What is not considered a “source” in Google Analytics by default?
Email
Google
(direct)
com
Explanation: “Email” is not considered as a source in Google Analytics. “Email” comes under the “Medium”.
To view accurate data in a Custom Report, what action should be avoided?
Create a report with Custom Metrics
Use a Custom Dimension as a primary dimension
Use multiple dimensions together in the same report
Pair metrics and dimensions of different scopes
Pair metrics and dimensions of different scopes
Explanation: Pairing metrics and dimensions of different scopes is not possible in any report.
Sharing a Custom Report will share the report configuration and data included in the report.
True
False
False
Explanation: When you share a Custom Report, only the configuration information is shared. Your data remains private.
If a web page visitor clears the Analytics cookie from their browser, what will occur?
Analytics will not be able to associate user behavior data with past data collected
Analytics will set a new unique ID the next time a browser loads a tracked page
Analytics will set a new browser cookie the next time a browser loads a tracked page
All of the above
All of the above
Which metric reports on how often a channel contributes to a conversion prior to last-click attribution?
Assisted conversion
Primary conversion
Last-click attribution
Second-to-last-click attribution
Assisted conversion
Explanation: Assist interaction is any interaction that is on the conversion path but is not the last interaction. If a channel appears anywhere—except as the final interaction—on a conversion path, it is considered an assist for that conversion. The higher these numbers, the more important the assist role of the channel.
Sampling is applied to reports before segmentation.
True
False
False
Explanation: Analytics applies segments after it samples the property-level data, and after it applies filters, which can also reduce the number of sessions included in a sample.
What feature can join offline business systems data with online data collected by Google Analytics?
AdWords Linking
Data import
User ID
Goal tracking
Data import
Explanation: Data Import lets you join the data generated by your offline business systems with the online data collected by Analytics. This can help you organize, analyze and act upon this unified data view in ways that are better aligned with your specific and unique business needs. For example, as a web publisher, you could join hits collected by Analytics with data dimensions exported from your CMS and CRM systems to analyze the relative contributions of authors to your site.
Where should the Analytics tracking code be placed in the HTML of a webpage for data collection?
Just before the closing tag of your website
Just before the closing tag of your website
Just after the opening tag of your website
Just before the closing tag of your website
Explanation: You just need to paste the entire snippet into the HTML on your web pages, just before the closing tag.
What criteria could not be used to create a Dynamic Remarketing audience?
Users who viewed a search result page on your website
Users who viewed product detail pages
Users who viewed your homepage
Users who returned an item they purchased
Users who returned an item they purchased
Explanation: you can implement Dynamic Remarketing by using the preconfigured All Users list, creating more narrowly targeted lists lets you focus your ad content and budget where it will have the most impact. For example, users who have already added items to their shopping carts might need just a reminder or incentive to complete their transactions, while users who have only viewed the products may need more convincing about the overall value of the products.
By following the same procedure you use to create Remarketing Audiences, you can build segment-based Dynamic Remarketing Audiences using your new dimensions.
To recognize users across different devices, what feature must you enable?
Attribution Models
User ID
Audience Definitions
AdWords Linking
User ID
Explanation: The User ID lets you associate engagement data from multiple devices and different sessions with unique IDs.
What report identifies browsers that may have had problems with a website?
The Active Users report
The Browser & OS report
The Source/Medium report
The New vs Returning report
The Browser & OS report
Explanation: If conversion rates are lower than average for particular browsers or platforms, browse the site with those browsers and platforms. Pay particularly close attention to landing pages, checkout forms and any pages that users must navigate in order to convert. Correct any usability issues you find with these pages.
What filter would only include data from a campaign titled “Back to School” in Campaign reports?
Custom Include filter with field “Campaign Name” and pattern “back to school”
Custom Search and Replace filter with field “Campaign Name”, string “back to school”, and pattern “include”
Predefined Include filter with “traffic to the hostname” “that are equal to” “back to school”
Custom Include filter with field “Page Title” and pattern “back to school”
Custom Include filter with field “Campaign Name” and pattern “back to school”
Explanation: Include Filters are applied with the reverse logic. When you apply an Include Filter, the hit is thrown away if the pattern does not match the data. If you apply multiple Include Filters, the hit must match every applied Include Filter in order to save the hit.
Which of these is a scope for Custom Metrics?
User
Session
Hit
Event
Hit
Explanation: Similar to custom dimensions, custom metrics can have different scopes. Hit-level custom metrics get associated with all the hit level dimensions with which it was sent. Similarly, product-level custom metrics are associated only with the product with which it was sent. The following examples illustrate these two types of custom metrics.
What cannot be collected by the default Analytics tracking code?
Device and operating system
Browser language setting
User’s favorite website
Page visits
User’s favorite website
Explanation: There is not any option in Google Analytics’ interface to identify the data about User’s favorite website. Whereas you can see how your users accessed your website, what were the operating system and device, their language and geo detail, how many pages and list of pages viewed during your users’ visit.
What is a “dimension” in Google Analytics?
A comparison of data between two date ranges.
An attribute of a data set that can be organized for better analysis.
The total amount of revenue a business has made in a given date range.
A report that offers information about your audience.
An attribute of a data set that can be organized for better analysis.
Explanation: Dimensions are attributes of your data. For example, the dimension City indicates the city, for example, “Paris” or “New York”, from which a session originates. The dimension Page indicates the URL of a page that is viewed.
What channel is not included in the default Channels report?
Direct
Display
Device
Organic Search
Device
Explanation: The default system channel definitions reflect Analytics’ current view of what constitutes each channel in the Default Channel Grouping.
Default channels are Direct, Organic Search, Social, Email, Affiliates, Referral, Paid Search, Other Advertising and Display.
Within how many days can a deleted view be restored?
25
15
5
35
35
Explanation: A view is permanently deleted 35 days after being moved to the Trash Can. Once deleted, the view is gone, and we are not be able to retrieve any historical data or reinstate the reports. This includes any setting and configuration preferences, like Goals and user permissions, but does not include data saved at the property or account level.
When will the Analytics tracking code send an event hit to Google Analytics?
Every time a user adds an event to their calendar
Every time a user makes a reservation
Every time a user performs an action with event tracking implemented
Every time a user performs an action with pageview tracking implemented
Every time a user performs an action with event tracking implemented
Explanation: Analytics tracking code send an event hit to Google Analytics whenever a user performs an action with event tracking implemented.
Segments will not allow you to do what?
Create subsets of sessions or users
Permanently alter data
Build custom Remarketing lists
Isolate and analyze data
Permanently alter data