CertificateQuestions Graded A+ 2025/2026
Data - A collection of facts
Data Analysis - The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw
conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making.
Data analytics - The science of data
Data-driven decision making - Using facts to guide business strategy
Data ecosystem - The various elements that interact with one another to produce,
manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.
Data Science - A field of study the uses raw data to create new ways of modeling and
upstanding the unknown.
Dataset - A collection of data that can be manipulated or analyzed as one unit.
Analytical skills - Qualities and characteristics associated with solving problems using
facts.
curiosity - eagerness to learn
context - The condition in which something exists or happens
Technical mindset - The ability to break things down into smaller steps or pieces and
work with them in an orderly and logical way
Data design - Analytical skills that involve how you organize information
Data strategy - The management of the people, processes, and tools used in data
analysis
root cause - The reason why a problem occurs
gap analysis - A method for examining and evaluating the current state of a process in
order to identify opportunities for improvement in the future
analytical thinking - Identifying and defining a problem and then solving it by using data
in an organized, step-by-step manner
Visualization - A graphical representation of data
, Data strategy - The management of the people, processes, and tools used in data
analysis
Data analyst - Someone who collects, transforms, and organizes data in order to draw
conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making
gap analysis - A method for examining and evaluating the current state of a process in
order to identify opportunities for improvement in the future
Data Analysis Process - Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
Data Life Cycle - Plan, capture
Stakeholders - People who have invested time and resources into a project and are
interested in the outcome
formula - A set of instructions used to perform a calculation using data in a spreadsheet
function - A preset command that automatically performs a specified process or task
using data in a spreadsheet
query language - A computer programming language used to communicate with a
database
attribute - A characteristic or quality of data used to label a column in a table.
Observation - All of the attributes for something contained in a row of a data table.
Formula - A set of instructions that perform a specific action using the data in a
spreadsheet
Fairness - Ensuring that your analysis doesn't create or reinforce bias
Business task - The question or problem data analysis answers for a business
query - a request for information from a database
Observation - The attributes that describe a piece of data contained in a row of a table
Structured thinking - The process of recognizing the current problem or situation,
organizing available information, revealing gaps and opportunities, and identifying
options.
making predictions - Using data to make informed decisions about how things may be in
the future.