Professional Certificate Questions and
Answers.
Data - Answer A collection of facts
Data Analysis - Answer The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to
draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making.
Data analytics - Answer The science of data
Data-driven decision making - Answer Using facts to guide business strategy
Data ecosystem - Answer The various elements that interact with one another to produce,
manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.
Data Science - Answer A field of study the uses raw data to create new ways of modeling and
upstanding the unknown.
Dataset - Answer A collection of data that can be manipulated or analyzed as one unit.
Analytical skills - Answer Qualities and characteristics associated with solving problems using
facts.
curiosity - Answer eagerness to learn
context - Answer The condition in which something exists or happens
Technical mindset - Answer The ability to break things down into smaller steps or pieces and
work with them in an orderly and logical way
Data design - Answer Analytical skills that involve how you organize information
Data strategy - Answer The management of the people, processes, and tools used in data
analysis
, root cause - Answer The reason why a problem occurs
gap analysis - Answer A method for examining and evaluating the current state of a process
in order to identify opportunities for improvement in the future
analytical thinking - Answer Identifying and defining a problem and then solving it by using
data in an organized, step-by-step manner
Visualization - Answer A graphical representation of data
Data strategy - Answer The management of the people, processes, and tools used in data
analysis
Data analyst - Answer Someone who collects, transforms, and organizes data in order to
draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making
gap analysis - Answer 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 - Answer Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
Data Life Cycle - Answer Plan, capture
Stakeholders - Answer People who have invested time and resources into a project and are
interested in the outcome
formula - Answer A set of instructions used to perform a calculation using data in a
spreadsheet
function - Answer A preset command that automatically performs a specified process or task
using data in a spreadsheet
query language - Answer A computer programming language used to communicate with a
database
attribute - Answer A characteristic or quality of data used to label a column in a table.
Observation - Answer All of the attributes for something contained in a row of a data table.