Week 2 IBM Data Analytics
Professional Certificate Exam
Questions and Answers
HTML - Answer-Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text
files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
Flat Files - Answer-data is stored in one giant table. Typically different functions have
separate flat files that do not link to each other.
API - Answer-Application Programming Interface, a library of procedures and a
description of how to call each procedure.
RSS - Answer-(Really Simple Syndication) most popular type of Web feeds for
syndicating frequently updated Web content
Python - Answer-a programming language Python is a widely-used open-source,
general-purpose, high-level programming language.
Its syntax allows programmers to express their concepts in fewer lines of code, as
compared
to some of the older languages.
Python is perceived as one of the easiest languages to learn and has a large
developer
community.
R - Answer-R is an open-source programming language and environment for data
analysis, data visualization,
machine learning, and statistics.
Unix/Linux Shell - Answer-A Unix/Linux Shell is a computer program written for the
UNIX shell. It is a series of UNIX commands written in a plain text file to accomplish
a specific task.
Java - Answer-An object-oriented programming language designed specifically for
programs (particularly multimedia) to be used over the Internet. Java allows
programmers to create small programs or applications to enhance websites.
Database - Answer-a collection of data, or information, designed for the input,
storage, search and
retrieval, and modification of data.
data repository - Answer-a general term used to refer to data that has been
collected, organized,
and isolated so that it can be used for business operations or mined for reporting and
data
analysis.
Professional Certificate Exam
Questions and Answers
HTML - Answer-Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text
files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
Flat Files - Answer-data is stored in one giant table. Typically different functions have
separate flat files that do not link to each other.
API - Answer-Application Programming Interface, a library of procedures and a
description of how to call each procedure.
RSS - Answer-(Really Simple Syndication) most popular type of Web feeds for
syndicating frequently updated Web content
Python - Answer-a programming language Python is a widely-used open-source,
general-purpose, high-level programming language.
Its syntax allows programmers to express their concepts in fewer lines of code, as
compared
to some of the older languages.
Python is perceived as one of the easiest languages to learn and has a large
developer
community.
R - Answer-R is an open-source programming language and environment for data
analysis, data visualization,
machine learning, and statistics.
Unix/Linux Shell - Answer-A Unix/Linux Shell is a computer program written for the
UNIX shell. It is a series of UNIX commands written in a plain text file to accomplish
a specific task.
Java - Answer-An object-oriented programming language designed specifically for
programs (particularly multimedia) to be used over the Internet. Java allows
programmers to create small programs or applications to enhance websites.
Database - Answer-a collection of data, or information, designed for the input,
storage, search and
retrieval, and modification of data.
data repository - Answer-a general term used to refer to data that has been
collected, organized,
and isolated so that it can be used for business operations or mined for reporting and
data
analysis.
