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WGU C207 PA Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
Analytics is a broad term that refers to a variety of tools that inform managerial
decisions.Which term can be used to describe managerial decisions? - Answer✔Prescriptive
What are two reasons for the increasing use of analytics in organizational decision-making? -
Answer✔Relatively lower cost of computer storage; Higher computer processing power
How does probability theory inform decision-making for managers? - Answer✔By quantifying
risk
Which type of data are the Olympic medals of gold, silver, and bronze examples of? -
Answer✔Ordinal data
What are two aspects of data quality management? - Answer✔It reduces the amount of
incomplete data.; It cleans data.
Which two attributes indicate potential data quality issues when evaluating a set of nominal
data? - Answer✔Missing data; misspelled data
When conducting a study that measures an individual's weight, all scales are calibrated prior to
use in measurement.Which type of error should this procedure significantly reduce? -
Answer✔systematic
An advertising manager creates a research study by presenting low, medium, or high frequency
of the same ad in matched markets. The manager then reports on sales in each market
location.What is the term for the different sales in this study? - Answer✔response variable
A healthcare study follows a particular sample over time to identify how the health habits of
teenagers impact their likelihood of acquiring various diseases later in their life. The healthcare
organization hopes this data will allow them to create early prevention programs.Which type of
research design does this study describe? - Answer✔Cohort Study
Several missing values in a particular field in a dataset were observed. The likelihood of a record
having a missing value is correlated to another variable in the dataset.Which two types of error
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might be introduced into the dataset if the removed record included missing values? -
Answer✔Systematic and Omission Error
A company is trying to increase its online sales revenue by improving its email advertising
campaign for repeat customers as well as new customers.Which two variables would be used in
determining a campaign to maximize revenue gain? - Answer✔Number of purchases per email;
spending per purchase
A company that raises turkeys is hoping to increase the rate of growth of the turkeys while
controlling the cost of feeding them. It has determined that feeds containing both nutrients and
protein can be used.Which decision-making technique is most appropriate for this company to
minimize the cost of feeding the birds? - Answer✔Linear Programming
Compare outcomes of different drug testing results - Answer✔ANOVA
Understand effective marketing to spend advertising dollars efficiently - Answer✔Correlation
Monitor production process - Answer✔Control Charts
A researcher concludes that bananas create healthy children because the researcher's notes
indicate that children who eat a banana every day are healthy.Which misuse of statistics would
this study be an example of if these children also eat a balanced diet and exercise daily -
Answer✔Confusion of association and causality
In the month of December, there is a strong positive correlation between airline ticket sales
and retail sales.Which question should the researcher consider before concluding that the
correlation statistic implies that airline sales drive retail sales? - Answer✔Does a causal
relationship truly exist?
A medical care provider determines the probability that a patient needs treatment for a broken
bone, the probability that a patient needs treatment for a concussion, and the probability that a
patient needs treatment for both a broken bone and a concussion.Which two techniques apply
in finding the probability that a patient needs treatment for a broken bone and a concussion? -
Answer✔Intersection; Multiplication principle
A hardware store has found that there is a 0.25 probability that a customer buys an electrical
product, a 0.45 probability that a customer buys a plumbing product, and a 0.10 probability
that a customer buys an electrical product if they purchase a plumbing product.Which
statistical rule can be used to determine the probability that a customer buys a plumbing
product given that this customer has purchased an electrical product? - Answer✔Bayes'
Theorem
Given the following data set:9, 12, 14, 10, 8, 11, 12What is the mode? - Answer✔12
Which graphical tool is used to illustrate a possible relationship or correlation between two
variables? - Answer✔Scatterplot
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WGU C207 PA Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
Analytics is a broad term that refers to a variety of tools that inform managerial
decisions.Which term can be used to describe managerial decisions? - Answer✔Prescriptive
What are two reasons for the increasing use of analytics in organizational decision-making? -
Answer✔Relatively lower cost of computer storage; Higher computer processing power
How does probability theory inform decision-making for managers? - Answer✔By quantifying
risk
Which type of data are the Olympic medals of gold, silver, and bronze examples of? -
Answer✔Ordinal data
What are two aspects of data quality management? - Answer✔It reduces the amount of
incomplete data.; It cleans data.
Which two attributes indicate potential data quality issues when evaluating a set of nominal
data? - Answer✔Missing data; misspelled data
When conducting a study that measures an individual's weight, all scales are calibrated prior to
use in measurement.Which type of error should this procedure significantly reduce? -
Answer✔systematic
An advertising manager creates a research study by presenting low, medium, or high frequency
of the same ad in matched markets. The manager then reports on sales in each market
location.What is the term for the different sales in this study? - Answer✔response variable
A healthcare study follows a particular sample over time to identify how the health habits of
teenagers impact their likelihood of acquiring various diseases later in their life. The healthcare
organization hopes this data will allow them to create early prevention programs.Which type of
research design does this study describe? - Answer✔Cohort Study
Several missing values in a particular field in a dataset were observed. The likelihood of a record
having a missing value is correlated to another variable in the dataset.Which two types of error
1
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might be introduced into the dataset if the removed record included missing values? -
Answer✔Systematic and Omission Error
A company is trying to increase its online sales revenue by improving its email advertising
campaign for repeat customers as well as new customers.Which two variables would be used in
determining a campaign to maximize revenue gain? - Answer✔Number of purchases per email;
spending per purchase
A company that raises turkeys is hoping to increase the rate of growth of the turkeys while
controlling the cost of feeding them. It has determined that feeds containing both nutrients and
protein can be used.Which decision-making technique is most appropriate for this company to
minimize the cost of feeding the birds? - Answer✔Linear Programming
Compare outcomes of different drug testing results - Answer✔ANOVA
Understand effective marketing to spend advertising dollars efficiently - Answer✔Correlation
Monitor production process - Answer✔Control Charts
A researcher concludes that bananas create healthy children because the researcher's notes
indicate that children who eat a banana every day are healthy.Which misuse of statistics would
this study be an example of if these children also eat a balanced diet and exercise daily -
Answer✔Confusion of association and causality
In the month of December, there is a strong positive correlation between airline ticket sales
and retail sales.Which question should the researcher consider before concluding that the
correlation statistic implies that airline sales drive retail sales? - Answer✔Does a causal
relationship truly exist?
A medical care provider determines the probability that a patient needs treatment for a broken
bone, the probability that a patient needs treatment for a concussion, and the probability that a
patient needs treatment for both a broken bone and a concussion.Which two techniques apply
in finding the probability that a patient needs treatment for a broken bone and a concussion? -
Answer✔Intersection; Multiplication principle
A hardware store has found that there is a 0.25 probability that a customer buys an electrical
product, a 0.45 probability that a customer buys a plumbing product, and a 0.10 probability
that a customer buys an electrical product if they purchase a plumbing product.Which
statistical rule can be used to determine the probability that a customer buys a plumbing
product given that this customer has purchased an electrical product? - Answer✔Bayes'
Theorem
Given the following data set:9, 12, 14, 10, 8, 11, 12What is the mode? - Answer✔12
Which graphical tool is used to illustrate a possible relationship or correlation between two
variables? - Answer✔Scatterplot
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