WGU D468 DISCOVERING DATA PA AND
OA COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ structured thinking.
Answer: The process of recognizing the current problem or situation,
organizing available information, revealing gaps and opportunities, and
identifying options
◍ six steps of the data analysis process.
Answer: Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
◍ data science.
Answer: creating new ways of modeling and understanding the unkown by
using raw data
◍ SAS's iterative process.
Answer: AskPrepareExploreModelImplementActEvaluate
◍ discovering connections.
Answer: Finding similar challenges faced by different entities and
combining data and insights to address them
◍ sql.
Answer: Structured Query Language
◍ Capture (data life cycle).
Answer: Collect or bring in data from a variety of different sources.
◍ Project-based data analytics process.
Answer: Identifying the problemDesigning data requirementsPre-processing
, dataPerforming data analysisVisualizing data
◍ issue.
Answer: a topic or subject to investigate
◍ Gap Analysis.
Answer: A method for examining and evaluating how a process works
currently in order to get where you want to be in the future
◍ Step 2- creating a dashboard.
Answer: Design the dashboard (what should be displayed)
◍ Relevant (SMART).
Answer: Questions that matter, are important, and have significance to the
problem you're trying to solve
◍ Specific (SMART).
Answer: Questions that are simple, significant, and focused on a single topic
or a few closely related ideas
◍ making predictions.
Answer: Using data to make informed decisions about how things may be in
the future.
◍ report.
Answer: static collection of data given to stakeholders periodically. great for
historical
◍ Business analyst.
Answer: The person who tells the data story to leadership
◍ data life cycle harvard business school.
Answer: GenerationCollectionProcessingStorageManagementAnalysisVisualizationI
◍ data design.
Answer: how you organize information
◍ Tableau.
Answer: simple drag-and-drop feature lets users create interactive graphs in
OA COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ structured thinking.
Answer: The process of recognizing the current problem or situation,
organizing available information, revealing gaps and opportunities, and
identifying options
◍ six steps of the data analysis process.
Answer: Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
◍ data science.
Answer: creating new ways of modeling and understanding the unkown by
using raw data
◍ SAS's iterative process.
Answer: AskPrepareExploreModelImplementActEvaluate
◍ discovering connections.
Answer: Finding similar challenges faced by different entities and
combining data and insights to address them
◍ sql.
Answer: Structured Query Language
◍ Capture (data life cycle).
Answer: Collect or bring in data from a variety of different sources.
◍ Project-based data analytics process.
Answer: Identifying the problemDesigning data requirementsPre-processing
, dataPerforming data analysisVisualizing data
◍ issue.
Answer: a topic or subject to investigate
◍ Gap Analysis.
Answer: A method for examining and evaluating how a process works
currently in order to get where you want to be in the future
◍ Step 2- creating a dashboard.
Answer: Design the dashboard (what should be displayed)
◍ Relevant (SMART).
Answer: Questions that matter, are important, and have significance to the
problem you're trying to solve
◍ Specific (SMART).
Answer: Questions that are simple, significant, and focused on a single topic
or a few closely related ideas
◍ making predictions.
Answer: Using data to make informed decisions about how things may be in
the future.
◍ report.
Answer: static collection of data given to stakeholders periodically. great for
historical
◍ Business analyst.
Answer: The person who tells the data story to leadership
◍ data life cycle harvard business school.
Answer: GenerationCollectionProcessingStorageManagementAnalysisVisualizationI
◍ data design.
Answer: how you organize information
◍ Tableau.
Answer: simple drag-and-drop feature lets users create interactive graphs in
