Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos Quiz Answers

Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos Week 01 Quiz Answers

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Q1. What is a capability of line charts?

• Compare the frequency of data sets
• Compare different, unrelated data sets
• Compare similar, unrelated data sets
• Compare different, but related data sets

Q2. Each portion of a pie chart represents static values or categories. What is the sum of the categories equal to?

• 50%
• 100%
• 75%
• 99%

Q3. According to the ‘Introduction to Charts’ video, which chart is one of the most commonly used?

• Scatter chart
• Bar chart
• Funnel chart
• Bubble chart

Q4. In the ‘Expert Viewpoints: Using Visualizations to Tell a Data Story’ video, one expert mentioned two software programs that help highlight the important information. Which were the two software programs?

• PowerPoint and Excel
• Google and Bing
• Google Docs and Word
• Db2 and SQL

Q5. In the ‘Creating Basic Charts in Excel’ video, which type of chart shows the relative contribution of unit sales from Ford car models?

• Pie chart
• Bar chart
• Funnel chart
• Line chart

Q6. How does a pivot chart differ from a standard chart in Excel?

• A pivot chart contains data series, categories, and chart axes
• A pivot chart cannot be a line, pie or bar chart
• A pivot chart uses data from a pivot table
• A pivot chart always has its data arranged in columns and rows

Q7. What is the main difference between Area and Column charts?

• A column chart uses vertical bars, and an area chart uses data points
• A column chart uses data points, and an area chart uses vertical bars
• An area chart uses horizontal bars, and a column chart uses rows
• An area chart makes sense of complicated data and a column chart shows chart axis like basic charts

Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos Week 02 Quiz Answers

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Q1. What do treemaps use to represent hierarchical data categories?

• Treemaps use data points on a line.
• Treemaps use interconnected circles.
• Treemaps use color, size, and closeness of shapes.
• Treemaps use different shapes.

Q2. Histograms can look like a bar chart, what’s the key difference?

• Bar charts compare data and histograms display the distribution of data.
• Histograms use bins.
• Histograms use Axis Options to display different bin sizes.
• Bar charts use horizontal bars.

Q3. What kind of data works best with filled map charts?

• Complicated data
• Data containing geographical regions
• Scientific data
• Raw data

Q4. What are sparklines typically used for?

• To show regional information.
• To highlight a data range.
• To contrast numerical values.
• To show data trends.

Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos Week 03 Quiz Answers

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Q1. When signing up for a trial of Cognos Analytics, which item in the account form is the key one to take note of?

• Your name
• Your country /region
• Your closest data center
• Your address

Q2. In Cognos Analytics what is the first step to build a dashboard?

• Upload a spreadsheet or workbook
• Provide questions and answers to the assistant
• Select visualizations
• Choose a template

Q3. Which of the following methods can be used in Cognos Analytics to create visualizations? (Select all that apply)

• By using widgets.
• By using the Assistant to suggest questions and suggested visualizations.
• By automatic recommended visualizations.
• By manually populating by dragging and dropping.

Q4. How can you create infographics in Cognos Analytics?

• Modify navigation paths.
• Use Exclude to filter out some data.
• Ask the Assistant different questions.
• Drag and drop a widget shape icon onto a visualization.

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