Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Google Analytics Platform Principles - Certificate Question Answers

Google Analytics Platform Principles – Certificate (Final Assessment)

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    1. What are the four main components of the Google Analytics platform? (select all that apply)

       Collection
       Configuration

       Continuation
       
      Processing
       Progressing
       Recollection
       
      Reporting
    2. The tracking code in Google Analytics: (select all that apply)

       connects data to your specific Google Analytics account
       
      sends data back to your Google Analytics account for reporting
       tracks changes in your AdWords account
       
      identifies new and returning users
    3. Which Analytics tracking technology would you use to collect how users interact with a web-connected ticket kiosk?

       Software Development Kit
       JavaScript Tracking Code
       
      The Measurement Protocol
       HTML
    4. Google Analytics can only recognize returning users on websites, not on mobile apps.

       True
       
      False
    5. During data processing, Google Analytics:

       transforms your raw data from collection according to your configuration settings
       aggregates your data into database tables
       imports data from other sources you've defined, like Google AdWords or Webmaster Tools
       organizes hits into sessions
    6. A session in Google Analytics consists of:

       the reports generated by users over a specific period of time
       interactions or hits from a specific user for all time
       
      interactions or hits from a specific user over a defined period of time
       a group of users getting together in person to discuss Analytics
    7. How can you add data to Google Analytics from other sources? (select all that apply)

       By linking your AdWords account to Google Analytics to import your advertising data
       By downloading your data from Webmaster Tools and manually importing it into Google Analytics
       
      By uploading a .csv file to Google Analytics to attach new dimensions like “Topic” and “Author” to an existing dimension like “Page Title”
       By using Cost Data Upload to import click and cost data from your non-AdWords advertising campaigns
    8. Which of the following are configuration settings that can change how your data appears in your reports? (select all that apply)

       Sessions
       Channel Groupings
       Filters
       Users
       Goals
       Interactions
    9. Which of the following are dimensions in Google Analytics? (select all that apply)

       Campaign
       Visits
       Time on Page
       
      City
       Browser
       Language

       Pageviews
       Unique Visitors
    10. You can combine any metric with any dimension in a Google Analytics report.

       True
       
      False
    11. When does Google Analytics sample data for reporting?

       When the data you request has already been calculated in the aggregate tables
       
      When you create a report with metric and dimension combinations that have not been pre-aggregated and the report is based on data from a large number of visits
       When the report is pulled at the end of the high traffic week
       When you create a report with metric and dimension combinations that have not been pre-aggregated and the report is based on data from a small number of visits
    12. You've discovered that a significant portion of your site traffic is coming from your internal users and is skewing your customer data. Which of the following solutions should you implement to clean up your report data?

       Have your site developers create a new version of your website for internal users only that doesn't have the tracking code
       
      Have your account administrator configure a Filter that excludes internal traffic from being included in your report views
       Have your account administrator reprocess the data in your account to exclude internal users
       There's not a way to prevent the internal traffic from showing in your reports.
    13. You've discovered that data about the Product pages of your ecommerce website is missing from your reports. Which of the following could be the cause? (select all that apply)

       The data for the Product pages wasn't collected because tracking code wasn't placed on those pages of the site
       Google Analytics doesn't collect data from eCommerce sites
       During processing Google Analytics sampled out the Product pages from your reports
       
      A filter applied during processing was configured to remove Product pages data from your reports
    14. For a website that hosts 45 minute-long documentary videos, what configuration settings could you use to more accurately track user engagement?

       Add a Goal that tracks when a user lands on your site homepage
       Add a Filter to exclude users who don't watch a video on your site
       
      Adjust the session timeout length to be greater than 45 minutes so that the session doesn't automatically timeout while a user is watching a long video on the site
       Create a Content Grouping that groups together all of your video pages in your reports
    15. How could you create a customized dashboard in Google Analytics that you can monitor on a daily basis? (select all that apply)

       Use the Google Analytics JavaScript tracking code to send data straight into a spreadsheet
       
      Use the Google Analytics reporting APIs to automatically send data to a dashboard application you create
       
      Create a dashboard directly in the Google Analytics user interface and share it with your team
       It's not possible to create a dashboard using Google Analytics data





 

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