The analytics team has completed their analytics work and have agreed on a set of five key recommendations.
They are now discussing how best to communicate these recommendations to the finance, customer service, and marketing teams. Recognizing that this is a diverse set of stakeholders, the business analysis professional reminds the team:

• A. Recommendations are important and must be communicated with as much detail as possible
• B. All stakeholders should receive information about the recommendation in the same way
• C. The recommendation should be communicated in different ways for different stakeholders
• D. Stakeholders only have the ability to understand summarized recommendations

A large retail chain has asked their analytics team to complete a study on their customers' purchasing patterns.
The analyst assigned to the study has decided to draw further insight by grouping customers based on their purchasing habits.This clustering approach is an example of:

• A. Trained learning
• B. Supervised learning
• C. Untrained learning
• D. Unsupervised learning

A consumer products company gained popularity with increased growth and brand recognition with one of its products. Although they have a loyal customer base and past year's performance results have shown steady growth, the Senior Leadership team wants to keep product leadership as their primary strategic priority.What would be their primary goal?

• A. Focus on providing value to customers by offering innovative and leading edge products
• B. Focus on their other products/product lines so that they gain momentum in popularity as well
• C. Maintain operational efficiencies so that their products can continue to be competitively priced
• D. Ensure that their top product continues to gain market share and maintain high standards

A manufacturing company, specializing in turf maintenance equipment, has recently seen a decline in their lawn mower sales. As a result, the analytics team is asked to review the latest customer satisfaction survey results. An analyst on this team creates a report for senior management with attractive visuals, supported by the KPI results. Upon reviewing the report, the analyst's manager mentions that the report is missing the narrative. What does this mean?

• A. The data tables that support the visuals and help answer questions
• B. Notes on assumptions and unavailable data for analysis
• C. Commentary around why each graphic was selected to provide additional context
• D. A narrative that supports insights with additional context and draws correlations

An organization's customers are categorized based on the amount of purchases completed over the last 12 months. The analytics team would like to ensure the accuracy of their survey results and decide to randomly select 500 customers to participate in a survey from this large pool of customers. This is an example of:

• A. Purposive sampling
• B. Quota sampling
• C. Stratified sampling
• D. Snowball sampling