C207 - Module 5 Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
A Charity is evaluating the effectiveness of its annual walk, promotional campaign, in increasing walk
participants and donations.What is the appropriate tool for evaluating performance? - correct answer
✔Results-based management
An online Active Wear retailer wants to use their last year's sales to evaluate consumer trends before
ordering merchandise for fall season. What process should they use to discover consumer purchasing
patterns? - correct answer ✔Data mining
City Line Transport wants to look at its' fuel costs for 2013, 2014 and 2015 against it start-up base period
of 2012. What analytic method should the company use? - correct answer ✔Simple Index
An International Health Organization is concerned about the spread of the Zika virus in South America as
mosquito season approaches. It proposes measuring the growth of new cases for the total population
over the next six months. What type of analytics would this represent? - correct answer ✔Cumulative
Incidence
Which measurement may be used by potential home buyers to evaluate the price of homes on the
market? - correct answer ✔Price per square foot
At WGU, students take objective assessments to evaluate a student's knowledge of predetermined
course competencies in relation to a cut score. What type of test is the objective assessment? - correct
answer ✔Criterion-referenced
A High School principal wishes to study the math and science performance of individual 12th grade
students by comparing the scores across multiple courses. Which analysis technique should the principal
use: - correct answer ✔z-score
, The town council of a beach town is studying whether to dredge the canals of an ocean front community
that were filled with sand during a hurricane. What analytic method can the council apply to this issue? -
correct answer ✔Cost-benefit analysis
A regional grocery chain measures the increase in prices by tracking the price of milk, eggs, white bread,
and ground beef using the year 2005 as a base. The sum of these items in 2005 was $10.00 and the sum
of the prices in 2015 was $14.50. What is the simple index for these items? - correct answer ✔145
Results-based management does NOT need which of the following? - correct answer ✔Statistically
complex indicators
DOES NEED:
Constant monitoring
Collaboration between all participants
A common goal among everyone involved
Which one of the following is NOT an example of big data? - correct answer ✔The number of people in
the entire world
ARE EXAMPLES:
Department store questionnaires for online shoppers
Different heights of people in the state of Alabama
Spending habits of people from Beverly Hills
The purpose of data mining is to: - correct answer ✔decipher patterns from large databases.
A ___________________ is created when a researcher gathers data from many different sources
without weighing any data more significantly than any other data. - correct answer ✔simple composite
index
answers already passed 2025/2026
A Charity is evaluating the effectiveness of its annual walk, promotional campaign, in increasing walk
participants and donations.What is the appropriate tool for evaluating performance? - correct answer
✔Results-based management
An online Active Wear retailer wants to use their last year's sales to evaluate consumer trends before
ordering merchandise for fall season. What process should they use to discover consumer purchasing
patterns? - correct answer ✔Data mining
City Line Transport wants to look at its' fuel costs for 2013, 2014 and 2015 against it start-up base period
of 2012. What analytic method should the company use? - correct answer ✔Simple Index
An International Health Organization is concerned about the spread of the Zika virus in South America as
mosquito season approaches. It proposes measuring the growth of new cases for the total population
over the next six months. What type of analytics would this represent? - correct answer ✔Cumulative
Incidence
Which measurement may be used by potential home buyers to evaluate the price of homes on the
market? - correct answer ✔Price per square foot
At WGU, students take objective assessments to evaluate a student's knowledge of predetermined
course competencies in relation to a cut score. What type of test is the objective assessment? - correct
answer ✔Criterion-referenced
A High School principal wishes to study the math and science performance of individual 12th grade
students by comparing the scores across multiple courses. Which analysis technique should the principal
use: - correct answer ✔z-score
, The town council of a beach town is studying whether to dredge the canals of an ocean front community
that were filled with sand during a hurricane. What analytic method can the council apply to this issue? -
correct answer ✔Cost-benefit analysis
A regional grocery chain measures the increase in prices by tracking the price of milk, eggs, white bread,
and ground beef using the year 2005 as a base. The sum of these items in 2005 was $10.00 and the sum
of the prices in 2015 was $14.50. What is the simple index for these items? - correct answer ✔145
Results-based management does NOT need which of the following? - correct answer ✔Statistically
complex indicators
DOES NEED:
Constant monitoring
Collaboration between all participants
A common goal among everyone involved
Which one of the following is NOT an example of big data? - correct answer ✔The number of people in
the entire world
ARE EXAMPLES:
Department store questionnaires for online shoppers
Different heights of people in the state of Alabama
Spending habits of people from Beverly Hills
The purpose of data mining is to: - correct answer ✔decipher patterns from large databases.
A ___________________ is created when a researcher gathers data from many different sources
without weighing any data more significantly than any other data. - correct answer ✔simple composite
index
