The Business Intelligence process combines roles, tools, and skills to turn data into actionable insights.

Put the BI process in the correct order:

Report Sharing

Data transformation using ETL

Decision Making using data driven insights

Data collection and storage

Data Visualization and Storytelling

Creating Data Models, Metrics, and Analysis

Different types of database systems exist for different reasons. Some are optimized to capture and
modify transactional data, whilst others are more suited to analysis.

With that in mind, what are the main functions of a data warehouse? Select ALL correct answers.

Stores raw data in its original format

Combine data from multiple sources

Optimize data for analysis and human interaction

Write formulas to calculate business metrics

Understanding the source of your data is absolutely essential to great analysis. That means
understanding where it came from, how it was collected, what assumptions were made, and exactly
what it means?
If you had a query about the integrity of data in the company data warehouse, which of these team
members would be most likely to answer your question?

Data scientist

Data visualization specialist

Data analyst

Data engineer

ETL refers to any time when data is taken from one source, transformed in some way, and loaded into a
different destination. Data Engineers do a lot of ETL between database systems, whilst Data Analysts
extract data from files and databases and transform it for specific projects.

Which of the following best describes the extract, transform & load (ETL) task of the data analyst's role?

Document data models and metric definitions

Combine tables to create data models that link related data

Import, combine, and transform data. Convert data into the desired format before loading the data into
a file or data model.

Write formulas to calculate business performance

Which of the following statements about business intelligence is NOT correct?

Business intelligence requires different processes, tools, skills, and roles to work together.

Business intelligence focuses on predicting what will happen or which outcome is most likely.

Business intelligence is the practice of turning data into actionable insights that allow business leaders to
change or maintain a course of action.

The key skills of business intelligence include basic statistics, data transformation, data visualization, and
business knowledge.
The Data Visualization Specialist focus on turning clean data into visuals that communicate a message or
help answer a specific question.

Select two tools commonly used by Data Visualization Specialists to build data dashboards.

Tableau

Power Query

Microsoft Azure

Power BI

The data engineer is one of the most technical roles in a Business Intelligence team.

Which of these tools might form part of the data engineer's toolset? Select ALL correct answers.

Power Pivot

Plotly

Microsoft Azure

SQL

■ Python

The Data Analyst is responsible for doing basic data transformation using SQL and Power Query, before
building data models and metrics. Often, their role also overlaps with the Data Viz Specialist.

Select two tools that are most used for data transformation.

Tableau

Power Query
Power Pivot

SQL

The goal of business intelligence create value by turning data into what?

data warehouses for data brokers

accurate predictions about the future

Al tools that can optimize certain tasks

actionable insights