Wednesday 14 May 2014

Google Analytics Certification Questions with Answers

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1.       You currently have the Google Analytics tracking code on your site, but you want to start managing it and other tags using Google Tag Manager. You create a Google Tag Manager container and add a Google Analytics Tag to the container. Once you have added the container snippet to every page of your site, what do you do with the existing Google Analytics tracking code?

a)      Remove the existing Google Analytics tracking code from the site
b)      Make sure that the existing Google Analytics tracking code is placed after the opening <body> tag
c)       Update the Google Analytics tracking code with analytics.js
d)      Replace the account ID in the existing Google Analytics tracking code with the container ID 

2.         You are interested in identifying the most popular content on your site. Which of the following sections will have this report information by default

a)      Search
b)      Acquisition
c)       Audience
d)      Conversion
e)      Behaviour

3.       Which of the following AdWords reports would you use to investigate when you should modify your bidding during certain hours of the day to optimize conversions?

a)      Campaigns
b)      Adwords Keywords
c)       Destination URLs
d)      Placements
e)      Day Parts

4.       Why is it important that you maintain one unfiltered view when using filters with your Analytics                account?

a)      Without one unfiltered view, you will not be able to use a filter for multiple views
b)      There no reason to maintain an unfiltered view
c)       You will need to configure your goals in the unfiltered view
d)      An unfiltered view ensure that the original data can always be accessed

5.       Which of the following would be most useful in measuring how many days passed between the first visit to a site and the eventual conversion?

a)      Assisted/Last Interaction Conversions
b)      Top Conversion Paths
c)       Path Length
d)      Conversion Value
e)      Time Lag

6.       It’s important to have a clear measurement strategy to guide your implementation strategy and your data analysis. Which of the following business objectives would be most relevant for the content publishers?

a)      Collecting user information for sales team to connect to with potential leads
b)      Selling products or services
c)       Encourage engagement and frequent visitation
d)      All these options are equally relevant as business objective for content publishers

7.        When do Google Analytics Terms of Service permit sending personally identifying information (PII) to Google?
a)      In custom campaigns only
b)      When encrypted
c)       Never

8.       Which of the following would help you to determine the conversion value of a paid keyword?

a)      Multi-Channel Funnels
b)      CTR
c)       CPM
d)      Real-Time
e)      None of these answers

9.       Specifying  a goal value allows Google Analytics to calculate _______________ (select all that apply)

a)      Revenue per Click
b)      Ecommerce Revenue
c)       Bounce Rate
d)      Goal Revenue
e)      Average Order Value

10.   You need to immediately find out whether people are viewing the new content that you just added today. Which of the following would be most useful?

a)      Annotations
b)      Intelligence
c)       Real-time
d)      Secondary dimensions

11.   Which of the following are possible uses of views within a single Google Analytics account?

a)      To limit a user’s access to a subset of data
b)      To track domains that belong to another account
c)       To look more closely at traffic to a specific subdomain
d)      To look more closely at traffic to a specific part of site (a page or selection of pages)

12.   You’ve found that most of your customer initially learned about your brand via a display ad. Which of the following attribution models will give a credit to display ads that introduced customers to your brand? Select all that apply
a)      Last Non-Direct Click attribution model
b)      Last Click attribution model
c)       Position Based attribution model
d)      Linear attribution model
13.   Which of the following represents a macro conversion of an ecommerce site?
a)      Receiving a product inquiry
b)      Collecting a lead
c)       A click on a “buy” button
d)      A complete sales transaction
e)      All of the above
14.   You want to explore traffic metrics by gender and age. Which of the following sections in Analytics will be most useful
a)      Admin
b)      Behavior
c)       Acquisition
d)      Audience
e)      Conversion
15.   Which of the following should you NOT collect with Google Analytics ecommerce JavaScript? Select all that apply
a)      Product SKU(s)
b)      Purchase amount
c)       Tax amount
d)      Billing city
e)      Credit card number
16.   You have defined goal X such that any PDF download qualifies as a goal conversion.  A user comes to your site once and downloads five PDFs. How many goal conversations will be recorded?
a)      0
b)      5
c)       2
d)      1
17.   True or False: When you share a link to custom report, you share the data in the report.
a)      True. Sharing a link to a custom report shares the data in the report.
b)      False. Sharing a link to a custom report only shares a template for the report
18.   Which of the following would be valid segments to consider when looking at data? Select all that aply
a)      Traffic by marketing channel
b)      Traffic by time of day
c)       Traffic by geography
d)      Traffic by device
19.   Your business is to maximize the number of sales through your website. Which of the following metrics would most directly help you measure performance against this objective?
a)      Ecommerce conversion rate
b)      Page Value
c)       Visits
d)      Bounce Rate
e)      Pages / Visits

20.   You want to know whether button X is clicked more often than button Y. Which of the following would be most useful?
a)      Events
b)      Real-Time
c)       Intelligence
d)      Annotations
21.   Which of the following would you use to set up a custom alert?
a)      Real-Time
b)      Conversions
c)       Intelligence
d)      Content

22.   Which of the following most accurately describe the concept of attribution in digital analytics?
a)      Determining a traffic source
b)      Calculating ROI
c)       Calculating cost per click
d)      Assigning credit for conversions
e)      Determining a user’s device
23.   You want to measure the percentage of sessions during which the user clicks a “product details” button. Which of the following would you need to do in order to see this information?
a)      Set up a “product details” button in the ecommerce JavaScript
b)      Track the button with an event and set up an event goal
c)       Track the button as a page view and look at the Events Overview
d)      Enable the button as a KPI and set up the dashboard
e)      None of these options will work
24.   Which of the following Channels is part of the Default Channel Grouping? Select all that apply.
a)      Display
b)      Social
c)       Direct
d)      Organic
25.   Which of the following would prevent URL destination goal conversions from being recorded? Select all that apply
a)      No URL destination goal have been defined
b)      The tracking code is missing from the conversion page
c)       There was a misspelling in the URL of the goal definition
d)      The match type in the goal definition is incorrect
26.   You want to evaluate the landing pages you are using for Adwords ads. Which of the following dimension would be most useful?
a)      Keyword
b)      Ad Group
c)       Destination URL
d)      Campaign
e)      Placement s
27.   Which of the following are true about segmentation? Select all that apply
a)      Segmentation should generally not be used without Real-Time reporting.
b)      Segmentation is a technique that should only be used by experienced analysts
c)       Segmentation can help you find the underlying causes of changes to your aggregate data
d)      Segmentation allows you to isolate and analyze subsets of your data
28.   If a paid keywords has an Assisted/Last Click or Direct Conversions value of .5, which of the following is true?
a)      The keyword played an assisted role in exactly five conversions
b)      The keyword played an assisted role in exactly one conversions
c)       The keyword played an assisted role less often than it played a last click role.
d)      None of these answers
29.   Which of the following technologies on your site influence how you implement Analytics? Select all that aply
a)      Responsive web design
b)      Query string parameters
c)       Server redirects
d)      Flash and AJAX events
30.   Setting up goals allows you to see _____________. Select all that apply
a)      Conversion paths
b)      Ecommerce revenue
c)       A list of transactions
d)      Bounce rate
e)      Conversation rates
31.   Which of the following technologies or features can be used to add data to Google Analytics? Select all that apply.
a)      Intelligence
b)      Measurement Protocol
c)       Cost Data Import
d)      Real-Time
e)      Dimension Widening
32.   Generally, the recommended best practice is to set up one Google Tag Manager account
a)      For every person who will have access to Analytics
b)      For every site you want to track
c)       For every Analytics view
d)      For your company
33.   You want a second view of your data where you only see traffic to a particular subdirectory. What is the best way to set this up?
a)      Create a duplicate view and add a filter: select “include only traffic to a subdirectory” from the Filter Type drop down and specify the subdirectory
b)      Create a second Google Analytics account, and apply the new tracking code to the pages in the subdirectory
c)       Create a new web property and add the new tracking code to the pages on the subdirectory
d)      Create a new view and apply an advanced filter that deletes pages data outside the subdirectory
34.   Your ecommerce sells colorful wrist watches that visitors can customize using a tool online. Which of the following represents(s) a micro conversion for your site? Select all that apply
a)      Use of the “customize your watch” tool
b)      An exit from a product page
c)       An email signup
d)      An online sale
35.   A visitor comes to your site but stops looking at pages and generating events. Which of the following will occur by default?
a)      The visitor’s session expires after 5 minutes of inactivity
b)      Google analytics does not keep track of sessions by default
c)       The visitor’s session expires after 30 minutes of inactivity
d)      The visitor’s session expires once the visitor has exited your site
36.   To calculate ROI correctly, Google Analytics needs (select all that apply)
a)      Operating cost
b)      Revenue
c)       Cost
d)      Interest Rate
e)      Margin
37.   Which of the following are possible uses of filters? Select all that apply
a)      Excludes visits from a particular IP address
b)      Report on only a subdomain or directory
c)       Include only traffic coming from a particular campaign
d)      Replace complicated pages URLs with readable text strings
38.   Which of the following suggest a poorly performing landing page?
a)      % New Visits > 90%
b)       % New Visits < 90%
c)       Bounce Rate < 90%
d)      Bounce Rate > 90%
e)      None of these answers
39.   You want to see the % of sessions in which a specific button was clicked. Which of the following would be most useful?
a)      Set up a dashboard
b)      Set up a custom report
c)       Set up an event goal
d)      Set up Real-Time reporting
40.   Which of the following you would you use to show two date ranges on the same graph?
a)      Plot rows
b)      Motion charts
c)       Date comparison
d)      Pivot table
e)      Secondary dimension

41.   You want to know whenever weekly revenue for your “spring sale” campaign increase or decrease by an unusual amount. Which of the following would be most useful?
a)      Real-Time
b)      Secondary dimensions
c)       Intelligence
d)      Annotations
42.   Digital Analytics is:
a)      The analysis of data from your business and competition
b)      The analysis of quantitative data from your business
c)       A process of continual improvement of the online experience
d)      The analysis of qualitative data from your business
e)      All of the above
43.   Which of the following are measures of traffic volume?
a)      Bounce Rate
b)      Avg. Time on Site
c)       Visits
d)      Margin
44.   Which two metrics below would be best KPIs for measuring the performance of an ecommerce business? Select two.
a)      Revenue
b)      Pageviews
c)       Bounce rate
d)      Average order value
45.   You want to see conversion rates for Windows visits coming from London. Which of the following dimensions would you need to select?
a)      City, and Goal Conversation Rate as a secondary dimension
b)      Goal Conversation Rate, and City as a secondary dimension
c)       Operating System, and City as a secondary dimension
d)      Any one of these options
46.   Which of the following is true for ROI?
a)      If the Cost is $5 and Revenue is $5, your ROI is 20%
b)      If the Cost is $5 and Revenue is $5, your ROI is 50%
c)       If the Cost is $5 and Revenue is $5, your ROI is 100%
d)      If the Cost is $5 and Revenue is $5, your ROI is 0%
e)      None of these answers are true for ROI
47.   Which of the following metrics shows the number of times your ads were displayed?
a)      Impressions
b)      Pageviews
c)       CTR
d)      Visits
e)      Clicks
48.   Which of the following questions can be answered using the goal flow report?
a)      Do visitors usually start my conversion process from the first step or somewhere in the middle?
b)      Are there any steps in my conversion process that don’t perform well on mobile devices compared to desktop devices?
c)       Are there a lot of unexpected exits from a step in the middle of my conversion fennel?
d)      Is there a place in my funnel where traffic loops back to the beginning of the conversion process to start over?
49.   Which of the following are advantages of implementing Google Tag Manger?
a)      You can add non-Google tags to your site without editing site code
b)      You can change configuration values in your mobile app without rebuilding a new binary
c)       You can add Google Analytics tags to your site without editing site code
d)      You can add Adwords tags to your site without editing site code
50.   Your company has a website and a mobile app, and you want to track each separately in Google Analytics. How should you structure your account(s)?
a)      One account, one property, no views
b)      One account, one property, one views, because you can’t use Google Analytics to track the mobile app
c)       One account, two properties
d)      One account, one property, two views
51.   Which campaign tracking variables are required in order to ensure accurate data for your campaigns in the “All Traffic” report? Select all that apply
a)      Utm_source
b)      Utm_medium
c)       Utm_term
d)      Utm_content
e)      Utm_campaign
52.   Which of the following would be most useful for ranking pages according to revenue contribution?
a)      Bounce Rate
b)      Page Value
c)       Revenue
d)      Margin
e)      ROI
53.   Which of the following is not a standard campaign parameter?
a)      Utm_adgroup
b)      Utm_content
c)       Utm_source
d)      Utm_campaign
54.   Which of the following reports allow you to identify the terms visitors use to conduct searches within your site? Select all that apply
a)      Search Engine Optimization Report
b)      Keyword report
c)       Affinity Categories
d)      Site Search Rep
55.   Which of the following reporting dimensions would be useful to reference if you were rebuilding a website?
a)      Language
b)      Screen Colors
c)       Browser
d)      All of the dimensions
e)      None of these dimensions
56.   Which of the following are examples of channels? Select all that apply.
a)      Display
b)      Audience
c)       Conversion
d)      Organic Search
e)      Email
57.   Your Multi-Channel Funnel reports have no data. What is most likely reason?
a)      You haven’t set up the Goal Funnels?
b)      You haven’t implemented Goal or Ecommerce
c)       You are not using Google Tag Manager
d)      You haven’t enabled demographic data
e)      You are not using Content Experiments
58.   Person A and person B each visits your commerce site once. During her visit, person A buys one of your products. Then, before leaving the site, she makes another purchase. Person B buys nothing. What is your ecommerce conversion rate of these two visits?
a)      100%
b)      200%
c)       0%
d)      50%
e)      33%
59.   Which of the following are metrics? Select all that apply.
a)      % New Visits
b)      City
c)       Pageviews
d)      Browser
60.   When configuring a goal, why is it useful to assign a goal value?
a)      To calculate ecommerce metrics
b)      To attribute monetary value  to non-ecommerce conversions
c)       To determine the conversion rate
d)      To determine the popularity of each of your pages
61.   Which of the following could be measured by defining a goal in Google Analytics?  Select all that apply
a)      The percentage of visits that contain only one page view
b)      The percentage of visits during which visitors spend at least two minutes on the site
c)       Conversion rate
d)      The percentage of visits that result in a site registration
62.   For each user who comes to your site, Google Analytics automatically captures which of the following Traffic Source dimensions? Select all that apply.
a)      Source
b)      Ad content
c)       Medium
d)      Campaign
63.   You publish articles by many different authors on your site. You want to create a report that shows the total number of pageviews for each author. Which of the following features will allow you to add author information to Google Analytics
a)      Annotations
b)      Dimension Widening
c)       Segments
d)      Custom reports
e)      Analytics Intelligence
64.   The demographic and interest category information in Google Analytics comes from
a)      Google Tag Manager
b)      Information that  upload from your CRM
c)       The Adowrds first party cookies
d)      Survey data filled out by users
e)      The DoubleClick third-party cookies
65.   What is the purpose of the URL builder?
a)      Using the URL Builder is required in order to track Adwords visits
b)      To optimize the landing pages
c)       To generate the URL tracking parameters that need to be appended to an organic search result
d)      To generate a URL with tracking parameters
66.   In the Linear Attribution Model,
a)      The last touchpoint receives 100% of the credit for the conversion
b)      Each touchpoint in the conversion path shares equal credit for the conversion
c)       The first touchpoint receives 100% of the credit for the conversion
d)      The touchpoints closest in the time to the conversion get most of credit
67.   You’ve noticed that many users visit your site several times before converting and you want to understand in more detail how they arrive at your site. Which of the following metrics would be most helpful in showing you whether a keyword is part of a conversion path?
a)      Impressions
b)      Clicks
c)       Bounce Rate
d)      Visits
e)      Assisted Conversions
68.   Which of the following are tracked by the Site Speed reports? Select all that apply.
a)      Page-load time for a sample of pageviews on your site
b)      Button click response time
c)       How quickly the browser parses a page and make it available for user interaction
d)      How quickly images load
69.   The URL of homepage of your site is example.com/index. You would like this to appear as “/home” in your Pages report. How can this be achieved?
a)      Use a search and Replace custom filter on the request URI field where Search String is “/index” and Replace String is “/home”
b)      Use a Search and Replace custom filter on the request URI field where Search String is www.example.com/index and Replace String is www.example.com/home
70.   Which of the following metrics would allow you to assess Adwords campaign profitability? (Select all that apply.)
a)      CPM
b)      Margin
c)       Revenue per Click
d)      CTR
e)      ROI