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A company is analyzing customer feedback sentiment. The dataset is highly imbalanced with 95% positive and 5% negative comments. Which technique should the analyst use to address class imbalance before modeling?

A
Use accuracy as the evaluation metric
Why wrong: Accuracy is misleading for imbalanced data; F1 or AUC are better.
B
Undersample the majority class
Why wrong: Undersampling can help but may discard useful data; SMOTE is more effective.
C
Oversample the majority class
Why wrong: This would increase imbalance further.
D
Use SMOTE
SMOTE generates synthetic minority samples to balance classes.

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A company is analyzing customer feedback sentiment. The dataset is highly imbalanced with 95% positive and 5% negative comments. Which technique should the analyst use to address class imbalance before modeling?

A data analyst creates a bubble chart showing country GDP (x-axis), life expectancy (y-axis), and population (bubble size). However, large bubbles overlap and obscure many data points. Which corrective action should the analyst take?

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing a chart type for a dataset?

A data analyst creates a heatmap to show website click-through rates by hour and day of week. The heatmap uses a green-to-red gradient, but users cannot distinguish between moderate values. What is the best fix?

A data engineer is designing a data warehouse for a multinational corporation. The company has sales data from different regions with varying currencies and date formats. To ensure consistency, which data concept should be applied to standardize the data before loading into the warehouse?

A data team is preparing a dashboard for executives. The team wants to highlight key performance indicators (KPIs) that are below target. Which of the following visualization techniques would most effectively draw attention to underperforming metrics without causing confusion?

Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause of the import failure?

Exhibit

A data analyst is reviewing the error log from a nightly batch load. What is the most likely cause of the error?

Exhibit

Which THREE of the following are valid methods for handling missing data?

A company is merging two databases from different departments. In Database A, customer IDs are integers. In Database B, customer IDs are alphanumeric strings. To merge, the data analyst must reconcile these differences. Which step should be taken first?

An organization needs to acquire data from a third-party vendor. The data will be used for regulatory reporting. Which of the following should be the primary consideration before acquiring the data?

A data analyst is building a model to predict customer churn. The dataset has 10,000 records with 500 churned customers. The model predicts churn with 95% accuracy, but only identifies 10% of actual churners. Which metric best highlights this issue?

A data analyst sees this error in the ETL logs. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

A data scientist trains a regression model and observes high variance with low bias. Which technique is most appropriate to reduce variance?

Which THREE of the following are appropriate methods to handle outliers in a dataset?

An analyst presents a report to stakeholders who are not data-savvy. The report includes a box plot showing the distribution of customer satisfaction scores. One stakeholder asks, 'What do the whiskers mean?' Which communication strategy should the analyst use?

An analyst creates a stacked bar chart showing quarterly sales by product category. The chart becomes hard to read because some categories have very small contributions. Which redesign is most effective?

During a presentation, a stakeholder questions the validity of a data insight because the sample size appears small. The analyst knows the sample is statistically significant. What is the best way to address this concern?

A data analyst is reviewing an S3 bucket policy that controls access to a data lake. The analyst wants to communicate that the current policy restricts data downloads to a specific IP range. Which of the following best describes the policy's effect?

Exhibit