Google Analytics IQ (January 2019) Flashcards
Exact questions and answers on the Google Analytics IQ Exam. Updated January 2019. (150 cards)
What is not a benefit of Google Analytics Remarketing?
- Show customized ads to customers who have previously visited your site
- Allow customers to quickly reorder an item they have previously purchased
- Create remarketing lists based on custom segments and targets
- Create remarketing lists without making changes to your existing Analytics snippet
Allow customers to quickly reorder an item they have previously purchased
Explanation: A remarketing audience is a list of cookies or mobile-advertising IDs that represents a group of users you want to re-engage because of their likelihood to convert. You create remarketing audiences based on user behavior on your site or app, and then use those audiences as the basis for remarketing campaigns.
What report shows a visual representation of user interactions on a website?
- Behavior Flow report
- Content Drilldown report
- Landing Pages report
- Treemaps report
Behavior Flow report
Explanation: The Behavior Flow report visualizes the path users traveled from one page or Event to the next. This report can help you discover what content keeps users engaged with your site.
If a user watches a video with event tracking three times in a single session, Analytics will count how many Unique Events?
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
1
What feature collects company-specific data such as Member Status?
- Event Tracking
- Custom Filter
- Custom Dimension
- Custom Metric
Custom Dimension
Explanation: In many cases, you’ll have the option to use events, screen views, and/or a custom metric to track your most important metrics. However, custom metrics can produce more flexible and more readable custom reports and as such are a convenient way to track your most important metrics
What is not a benefit of using segments to analyze data?
- Permanently modify the data in a view
- Analyze users by single or multi-session conditions
- Compare behavior metrics for groups of users like Converters vs non Converters
- Isolate and analyze specific conversion paths using conversion segments
Permanently modify the data in a view
Explanation: A segment is a subset of your Analytics data. Segments let you isolate and analyze those subsets of data so you can examine and respond to the component trends in your business. You can also use segments as the basis for audiences. A segment is made up of one or more non-destructive filters (filters that do not alter the underlying data). Those filters isolate subsets of users, sessions, and hit.
To recognize users across different devices, what is required for User ID?
- Google Tag Manager
- Sign-in that generates and sets unique IDs
- A new Analytics account for reporting
- All of the above
Sign-in that generates and sets unique IDs
Explanation: The User ID enables the association of one or more sessions (and any activity within those sessions) with a unique and persistent ID that you send to Analytics. To implement the User ID, you must be able to generate your own unique IDs, consistently assign IDs to users, and include these IDs wherever you send data to Analytics. For example, you could send the unique IDs generated by your own authentication system to Analytics as values for the User ID. Any engagement, like link clicks and page or screen navigation, that happen while a unique ID is assigned can be sent and connected in Analytics via the User ID.
What is the set of rules that determines how sales and conversions get credited based on touch-points in the conversion path?
- Channel Groupings
- Multi-Channel Funnels
- Conversion tracking
- Attribution modeling
Attribution modeling
Explanation: An attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to touchpoints in conversion paths.
Which default traffic source dimensions does Google Analytics report for each website visitor?
- Source and Medium
- Campaign and Ad Content
- Campaign and Medium
- Source, Medium, Campaign, and Ad Content
Source and Medium
Explanation: Source/Medium is a dimension that combines the dimensions Source and Medium. Examples of Source/Medium include google/organic, example.com/referral, and newsletter9-2014/email.
Which report indicates the last page users viewed before leaving your website?
- Exit Pages report
- Pages report
- All Pages report
- Landing Pages report
Exit Pages report
Explanation: The “Exit Pages” report under “Site Content” shows the pages where users left your site. Because you don’t want users exiting from important pages like a shopping cart checkout, it’s a good idea to periodically review this report to minimize unwanted exits.
Which Goals are available in Google Analytics?
- Destination, Event, Duration, Pages/Screens per Session
- Destination, Event, Pageview, Social
- Location, Event, Time, Users per Session
- Pageview, Event, Transaction, Social
Destination, Event, Duration, Pages/Screens per Session
Which user characteristic may NOT be used to change keyword bids in AdWords?:
- time of day
- ad preference
- location
- device
ad preference
Explanation: It comes under the bid adjustment. Bid adjustments allow you to show your ads more or less frequently based on where, when, and how people search. For example, sometimes a click is worth more to you if it comes from a smartphone, at a certain time of day, or from a specific location.
What type of data does Google Analytics prohibit you from collecting?
- Personally identifable information
- Product SKU(s)
- Billing city
- Purchase amount
Personally identifable information
Explanation: The Google Analytics terms of service, which all Google Analytics customers must adhere to, prohibit sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Google Analytics. PII includes any data that can be used by Google to reasonably identify an individual, including (but not limited to) names, email addresses, or billing information.
If the Google Merchandise Store sets up a URL goal of “/ordercomplete” and a Match Type of “Begins with”, which of the following pages on www.googlemerchandisestore.com will NOT count as a goal?
- /ordercomplete/index.html
- /ordercomplete.php
- /ordercomplete/thank_you.html
- /order/complete.php
/order/complete.php
When will Google Analytics be unable to identify sessions from the same user by default?
- When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same device
- When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same day
- When the sessions share the same browser cookie
- When the sessions happen in different browsers on the same device
When the sessions happen in different browsers on the same device
explanation: If the session is happening by the same user, on the same device but in different browser, it will be treated as a session from new user by Google Analytics.
When the same default tracking code is installed on pages with different domains, what will result?
- Analytics will associate users and sessions with their respective domains
- Analytics will send an alert about duplicate data collection
- Analytics will associate users and sessions with a single domain
- Analytics will not associate users and sessions with any domain
Analytics will associate users and sessions with their respective domains
Explanation:
One of the first things you should know about when using and configuring Analytics is how the domain of the web property you are tracking is defined as a “site” for the purposes of viewing your reports. The default setup of the tracking code is designed to make it easy for you to track traffic to a single domain or subdomain (e.g. a single website URL) that does not share user data with other domains or sub-domains.
For example, if your pet store URL is dogs.example.com and you install the tracking code with its web property ID on those pages, tracking is automatically set up to track user data only for this single URL. In a similar way, if you own the primary domain, such as www.example.com, and you install tracking for all pages on this site, user and referral traffic is recorded separately for www.example.com.
What is a “secondary dimension” in Google Analytics?
- A visualization to understand the impact of data
- A dashboard widget that offers more specific analysis
- An additional report dimension for more specific analysis
- An additional report metric for more specific analysis
An additional report dimension for more specific analysis
Explanation: Secondary dimension actually let you analyze the report more specifically.
View filters may be applied retroactively to any data that has been processed.
- True
- False
False
Explanation: View Filter is a configuration setting that allows you to add, remove or modify your data during processing before it is displayed in your reports. But it is wrong to say that View filters may be applied retroactively to any data that has been processed.
What scope would you apply for a Custom Dimension that collects data for users who log in to your website?
- User
- Hit
- Session
- Product
User
Explanation: User-level scope allows you to conveniently group all of a user’s component sessions and hits by a single value. It is ideal for values that don’t change often for a particular use.
In Custom Reports, what must metrics and dimensions share in order to report accurately?
- Same scope
- Same index
- Same Custom Report
- Same view
Same scope
Explanation: Not every metric can be combined with every dimension. Each dimension and metric has a scope: user-level, session-level, or hit-level. In most cases, it only makes sense to combine dimensions and metrics that share the same scope.
What metric-dimension combination is not valid?
- Sessions / Source
- Sessions / Bounce rate
- Time on Page / Device Type
- Total Events / User Type
Sessions / Bounce rate
Explanation: Sessions and Bounce Rate come under metrics. That’s why “Sessions / Bounce rate” is not a valid metric-dimension combination.
What report compares metrics based on user acquisition date over a series of weeks?
- Users Flow report
- Active Users report
- Cohort Analysis report
- User Explorer report
Cohort Analysis report
Explanation: Cohort analysis helps you understand the behavior of component groups of users apart from your user population as a whole. Examples of how you can use cohort analysis include to see how the behavior and performance of individual.
Filters cannot perform what action on collected data?
- Include data from specific subdomains
- Convert dynamic page URLs to readable text strings
- Exclude traffic from particular IP addresses
- Include shopping preferences
Include shopping preferences
Explanation: View filters allow you to limit and modify the traffic data that is included in a view. For example, you can use filters to exclude traffic from particular IP addresses, focus on a specific subdomain or directory, or convert dynamic page URLs into readable text strings.
What feature would be used to collect how many times users downloaded a product catalog?
- Custom Dimension
- Event Tracking
- Calculated Metrics
- Custom Report
Event Tracking
Explanation: Events are user interactions with content that can be tracked independently from a web page or a screen load. Downloads, mobile ad clicks, gadgets, Flash elements, AJAX embedded elements, and video plays are all examples of actions you might want to track as Events.
Google Analytics cannot collect data from which systems by default?
- Mobile devices
- Online point-of-sale systems
- Websites
- Offline inventory database
Offline inventory database
Explanation: Google analytic cannot collect data from Offline inventory database by default. You need “Data import” for this job. Data Import lets you join the data generated by your offline business systems with the online data collected by Analytics. This can help you organize, analyze and act upon this unified data view in ways that are better aligned with your specific and unique business needs.