Google Analytics Individual Qualification Study Guide
1. Once filters have been applied, what is the option to recover filtered data?
Filtered data is not recoverable. (CORRECT)
Data may be recovered within 30 days
Data may be recovered within ten days
Data may be recovered within five days
2. What scope levels available for dimensions and metrics?
Event-level, session-level, transaction-level or user-level scope
Location-level, duration-level, product-level or user-level scope
Event-level, duration-level, transaction-level or user-level scope
Hit-level, session-level, product-level or user-level scope (CORRECT)
3. Which parameters can be included with an event hit for reporting?
Category, Action, Label, Total Events
Category, Action, Label, Value (CORRECT)
Category, Action, Label, Unique Events
Event, Category, Action, Label
4. To recognize users across different devices, what feature must be enabled?
User ID (CORRECT)
Google Ads Linking
Audience definitions
Attribution models
5. What report indicates the last page users viewed before leaving a website?
Pages report
All Pages report
Landing Pages report
Exit Pages report (CORRECT)
6. What is the “Bounce Rate” in Google Analytics?
Number of times users returned to a website in a given time period
Percentage of sessions in which a user exits from a homepage
Percentage of visits when a user landed on a website and exited without any interactions (CORRECT)
Percentage of total site exits
7. Google Analytics cannot collect data from which systems by default?
Websites
Offline inventory database (CORRECT)
Mobile devices
Online point-of-sale systems
8. What is not considered a “source” in Google Analytics by default?
googlemerchandisestore.com
(Direct)
Google
Email (CORRECT)
9. When does the Analytics tracking code send a pageview hit to Google Analytics?
Every time a user loads a webpage with embedded tracking code (CORRECT)
Every time a user searches on a website
Every time a user adds an item to an online shopping cart
Every time a user clicks a video on a website
10. Views can include website data collected before the view was created.
TRUE
FALSE (CORRECT)
11. What feature can join offline business systems data with online data collected by Google Analytics?
Google Ads Linking
Data import (CORRECT)
Goal tracking
User ID
12. Where should the Analytics tracking code be placed in the HTML of a webpage for data collection?
Just after the opening <body> tag
Just before the closing </body> tag
Just after the opening <head> tag (CORRECT)
Just before the closing </head> tag
13. What is a “metric” in Google Analytics?
A segment of data separated out in a report for comparison
A dimension that can help analyse site performance
The dates in a date range
The numbers in a data set often paired with dimensions (CORRECT)
14. Which assets cannot be shared in the Solutions Gallery?
Goals
Custom Dimensions (CORRECT)
Segments
Custom reports
15. Auto-tagging is used to collect data from what kind of traffic?
Social media traffic
Website referral traffic
Google Ads Campaign traffic (CORRECT)
16. How would a view filter be configured to include only users from Brazil and Argentina?
Filter 1: exclude all countries except Brazil and Argentina
Filter 1: include Brazil > Filter 2: include Argentina
Filter 1: include Brazil or Argentina (CORRECT)
Filter 1: include Argentina > Filter 2: include Brazil
17. To increase the speed at which Google Analytics compiles reports, what action could be taken?
Remove any filters on the view
Choose “Faster response” in the sampling pulldown menu (CORRECT)
Choose “Greater precision” in the sampling pulldown menu
Apply an advanced filter to the report
18. What channel is not included in the default Channels report?
Device (CORRECT)
Organic search
Direct
Display
19. For autotagging, what parameter does Google Ads include in the destination URL?
gclid= (CORRECT)
utm=
adid=
urlid=
20. What type of Custom report shows a static sortable table with rows of data?
Map overlay
Pivot table
Explorer
Flat table (CORRECT)
21. Which Goals are available in Google Analytics?
A system that only includes regulatory standards and guidelines
The process used to document events
The method of closing an investigation
A framework that provides a blueprint for effective incident response (CORRECT)
22. Which reports indicate how website referrals, organic search and ad campaigns assisted in conversions?
Multi-channel funnel reports (CORRECT)
Acquisition reports
Goals reports
Ecommerce reports
23. Which metric reports on how often a channel contributes to a conversion prior to last-click attribution?
Secondary conversion
Second-to-last-click attribution
Assisted conversion (CORRECT)
Primary conversion
24. What filter would only include data from a campaign titled “Back to School” in Campaign reports?
Custom Search and Replace filter with field “Campaign Name”, string “back to school” and pattern “include”
Custom Include filter with field “Campaign Name” and pattern “back to school” (CORRECT)
Custom Include filter with field “Page Title” and pattern “back to school”
Predefined Include filter with “traffic to the hostname” “that are equal to” “back to school”
25. What data does Google Analytics prohibit collecting?
Purchase amount
Personally identifiable information (CORRECT)
Product SKU(s)
Billing city
26. The default session timeout duration in Google Analytics is how many minutes?
30 (CORRECT)
10
5
20
27. What criteria could not be used to create a Dynamic Remarketing audience?
Users who viewed product-detail pages
Users who viewed a search result page on a website
Users who viewed a homepage
Users who returned an item that they purchased (CORRECT)
28. What scope applies to Custom Metrics?
Customer
Session
User
Hit (CORRECT)
29. Filters cannot perform what action on collected data?
Exclude traffic from particular IP addresses
Include data from specific subdomains
Convert dynamic page URLs to readable text strings
Include shopping preferences (CORRECT)
30. What feature would be used to collect how many times users downloaded a product catalogue?
Custom report
Custom dimension
Event tracking (CORRECT)
Calculated metrics
31. What is not a benefit of Google Analytics Remarketing?
Allow customers to quickly reorder an item they have previously purchased (CORRECT)
Show customised ads to customers who have previously visited your site
Create remarketing lists without making changes to your existing Analytics snippet
Create remarketing lists based on custom segments and targets
32. What is not a filter setting for data in views?
Exclude
Include
Modify
Restore (CORRECT)
33. What does assigning a value to a Google Analytics Goal enable?
Compare goal conversions and measure changes to a website (CORRECT)
Analyse a website conversion funnel
Track actual revenue from conversions
Track real-time business revenue
34. If a user watches a video with event tracking three times in a single session, Analytics will count how many Unique Events?
3
1 (CORRECT)
6
2
35. What criteria cannot be used to create a Custom segment?
Dimensions
Metrics
Sequences of user actions
Ad type (CORRECT)
36. What report shows users who initiated sessions over 1-day, 7-day, 14-day and 30-day periods?
Active Users report (CORRECT)
Cohort Analysis report
User Explorer report
Users Flow report
37. What asset is used to build a remarketing list?
Custom report
Custom metric
Custom dimension
Custom segment (CORRECT)
38. What is used to create Smart Goals?
Machine-learning algorithms (CORRECT)
Custom reports
Remarketing audience
Analytics goals
39. What report shows the percentage of traffic that previously visited a website?
Behaviour > Frequency and Recency report
Interests > Affinity categories report
Behaviour > New vs returning report (CORRECT)
All traffic > Referrals report
40. Using a standard Google Analytics configuration, which characteristics cannot be used to create a custom segment?
Users who engaged in a social media or email campaign
Users 25 to 34 years old who have their browser set to Spanish
Users who are female and have children (CORRECT)
Users who viewed a page on a website, then watched a video
41. To recognize users across different devices, what is required for User ID?
All of the above
Google Tag Manager
A new Analytics account for reporting
Sign-in that generates and sets unique IDs (CORRECT)
42. What metric-dimension combination is not valid?
Sessions / Bounce rate (CORRECT)
Avg. time on page / device category
Total events / User type
Sessions / Source
43. If a web page visitor clears the Analytics cookie from their browser, what will occur?
Analytics will set a new unique ID the next time a browser loads a tracked page
Analytics will not be able to associate user behavior data with past data collected
Analytics will set a new browser cookie the next time a browser loads a tracked page
All of the above (CORRECT)
44. What cannot be collected by the default Analytics tracking code?
User’s favourite website (CORRECT)
Browser language setting
Page visits
Device and operating system
45. View filters may be applied retroactively to any data that has been processed.
True
False (CORRECT)
46. What feature collects company-specific data such as Member Status?
Custom dimension (CORRECT)
Custom filter
Custom metric
Event tracking
47. When linking a Google Ads account to Google Analytics, what is not possible?
Import Analytics Goals and transactions into Google Ads as conversions
Adjust keyword bids in Google Ads from Google Analytics (CORRECT)
Create remarketing lists in Analytics to use in Google Ads campaigns
View Google Ads click and cost data next to site engagement data in Analytics
48. Sampling is applied to reports before segmentation.
TRUE
FALSE (CORRECT)
49. What feature is required to track customer search terms on a website?
Search filters
Enhanced E-commerce
Data import
Site search (CORRECT)
50. If a Destination Goal is created for a newsletter sign-up and a user completes the newsletter sign-up three times in three separate sessions, how many Goal conversions will Google Analytics count?
3 (CORRECT)
2
1
6
51. View filters are applied in what order?
Creation date
Sequential order (CORRECT)
Alphabetical order
Random order
52. What model represents the hierarchical structure of a Google Analytics account?
View > Account > Property
Account > View > Property
Account > Property > View (CORRECT)
Property > Account > View
53. To view accurate data in a Custom report, what action should be avoided?
Use multiple dimensions together in the same report
Use a Custom Dimension as a primary dimension
Create a report with Custom Metrics
Pair metrics and dimensions of different scopes (CORRECT)
54. What would prevent data from appearing in a Custom report?
Too many metrics in a Custom report
Custom report isn’t shared with users in the same view
A filter that removes all the data (CORRECT)
Too many dimensions in a Custom report
55. Which user characteristic may NOT be used to change keyword bids in Google Ads?:
Location
Device
Ad preference (CORRECT)
Time of day
56. What report shows a visual representation of user interactions on a website?
Behavior Flow report (CORRECT)
Landing Pages report
Treemaps report
Content Drilldown report
57. What report shows which web pages get the most traffic and highest engagement?
Active Users report
Engagement report
Frequency and Recency report
All Pages report (CORRECT)
58. What report identifies browsers that may have had problems with a website?
The Source/Medium report
The New vs Returning report
The Active Users report
The Browser and OS report (CORRECT)
59. Segments will not allow you to do what?
Create subsets of sessions or users
Isolate and analyse data
Permanently alter data (CORRECT)
Build custom Remarketing lists
60. What is not a benefit of using segments to analyze data?
Compare behavior metrics for groups of users like Converters vs non Converters
Permanently modify the data in a view (CORRECT)
Analyze users by single or multi-session conditions
Isolate and analyze specific conversion paths using conversion segments
61. Which reports indicate how traffic arrived at a website?
Demographics
All traffic (CORRECT)
Geo
Behavior
62. To track users and sessions across multiple domains, what first must be set up?
Data import
Google Ads Linking
Cross-domain tracking (CORRECT)
Ad Exchange Linking
63. When does the tracking code send an event hit to Google Analytics?
Every time a user performs an action with pageview tracking implemented
Every time a user performs an action with event tracking implemented (CORRECT)
Every time a user makes a reservation
Every time a user adds an event to their calendar
64. What data is Google Analytics Goals unable to track?
Making a purchase
Signing up for a newsletter
Customer’s lifetime value (CORRECT)
Watching a video
65. What is the set of rules that determines how sales and conversions get credited based on touch-points in the conversion path?
Conversion tracking
Attribution modeling (CORRECT)
Multi-channel funnels
Channel groupings
66. What Remarketing audiences cannot be defined by default?
Users who played a video on a website
Users who visited a physical store (CORRECT)
Users who speak a particular language
Users who visited a specific page on a website
67. What report shows the percent of site traffic that visited previously?
New vs Returning report (CORRECT)
Referrals report
Sales Performance report
Frequency and Recency report
68. If a user visits a web page with an embedded video, leaves without clicking on anything, and the session times out, how will Google Analytics report the session?
As an event
As a click
As an interaction
As a bounce (CORRECT)
69. What data table display compares report metrics to the website average?
Percentage
Performance
Pivot
Comparison (CORRECT)
70. Custom Dimensions can be used as what?
Secondary dimensions in Standard reports
All of the above (CORRECT)
Primary dimensions in Custom reports
Secondary dimensions in Custom reports
Google Analytics Individual Qualification Extra Questions
1. In Custom reports, what must metrics and dimensions share in order to report accurately?
Same index
Same view
Same scope (CORRECT)
Same Custom report
2. Which default traffic source dimensions does Google Analytics report for each website visitor?
Source and campaign
Campaign and ad content
Campaign and medium
Source and medium (CORRECT)
3. In Multi-Channel Funnel reports, how are default conversions credited?
Last campaign, search or ad (CORRECT)
Equal credit along the conversion touchpoints
Second to last campaign, search or ad
First campaign, search or ad
4. Which kinds of hits does Google Analytics track?
Pageview
Transaction
Event
All of the above (CORRECT)
5. What feature must be enabled to use Multi-Channel Funnels?
In-page analytics
Custom dimensions
Advertising features
Goals or Ecommerce (CORRECT)
6. Which three campaign parameters are recommended to manually track campaigns?
Source, Content and Term
Medium, Source and Campaign (CORRECT)
Medium, Source and Content
Campaign, Content and Term
7. In Multi-Channel Funnel reports, what channel would not be credited with a conversion?
Television commercials (CORRECT)
Social network
Paid and organic search
Website referrals
8. Which reports require the activation of Advertising Features?
Demographics and Interests reports (CORRECT)
Geo reports
Real-time reports
Cohort analysis reports
9. What feature is required to collect the number of comments users posted to a web page?
Custom Metric (CORRECT)
Custom Dimension
Custom Channel Groupings
Calculated Metric
10. When will Google Analytics be unable to identify sessions from the same user by default?
When the sessions happen in different browsers on the same device (CORRECT)
When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same device
When the sessions share the same browser cookie
When the sessions happen in the same browser on the same day
11. What report compares metrics based on user acquisition date over a series of weeks?
Cohort Analysis (CORRECT)
User Explorer
Active Users
Users Flow
12. Within how many days can a deleted view be restored?
15
25
35 (CORRECT)
5
13. When the same default tracking code is installed on pages with different domains, what will result?
Analytics will associate users and sessions with a single domain
Analytics will send an alert about duplicate data collection
Analytics will associate users and sessions with their respective domains (CORRECT)
Analytics will not associate users and sessions with any domain
14. What is a “dimension” in Google Analytics?
An attribute of a data set that can be organized for better analysis (CORRECT)
The lifetime value of a user in a given date range
A comparison of data between two date ranges
A report that offers different demographic information about your audience
15. What campaign parameter is not available by default in Google Analytics?
utm_source
utm_medium
utm_adgroup (CORRECT)
utm_content
16. What is a “secondary dimension” in Google Analytics?
A dashboard widget that offers more specific analysis
An additional report dimension for more specific analysis (CORRECT)
A visualisation to understand the impact of data
An additional report metric for more specific analysis
17. What campaigns require manual tags on destination URLs for tracking?
Google Ads campaigns
Email campaigns (CORRECT)
Autotagged campaigns
None of the above
18. What feature is required to send data from a web-connected device (such as a point-of-sale system) to Google Analytics?
The networking protocol
The measurement protocol (CORRECT)
Browser cookies
Data import
19. When does a default Analytics session expire?
At noon every day
When a user opens a new browser window
When a user is inactive on a web page for more than 30 minutes (CORRECT)
After 30 minutes, regardless of user activity on a web page
20. What is not considered a default “medium” in Google Analytics?
Referral
Google (CORRECT)
CPC
Organic
21. Sharing a Custom Report will share the report configuration and data included in the report.
TRUE
FALSE (CORRECT)
22. What report shows which types of mobile devices visited a website?
Mobile > Devices report (CORRECT)
Site Content > Landing Page report
All Traffic > Source/Medium report
Technology > Network report
23. A new Custom Channel Group may be applied retroactively to organize data that has been previously collected.
True (CORRECT)
False
24. 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 http://www.googlemerchandisestore.com will NOT count as a goal?
/ordercomplete/index.html
/order/complete.php (CORRECT)
/ordercomplete/thank_you.html
/ordercomplete.php
25. What report provides data on how specific sections of a website performed?
Top Events report
Frequency and Recency report
Content Drilldown report (CORRECT)
Location report
26. What scope would be set for a Custom Dimension that reports membership status for a customer rewards program?
Session
Hit
User (CORRECT)
Product
27. What report indicates where users start or exit the conversion funnel?
Goal Flow (CORRECT)
User Timings
Cohort Analysis
Treemaps
28. What report indicates the pages of a website where users first arrived?
Landing Pages report (CORRECT)
Pages report
Location report
All Pages report
29. In views that don’t have data import enabled, Custom Dimensions values may be viewed for dates before the Custom Dimension was created.