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Qualifications

Data Literacy Qualification

The Data Literacy Qualification Exam is a non-technical, product-agnostic exam, measuring an individual’s fundamental-level and applied understanding of skills and abilities to read, work with, analyze and communicate with data. This exam has 30 multiple-choice questions to answer in 1 hour.

Prerequisites

A candidate for the Data Literacy Qualification exam will have experience and ability to demonstrate proficiency in

  • Awareness of the value of data

  • Describing Data: Describe that the data is showing

  • Reasoning with data: Understand what the data means relative to the question

  • Communicating with data: Sharing insights using data, narrative and visualizations to gain support

  • Making decisions that are influenced by data

Recommended Preparation Resources
  • Qlik Learning:

    • All courses in the Overview of Data Literacy section

    • All courses in the Data Fundamentals section

    • All courses in the Data-Informed Decision Making section

    • Under the Analytical Techniques section, the Understanding Signal and Noise and Correlation vs Causation courses

Exam Topics
  • Interpret business requirements

    • Change a business question into an analytical question

    • Explain data sources and refresh frequency needed to implement requirements

    • Discuss KPIs, dimensions, and measures for analysis

  • Understand and transform data

    • Explain various data types and implications for analysis

    • Use basic statistics

    • Explain aggregations needed for analysis

    • Contrast types of distributions and explain implications in analysis

  • Interpret visualizations

    • Determine whether visualization is valid and can answer the analytical question

    • Interpret visualizations to create observations

  • Analyze results

    • Examine your point of view for objectivity

    • Question visualizations to develop insights

    • Test for correlations and causations in the data

  • Act on results

    • Recommend actions based on analysis

    • Predict potential consequences of actions to minimize unintended consequences

    • Assess actual results of actions

  • Share results

    • Summarize audience member types and what they care about

    • Justify your analysis, observations, and insights

  • Support a data literacy culture

    • Rewarding and incentivizing the use of data

    • Challenging non-data influenced decisions

    • Why Data Literacy is important

Qlik Sense Business Analyst Qualification

The Qlik Sense Business Analyst Qualification measures your fundamental skills and applied knowledge. It requires you to build a Qlik Sense application and complete a multiple-choice question exam. You will have 1 hour 15 minutes to complete this exam.

NOTE: This is not our expert-level certification.

Prerequisites

Recommended Preparation Resources
Exam Topics
  • Describe the various views in Qlik Sense

  • Demonstrate navigating between different views

  • Explain the value of stories

  • Demonstrate building stories

  • Describe circumstances in which to use stories

  • Describe the use of effects in stories

  • Identify the components of an app

  • Demonstrate creating basic sheets

  • Examine and conduct an analysis in an app

  • Tell a simple story

  • Describe how to create a bookmark

  • Describe elements saved in a bookmark

  • Manage bookmarks

  • Search for and apply bookmarks

  • Explain the value of creating master items

  • Explain the process to create master items

  • Analyze data for other users

  • Demonstrate configuring master dimensions

  • Compare the 'Add data' and 'Data load editor' options

  • Compare the app sections for loading data into an app

  • Demonstrate loading tables from multiple data sources

  • Explain how key fields are identified and associations created

  • Use various chart types

  • Select the appropriate chart type

  • Apply visual analysis features

  • Distinguish between Qlik Sense Enterprise, Qlik Sense Desktop, and Qlik Sense Cloud

  • Determine which features are locked upon publishing

  • Describe the value of sharing apps in Qlik Sense Cloud

  • Describe the benefits of 'in-memory' data

  • Reload data in Qlik Sense Desktop

  • Explain data reload tasks in Qlik Sense Enterprise

  • Describe the benefits of the associative selection model

  • Demonstrate selecting data in visualizations

  • Describe the benefits of the selections bar and selections tool

  • Explain the uses and benefits of snapshots

  • Demonstrate taking a snapshot

  • Use snapshot annotations

  • Demonstrate managing the snapshot library

  • Demonstrate adding a snapshot to a story

  • Explain the difference between dimensions and measures

  • Apply dimensions and measures to visualizations

  • Determine which chart type to use based on dimensions and measures

  • Demonstrate configuring alternative dimensions and measures

  • Identify the various types of searches

  • Explain what is searched for each type

  • Demonstrate the various types of searched

Qlik Sense Data Architect Qualification

The Qlik Sense Data Architect Qualification measures your fundamental skills and applied knowledge. It requires you to build a Qlik Sense application and complete a multiple-choice question exam. You will have 1 hour 30 minutes to complete this exam.

NOTE: This is not our expert-level certification.

Prerequisites

Recommended Preparation Resources
Exam Topics
  • Describe the various views in Qlik Sense

  • Evaluate when to use the 'Add data' option or the data load editor

  • Demonstrate loading tables from multiple data sources

  • Explain how key fields are identified and associations created

  • Demonstrate using the data model viewer to evaluate the underlying data

  • Explain the capabilities of the data manager view

  • Explain how the data manager creates and edits data load script

  • Demonstrate accessing and using association recommendations

  • Describe the purpose of the data load script

  • Apply techniques resolve data issues

  • Demonstrate creating a connection to a database

  • Use various database file connection options

  • Use the data connections during execution

  • Evaluate associations created by aliasing fields in the data load script

  • Describe a table loading structure

  • Demonstrate transforming data using expressions

  • Evaluate scenarios in which to use a stacked preceding load

  • Determine causes of synthetic keys in a data model

  • Recommend solutions for resolving synthetic keys

  • Recommend solutions for resolving circular references

  • Demonstrate creating concatenated keys

  • Demonstrate fully qualifying field names

  • Examine solutions to script errors using the debugging tool

  • Demonstrate locating and identifying errors in the data load script

  • Demonstrate creating a data comparison table in a data model

  • Demonstrate creating a validation object in an app

  • Use counter fields for row counting

  • Appreciate what is meant by 'in-memory' data

  • Describe how data reload tasks are handled in Qlik Sense Enterprise

  • Explain visibility of variables in an INCLUDE statement

  • Demonstrate creating a custom sort order with INLINE statement

  • Demonstrate creating a subset table with RESIDENT statement

  • Determine when to create a dedicated calendar dimension

  • Demonstrate creating a master calendar table

  • Evaluate the various methods of combining tables

  • Demonstrate various types of table concatenation

  • Demonstrate various types of joins

  • Evaluate scenarios for using mapping tables

  • Demonstrate loading data from Qlik DataMarket into a data model

  • Evaluate the changes to the data load script when using Qlik DataMarket

  • Explain the value of creating master items

  • Explain the process to create master items