Free SOA Exam PA (Predictive Analytics) Data Exploration and Visualization Practice Questions
Data exploration and visualization tasks on SOA Exam PA test univariate and bivariate exploration, reading histograms, box plots, and scatter plots, identifying outliers and skewness, and communicating what a graph implies for the modeling decisions that follow.
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Sample Questions
Question 1
Easy
For a portfolio of claims, R reports that the 90th percentile of claim size is 12,400. Which interpretation is correct?
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Correct Answer: B
Solution
B is correct. The 90th percentile is the value below which about 90% of the observations fall; equivalently, about 10% of claims exceed it. It is a position in the sorted distribution, not a count of ties, an average, or a fraction of the maximum.
Question 2
Medium
Which pairing correctly matches a data source to its type?
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Correct Answer: E
Solution
E is correct. MRI scans are images with no inherent row-column schema, making them unstructured. The premium spreadsheet, GPS coordinate columns, and coded diagnosis table are all structured tabular data, and recorded audio files are unstructured (not structured), so only the MRI pairing is stated correctly.
Question 3
Hard
A candidate labels a column as 'discrete' and another column as 'ordered.' Which pairing correctly matches variables to those labels?
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Correct Answer: D
Solution
D is correct. Number of prior claims takes gapped integer values, which is discrete, and a graded credit rating (A > B > C > D) is a categorical variable with a meaningful rank, which is ordered. The other pairs mislabel continuous quantities as discrete or nominal labels as ordered.
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