Data Analyst Interview Questions
Data Analyst Interview Questions
SQL Essentials:
- SELECT statements including WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, HAVING
- Basic JOINS: INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL
- Aggregate functions: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN
- Subqueries, Common Table Expressions (WITH clause)
- CASE statements, advanced JOIN techniques, and Window functions (OVER, PARTITION
BY, ROW_NUMBER, RANK)
Excel Proficiency:
- Cell operations, formulas (SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS, LOOKUPS)
- PivotTables, PivotCharts, Data validation, What-if analysis
- Advanced formulas, Data Model & Power Pivot
Power BI Skills:
- Data modeling (importing data, managing relationships)
- Data transformation with Power Query, DAX for calculated columns/measures
- Creating interactive reports and dashboards, visualizations
Data Warehousing:
- Concepts of OLAP vs. OLTP
- Star and Snowflake schema designs
- ETL processes: Extract, Transform, Load
- Data lake vs. data warehouse
Statistics Fundamentals:
- Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Variance
- Probability distributions, Hypothesis Testing, P-values
- Confidence Intervals, Correlation, Simple Linear Regression