Question 1

Which of the following will be effective with multilingual audiences?

Accepted Answer

B)Using pictures is also an effective way to communicate with multilingual audience.

Question 2

A ________ illustrates a sequence of events from start to finish; it is indispensable when illustrating processes,procedures,and sequential relationships.

Accepted Answer

E)A flowchart illustrates a sequence of events from start to finish; it is indispensable when illustrating processes, procedures, and sequential relationships.

Question 3

Jimmy is the assistant manager at a leading computer hardware manufacturing firm.He needs to illustrate the company's sales in the past quarter.Which of the following visual choices will be most effective?

Accepted Answer

E)A bar chart portrays numbers with the height or length of its rectangular bars, making a series of numbers easy to grasp quickly.

Question 4

A ________ is a commonly used tool for showing how the parts of a whole are distributed.

Accepted Answer

C)A pie chart is a commonly used tool for showing how the parts of a whole are distributed.

Question 5

Pamela is asked to use a data visualization tool and show the relative frequency of the 50 most-used terms in survey responses.This information is to be posted on the company website.For this Pamela should use ________.

Accepted Answer

D)A tag cloud shows the relative frequency of terms, or tags (user-applied content labels), in an article, a blog, a website, survey data, or another collection of text.

Question 6

To create clear,effective tables ________.

Accepted Answer

B)To create clear, effective tables use common, understandable units and clearly identify them: dollars, percentages, price per ton, and so on.

Question 7

Jane is a trainer at a publishing company and needs to illustrate the steps involved in the editorial stage of pre-production.Which of the following will be most effective here?

Accepted Answer

E)A flowchart illustrates a sequence of events from start to finish; it is indispensable when illustrating processes, procedures, and sequential relationships.

Question 8

Julia needs to illustrate the smartphone market share of different companies.Which of the following visual choices will be most effective here?

Accepted Answer

B)A pie chart is a commonly used tool for showing how the parts of a whole are distributed.

Question 9

Fred is an intern at a leading marketing company.He is assigned the task of creating a chart to illustrate the sale of Apple iPod classic over a period of five years by separating the consumers into three age groups.Which of the following visual choices will be most effective?

Accepted Answer

B)A surface chart, also called an area chart, is a form of line chart that shows a cumulative effect; all the lines add up to the top line, which represents the total. This type of chart helps you illustrate changes in the composition of something over time.

Question 10

Carl has been asked to create an informal balance in the visual aspects of his organization's website.The aim is to make the website look dynamic and engaging.Therefore,Carl should ________.

Accepted Answer

D)Visual balance can be either formal, in which the elements in the images are arranged symmetrically around a central point or axis, or informal, in which elements are not distributed evenly, but stronger and weaker elements are arranged in a way that achieves an overall effect of balance. Generally speaking, formal balance is calming and serious, whereas informal balance tends to feel dynamic and engaging.

Question 11

Bridgit needs to illustrate the relative frequency of search terms on her company's website.Which of the following visual choices will be most effective here?

Accepted Answer

A)A tag cloud shows the relative frequency of terms, or tags (user-applied content labels), in an article, a blog, a website, survey data, or another collection of text.

Question 12

Anita is an HR executive and needs to illustrate the positions held and functions of people in her company to the new employees.Which of the following will be the most effective here?

Accepted Answer

A)An organization chart illustrates the positions, units, or functions in an organization and the ways they interrelate. Organization charts can be used to portray almost any hierarchy, in fact, including the topics, subtopics, and supporting points you need to organize for a report.

Question 13

You can achieve visual parallelism through ________.

Accepted Answer

A)Think of consistency as visual parallelism, similar to textual parallelism that helps audiences understand and compare a series of ideas. You can achieve visual parallelism through the consistent use of color, shape, size, texture, position, scale, or typeface.

Question 14

Quentin is preparing a trend of the U.S unemployment rate over the past decade.Which of the following visual choices is applicable here?

Accepted Answer

C)A line chart illustrates trends over time or plots the relationship of two variables.

Question 15

Tables are ideal when your audience ________.

Accepted Answer

B)When you need to present detailed, specific information, choose a table, a systematic arrangement of data in columns and rows. Tables are ideal when your audience needs information that would be either difficult or tedious to handle in the main text.

Question 16

Cecily works at a leading bank as a research manager.She needs to illustrate the bank's widespread network of branches and customers but does not need to show quantity.Which of the following will be the most effective here?

Accepted Answer

B)Unlike conventional charts and graphs, data visualization is less about clarifying individual data points and more about extracting broad meaning from giant masses of data or putting the data in context. For instance, the Facebook "friend wheel" in offers a visual sense of this particular Facebook user's network by showing which of his friends are friends of each other and thereby indicating "clustering" within the network (work friends, social friends, and so on). The diagram doesn't attempt to show quantities but rather the overall nature of the network.

Question 17

If a team uses wikis to collaborate on a report,the editing and upgrading of information should be done by ________.

Accepted Answer

B)Team members sometimes need to be encouraged to edit and improve each other's work.

Question 18

Mark has been asked to reduce chartjunk on the company website so that it looks more organized and less cluttered.Mark should ________.

Accepted Answer

C)When you're designing graphics for your documents, limit the number of colors and design elements and take care to avoid chartjunk-decorative elements that clutter documents without adding any relevant information.

Question 19

A line chart ________.

Accepted Answer

A)A line chart illustrates trends over time or plots the relationship of two variables.

Question 20

Visual literacy is the ability to ________.

Accepted Answer

E)Given the importance of visuals in today's business environment, visual literacy-the ability (as a sender)to create effective images and (as a receiver)to correctly interpret visual messages-has become a key business skill.

Quiz 11: Writing and Completing Reports and Proposals