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Exam Code: QSBA
Exam Name: Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Exam
Price: $68.00 $58.88
Exam Questions: 50 Q&As
Last Updated: 2026-08-31
The Qlik Sense Business Analyst (QSBA) certification exam measures your ability to identify business requirements, design effective applications, prepare and load data, and develop production-quality Qlik Sense apps.
Success depends on choosing the right visual, measure, interaction, and data-model feature for a business scenario—not simply remembering where a setting appears.
About the QSBA Exam
QSBA is aimed at analysts who can turn user needs into clear, interactive Qlik Sense applications. The exam connects requirements analysis with application design, data preparation, associative analysis, and final app refinement.
What the Exam Rewards
Expect scenario questions that reward the simplest Qlik-native solution matching the user's behavior. Know when to use variables, alerts, chart types, Data Manager, and Data model viewer metrics.
Skills Measured
Identify Requirements — 30%
Translate business questions into suitable Qlik capabilities, KPIs, dimensions, measures, and consumption patterns. Pay special attention to associative results and choosing an efficient loading and development approach.
Design Applications — 24%
Select visualizations and layouts that make comparisons, distributions, trends, and exceptions easy to interpret. This area tests whether you can improve an existing design rather than merely build a chart.
Prepare and Load Data — 14%
Use Data Manager to create and enhance a basic model, then validate relationships and field quality in the Data model viewer. The smaller weight can be misleading because terminology such as density and subset ratio is easy to confuse.
Develop Applications — 32%
Build, refine, and finalize an app using appropriate objects, master items, expressions, controls, and user-facing interactions. As the largest domain, it deserves the most hands-on practice.
Business Analyst’s Notes
Three Easy-to-Confuse Decisions
Variable vs. field: use a variable when each user needs an independent input that does not require a reload. Box plot vs. distribution plot: choose a box plot when quartiles, median, spread, and outliers matter. Density vs. subset ratio: density reveals populated versus null values; subset ratio describes association coverage between tables.
Three-Week Study Plan
Week 1: requirements, KPIs, measures, associative behavior, and chart selection. Week 2: build and refine apps, variables, alerts, master items, and presentation settings. Week 3: Data Manager, model validation, timed mixed questions, and review of every wrong answer by feature and business requirement.
QSBA Sample Questions
Read for the user's real constraint first: personal interaction, scale, notification behavior, comparison type, or data-quality metric. Then choose the Qlik feature that satisfies it with the least unnecessary process.
Question 1: User-defined profit threshold
A business analyst created a visualization that has a color indicator when an order is below a certain fixed profit threshold. This visualization now needs to change so that the threshold can be defined by the user. The user base is approximately 1000 heavy Excel users. These thresholds will be defined by each user somewhat frequently, although the data changes only once per day. Which action should the business analyst take to update this visualization?
Correct answer: C
Explanation: A variable slider lets each user change the threshold interactively without modifying source data or waiting for a reload. The variable can drive the color expression immediately.
Analyst checkpoint: Separate user-controlled analysis parameters from fields that belong in the data model.
Common mistake: Adding reload complexity even though the underlying data changes only once per day.
Why the other options are wrong: A turns a free user input into predefined field selections. B creates a shared-data bottleneck and unnecessary reloads. D groups data into fixed buckets rather than accepting a personal threshold.
Question 2: Measures with different scales
A business analyst is building an app to analyze virus outbreaks. They create a bar chart using a dimension of Continent, and a measure of Sum (Knowning sections). They require a secondary bar on the chart, so they create a second measure using Count (MajorCities). The bar chart adjusts, but no bars are visible for this second measure. Which action should the business analyst take to resolve this issue?
Correct answer: D
Explanation: The two measures have different magnitudes. A combo chart can place the second measure on a separate axis while still displaying it as bars, making both series visible.
Analyst checkpoint: When one measure visually disappears, compare measure scale and axis behavior before changing the calculation.
Common mistake: Forcing one shared range and making the larger measure unreadable just to expose the smaller one.
Why the other options are wrong: A labels values but does not solve scale. B makes the measure optional instead of simultaneous. C still forces both measures onto an unsuitable common scale.
Question 3: Salary distribution
The human resources department needs to see a distribution of salaries broken down by department with standard deviation indicators. Which visualization should the developer use?
Correct answer: B
Explanation: A box plot summarizes a numeric distribution by category and exposes central tendency, spread, and outliers, making departmental salary comparisons practical.
Analyst checkpoint: Match the chart to the analytical question: distribution summary across categories points to a box plot.
Common mistake: Choosing a histogram because the word “distribution” appears in the requirement.
Why the other options are wrong: A emphasizes individual data points, C groups one measure into bins and is less suited to department-by-department summary, and D is intended for relationships between measures.
Question 4: Threshold notification
A company director who spends very little time in applications needs to be informed when a threshold is breached. Which feature should the business analyst use?
Correct answer: C
Explanation: Alerting monitors a measure or condition and proactively notifies the director when the defined threshold is reached.
Analyst checkpoint: If the user will not regularly open the app, favor a push-based capability over a view they must remember to visit.
Common mistake: Selecting a scheduled report even though it may arrive too late and does not react to the breach itself.
Why the other options are wrong: A is periodic, B presents a guided narrative, and D preserves a selection state; none provides event-driven notification.
Question 5: Measuring null values
The business analyst creates one table by concatenating and joining several source tables. This has resulted in a table of several thousand rows that may have several columns containing between 30% and 70% null values. The business analyst needs to understand the level of null values in each field of this table to determine if this is an issue. Which capability should the business analyst use?
Correct answer: A
Explanation: Field density indicates the percentage of records containing a non-null value. A lower density therefore quantifies the extent of nulls more reliably than visual sampling.
Analyst checkpoint: For field completeness, use density; for how key values overlap between associated tables, use subset ratio.
Common mistake: Confusing two Data model viewer statistics because both are expressed as ratios or percentages.
Why the other options are wrong: B is impractical and inaccurate across thousands of rows. C does not quantify completeness. D measures association coverage, not null frequency within the field.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Updates are made when the exam scope or Qlik Sense behavior changes. Check the product page’s latest-update information before purchasing.
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