Business Analyst Aptitude Online Test

Four airline operators A, B, C and D operate on a popular route between 2 cities, Rome and Venice in Italy. Airline A wanted to increase the number of seats sold, so they reduced their fares for this route. Airlines B, C, D imitated this move immediately. The general belief is that the volume of air travel between Rome and Venice would increase as a result of this. Which of the following statements, if true, would add trust to the general belief?

A: All 4 airlines see increased profits.
B: Airlines start slashing rates for other routes as well.
C: A study shows that around 80% of air travel in Italy is company sponsored.
D: A study shows that air travellers in Italy are price sensitive.

A badminton coach was trying to put together a team of 4 players for a friendly badminton championship out of 7 players. R, S, T are the male players, and W, X, Y, Z are the female players. Note that all players have equal ability, and the team needs to have atleast 2 male players. While selecting the team we need to keep in mind that all 4 players should be able to play with each other. We also need to keep the following restrictions in mind:

- R cannot play with Y
- S cannot play with W
- T cannot play with Z

Which of the following are true:

A: S and Z cannot be in the team together.
B: T and Y cannot be in the team together.
C: T and X cannot be in the team together.

The cost of manufacturing phones in China is twenty percent lesser than the cost of manufacturing phones in Vietnam. Even after adding shipping fees and import taxes, it is cheaper to import phones from China to Vietnam than to manufacture phones in Vietnam. Which of the following statements is best supported by the given information. 

A: The shipping fee from China to Vietnam is more than 20% of the cost of manufacturing a phone in China.
B: The import taxes on a phone imported from China to Vietnam is less than 20% of the cost of manufacturing the phone in China. 
C: Importing phones in Vietnam will cut 20% of the manufacturing jobs in Vietnam.
D: It takes 20% more time to manufacture a phone in Vietnam than it does in China.
E: Labour costs in Vietnam are 20% higher than in China.

A large real estate company conducted a recent study of their customers. The study was designed to uncover insights regarding the main criteria for choosing to invest in a residential property. A majority of the customers surveyed stated the 'returns profile' was their main priority, followed by 'development potential' and 'stability of income'. 'Portfolio legacy' ranked at the bottom in the list of factors. It was interesting to note that respondents were less likely to have residential holdings that formed part of mixed-use assets i.e. as an add on to commercial investment. One might assume that more investors are proactively investing in residential real estate rather than having incidental exposure via business investments. 

Based on the given passage, what can we say about the following statement?

Business owners having commercial premises often have a residential property as part of their portfolio.

The following graph shows the ratio of exports to imports for Singapore.

If the imports of Singapore in 2004 were 156 million $, what was the amount of exports in that year (in million $)?

The CEO of Snipr. Inc wants to grow monthly gross profit by 4%. If costs stay the same, what does the sales turnover need to be in February to achieve this goal?

Sam is a business analyst. They have been working on a project using an plan-driven approach. The digital marketing team has notified of new requirements saying that they would not be able to sell the product without the changes. The new requirements do not fall with the approved scope of the project. Which of the following actions should Sam avoid?

This note informs Savannah that:

A: she can purchase new toys at a discounted rate.
B: the toy store has a new collection that she can purchase from now.
C: she can sell her used toys to the store.
D: she can get used and new toys in the ongoing sale at the store.

Sergei, Larry and Mark were partners in Deep Mind sharing profits and losses in ratio of 4:3:2. It is decided to share future profits and losses in ration 2:2:1. How does this change ratio of sacrifices and gains of partners?

A: Sergei sacrifices 2/45, Larry sacrifices 1/45, Mark gains 3/45
B: Sergei gains 2/45, Larry sacrifices 3/45, Mark gains 1/45
C: Sergei sacrifices 2/45, Larry gains 3/45, Mark sacrifices 1/45
D: Sergei gains 2/45, Larry gains 1/45, Mark sacrifices 3/45

Being unaware of the legal consequences of his action, an arrest was made by the security personnel. 

Which one of the following would be the best replacement for the second part of the sentence?

A. the thief was arrested by the security personnel.
B: the security personnel made an arrest.
C: the security personnel called the police officers to arrest the thief.
D: an arrest was made by the security personnel.
E: an arrest was made by the police.

The following graph shows the percentage of people who voted in the local election for a small village:

In which pair of years was the number of people who voted, the same?

During the weekly meeting, our marketing manager mentioned that we had run a group of advertisements in the print version of a lifestyle magazine, and also on the magazine's website. We do not have any stats available regarding the response to the print ads, but analytics show that the response to the website ads was much lower than typical website ads. She added that on the basis of these results, she believed that response to print ads was below average too. Which of the following statements is valid regarding the manager's rationale behind the conclusion?

A: She inferred a statistical generalization from claims about a large number of specific events.
B: She relied on the knowledge about the typical frequency of events of a general kind to infer the probability of a particular kind of event.
C: She inferred the probability of future events from recent comparable events.
D: She based a prediction of the intensity of a phenomenon on the data about the intensity of the cause of that phenomenon.
E: She used a case in which direct evidence is available to infer a conclusion about an analogous scenario for which direct evidence is not available.