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CMA Intermediate · Financial Management and Business Data Analytics · Data Presentation: Visualisation and Graphical Presentation

An analyst builds a dashboard with a slicer for region and quarter. A user selects 'West' and 'Q3'. Which statement correctly describes what a slicer does?

A slicer filters the linked visuals to the chosen values, here West and Q3, while leaving the underlying source data untouched. It is an interactive filter control, not a deletion, forecasting or security feature.

  1. AIt permanently deletes data of other regions from the source
  2. BIt filters the displayed visuals to the selected values without altering the source dataCorrect
  3. CIt forecasts the next quarter using regression
  4. DIt encrypts the dashboard for the selected region

Explanation

A slicer is an interactive filter control. It restricts what the linked visuals show to the chosen values, leaving the underlying dataset unchanged. It does not delete, forecast or encrypt.

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