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INFS5720: BUSINESS ANALYTICS METHODS
FINAL EXAMINATION
1. Time Allowed: 24 Hours.
2. This is a Take-Home Exam, your responses must be your own original work.
You must attempt this Take-Home Exam by yourself without any help from
others. Thus, you have NOT worked, collaborated or colluded with any other
persons in the formulation of your responses. The work that you are submitting
for your Take-Home Exam is your OWN work.
3. Release date/time (via Moodle): Tuesday, 30 November 9:00am (Australian
Eastern Time Zone)
4. Submission date/time (Via Turnitin): Wednesday, 1 December 9:00am
(Australian Eastern Time Zone)
5. Failure to upload the exam by the submission time will result in a penalty of
15% of the available marks per hour of lateness.
6. This Examination Paper has 4 pages, including the cover page.
7. Total number of Questions: 5 Questions.
8. Answer all 5 Questions.
9. Total marks available: 100 marks. This examination is worth 55% of the total
marks for the course.
10. Questions are not of equal value. Marks available for question sub-parts are
shown on this examination paper.
11. Some questions have word limits as indicated on the question. These word
limits must be adhered to. Text in excess of the specified word limit(s) may not
be considered in the marking process.
12. Candidates must submit a signed Declaration Form together with the Take-
Home Exam answer document. Failure to submit the signed Declaration Form
may result in your Take-Home Exam answer sheet not being marked.
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13. Answers to questions are to be written in the template provided. Please ensure
that you provide the following details on your Take-Home Exam answer sheet:
• Student ID:
14. In accordance with the Declaration Form, this Take-Home Exam paper cannot
be copied, forwarded or shared.
• You are permitted to refer to your course notes, any materials provided by
the course convenor or lecturer, books, journal articles, or tutorial
materials.
• It is sufficient to use in-text citations that include the following information:
the name of the author or authors; the year of publication; the page
number (where the information/idea can be located on a particular page
when directly quoted), For example, (McConville, 2011, p.188).
• You are required to cite your sources and attribute direct quotes
appropriately when using external sources (other than your course
materials).
• When citing Internet sources, please use the following format:
website/page title and date.
• If you provide in-text citations, you MUST provide a Reference List. The
Reference list will NOT BE counted towards your word limit.
17. Students are advised to read the Take-Home Exam paper thoroughly before
commencing.
18. The Lecturer-in-Charge (LiC) / Exam Referee will be available online (via
Moodle) after the Take-Home Exam paper is released for a period of two
hours.
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You need to answer Questions 1, 2, 3, and 4 based on a business case: Retail Credit
Scoring for Auto Finance Ltd. Please access the case via the link provided on Moodle.
You DO NOT need to answer the questions on the case document (if any).
QUESTION 1 25 MARKS
With reference to the above case, answer all of the following questions:
a) Based on the business challenges that Auto Finance Ltd. is facing, list and
explain a segmentation problem and a classification problem respectively.
[max 200 words] (10 marks)
b) Select an analytics model for each problem you have identified in Q1a and justify
your choice. [max 100 words] (5 marks)
c) Outline relevant variables (i.e., target variables; input variables) for each analytics
model you have identified in Q1(b). Justify your choice of these variables.
[max 200 words] (10 marks)
