Question 14 of 156 from exam DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

Generally speaking, data analytics comes in four types (Figure 1):

Descriptive, to answer the question: What's happening?

Diagnostic, to answer the question: Why's happening?

Predictive, to answer the question: What will happen?

Prescriptive, to answer the question: What actions should we take?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/answering-whats-happening-whys-happening-and-what-will-happen-with-iot-analytics/