LogicMonitor's reported CCAT: business analyst vs data engineer

LogicMonitor and the CCAT at a glance

Roles at LogicMonitor reported to include the CCAT

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The numbers below use our estimate for LogicMonitor: a range of 29 to 32 out of 50 with a target of 31. Nothing is saved. If you ask Clever below, it sees your numbers.

About LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor sells a cloud platform that monitors servers, networks, applications and cloud services for IT teams.

Its customers watch dashboards full of metrics, alerts and trends, so the people who build and analyze the product work with numbers and charts every day. A screen built on math, logic and reading charts is a reasonable fit for that work, whichever test it turns out to be.

Business analyst vs data engineer: why the targets differ

Criteria publishes a suggested minimum score for each job family. Data Analytics and Statistics is at 24, the highest on the list. Analyst is at 22. Those floors are the starting point; employers often hire well above them.

That two-point gap carries into our estimates. A data engineer at a software company competes with candidates who are fast with numbers, and the bar likely reflects it. A business analyst is judged more on judgment and communication, so the math bar may be a little lower, but the verbal and logic items count for more.

For data engineer candidates

Most data engineers clear arithmetic quickly. The points they leave on the table are in sets and Venn-style counting, where it is easy to double count, and in table items, where the trap is reading the wrong row in a hurry.

Treat the CCAT like a query: read the question, find the exact field, compute once. Overlap questions get a one-line formula: total equals A plus B minus both, plus neither.

For business analyst candidates

Business analysts usually do well on verbal items and lose time on spatial ones. Learn a method for rotations and visual sequences, and learn to skip a tile puzzle that does not resolve in 15 seconds.

Then make the table questions automatic. A business analyst who reads a chart in 10 seconds has time for the logic items, which are where analyst judgment shows.

Where the CCAT sits in LogicMonitor's hiring process

1. 1

   Application and recruiter screen

   No public reports describe the order. Prep sites call the test an early screen.

2. 2

   Emailed assessment link

   In a typical Criteria flow, a link to an unproctored online test on Criteria's platform, due within a few days.

3. 3

   CCAT, possibly with a personality questionnaire

   50 questions in 15 minutes, no calculator.

4. 4

   Technical or case interviews

   Data engineers usually face SQL or pipeline questions; business analysts a requirements or metrics exercise. Not reported for LogicMonitor specifically.

Steps are as candidates describe them. Processes change by role and over time.

Tips for the LogicMonitor CCAT

• Data engineers: memorize total = A + B - both + neither, then use it for every overlap item.
• Business analysts: give yourself 15 seconds on any spatial item before guessing.
• Use the role comparison above to pick the estimate that matches your posting.
• On ordering items, sketch a line and place each person as you read the clue, not after.
• Ask the recruiter whether the data team uses an extra technical assessment, so you can split prep time sensibly.

Question types to drill first

• Tables & chartsBoth roles read data for a living, and table items reward the same careful scanning.Math questions with worked examples
• Sets & overlapsOverlap counting trips up fast candidates. A single formula fixes most of it.Logic questions with worked examples
• OrderingBusiness analysts sequence requirements and dependencies; ordering items test the same reasoning.Logic questions with worked examples

Practice questions in the same formats

These are our own practice questions, written in the CCAT's formats. LogicMonitor does not publish its test questions, and neither does Criteria. For a full timed run, take the free CCAT practice test.

How we estimate

LogicMonitor does not publish a CCAT score, so the numbers on this page are our estimate. We start from Criteria's published job-family floors for the roles candidates report, then place them against Criteria's two norm groups, where the median raw score is 24. We adjust for how competitive the applicant pool is, and we use an employer's own published baseline whenever one exists.

Percentiles come from a normal model on Criteria's published median and standard deviations, shown as a range across both groups. See the CCAT percentile chart for the method and what a good CCAT score is for the published job-family floors.

Clever Cat Prep is not affiliated with LogicMonitor or Criteria Corp. LogicMonitor is a trademark of its owner.