Question 100
A contract stores durations as text like '3 hours' and '45 minutes'. Which cleaning is required?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Parse durations into a consistent numeric unit or duration type. Consistent units enable valid comparisons and aggregation.
Incorrect Answers
Convert monetary amounts into a consistent reporting currency before summing. This solves “denominated in EUR and USD without exchange conversion”; the stated issue is “as text like '3 hours' and '45 minutes'”.
Combining incompatible financial measures without normalization distorts totals. Its application is “one region and tax exclusive amounts in another”, not the need “as text like '3 hours' and '45 minutes'”.
Optional null text does not necessarily invalidate a transaction record. That is a different operating condition from “as text like '3 hours' and '45 minutes'”: “optional comments even though numeric fields are valid”.