I don't know how much you learned through certification but can you elaborate on what you can do if I give you a data set with 200 variables, over 10 years and 10,000 companies.

 You are asked to:
1)  analyze their profits, impact of various variables on profits, (there are hundreds of variables, you got to find your own set of variables you think are important)
2)  the time from starting a company to attaining profits, the differences in the time to profits for select companies from different industries,
3) how many companies exit the market within those 10 years and potential reasons for that using multivariate regression.

Can you tell me how you would go about solving those problems? Something that is visible, clear and potentially free of academic jargon would be the most useful even though you are expected to use some of the advanced statistical analysis required. How proficient are you in writing macros to do all the analysis?

PS: I will give you some idea once you give your input.