In reply to OneLifeOneHeart:
Your manager gave you a job to do,
there are several reason for this,
1) he needs it doing
2) he needs to see that you can carry-out instructions
3) he needs to that you are capable of doing the work that you have been employed to do
4) he needs to see if you are competent for the job
5) he needs to see if you need training/ whether training that you have
received was sufficient
from what you have stated because you went to the senior analyst 1-5 above haven't been done.
If I were you, I would apologise and explain what has happened and say it won't happen again.
next time (if there is one) if your boss asks you to do something you do it. If you don't know how to do some or part of it, tell him and he should arrange for someone to show you
About 10 years ago I was running the electrical installation on a new IT centre for a school (I'm a was a 36 year old electrical with 20 years of experience and qualification in the industry).
One of the electricians (he was older than me and so should have be very experienced) wasn't upto the job because he didn't have the experience and skillset.
The skills he was failing at were straight forward and someone of his age and suppose experience should have been upto it.
If he had told me he was from a different side of the industry and isn't very good at XYZ,I could have arrange for someone to work with him and so the job could have been done correctly, or given him a different job to do. As a result of his lack of skillset/experience Time, Materials and Production was wasted.
This went on for a couple of weeks
Unfortunately I had to let him know that his services were no longer required. His response was "we will be 2nd fixing next week", my reply was "there is more to being an electrician then connecting some sockets and switches"
This was on a building site on a 13 week electrical program, there was only allowance for one member of staff as "non-production labour" and that was me as I was running the job. If I had allowed that guy to continue then I too wouldn't have been doing my job properly.
There are various reasons for why someone gives you a job to do, some of them more obvious then others.