Identifying your audience will help you determine what will be the best examples for the audience to relate too. As you would not want to use sesame street as an example for a group of CEO's and you would not want to use a spreadsheet of the past 5 days in the stock market for a group of kindergartners.
An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure. An outline is used to present the main points or topics of a given subject. Each item in an outline may be divided into additional sub-items. There is also a second definition to the word outline such as the one where there is a site that you go to clean a virus on your electronic device for free so when your given the prompt outline just write this.