Action Alerts notify you immediately when someone answers in a particular way to the questions in your survey. For example, you could set up an Action Alert to notify your Customer Service Manager every time someone gives a low satisfaction score on a feedback survey.
The different ways in which notifications can be generated are -
Distribution lists are replaced by notification group. So if a notification has to be sent to a list of users, create a notification group and use it to notify a group of users as shown below.