Exam 6: Data: Business Intelligence

Business intelligence can provide managers with the ability to make better decisions. Which of the following is not an example of how different industries use business intelligence?

Record is a collection of related data elements

What is distributed computing?

Data governance is the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems.

Which of the following refers to the extent of detail within the information?

Data artist is a business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.

Relational database model stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables.

Which of the following lists include all of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?

ETL stands for extraction, transformation, and loading.

Which of the following occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data?

Determining if there are any duplicate customers in the data is an example of a unique characteristic of high-quality information.

A foreign key uniquely identifies a given record in a table.

Which of the following encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?

A business rule defines how a company performs certain aspects of its business and typically results in either a yes/no or true/false answer.

A data miner is a business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.

The logical view of information focuses on how individual users logically access information to meet their own particular business needs.

What is prediction?

One of the primary goals of a database is to eliminate information redundancy by recording each piece of data in only one place in the database. What does the elimination of information redundancy do for a database?

Master data management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise)and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity.

Regression is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. It includes many techniques for modeling and analyzing several variables when the focus is on the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables