Question 1

How would the marketing industry use business intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A) track crime patterns, locations, and criminal behavior 
B) analyze customer demographics 
C) predict sales, inventory levels, and distribution 
D) predict hardware failures 
A) track crime patterns, locations, and criminal behavior 
B) analyze customer demographics 
C) predict sales, inventory levels, and distribution 
D) predict hardware failures

Question 2

What is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools?

Accepted Answer

A) big data 
B) distributed computing 
C) advanced analytics 
D) data scientist 
A) big data 
B) distributed computing 
C) advanced analytics 
D) data scientist

Question 3

What occurs when the same data element has different values?

Accepted Answer

A) information inconsistency 
B) information integrity issues 
C) data governance 
D) master data management 
A) information inconsistency 
B) information integrity issues 
C) data governance 
D) master data management

Question 4

Advanced analytics processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

How would the health care industry use business intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A) analyze popular vacation locations with current flight listings 
B) understand customer credit card usage and nonpayment rates 
C) compare the demographics of patients with critical illnesses 
D) predict claim amounts and medical coverage costs 
A) analyze popular vacation locations with current flight listings 
B) understand customer credit card usage and nonpayment rates 
C) compare the demographics of patients with critical illnesses 
D) predict claim amounts and medical coverage costs

Question 6

The logical view of information deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Many organizations find themselves in the position of being data rich and information poor.Even in today's electronic world, managers struggle with the challenge of turning their business data into business intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following occurs during data cleansing?

Accepted Answer

A) clean data marts 
B) clean redundant customer data 
C) clean accurate data 
D) clean correct data 
A) clean data marts 
B) clean redundant customer data 
C) clean accurate data 
D) clean correct data

Question 9

Which of the following occurs when the same data element has different values?

Accepted Answer

A) data modeling issue 
B) data mining issue 
C) data governance issue 
D) information inconsistency issue 
A) data modeling issue 
B) data mining issue 
C) data governance issue 
D) information inconsistency issue

Question 10

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

Accepted Answer

A) content creator 
B) content editor 
C) static information 
D) dynamic information 
A) content creator 
B) content editor 
C) static information 
D) dynamic information

Question 11

Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?

Accepted Answer

A) uniqueness 
B) completeness 
C) consistency 
D) accuracy 
A) uniqueness 
B) completeness 
C) consistency 
D) accuracy

Question 12

Relational integrity constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What is the role of a foreign key?

Accepted Answer

A) It is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables. 
B) It is a unique way to identify each record. 
C) Is a field that uniquely identifies a give record in a table. 
D) All of these are correct. 
A) It is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables. 
B) It is a unique way to identify each record. 
C) Is a field that uniquely identifies a give record in a table. 
D) All of these are correct.

Question 14

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

Accepted Answer

A) information cleansing and scrubbing 
B) data-mining tools 
C) data mining 
D) business intelligence 
A) information cleansing and scrubbing 
B) data-mining tools 
C) data mining 
D) business intelligence

Question 15

Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include writing letters, memos, and emails along with generating reports for financial analysis and marketing materials for products.Ben's duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different information ________.

Accepted Answer

A) lists 
B) formats 
C) granularities 
D) levels 
A) lists 
B) formats 
C) granularities 
D) levels

Question 16

Dynamic website information is stored in a dynamic catalog, or an area of a website that stores information about products in a database.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks?

Accepted Answer

A) transactional information 
B) analytical information 
C) timeliness 
D) quality 
A) transactional information 
B) analytical information 
C) timeliness 
D) quality

Question 18

Optimization is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What is immediate, up-to-date information?

Accepted Answer

A) real-time information 
B) real-time systems 
C) information granularity 
D) information governance 
A) real-time information 
B) real-time systems 
C) information granularity 
D) information governance

Question 20

A primary key is the smallest or basic unit of information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

How would the marketing industry use business intelligence?

What is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools?

What occurs when the same data element has different values?

Advanced analytics processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment.

How would the health care industry use business intelligence?

The logical view of information deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device.

Many organizations find themselves in the position of being data rich and information poor.Even in today's electronic world, managers struggle with the challenge of turning their business data into business intelligence.

Which of the following occurs during data cleansing?

Which of the following occurs when the same data element has different values?

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?

Relational integrity constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.

What is the role of a foreign key?

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

Dynamic website information is stored in a dynamic catalog, or an area of a website that stores information about products in a database.

What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks?

Optimization is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.

What is immediate, up-to-date information?

A primary key is the smallest or basic unit of information.

Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS

Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business

Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value

Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS

Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise MIS

Enterprise Applications: Business Communications

Systems Development and Project Management: Corporateresponsibility

Hardware and Software Basics

Networks and Telecommunications

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Exam 6: Data: Business Intelligence

How would the marketing industry use business intelligence?

What is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools?

What occurs when the same data element has different values?

Advanced analytics processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment.

How would the health care industry use business intelligence?

The logical view of information deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device.

Many organizations find themselves in the position of being data rich and information poor.Even in today's electronic world, managers struggle with the challenge of turning their business data into business intelligence.

Which of the following occurs during data cleansing?

Which of the following occurs when the same data element has different values?

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?

Relational integrity constraints are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information-based constraints.

What is the role of a foreign key?

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

Dynamic website information is stored in a dynamic catalog, or an area of a website that stores information about products in a database.

What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks?

Optimization is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.

What is immediate, up-to-date information?

A primary key is the smallest or basic unit of information.

Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS

Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business

Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value

Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS

Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies

Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise MIS

Enterprise Applications: Business Communications

Systems Development and Project Management: Corporateresponsibility

Hardware and Software Basics

Networks and Telecommunications

Designing Data-Bases-Apply Your Knowledge-Glossary

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