Question 1

What is another term for data that is already contained in a database or a spreadsheet?

Accepted Answer

A) Structured data 
B) Unstructured data 
C) Text mining 
D) Web mining 
A) Structured data 
B) Unstructured data 
C) Text mining 
D) Web mining

Question 2

What is distributed computing?

Accepted Answer

A) A collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, that cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools. 
B) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
C) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
D) Extracts knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information. 
A) A collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, that cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools. 
B) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
C) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
D) Extracts knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information.

Question 3

What is the function of a data scientist?

Accepted Answer

A) To collect large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools. 
B) To process and manage algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
C) To focus on forecasting future trends and produce insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
D) To extract knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information. 
A) To collect large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools. 
B) To process and manage algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
C) To focus on forecasting future trends and produce insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
D) To extract knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information.

Question 4

Association detection is a technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Social media analytics analyzes text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What is the function of web analytics?

Accepted Answer

A) Analyze unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation. 
B) Analyze structured data associated with a website. 
C) Filter information, both structured and unstructured, to help identify strong web customers. 
D) None of the above. 
A) Analyze unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation. 
B) Analyze structured data associated with a website. 
C) Filter information, both structured and unstructured, to help identify strong web customers. 
D) None of the above.

Question 7

What is prediction?

Accepted Answer

A) A statement about what will happen or might happen in the future such as future sales or employee turnover. 
B) A statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or decision as effective as possible, for example, finding the values of controllable variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste. 
C) Forecasts based on time-series information. 
D) A statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. 
A) A statement about what will happen or might happen in the future such as future sales or employee turnover. 
B) A statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or decision as effective as possible, for example, finding the values of controllable variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste. 
C) Forecasts based on time-series information. 
D) A statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.

Question 8

What is speech analytics?

Accepted Answer

A) The analysis of text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages. 
B) The analysis of recorded calls to gather information-brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise. 
C) The analysis of unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences. 
D) The analysis of unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation. 
A) The analysis of text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages. 
B) The analysis of recorded calls to gather information-brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise. 
C) The analysis of unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences. 
D) The analysis of unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.

Question 9

Forecasts are predictions based on time-series information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What segments a heterogeneous population of more homogeneous subgroups?

Accepted Answer

A) Classification 
B) Estimation 
C) Affinity grouping 
D) Clustering 
A) Classification 
B) Estimation 
C) Affinity grouping 
D) Clustering

Question 11

Regression is a prediction based on time-series information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What describes technologies that allow users to "see" or visualize data to transform information into a business perspective?

Accepted Answer

A) Informing 
B) Infographics 
C) Data visualization 
D) Business intelligence dashboards 
A) Informing 
B) Infographics 
C) Data visualization 
D) Business intelligence dashboards

Question 13

Data mining occurs on structured data that are already in a database or a spreadsheet.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Affinity determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated future value.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following forms of data mining assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes?

Accepted Answer

A) Clustering 
B) Classification 
C) Estimation 
D) Affinity grouping 
A) Clustering 
B) Classification 
C) Estimation 
D) Affinity grouping

Question 16

What is analysis paralysis?

Accepted Answer

A) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
C) Occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) A business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data. 
A) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
C) Occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) A business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.

Question 17

Speech analytics is the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather information.It brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What is distributed computing?

Accepted Answer

A) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
C) Occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of overanalysis (or overthinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) A business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data. 
A) Processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) Focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization. 
C) Occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of overanalysis (or overthinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) A business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.

Question 19

What is an outlier?

Accepted Answer

A) A program that processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) A data value that is numerically distant from most of the other data points in a set of data. 
C) An emotional state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) The application of big data analytics to smaller data sets in near-real or real-time in order to solve a problem or create business value. 
A) A program that processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment. 
B) A data value that is numerically distant from most of the other data points in a set of data. 
C) An emotional state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. 
D) The application of big data analytics to smaller data sets in near-real or real-time in order to solve a problem or create business value.

Question 20

Velocity includes different forms of structured and unstructured data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 8: Understanding Big Data and Its Impact on Business

What is another term for data that is already contained in a database or a spreadsheet?

What is distributed computing?

What is the function of a data scientist?

Association detection is a technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.

Social media analytics analyzes text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages.

What is the function of web analytics?

What is prediction?

What is speech analytics?

Forecasts are predictions based on time-series information.

What segments a heterogeneous population of more homogeneous subgroups?

Regression is a prediction based on time-series information.

What describes technologies that allow users to "see" or visualize data to transform information into a business perspective?

Data mining occurs on structured data that are already in a database or a spreadsheet.

Affinity determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated future value.

Which of the following forms of data mining assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes?

What is analysis paralysis?

Speech analytics is the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather information.It brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise.

What is distributed computing?

What is an outlier?

Velocity includes different forms of structured and unstructured data.

Business Driven Technology

Identifying Competitive Advantages

Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

Valuing and Storing Organizational Information Databases

Accessing Organizational Information Data Warehouses

Enabling the Organization Decision Making

Extending the Organization Supply Chain Management

Building a Customer-Centric Organization Customer Relationship Management

Integrating the Organization From End to End Enterprise Resource Planning

Creating Innovative Organizations

E-business

Creating Collaborative Partnerships

Integrating Wireless Technology in Business

Developing Software to Streamline Operations

Methodologies for Supporting Agile Organizations

Managing Organizational Projects

B: Extension: A Business Basics

B: Extension: A Business Process

B: Extension: A Hardware and Software Basics

B: Extension: A Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Networks and Telecommunications

B: Extension: A Information Security

B: Extension: A Ethics

B: Extension: A Operations Management

B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Business Intelligence

B: Extension: A Global Information Systems

B: Extension: A Global Trends

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