Exam 10: Decision Support Systems

Online _______________ processing enables managers and analysts to interactively examine and manipulate large amounts of detailed and consolidated data from many perspectives.

Decision makers at the operational management level often look to decision support systems to provide them with summarized, ad hoc, and unscheduled reports, forecasts, and external intelligence to support their more unstructured planning and policymaking responsibilities.

Executive information systems are becoming so widely used by non-executives that they are sometimes humorously called "easy information systems."

According to the _______________ test, a computer could demonstrate intelligence if a human interviewer, conversing with an unseen human and an unseen computer, could not tell which was which.

With _______________, data about sales offices can be rolled up to the district level, and district-level data can be rolled up to provide a regional-level perspective.

A new Web-based management tool known as a windshield displays critical information in an easy-to-read graphic format.

The information products from an MIS take all the following forms except:

For many companies, enterprise information portals are the entry to corporate intranets that serve as their knowledge management systems. That's why such portals are called _______________ portals by their vendors.

The enterprise information portal is a customized, personalized, Web-based interface for corporate extranets.

As companies migrate toward responsive e-business models, they are investing in new __________-driven decision support application frameworks that help them respond rapidly to changing market conditions and customer needs.

Typically, __________ analysis is used when decision makers are uncertain about the assumptions made in estimating the value of certain key variables.

According to the textbook case, the Boston Celtics have been using a data mining application to set seating prices, and develop promotions and sales strategies.

When using DSS software, managers usually request pre-specified information from the application.

An employee performance evaluation expert system is an example of an expert system in the application category of:

Decision makers at the strategic management level often look to management information systems to provide them with summarized, ad hoc, and unscheduled reports, forecasts, and external intelligence to support their more unstructured planning and policymaking responsibilities.

Business intelligence applications are based on all of the following except:

Push reporting reduces information overload, instead of overwhelming decision makers with periodic, detailed reports of business activity.

According to the text, all of the following are major limitations of an expert system except:

Genetic algorithm software is being used to model a variety of scientific, technical, and business processes.

All of the following would be considered an AI application in the robotics group except: