Deck 18: Decision Support in the Twenty-First Century

Question 1

Decision support systems continue to increase in importance as a result of rapid increases in the amount of data to be filtered and analyzed.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A major problem in the development of DSSs is a lack of GUIs to help integrate disparate architectures or platforms.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

One of the significant advantages of DSSs is that they are completely secure and can therefore be accessed across any network.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One area of future DSS growth is advanced data management capabilities, including support for hypertext and multimedia.

Question 5

Virtual reality can potentially alter the manner in which users are trained to use information systems.

Question 6

Two major issues that will impact the future of expert systems are knowledge management and virtual databases.

Question 7

A high performance storage system (HPSS) is software that is useful for the management of large rule sets.

Question 8

The ultimate design goal for expert system knowledge acquisition is to enable the user to encode their own knowledge.

Question 9

Virtual information access and analysis provides a comprehensive access to multimedia, graphical and text data but is limited to internal data.

Question 10

Collaborative filtering applies human thought, in the form of a database of user preferences.

Question 11

DSSs have impacted which of the following areas?

A) Medicine
B) Manufacturing
C) Forestry
D) All of the above.

Question 12

_____________ is the term that describes the phenomena of data doubling every year, while at the same time a typical knowledge analyst can only absorb 5% of the data.

A) Online analytical processing
B) Information overload
C) Virtual information analysis
D) None of the above.

Question 13

Which of the following enables individuals to immerse themselves into a simulated environment?

A) Environmental analysis
B) Virtual analysis
C) Virtual reality
D) None of the above.

Question 14

Which of the following is not an issue that is crucial to the future of expert systems?

A) Knowledge management
B) Network simulation
C) AI requirements for intelligent databases
D) None of the above.

Question 15

Which of the following is true of a high-performance storage system (HPSS)?

A) An HPSS is software that provides hierarchical storage management.
B) An HPSS supports scalability.
C) A goal of an HPSS is to move files at speeds significantly faster than today's current storage technology.
D) All of the above.

Question 16

Which of the following is true of knowledge management?

A) Knowledge management involves the codification of thoughts and experiences.
B) The goal of a knowledge management system is to allow the expert to encode their own knowledge directly into the system.
C) Knowledge management supports multiple problem context generalization.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

_________ provides access to both organizational and external information through visual screens that combine text, data, and images.

A) VIAA
B) Knowledge management
C) EIS
D) None of the above.

Question 18

Which of the following utilizes a database of user preferences in order to predict user outcomes?

A) Personalization agents
B) Collaborative filtering
C) Active filtering
D) None of the above.

Question 19

Which of the following is not an issue affecting intelligent software agents?

A) Vigilance
B) Privacy
C) Legal issues
D) All of the above are issues affecting ISAs.

Question 20

Which of the following is a method to determine the degree of humanlike intelligence displayed by a computer?

A) Deming test
B) Gates test
C) Juran test
D) None of the above.

Question 21

Briefly describe how a DSS can be used to support manufacturing.

Question 22

What is a High Performance Storage System?