Question 1

Which of the following are requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley act? (check all that apply)

Accepted Answer

A)  Public companies must evaluate and disclose the effectiveness of their internal financial controls.
B)  Companies must hire independent auditors to verify the disclosures.
C)  IT employees are held personally responsible for the release and validity of all filings.
D)  Company officers can be held personally liable if the company lacks satisfactory data management policies.
E)  Companies will not be held liable if a security breach occurs. A,B,D

Question 2

In a university's relational database, the student record contains information regarding the student's last name. The last name is a(n)_________.

Accepted Answer

A)  attribute.
B)  entity.
C)  primary key.
D)  object.
E)  file. A

Question 3

Tacit knowledge is the more objective, rational, and technical types of knowledge.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

Which of the following has the broadest impact on an organization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Decisions about hardware.
B)  Decisions about software
C)  Decisions about data
D)  All of the above have an equal impact.

Question 5

It is easy to manage all the data coming into an organization.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

_____ provide(s)companies with a single version of the truth for their data.

Accepted Answer

A)  Data warehouses
B)  Data marts
C)  Databases
D)  Master data management
E)  Enterprise information management

Question 7

In a database, the primary key field is used to _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  specify an entity
B)  create linked lists
C)  identify duplicated data
D)  uniquely identify a record
E)  uniquely identify an attribute

Question 8

As an individual student in your university's student database, you are a(n)_____ of the STUDENT class.

Accepted Answer

A)  instance
B)  individual
C)  representative
D)  entity
E)  relationship

Question 9

Which of the following is not a reason why managing data is difficult over time?

Accepted Answer

A)  New systems are developed.
B)  The media the data are stored on becomes problematic.
C)  New sources of data are created.
D)  The amount of data increases exponentially.
E)  All of these are reasons why managing data is difficult over time.

Question 10

Traditional data formats change ______ while big data formats change _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  slowly, rapidly
B)  rapidly, slowly
C)  slowly, incrementally
D)  both formats of data change at the same rate

Question 11

_________ occurs when various copies of the data agree.

Accepted Answer

A)  Data isolation
B)  Data integrity
C)  Data consistency
D)  Data redundancy
E)  Application/Data dependence

Question 12

Master data are generated and captured by operational systems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Online analytical processing (OLAP)involves the analysis of accumulated data by end users.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Explicit knowledge has which of the following characteristics?

Accepted Answer

A)  objective
B)  personal
C)  slow
D)  costly to transfer
E)  ambiguous

Question 15

Organizations are turning to data governance for which of the following reasons?

Accepted Answer

A)  They have too little data.
B)  They are responding to federal regulations.
C)  Their data are typically structured.
D)  Their data are usually located in the organization's databases.
E)  Data across their organizations are generally consistent.

Question 16

Big Data has three distinct characteristics that distinguish it from traditional data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

An organization's data warehouse generally maintains its operational data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

It is important for applications and data to be dependent on each other.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

_____ can be exercised to solve a problem, whereas _____ may or may not be able to be exercised to solve a problem.

Accepted Answer

A)  Knowledge, information
B)  Data, information
C)  Information, data
D)  Information, knowledge
E)  Data, knowledge

Question 20

_____ is a formal approach to managing data consistently across an entire organization.

Accepted Answer

A)  Database management
B)  Enterprise information management
C)  Data warehousing
D)  Data governance
E)  Data mart

Exam 3: Data and Knowledge Management

Which of the following are requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley act? (check all that apply)

In a university's relational database, the student record contains information regarding the student's last name. The last name is a(n) _________.

Tacit knowledge is the more objective, rational, and technical types of knowledge.

Which of the following has the broadest impact on an organization?

It is easy to manage all the data coming into an organization.

_____ provide(s) companies with a single version of the truth for their data.

In a database, the primary key field is used to _____.

As an individual student in your university's student database, you are a(n) _____ of the STUDENT class.

Which of the following is not a reason why managing data is difficult over time?

Traditional data formats change while big data formats change _.

_________ occurs when various copies of the data agree.

Master data are generated and captured by operational systems.

Online analytical processing (OLAP)involves the analysis of accumulated data by end users.

Explicit knowledge has which of the following characteristics?

Organizations are turning to data governance for which of the following reasons?

Big Data has three distinct characteristics that distinguish it from traditional data.

An organization's data warehouse generally maintains its operational data.

It is important for applications and data to be dependent on each other.

_ can be exercised to solve a problem, whereas _ may or may not be able to be exercised to solve a problem.

_____ is a formal approach to managing data consistently across an entire organization.