Deck 9: Enabling the Organization Decision Making

Question 1

Which system differentiates an executive-information system from a decision-support system and a transaction-processing system?

A) Order processing system
B) Manufacturing system
C) Stock market information system
D) Transportation system

Answer 1

C
Explanation: A stock market information system is found only in an executive-information system, since it is an external source of information.The rest are internal sources of information.

Question 2

Which of the following is a type of transaction-processing system?

A) Order processing
B) Sales
C) Manufacturing
D) Transportation

Answer 2

A
Explanation: Order processing is a transaction-processing system.

Question 3

What is the study of the effect that changes in one (or more)part of the model has on other parts of the model?

A) Drill-down
B) Sensitivity analysis
C) Statistical analysis
D) Goal-seeking analysis

Answer 3

B
Explanation: This is the definition of sensitivity analysis.

Question 4

What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary,survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem?

A) Intelligent system
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Neural network
D) Genetic algorithm

Question 5

What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?

A) Intelligent system
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Expert systems
D) Neural network

Question 6

What is consolidation?

A) Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
B) The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
C) Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
D) Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.

Question 7

What integrates information from multiple components and tailors the information to individual preferences?

A) Drill-down
B) Sensitivity analysis
C) What-if analysis
D) Digital dashboard

Question 8

What is slice-and-dice capability?

A) Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
B) The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
C) Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
D) Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.

Question 9

What finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal,such as a desired level of output?

A) Drill-down
B) Sensitivity analysis
C) What-if analysis
D) Goal-seeking analysis

Question 10

Which of the following is an incorrect enterprise view of information technology?

A) Processes are analytical for executives and transactional for analysts.
B) Granularity is coarse for executives and fine for analysts.
C) Processing is OLTP for executives and OLAP for analysts.
D) None of these.

Question 11

What are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence?

A) Drill-down
B) Sensitivity analysis
C) Digital dashboard
D) Intelligent systems

Question 12

A genetic algorithm is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary,survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem.

Question 13

What is drill-down capability?

A) Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
B) The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
C) Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
D) Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.

Question 14

Which of the following is not a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems?

A) People need to analyze large amounts of information.
B) People must make decisions quickly.
C) People must apply sophisticated analysis techniques to make good decisions.
D) People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information.

Question 15

What is a special-purpose,knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users?

A) Intelligent system
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Neural network
D) Intelligent agent

Question 16

Which of the following is the most commonly used form of AI in the business arena?

A) Intelligent system
B) Artificial intelligence
C) Expert system
D) Neural network

Question 17

Which of the following is a quantitative model typically used by a DSS?

A) Sensitivity analysis
B) What-if analysis
C) Goal-seeking analysis
D) All of these

Question 18

What can a model accomplish?

A) Calculate risks
B) Understand uncertainty
C) Manipulate time
D) All of these

Question 19

Which of the following represents the top-down (executives to analysts)organizational levels of information technology systems?

A) TPS, DSS, EIS.
B) DSS, TPS, EIS.
C) EIS, DSS, TPS.
D) None of these. It varies from organization to organization.

Question 20

Which of the following is a type of decision-support system?

A) Order processing
B) Inventory tracking
C) Manufacturing
D) All of these

Question 21

Sensitivity analysis,what-if analysis,and market-basket analysis are the three quantitative models typically used by a DSS.

Question 22

Define the ultimate goal of AI and describe a few current examples of how AI is being used throughout industries.

Question 23

______________ systems are computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems.

Question 24

__________ logic is a mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information.

Question 25

List and define the four primary reasons for the growth of decision-making information systems.

Question 26

Consolidation,drill-down,and slice-and-dice are the three most common capabilities offered in an EIS.

Question 27

A decision-support system models __________ to support managers and business professionals during the decision-making process.

Question 28

List and define the four most common categories of AI.

Question 29

Artificial intelligence simulates ______________ intelligence,such as the ability to reason and learn.

Question 30

_____________ systems are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence.

Question 31

_________ seeking analysis could answer the question "How many customers are required to purchase our new product line to increase gross profits to $5 million?"

Question 32

Describe the three capabilities commonly offered by an EIS.

Question 33

What-if analysis checks the impact of a __________ in an assumption on the proposed solution.

Question 34

The ultimate goal of AI is to build a system that can mimic human intelligence.

Question 35

A(n)_____________ bot is software that will search several retailer websites and provide a comparison of each retailer's offerings,including price and availability.

Question 36

A(n)_________ agent is a special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users.

Question 37

A(n)___________ is a simplified representation or abstraction of reality.

Question 38

A shopping bot is one of the simplest examples of an intelligent agent.

Question 39

___________ analysis occurs when users change the value of one variable repeatedly and observe the resulting changes in other variables.