Intro to Info Systems Ch.9

What integrates information from multiple components and tailors the information to individual preferences? A) Drill-down B) Digital dashboards C) What-if analysis D) Sensitivity analysis

B) Digital dashboards

What enables users to get details, and details of details of information? A) Consolidation B) Drill-down C) Digital dashboards D) Slice-and-dice

B) Drill-down

What finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output? A) Sensitivity analysis B) Goal-seeking analysis C) Drill-down D) What-if analysis

B) Goal-seeking analysis

What is the study of the impact that changes in one (or more) parts of the model have on other parts of the model? A) Goal-seeking analysis B) Sensitivity analysis C) Drill-down D) What-if analysis

B) Sensitivity analysis

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

B) The ability to look at information from different perspectives

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 the above, it varies from organization to organization

C) EIS, DSS, TPS

Which of the following is NOT a form of Articficial Intelligence? A) Expert Systems B) Neural Networks C) Fuzzy Agents D) Genetic Algorithms

C) Fuzzy Agents

What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem? A) Artificial intelligence B) Neural network C) Genetic algorithm D) Intelligent system

C) Genetic algorithm

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

C) Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information

What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works? A) Expert systems B) Artificial intelligence C) Neural network D) Intelligent system

C) Neural network

Which of the following is not a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems? A) People must apply sophisticated analysis techniques to make good decisions B) People must make decisions quickly C) People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information D) People need to analyze large amounts of information

C) People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information

What can a model accomplish? A) Calculate risks B) Understand uncertainty C) Manipulate time D) All of the above

D) All of the above

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 the above

D) All of the above

What is a special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users? A) Neural network B) Intelligent systems C) Artificial intelligence D) Intelligent agent

D) Intelligent agent

Which of the following is a type of transaction processing system? A) Transportation B) Sales C) Manufacturing D) Order-entry

D) Order-entry

What checks the impact of a change in an assumption on the proposed solution? A) Sensitivity analysis B) Drill-down C) Goal-seeking analysis D) What-if analysis

D) What-if analysis

A Decision Support System typically relies on external soruces of information while an Executive Information System does not. True False

False

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

True

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

True

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

True