MIS 111 Exam 2 (ICQs and PARs)

Which of Thomas Freidman's "flattners" related to technologies related to how content can be digitized and therefore shaped, manipulated, and transmitted; how processes can be done at high speed with total ease; and how mobile can be done anywhere and anytime by anyone; and can be done by anyone?

"The Steroids"

The symbol we use in MS Excel for Absolute Addressing is what?

$ (US Dollar Sign)

Data marts are typically associated with

4) the development of one or a few related analytics applications.

According to IT's About Business 2.3, illegal logging accounts for _________ percent of all trees harvested.

50-90

0 / 1 point What Data Mining method is similar to the approach used by IS Case-based reasoning?

Association

What is the Elevator Test?

Being able to present the main point in 30 seconds

__________________ are/is the most effective and efficient way of doing things, readily available to a wide range of employees.

Best Practices

What implementation approach mixes and matches core ERP modules as well as other extended ERP modules from different software providers to best fit their unique internal processes and value chains?

Best-of-breed approach

Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with Big Data?

Big Data can be structured, unstructured, or semi-structured.

Which of the following is FALSE? Big Data is often inaccurate, incomplete, incorrect, or erroneous. Big Data changes, especially in data streams. Big Data can come from untrusted sources. Big Data is valuable because it is structured.

Big Data is valuable because it is structured.

Which of the following is TRUE?

Big Data systems perform well because they contain huge amounts of data on which to base their predictions.

What type of chart essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots?

Bubble Charts

What are the equivalent concepts in Excel to the following database terms: Field, Record, and a Table, respectively?

Cell, Row, Worksheet

Analysis Methods - Which of the following types of analysis would be used to produce the Clery report*, which is a public annual security report (ASR) that includes statistics of campus crime for the preceding 3 calendar years identifying the crimes committed in physical (geographic) proximity to a college campus as an effort to improve campus safety? * The "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act" (Clery Act), is a federal law that requires institutions of higher education in the United States to disclose campus security information including crime statistics for the campus and surrounding areas.

Cluster

Which of the following is NOT a use for data mining?

Comparing Products

Which of the following decisions would *not* be a quantitative decision?

Comparing project objectives with corporate objectives

What MS Excel funtion could be used to implement IS Rule Induction?

Conditional Formatting

_________ involves companies providing standard specifications for different consumer groups.

Consumer segmentation

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas?

Cost

Which of the following is NOT a reason some US companies are moving their call center operations back to the US?

Cost

In the Ruby Tuesday's sales analysis case, analyzing historical data about the sales dimensions of products categories, sales regions, and months of the year would be best using which of the following approaches we've previously discussed?

Data cubes

__________________________ is an approach to managing information across an entire organization.

Data governance

___________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.

Data marts; data warehouses

What information-related issues does using a relational database model solve?

Data redundancy

Which of the following is an informational role?

Disseminator

What type of chart allows you to plot data using two y-axes and a shared x-axis, visualizing a correlation or the lack thereof between the two y-axes data sets?

Dual Axis Chart

ERP systems that include administrative, sales, marketing, and HR processes are referred to as _________.

ERP II

____________ is one process used for data integration.

ETL

One of the impacts of Globalization is the the Economics of Distance (Transportation Costs) has been replaced by what?

Economies of Attention

What is the process of identifying metrics that are outside of acceptable tolerance levels?

Exceptiuon Reporting

__________ analysis focuses on the outputs rather than the inputs.

Goal-seeking

What term did Thomas Friedman's use to describe the impact of globalization where individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions (such as capital markets and multinational corporations)?

Golden Straightjacket

Big Data Tools - What is the collective name for a set of open source programs and procedures, such as MapReduce and Yarn, that commonly provide the "backbone" of their big data operations?

Hadoop

Which of the following is not typically considered a challenge of implementing a KMS?

Having knowledge-based business problems

________ is an advantage of telecommuting for employers.

Increased productivity

In the decision process, problem identification and classification occur during which phase?

Intelligence

Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana are examples of _______.

Intelligent Agents

According to IT's About Business 5.4, Performance Bicycle used a(n) ________ system to increase its sales.

KMS

What is the one key rule in designing a Presnetation

Keep it simple

Intellectual capital is also called __________.

Knowledge

Successful managers have always valued _____________ as an important intellectual asset.

Knowledge

According to IT's About Business 2.5, _________ is a startup that allows consumers to send in a full body picture taken in tight clothes. Their website is social and allows customers to discuss potential purchases within their network.

LoveThatFit

________ is part of the ________ process and occurs when the company is trying to fulfill a specific customer order.

Make-to-order; production

___________ is NOT a problem associated with expert systems.

Making recommendations

Ford's original strategy was _________.

Mass production

_______ is a process that spans all organizational business processes and applications.

Master data management

_________________ flows are the physical products, raw materials, and suppliers that flow along the chain.

Material

Which rule of thumb must you follow?

None of the rules of thumb are absolute musts

Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into represents what?

One actor

Which phase of of PowerPoint Presentations do professionals spend the most time on?

Practicing

________ analytics examines recent and historical data to detect patterns and predict future outcomes and trends.

Predictive

______ analytics require _______ analytics.

Prescriptive; predictive

If we are trying to select the projects to do first, what projects should we select?

Projects that easy to do and also have a high value proposition

CODASYL, the Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages, is remembered almost entirely for two activities: its work on the development of the COBOL language and its activities in standardizing database interfaces. We've learned about the pioneers of databases (Chen and Codd) today, who is credited for developing FLOW-MATIC, which evoled into the COBOL, the widely used business programming language?

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

Database systems minimize ________.

Redundancy

In a decision matrix, a "weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the analysis?

Relative importance

ERP ______________ systems have the capability to place automatic requests to buy products from suppliers in real time.

SCM

Which of the following is a problem with BYOD?

Security

What is the most important rule in presenting?

Show your passion

According to IT's About Business 6.3, ________ is an obstacle of Raytheon's CAVE.

Space for the 3D Screens

A Mekko, or Marimekko or market map chart, which paints a picture of the overall market and helps to drive discussions about growth opportunities or acquisitions by showing the relationship between each segment or bar to the total. A Mekko chart is similar to what other type of chart discussed in class?

Stacked Bar Chart

When Planning the presentation, what is the number one rule?

Start with the end in mind

As a purchasing manager, you have to purchase products every week to replenish your inventory. This is a(n) ________ decision.

Structured

___________ decisions deal with routine and repetitive problems.

Structured

When classifying items on an I^2 diagram, we depend on individuals with domain knowledge and consultants about the items. What name do we use to describe an individual with domain knowledge?

Subject-matter Expert

Smart Campus - As part of their Smart Campus research, what MIS researcher is using CatCard data (digital traces) to analytize students' routines and relationships to predict student retention, or their likelihood of returning to campus after their freshman year?

Sudha Ram

Each long vertical or horizontal element in a cross-functional flowchart we put processes and decisions into is called what?

Swimlane

Originally spun out of Stanford University as a research project, what big data tool started out by offering visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes and has expanded to include Big Data research?

Tableau

_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.

Tacit knowledge

Thomas Friedman was quoted as saying, "We're in the middle of 3 accelerations; the market, mother nature, and Moore's law. Moore's law says the power of microchips will double every 24 months, mother nature is climate change, biodiversity loss and population, and the market is digital globalization." What is Moore's Law?

The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years

Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, the accounting team checks that the purchase order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all match. What is the term that is used to describe this auditing process?

Three-way Match

In a vertical cross-functional diagram, items are ordered in one coumn relates to what?

Time

The __________________ test proposes a scenario in which a man and a computer both pretend to be women or men, and a human interviewer has to identify which is the real human.

Turing

Long term weather predictions are generally considered what type of problem?

Unstructured

When applying for advanced standing in the Eller College of Management, the process of selecting your major would be best described as having what characteristics of a decision?

Unstructured and Strategic

_________ agents automatically take action on your behalf by performing routine tasks such as fill out forms on the web for you.

User

If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be returned?

VLOOKUP will return a value based on the the first match

In the case study presented in class, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except:

Validating

When you check your credit score for incorrect information, you're responding to which of the "4 V's" discussed for "big data" in the financial reporting business sector?

Veracity

________ is a business strategy in which a company purchases its ________ suppliers to ensure that its essential supplies are available as soon as the company needs them.

Vertical integration; upstream

What type of chart would be typically be used to show how the an initial value is affected by intermediate values -- either positive or negative -- and resulted in the composition of a final value?

Waterfall Charts

Which of the following is *NOT* a behavioral issue for meetings?

Wrong people

Of the items used that identify you uniquely at the University of Arizona, which one can be used as a primary key (unique identifier) outside the University?

Your UA email address

Managers and executives are commonly information ______________, because they use information created by IT developers and analysts.

comsumers

According to IT's About Business 5.3, ________ are/is an example of open data from governments used in the Ebola fight in Africa.

consensus data

Affinity analysis is a(n) _________ application.

data mining

Suppose you work for XYZ Corporation. You know you can contribute 6% of your salary to a 401K and the company will match that 100% after 6 years of service because it is documented in the employee handbook. Your ability to understand this company policy is an example of ________.

explicit knowledge

1 / 1 point Strong AI that matches or exceeds human intelligence is __________ and could be considered to have __________.

hypothetical; sentience

Data ___________ means all applications are able to access the same data, which is ___________ by databases.

independence; maximized

When analyzing the performance of students in MIS 111 on Exam 1, which of the following would not be appropriate as a useful "dimension" in an OLAP data cube?

individual email addresses

ERP address the problem of ________ in ___________.

information silos; FAIS

ERP address information silos by _____________.

integrating functional areas

Data marts can be implemented ________ compared to data warehouses.

more quickly

A ________ generally describes an entity.

record

Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.

source data automation

You are a new employee of ABC Corportation and are told to read documentation that outlines the company's policies, procedural guides, reports, products, strategies, and goals. Your learning is focused on ___________.

tacit knowledge

_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.

tacit knowledge

Knowledge management systems (KMSs) can make an organization's human capital accessible as they cope with _________________.

turnover, rapid change, and downsizing.

When you use Google Drive to work on a document with a classmate, this is considered _________.

virtual collaboration

A data ________ is a repository of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in the organization .

warehouse