MIS Chapter 9

Which of the following statements about static and dynamic reports is NOT​ accurate?

A printed sales analysis is an example of a dynamic report

Which of the below is not a part of​ "Perform Analysis" activities in the BI​ Process?

Automation

A Web server that is​ specially-built to manage and deliver business intelligence is called a​ _________.

BI server

​A(n) ________ is a Web server application that is​ purpose-built for the publishing of business intelligence.

BI server

Which of the following statements is true about business intelligence​ systems?

BI systems truly add value

​_________ are information systems that process​ operational, social, and other data to identify​ patterns, relationships, and trends for use by knowledge workers.

Business Intelligence Systems

Which of the below statements is incorrect with respect to BI​ systems?

Business intelligence may not be able to show future business trends

Which of the below​ devices/applications does not support a BI​ system?

Calculator

Which of the following is an example of a BI data​ source?

Content material

Cluster Analysis for Data Mining

Creates groups that have maximum similarity among members within each group and minimum similarity among members across the groups.

Which of the below is not a feature of a data​ mart?

Data marts distribute data to all of the data warehouses

Which of the following is not one of the fundamental categories of BI​ analysis?

Data projection

A​ ________ is a facility for managing an​ organization's BI data.

Data warehouse

Which of the following is true of a data warehouse versus a data mart?

Data warehouse employees possess data management expertise that is not typically a skill of data mart employees.

A key feature of online analytical processing is the ability to​ ________.

Drill down

In the OLAP​ report, which of the below operations is​ allowed?

Drill down

​________________ is not a basic reporting operation performed in a business intelligence application.

Editing

You can expect the outputs of a business intelligence system to be used for all of the following purposes except​ _________.

Eliminating the need to access the corporate data warehouse

​________________ is not the problem associated with operational data.

Granular data

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Unsupervised Data Mining​ technique?

HR Management

​______________ is an open source program supported by the Apache Foundation that implements MapReduce on potentially thousands of computers.

Hadoop

Which of the following statements about the future of BI is NOT​ accurate?

Humans work faster than machines, but only machines can work 24/7

​__________________ management is the application of social media and related applications for the management and delivery of organizational knowledge resources.

Hyper-social knowledge

Which of the following is a benefit of knowledge​ management?

Improves process quality

Which of the following PRIDE​ example/question is not related to​ "Problem Solving"?

Increase and revenue from competitors

Knowledge management involves creating value from the​ organization's ________.

Intelectual capital

Which of the below is false with respect to BI​ servers?

It does not adjust allocations as available results change and users come and go

Which of the below statements is false with respect to​ "market-basket analysis"?

It is a supervised data mining technique

​___________________ is the process of creating value from intellectual capital and sharing that knowledge with​ employees, managers,​ suppliers, customers, and others who need that capital.

Knowledge management

Which is not a function of a data​ warehouse?

Making decisions on data

Which of the following is a technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in​ parallel?

MapReduce

​__________________ is a technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in parallel.

MapReduce

​_________ is a data mining technique that determines sales patterns.

Market-basket analysis

All management data needed by any of the BI servers is stored in​ _________________.

Metadata

Which of the following is NOT part of data​ acquisition?

Operational databases

Which of the below is not a way of analyzing data in a Business intelligence​ (BI) system?

Purchase management

​_________ delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users.

Push publishing

​__________ can be used to rank customers based on their buying patterns.

RFM Analysis

RFM analysis does not have which of the below​ characteristics?

RFM considers the location at which a customer ordered

Which of the below is not a valid Data Source in a BI​ process?

Relational database

BigData analysis can involve both​ ____________ and​ ______________ techniques.

Reporting; data mining

Which of the following is not used to produce business intelligence through reporting​ applications?

Retracting

Which is the most popular Web server application used for business​ intelligence?

SQL Server Report Manager

Ray Kurzweil developed a concept he calls the​ __________, which is the point at which computer systems become sophisticated enough that they can adapt and create their own software and hence adapt their behavior without human assistance.

Singularity

Which of the below statements is false in the context of the​ "Publish Results"​ phase?

Specialized data mining serves are known as report servers

Which of the below exactly defines a Content Management​ System?

They are information systems that support the management and delivery of documents including​ reports, Web​ pages, and other expressions of employee knowledge.

Operational data is generally not immediately suitable for a data warehouse due to all of the following factors​ except_________.

Too few attributes

When an analyst studies some data and develops a hypothesis after viewing the results to explain the​ observations, the analyst is using​ _________.

Unsupervised data mining

Which of the following characteristics correctly define​ BigData?

Volume, velocity, and variety

​Obtaining, cleansing,​ organizing, and cataloging data are functions of​ __________.

a data warehouse

Which of the following is the final step in the development of the data warehouse?

cataloging the data

An employee needs to provide the sales team with an analysis of the product sales in its stores. He has functional expertise but does not have expertise in data management. To meet his specific requirements, the employee must source data from a __________.

data mart

Which of the following statements is true of unsupervised data mining?

data miners create the model after running the analysis

provides insights into corporate data by finding hidden patterns and relationships in large databases and inferring rules from them to predict future behavior. The patterns and rules are used to guide decision making and forecast the effect of those decisions.

data mining

Which of the following is a typical use for a business intelligence system

decision making

The primary function of a business intelligence system is to

extract patterns and predictions from data and make it available to business professionals who use them

Business intelligence systems generate business intelligence by​ __________ data.

identifying patterns in

The ratio of confidence to the base probability of buying an item is called​ _________.

lift

To enhance​ salespeople's ability to​ cross-sell, the organization can perform​ _______.

market-based analysis

regression analysis

measures the impact of a set of variables on another variable

A significant challenge associated with content management systems is​ ______.

perishable content

If you are skilled at sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data, you could work as a(n) _________.

report analyst

For analyzing the market patterns, the knowledge management team of an MNC uses information from a business intelligence system. The system is configured to perform a pull publishing process. In order to perform this process, the team must __________.

request business intelligence results

Static reports differ from dynamic reports in that __________.

static reports are BI documents that are fixed at the time of creation and do not change since they are published as PDF documents

Futurists project a time when computer systems will be able to adapt and create their own software without human​ assistance, termed​ __________.

the Singularity

Bob receives a daily sales report, which is delivered each morning. Katie gets her daily sales report results delivered on her server. The previous scenario is an example of

user subscriptions

The elements that characterize BigData are​ ________.

volume, velocity, and variety