MIS Week 12 Quiz

Which of the following BI tools or abilities has been driving the movement toward "smart cities"?

Big data analytics

Google Search engine is an example of which of the following types of decision?

High-velocity

When there is no well-understood or agreed-on procedure for making a decision, it is said to be:

unstructured

which type of decision is deciding whether to introduce a new product line?

unstructured

an information system for a building company tracks construction costs for various projects across the US would be categorized as a type of:

MIS

The third stage in Simon's description of decision-making is implementation

false

operational management face primarily semi structured decisions

false

MIS typically produce:

fixed, regularly scheduled reports based on data extracted from the organization's TPS

A drawback to high-velocity, automated decision-making systems is that:

great care needs to be taken to ensure the proper operation of the system since they are making decisions faster than managers can monitor or control

Which of the following statements best describes the business value of improved decision making at all levels of a firm?

improved decision-making results in a large monetary value for the firm as numerous small daily decisions affecting efficiency, production, costs, and more add up to large annual values

As discussed in the chapter test, Slack Technologies uses which of the following to identify customers who are most likely to use its products frequently and upgrade to its paid services?

predictive analysis

BI that is designed to determine the most likely effects of changes in the business environment is called

predictive analysis

What type of decision is determining vacation eligibility for an employee

structured

What-If analysis works forward from known or assumed conditions

true

an unstructured decision is novel and important and requires the decision-maker to provide judgment, evaluation, and insight.

true

Which of the following describes how the Simon framework of decision-making works in high velocity decision environments?

all four steps of the process are handled by software algorithms; humans are eliminated from the decisions because they are too slow

A(n) ____ is a BI feature that presents performance data defined by users

dashboard

What best describes business intelligence?

the infrastructure for warehousing, integrating, reporting, and analyzing business data

BPM uses ideas similar to the balanced scorecard framework with a stronger emphasis on strategy

true

The data driven framing system described in the chapter-opening case are an example of operational intelligence

true