Bus Intelligence Systems Ch. 3

Why is a performance management system superior to a performance measurement system?

because measurement alone has little use without action

In which stage of extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) into a data warehouse are anomalies detected and corrected?

cleanse

A large storage location that can hold vast quantities of data (mostly unstructured) in its native/raw format for future/potential analytics consumption is referred to as a(n)

data lake.

When querying a dimensional database, a user went from summarized data to its underlying details. The function that served this purpose is

drill down.

Which approach to data warehouse integration focuses more on sharing process functionality than data across systems?

enterprise application integration

Which data warehouse architecture uses metadata from existing data warehouses to create a hybrid logical data warehouse comprised of data from the other warehouses?

federated architecture

All of the following are benefits of hosted data warehouses EXCEPT

greater control of data.

Which data warehouse architecture uses a normalized relational warehouse that feeds multiple data marts?

hub-and-spoke data warehouse architecture

Data warehouses provide direct and indirect benefits to organizations. Which of the following is an indirect benefit of data warehouses?

improved customer service

Which kind of data warehouse is created separately from the enterprise data warehouse by a department and not reliant on it for updates?

independent data mart

All of the following are true about in-database processing technology EXCEPT

it is the same as in-memory storage technology.

Oper marts are created when operational data needs to be analyzed

multidimensionally.

Which of the following BEST enables a data warehouse to handle complex queries and scale up to handle many more requests?

parallel processing

Real-time data warehousing can be used to support the highest level of decision making sophistication and power. The major feature that enables this in relation to handling the data is

speed of data transfer.

When representing data in a data warehouse, using several dimension tables that are each connected only to a fact table means you are using which warehouse structure?

star schema

Operational or transaction databases are product oriented, handling transactions that update the database. In contrast, data warehouses are

subject-oriented and nonvolatile.

Web client that connects to a Web server, which is in turn connected to a BI application server, is reflective of a

three-tier architecture.

T/F OLTP systems are designed to handle ad hoc analysis and complex queries that deal with many data items.

False

T/F Properly integrating data from various databases and other disparate sources is a trivial process.

False

T/F User-initiated navigation of data through disaggregation is referred to as "drill up.

False

How does the use of cloud computing affect the scalability of a data warehouse?

Hardware resources are dynamically allocated as use increases.

________ is a mechanism that integrates application functionality and shares functionality (rather than data) across systems, thereby enabling flexibility and reuse.

Enterprise application integration

________ is a mechanism for pulling data from source systems to satisfy a request for information. It is an evolving tool space that promises real-time data integration from a variety of sources, such as relational databases, Web services, and multidimensional databases.

Enterprise information integration

________ is an evolving tool space that promises real-time data integration from a variety of sources, such as relational databases, Web services, and multidimensional databases.

Enterprise information integration (EII)

What is Six Sigma?

a methodology aimed at reducing the number of defects in a business process