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
