MIS 111 ICQ+ PAR's Exam 2
Taxes, FICA and other Payroll Deductions can easily be what percentage of a person's paycheck? A. 15% B.25% C. 35% D. 45%
35%
What is the name of a highly popular crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses that coordinates the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do?
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Line Charts are useful for performing what task about with a dataset? A. comparing absolute magnitudes B. Analyzing data trends over time C. Comparing relative data importance D. Finding clusters within the data
Analyzing data trends over time
_________ are/ is the most effective and efficient way of doing things, readily available to a wide range of employees.
Best practices
What type of visualization essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots? A. treemap charts B. Bubble Charts C. Stacked Area Charts D. Donut Charts
Bubble Charts
Which of the following supply chain activities eliminate the need for the " 3 way match" process?
CFAR
ERP ___________ systems also benefit businesses by generating forecasting analyses of product consumption based on critical variables such as geographical area, season, day of the week, and type of customer.
CRM
What type of data mining analysis would be used to produce the Clery report, which is based crimes for the preceding 3 calendar years committed in physical (geographic) proximity to a college campus?
Clustering
In the video case about the factory of the future, what term did Goldman Sachs use to describe the man machine system?
Cobots
What approach to knowledge management would best describe the MIS 111 study halls?
Community of Practice
Facebook's DeepFace algorithm can identify uses what technology to identify poorly lit and hartially hidden faces in images?
Computer vision
What aspect of an Entity Relationship Diagram is used to enforce business rules, such as maximum number of classes a student can take? A. Attribute B. Constraint C. Entity D. Relationship
Constraint
We have often said "what gets measured gets done", what key sales metric does management need to measure to evaluate the effectiveness of sales?
Conversions of Leads to Sales
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of web-based call centers located overseas?
Cost
Why is shortage gaming the most difficult of the bullwhip effects for a company to manage?
Customer deception
If your sales team shows a customer's name as "Johnny Smith", but your shipping department knows the customer as "John A. Smith", what type of data problem does this issue represent? A. Data Security B. Data Inconsistency C. Data Redundancy D. Data Isolation
Data Inconsistency
_______ supports local control, whereas ______ support central control.
Data marts; data warehouses
Setting the criteria for making a choice and searching for alternatives typically occurs in what phase?
Design
What is the name used to describe daily spending decisions like eating at a restaurant, buying clothes, drinking Starbucks, or playing a round of Golf? A.Fixed B. Intermittent C. Variable D. Discretionary
Discretionary
The practice of spreading money among different investments to reduce risk is commonly known as what? A. Risk Balancing B. Diversification C. Risk Hedging D. Investment Balancing
Diversification
What type of visualization allows you to plot data using two y-axes (variables) and a shared x-axis (usually time), visualizing a correlation between the two y-axes data sets? A. Funnel Chart B. Box and Whisker Chart C, Radar Chart D. Dual Axis Chart
Dual Axis chart
_______ is one process used for data integration.
ETL
When analyzing the performance of students on Exam 1, which of the following would not be a useful dimension in an OLAP data cube?
Email addresses
In your telephone contacts, the list of all possible fields (names, address, telephone numbers, etc) that can be saved for each contract would be described using what term? A. Data Abstraction B. Entity C. Entity Class
Entity
What term is used to describe an abstract representation of All possible attributes of a particular type of entity? A. instantiated Entity B. Entity Class C. Entity relationship D. Entity Constraint
Entity Class
What is the process of identifying metrics that are outside of acceptable tolerance levels.
Exception Reporting
Translating a business document from English to Spanish is an example of what type of knowledge management conversion?
Explicit to Explicit
Byin parallel and anonymously allowing group members to contribute ideas online, the ThinkTank system could help a participant overcome which of the following difficulties?
Fear of speaking
________ flows involve money transfers, payments, credit card information and authorization, payment schedules, e-payments, and credit-related data.
Financial
When budgeting the amount you spend for rent is considered: A. Fixed Expenses B. Variable Expenses C. Discretionary expenses
Fixed expenses
What term is used to describe a field attribute that identifies a record into another database table with the goal of minimizing data redundancy? A. Attribute B. Primary Key C. Foreign Key D. Entity Class
Foreign Key
______ is used to plan and control Business Intelligence Activities.
Governance
According to IT's About Business 5.2, TrueCar adopted ____ because it had to handle ____.
Hadoop; Structured and unstructured data
What regents professor on the MIS Faculty at the UofA developed the COPLINK system for managing knowledge and visualizing information used by law enforcement officers?
Hsinchun Chen
What type of inventory demand is derived and based on the forecasted need for finished products?
Independent demand
If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will VLOOKUP return?
It will return the value of the first match
What regents professor on the MIS Faculty at the UofA developed the THINKTANK system?
JAY Nunamaker
What term describes the cost savings inventory management approach using SCOR and MRP to schedule the delivery of parts close to the time as items is used in the production process?
Just-in-time
On Your Personal Financial Balance sheet, your student loan is classified in what category? A.Asset B. Liability C. Net Worth
Liability
Which of the following visualizations would be most effective in displaying relative magnitudes of data over time? A. Line charts B. Column Charts C. Scatterplot Charts D. Treemap Chart
Line Charts
The pull model is also called ________ which means the production process begins with a ________.
Make-to-order; customer order
________ is part of the ________ process and occurs when the company is trying to fulfill a specific customer order.
Make-to-order; production
____ are a set of core data that span the enterprise information systems. A. Master Data Management B. Transaction Data C. Data Governance D. Master Data
Master Data
Understanding Fees is critical to understanding Investments. Fees can take a huge bite out of investment returns. Which fees might a Mutual Fund have that can impact your return? A. Maintenance Fees B. Mutual funds can have some or even all of these fees C. Selling Fees D. Expenses E. Buying Fees
Mutual Funds can have some or even all of these fees
Allocating resources based on the frequency of past incidents in an area would be an example of using what predictive DM strategy?
Nearest neighbor
What term means users that cannot change or updated the data in data warehouses or data marts?
Nonvolatile
Which of the following is a use of neural networks?
Processing of images and sounds
In the project prioritization example if Priority was based on the announced date for a vendor's end-of-life support for a information system currently used in our production line, would this be a quantitative or qualitative decision?
Quantitative
Machine learning is still not as good as people in most cases but in some cases better than people in regard to ___________.
Recognizing patterns and relationships
Which of the following is a benefit of telecommuting for employees?
Reduced Stress
Words such as "enrolled" and "teaches" are used to indicate what aspect of a database? A. Attribute B. Constraint C. Relationship
Relationship
An investors willingness to potentially loose their money in exchange for the potential of higher returns is called their? A. risk tolerance B. Investing Tolerance C. aggressiveness Quotient D. Diversification
Risk tolerance
Who was the founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program?
Ronald S. Weinstein
As Part of their Smart Campus research, what MIS researcher is using CatCard data (digital traces) to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention, or their likelihood of returning to campus after their freshmen year?
SUDHA RAM
The value of the "all time" total sales created by this projection could be calculated using what Excel function?
SUM
What type of electronic commerce helps shoppers connect with one another based on tastes, location, age, gender, and other selected attributes allowing them to share information using voting, comments, discussions, and reviews focused on shopping?
Social Shopping
Put the production steps of the SCOR model in the correct order
Source, Make, Deliver
What term is used to describe paid-for product ratings and reviews?
Sponsored Reviews
Which of the following is NOT a primary objective of ERP?
Streamline the manufacturing process
What type of knowledge is described as being subjective, cognitive and experiential?
Tacit
_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.
Tacit Knowledge
_____ is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning
Tacit knowledge
Creating a business process that can be franchised is an example of what type of knowledge management conversion?
Tacit to Explicit
Cisco uses the term " the power of in-person" to describe the ability of what technology to improve access to subject matter experts and to open doors for small business people?
Telepresence
Telemedicine's approach is similar to what other collaborative business process?
Telepresence
What type of information system that we've discussed could support the change to more virtual collaboration in the product design process
Telepresence
________ is a disadvantage of EDI.
The number of standards
The adoption of CPFAR still eliminate the need for which of the following business processes?
Three-Way Match
The guiding principles to investing include many things, but one of the most critical protections against risk and market downturns is what? A. time B. Planning C. Investigating before Investing D. Avoiding the costs of Delay
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.
Turning
________ simplifies and integrates all forms of communication on a common hardware and software platform.
UC
In the prior case study, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues EXCEPT
Validating
When budgeting, the amount you spend for gas, utilities, and grocery bills are considered as: A. Fixed (Periodic) Expenses B. Variable (Flexible) expenses C. Discretionary Expenses
Variable expenses
When you check your credit score for incorrect information, you're responding to which of the " 4 V's"?
Veracity
Values in the first column of a "table_array" are most similar to what database concept?
a key
Big Data primarily deal with ____ data. A. unstructured B. semi-structured C. structured D. all of these types of
all of these types of
What term is used to describe obtainingopinions from a large group of people work, information, or who submit their data via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps. ?
crowdsourcing
In the ______________ component of SCM, the organization should manage the logistics process.
deliver
According to IT's About Business 5.4, Performance Bicycle uses employee knowledge to help customers find products and relevant multimedia content about them. This is an example of ________ knowledge in the KMS cycle.
disseminating
Which of the following is an informational role?
disseminator
What type of knowledge is Objective, rational, and technical such as policies and procedures?
explicit
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 ___________.
explicit knowledge
You want to spend a maximum of $100,000 on your first house. You need to use a(n) _____ analysis to figure out the location and size of those types of homes.
goal-seeking
Data warehouses is a repository of ____data, used primarily by ____ companies.
historical, large
Data ___________ means all applications are able to access the same data, which is ___________ by databases.
independence; maximized
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
Setting "range_lookup" to False result in VLOOKUP?
only returning exact matches
A(n) _____________ agent constantly observes and reports on some item of interest, such as updated information on airline tickets.
predictive
Targeted marketing relies on _________ analytical information.
predictive
Productivity is a
ratio between the inputs and outputs for which a manager is responsible.
A ____ generally describes an entity. A. Record B. Field C. Byte D. file
record
After checking your kitchen for ingredients, your shopping list would formally be known as
shortages
Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.
source data automation
Identifying majors with specific language and mathematics requirements using the degree search selection filters help you solve what type of business problem?
structured
What term describes individuals with tactic knowledge about a particular domain?
subject matter experts
You want to make sure your entire organization is using a single data warehouse instead of using a data mart for every department. This is an example of
the development of infrastructure to support enterprise-wide analytics.
According to IT's About Business 6.3, Raytheon engineers sit with potential clients in a CAVE ________ to explore 3D models together.
videoconference
When you exchange documents with your co-workers through organization-approved methods, this is considered __________.
workflow