MIS 111 Module 2
Based on "website visits to closes' 78,000 "valid contacts" produces 13,000 "closes", if our marketing team wants to double our closes, how many valid contacts do we estimate our company to identify?
160,000
Geoff Wilson's first product took _________ months to develop; today, his company can bring a minimum viable product to customers in _________ month(s).
18; 3
A(n) ____________ is an agent or a vendor who assembles the software needed by enterprises and then packages it with services such as development, operations, and maintenance.
ASP
What incentive would motivate you to change your driving plans to the time/route by Smarttrak?
Ability to avoid traffic congestion, saving your time commuting Ability to earn points for prizes or charity
The MVP approach used by 352 uses the _________ methodology.
Agile development
By allowing group members to contribute ideas anonymously online, ThinkTank system could help prevent
All of the above(fear of speaking, lack of focus, hidden agendas)
If we want to know how much is spent on food, what type should be put in the values box?
Amount
When a company purchases high-value software package, how is the ownership of the software package represented on the company's balance sheet?
Asset
What Data Mining analysis method is used to identify instances where 1 event is closely connected to another? Formally, implication, in that A implies (A → B)
Association
__________________ are/is the most effective and efficient way of doing things, readily available to a wide range of employees.
Best practices
Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with Big Data? Big Data changes. Big Data can come from untrusted sources. Big Data lacks inaccurate, incomplete, incorrect, duplicate, or erroneous. Big Data can be structured, unstructured, or semi-structured.
Big Data can be structured, unstructured, or semi-structured.
In a business process diagram, the comparison used to make a decision is known as what type of expression?
Boolean
What step in a group decision support system would be used to identify all the possible key issues in a category
Brainstorming
What type of visualization essentially adds a third dimension, such as frequency or quantity, to scatter plots?
Bubble Charts
____________________ provides justification for a specific requirement investment by providing a bridge between the initial plan and its execution.
Business case approach
Which of the following supply chain activities eliminates the need for the "3-way match" process
CFAR collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment
What approach to knowledge would the mis study halls be?
Community of practice
Which of the following is NOT a use for data mining?
Comparing products
_____________ is the ability of information systems to identify objects, scenes, and activities in images.
Computer vision
What aspect of an ER diagram is used to enforce business rules, such as maximum or minimum number of classes a student can take?
Constraint
________ is a disadvantage of cloud-based ERP systems.
Control
_________ is a disadvantage of the buy option.
Control
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?
Data Inconsistency
___________ support local control, whereas ____________ support central control.
Data marts; data warehouses
__________ can perform two basic operations: 1) identifying previously unknown patters and 2) predicting trends and behaviors.
Data mining
Your company decides to keep copies of your invoices on CDs. You decide the safest place to store them is in your company's basement since it is secure and people rarely go down there. When you get audited, you find the CDs got ruined during a recent rainstorm when the basement got flooded; you don't have access to the information for your audit. This is an example of _______.
Data rot
In a business process diagram, a diamond shape is used to indicate what action?
Decision
What type of inventory demand is derived and based on the forecasting need for finished products?
Dependent Demand
Setting the criteria and searching for alternatives typically occurs in what phase?
Design
Upper CASE tools automate which of the following stages of the SDLC?
Design
Which of the following is a characteristic of natural intelligence?
Difficult and expensive to duplicate and disseminate knowledge
Converting all MIS 111 students from clickers to response cards without an initial test period is an example of what type of conversion?
Direct Conversion
Which of the following is an informational role?
Disseminator
A blockchain is really just a what?
Distributed Ledger
What type of visualization allows you to plot data using 2 y-axes and a shared x-axis(usually time) visualizing a correlation between 2 y-axes data sets?
Dual Axis Chart
_________________________ is a communication standard that enables business partners to exchange routine documents electronically.
EDI
Operational, transactional and ________ systems are examples of a source system for a data warehouse.
ERP
According to IT's About Business 10.1, the Army is trying to implement a(n) ________ to replace its legacy systems.
ERP system
____________ is one process used for data integration.
ETL
When analyzing the performance of students on Exam , 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(name, address, telephone number, etc) that can be saved for each contact would be described using what term?
Entity Class
What term is used to describe an abstract representation of ALL possible attributes of a particular type of entity?
Entity Class
What is the process of identifying metrics that are outside of acceptable tolerance levels?
Exception reporting
________ deals with more objective, rational, and technical knowledge.
Explicit knowledge
What type of mps scheduling resulted in MPS planning a quantity of 100 units?
Fixed order quantity
________ is a benefit of ERP.
Flexibility
Which of the following companies would use a push model?
Ford
What term is used to describe a field that identifies a record into another database table with the goal of minimizing data redundancy?
Foreign Key
Which Ford product link represents the largest market opportunity?
Fusion
_____________ 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
Which of the following is not typically considered a challenge of implementing a KMS?
Having knowledge-based business problems
Which of the following is NOT a solution to supply chain problems?
Horizontal integration
The ____________________ is a summary of information needs of the functional areas and of the organization as a whole.
IT environment
Amazon uses a(n) ____________ agent for its recommendation system.
Information
Which of the following steps of the SDLC involves the user significantly more than the developer?
Investigation
Bitcoin's ledger technology is quite complex to prevent fraud, an example of which is given in the paper, what was the example and how did it work?
It was a 'Double Spend' where the hacker paid a merchant and themselves then invalidated the merchant payment
According to IT's About Business 5.4, Performance Bicycle used a(n) ________ system to increase its sales.
KMS
What term is used to describe a specific metric that determines the success or failure of a task?
Key Performance Indicator
By allowing group members to contribute ideas in parallel and anonymously online it helps overcome which of the following difficulties?
Lack of focus, hidden agendas, fear of speaking (all of the above)
Which of the following visualizations would be most effective in displaying relative magnitudes of data over time?
Line charts
Which of the following is a characteristic of AI?
Low creativity
________ is part of the ________ process and occurs when the company is trying to fulfill a specific customer order.
Make-to-order; production
Allocating resources based on the frequency of past incidents in an area would be an example of what predictive DM strategy?
Nearest Neighbor
A(n) _______________ is a set of CPUs which work in parallel in an attempt to simulate the way the human brain works, although in greatly simplified form.
Neural network
What term means the user cannot change or update the data in data warehouses or data marts?
Nonvolatile
Qualitative
Often necessary when a design is based on Tacit Knowledge
Quantitative
Often used when a decision is based on Explicit Knowledge or objective facts Involves analysis using math in some form
Who can submit new transactions to Bitcoin's Ledger?
Open, Pseudonymous contributors
___________________ control is executing specific tasks efficiently and effectively.
Operational
The _________ identifies the firm's overall mission, the goals that follow from that mission, and the broad steps required to reach these goals.
Organization strategic plan
A(n) _____________ agent constantly observes and reports on some item of interest, such as updated information on airline tickets.
Predictive
What term is used to describe when both the consumer and retailer are informed of the price of an item pre and post purchased?
Price Transparency
In the project prioritization ex, if "priority" was based on announced date for a vendors end of life support for
Quantitative
In the last example, a group of fields all associated with a unique identifier, such as an SSN, would be described using what database term?
Record
Normalizing the sales: Which region's manager should get a sale's incentive bonus?
Region 1 (blue)
If total units is our Critical Success Factor which region's manager should get a sale's incentive bonus?
Region 2 (yellow)
Words such as "enrolled" and "teaches" are used to indicate what aspect of a database?"
Relationship
What topic from Data Mining is closely related to decision trees?
Rule Induction
________ is part of the ________ process and involves sending goods that are in the warehouse to customers.
Sell-from-stock; fulfillment
Which of the factors in the bullwhip effect was due to deception between two trading partners?
Shortage gaming
According to IT's About Business 10.1, legacy systems were developed as _________.
Silos
What type of electronic commerce helps shoppers connect with 1 another based on tastes, location, age, gender, and other selected attribute allowing them to share info using voting, comments, 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
Identifying majors with specific language and mathematics requirements using the Degree Search selection filters help you solve what type of business problem?
Structured problem
What type of problem has an optimal solution that can be solved through a single steps, using an algorithm?
Structured problem
What term describes the individuals with tacit knowledge that have knowledge about a particular domain
Subject matter experts
The value of "all time" total sales created by this projection could be calculated using what Excel Function?
Sum
________ is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning.
Tacit knowledge
_______________ is knowledge that is generally imprecise, costly to transfer, and difficult to formalize or codify.
Tacit knowledge
How does the Heart Attack Diagnoses Decision Tree transform medical expert's knowledge?
Tacit to Explicit
Creating a business process that can be franchised is an example of what type of knowledge management conversion?
Tacit to explicit
Running examitys computer check to determine if your computer has the proper hardware to take on online exam
Technical feasibility
What type of info system could support the change to a more virtual collaboration in the product design process?
Telepresence
Which of the following is NOT a reason managing data is difficult.
The amount of data is decreasing exponentially with time.
_________ is a technical aspect of the IT architecture.
The applications software
Nonvolatile in the context of a data warehouse means ________________.
The data cannot be changed or updated by users of the data warehouse.
________ is a disadvantage of EDI.
The number of standards
After checking your kitchen for ingredients your shopping list would be formally known as?
The shortages
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.
Turing
If we want to know how much is spent on food, what field should be put in the rows box?
Type
_________ is a capability that is direct and rich in possibilities when performed by natural human intelligence than AI, which is often limited.
Use of sensory experiences
The auto-fill functionality on your web browser is a(n) _________ agent.
User
If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be returned?
VLOOKUP will return the value based on the first match
Which of the following do extranets use to make communication over the internet more secure?
VPN
The 4 "V's" of big data are volume, variety, velocity, and ___
Veracity
When you check your credit score for the incorrect information, you're responding to which of the 4 "V's"?
Veracity
________ is a business strategy in which a company purchases its ________ suppliers to ensure that its essential supplies are available as soon as the company needs them.
Vertical integration; upstream
According to IT's About Business 11.5, the Caribou Coffee case is an example of ________.
an extranet for a company and its dealers, customers, or suppliers
Each characteristic or quality of a particular entity is called a(n) ________.
attribute
Your company's employee base is mostly comprised of older people who generally dislike and distrust technology. These human issues must be considered in the _________ feasibility of implementing a new system.
behavioral
Expert systems ______ replace human experts by applying expertise in a _____ domain.
can; specific
According to IT's About Business 5.3, ________ are/is an example of open data from governments used in the Ebola fight in Africa.
census data
Managers and executives are commonly information ______________, because they use information created by IT developers and analysts.
consumers
ccording to IT's About Business 13.1, a _________ allows programmers to develop an application that includes its own environment and can run as it was developed regardless of the operating system on which it was deployed.
container
Which of the following is the correct order for the KMS cycle?
create, capture, refine, store, manage, disseminate
If you want to know what items customers typically buy together so that you can place them next to each other on the shelf, you would be using
data mining
You would use OLAP and DSS as statistical procedures for __________ analytics.
descriptive
Validation of the model occurs in the _______ phase of the IDC.
design
On January 1st, you are shutting down your current, legacy system and moving to your new ERP system. This is called a ______________ conversion.
direct
Small companies typically use _______ for their BA.
excel
Suppose you work for XYZ Corporation. You know you can contribute 6% of your salary to a 401K and the company will match that 100% after 6 years of service because it is documented in the employee handbook. Your ability to understand this company policy is an example of ________.
explicit knowledge
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
Supply chain visibility enhances supply chain _________.
flexibility
________________________ process involves customer requests and receiving payments.
fulfillment
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 information silos by _____________.
integrating functional areas
ERP originally only addressed ____________ business processes.
internal
Intellectual capital is also called __________.
knowledge
Successful managers have always valued _____________ as an important intellectual asset.
knowledge
The pull model is also called ________ which means the production process begins with a ________.
make-to-order; customer order
The push model is also called ________ which means the production process begins with a ________.
make-to-stock; forecast
________ are a set of core data that span the enterprise information systems.
master data
Information about data sources; database, table, and column names; refresh schedules; and data-usage measures are collectively define what issue about the information in a data warehouse.
metadata
What term is used to describe the visual images on executive dashboards that are really recognizable and easily understood?
models
Data marts can be implemented ________ compared to data warehouses.
more quickly
The information in data warehouses and data marts generally are __________, which means they are organized by business dimensions, which are subjects such as product, geographic area, and time period.
multidimensional
Commonly occuring, well defined business activities such as scheduling an employee's work hours is an
operational decision
________ analytics examines recent and historical data to detect patterns and predict future outcomes and trends.
predictive
The ________ process originates in the warehouse department and ends in the warehouse department.
production
A ________ generally describes an entity.
record
Which of the following is a decisional role?
resource allocator
Sensors, RFID tags, meters, GPS, and other devices are used to collect supply chain information. These are all examples of __________.
source data automation
___________ focuses on automatically and accurately transcribing human speech.
speech recognition
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 infastructure to support enterprise-wide analytics.
Data marts are typically associated with
the development of one or a few related analytics applications.
Knowledge management systems (KMSs) can make an organization's human capital accessible as they cope with _________________.
turnover, rapid change, and downsizing.
The relational database model is based on the concept of ________-dimensional tables.
two
In the prior case study, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program focuses on developing skills in business except:
validating
A data ________ is a repository of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in the organization .
warehouse