MIS 3305 Exam 3

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

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 following is an advantage of a data mart over a data warehouse?

data marts can address particular functional areas of an organiation

________ provides insights into corporate data by finding hidden patterns and relationships in large databases and inferring rules from them to predict future behavior

data mining

which of the following is not one of the fundamental components of the BI process?

data projection

A _______ is a facility for managing an organization's BI data.

data warehouse

Business Intelligence application acquire data by using a ________

data warehouse DBMS

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

_________ help managers solve non-routine problems for which solutions are not fully predicted in advance.

decision-support systems

which of the following is true of static reports?

in the BI context, most static reports are published as PDF documents

which of the following describes business intelligence?

patterns, trends, and predictions used by knowledge workers

which of the following is not used to produce business intelligence through reporting applications?

retracting

a web server that is specially-built to manage and deliver business intelligence is called a ________

BI server

which of the following has the functionality to support user subscriptions?

BI server

_________ 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 following scenarios best exemplifies the application of data mining?

Eric uses statistical techniques to find hidden patterns in existing data that will help him estimate the future values of sales figures

which of the following statements is true of a cluster analysis?

a cluster analysis is used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics

which of the following best describes a data warehouse?

a facility that obtains, cleanses, organizes, and catalogs an organization's business intelligence data

which of the following statements is true of a regression analysis?

a regression analysis is used to measure the effect of a set of variables on another variable

which of the following is the first step in a business intelligence process?

acquiring data

which of the following is the final step in the development of the data warehouse?

cataloging the data

which of the following is the goal of reporting analysis?

creating information about past performance

A _______ is a data collection, which addresses the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business.

data mart

the primary function of a business intelligence system is to __________.

extract patterns and prediction from data and make it available to business professionals who use them

Which of the following is NOT a typical use of a business intelligence system?

obtaining data

Which of the following describes acquiring data?

obtaining data, cleansing data, organizing data, and cataloging data

________ delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users

push publishing

which of the following describes push publishing, not pull publishing?

push publishing delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users

________ is used to measure the effect of a set of variables on another variable

regression analysis

if you are skilled at sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data, you could work as a(n)__________.

reporting analyst

which of the following is true about business intelligence analysis?

the three fundamental categories of BI analysis are reporting, data mining, and BigData

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 statements is true of unsupervised data mining?

with this technique, data miners create the model after running the analysis

which of the following statements is true of supervised data mining?

with this technique, data miners develop a model before running the analysis