PLS Midterm 2 SG Ch. 5, 10
Ch 5: Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with Big Data?
Big Data can be structured, unstructured, or semi-structured.
Ch 10: ________ is an approach that integrates various automated factory systems.
CIM
Ch 10: ________ is an advantage of cloud-based ERP systems.
Cost
Ch 10: ERP systems that include administrative, sales, marketing, and HR processes are referred to as _________.
ERP II
Ch 5: Africa collaborated with ________ to stop the Ebola virus outbreak in 2013 and 2014.
IBM
Ch 10: ________ is the correct evolution of POM planning.
MRP MRP II ERP
Ch 10: ________ is part of the ________ process and occurs when the company is trying to increase its inventory.
Make-to-stock; production
Ch 5: Data marts and data warehouses typically use ________.
OLAP
Ch 5: Considering the following tables, ________ is a primary key.
Student Table: ID
Ch 5: ________ is the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning.
Tacit knowledge
Ch 5: A ________ is a group of eight ________.
byte; bits
Ch 10: A transaction is any business event that generates ________ worthy of being captured and stored in a database.
data
Ch 5: All the information about you in your university's database is a(n) ________.
instance
Ch 10: Organizations typically invest in cloud-based ERP systems because they are _________.
less expensive
Ch 5: Databases ________ inconsistency; this means ________.
minimize; various copies of the data do not agree
Ch 5: Data marts can be implemented ________ compared to data warehouses.
more quickly
Ch 10: The ________ process originates in the warehouse department and ends in the accounting department.
procurement
Ch 5: A ________ generally describes an entity.
record
Ch 5: Database systems minimize ________.
redundancy
Ch 5: Jana is a mobile startup designed to ________.
reward users with data in exchange for collecting their personal information when sampling apps
Ch 5: You recently inherited an Alvin and The Chipmunks "A Chipmunk Christmas" record. Since you don't have a record player, you need to find a way to convert the record into a CD. This is an example of data ________.
rot
Ch 10: The fulfillment process originates in the ________ department and ends in the ________ department.
sales; accounting
Ch 5: Industry experts estimate that 80-90 percent of data in an organization is ________.
unstructured
Ch 5: Knowledge management is a process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that comprises part of the organization's memory, usually in a(n) ________ format.
unstructured
Ch 10: With the ________ approach to on-premise ERP implementation, a company implements a standard ERP package using the package's built-in configuration options.
vanilla
Ch 5: ________ refers to the maximum number of times an instance of one entity can be associated with an instance in the related entity.
Cardinality
Ch 10: ________ are designed to correct a lack of communication among _________.
ERP; FAIS
Ch 10: Most organizations design TPS to process transactions as soon as they occur. This is called _________.
OLTP
Ch 5: ________ is the most popular query language used for interacting with a database.
SQL
Ch 10: ________ is part of the ________ process and involves sending goods that are in the warehouse to customers.
Sell-from-stock; fulfillment
Ch 10: Legacy systems were developed as _________.
Silos
Ch 10: ________ is an extended ERP module.
Supply chain management
Ch 10: You decide to purchase SAP but modify it to handle your specific business processes. This is an example of the ________ approach to ERP implementation.
best-of-breed
Ch 10: Your southern region is not doing very well. You want to know why, so you ask for a special report showing the numbers for the southern region compared to the northern, eastern, and western regions. This is a(n) ________ report.
comparative
Ch 5: 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 in the employee handbook. This is an example of ________.
explicit knowledge
Ch 10: SCM systems are ________ systems.
interorganizational
Ch 10: A(n) ________ report summarizes the performance of critical activities.
key indicator
Ch 5: Normalization is a method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form to ensure ________ redundancy, ________ data integrity, and optimal processing performance.
minimum; maximum
Ch 5: A circle with a "chicken leg" to the entity represents the ________ cardinality symbol.
optional many