BCIS Final exam
Today, many vendors offer diversified tools, some of which are completely preprogrammed (called shells). How are these shells utilized?
All a user needs to do is insert the numbers
Daplan and norton developed a report that presents an integrated view of success in organization called...
Balanced scorecard-type reports
Business applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring to other activities. Which of the following is not one of those activities?
Data monitoring
In the terrorist funding case study, an observed price_____________ may be related to income tax avoidance/evasion, money laundering, or terrorist financing.
Deviation
When querying a dimensional database, a user went form summarized data to its underlying details. The function that served this purpose is...
Drill down
BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be aligned to its business intelligence analysis initiatives (T/F)
False
BSC performance management system has a heavy emphasis on maximizing profitability (T/F)
False
Because the recession has raised interest in low-cost open source software, it is not set to replace traditional enterprise software(T/F)
False
Dashboards provide visual displays of important information that is consolidated and arranged across several screens to maintain data order. (T/F)
False
Data mining can be very useful in detecting patterns such as credit card fraud, but is of little help in improving sales (T/F)
False
Data mining requires specialized data analysts to ask ad hoc questions and obtain answers quickly from the system (T/F)
False
Data source reliability means that data are correct and are a good match for the analytics problem. (T/F)
False
Due to industry consolidation, the analytics ecosystem consists of only a handful of players across several functional areas (T/F)
False
Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits, and cash register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of BI (T/F)
False
Lagging indicators measure activities that have a significant impact on outcome KPIs (T/F)
False
Major commercial business intelligence products and services were well established in the early 1970s (T/F)
False
OLTP systems are designed to handle ad hoc analysis and complex queries that deal with many data items. (T/F)
False
Properly integrating data from various databases and other disparate sources is a trivial process. (T/F)
False
The BPM development cycle is essentially a one-shot process where the requirement is to get it right the first time. (T/F)
False
The data storage component of a business reporting system builds the various reports and hosts them for, or disseminates them to users. It also provides notification, annotation, collaboration, and other services. (T/F)
False
Which type of visualization tool can be very helpful when a data set contains location data?
Geographic map
Which of the following is least related to data/information visualization?
Graphic artwork
How does the use of cloud computing affect the scalability of a data warehouse?
Hardware resources are dynamically allocated as use increases
Data warehouses provide direct and indirect benefits to organizations. Which of the following is an indirect benefit of data warehouses?
Improved customer service
Data_________ comprises data access, data federation, and change capture.
Integration
Software monitors referred to as __________ can be placed on a separate server in the network and use event and process based approaches to measure and monitor operational processes.
Intelligent agents
With a dashboard, information on sources of the data being presented, the quality and currency of underlying data provide contextual________ for users.
Metadata
Which type of visualization tool can be very helpful when the intention is to show relative proportions of dollars per department allocated by a university administration
Pie chart
Given that the size of data warehouses is expanding at an exponential rate, ___________ is an important issue.
Scalability
Online _______ __________ is a term used for a transaction system tht is primarily responsible for capturing and storing data related to day-to-day business functions such as ERP, CRM, SCM, and point of sale.
Transaction processing
Goodle maps has set new standards for data visualization with its intuitive web mapping software. (T/F)
True
Learning is one of the BSC performance management system organizational views. (T/F)
True
Using data mining on data about imports and exports can help to detect tax avoidance and money laundering(T/F)
True
With key performance indicators, driver KPIs have a significant effect on outcome KPIs, but the reverse is not necessarily true. (T/F)
True
What is six sigma
a methodology aimed at reducing the numbers of defects in a business process
Understanding customers better has helped Amazon and others become more successful. The understanding comes primarily from
analyzing the vast data amounts routinely collected
Why is performance management system superior to a performance measurement system?
because measurement alone has little use without action
what is the main reason parallel processing is sometimes used for data mining
because of the massive data amounts and search efforts involved
A_____ is a communication artifact, concerning business matters, prepared with the specific intention of relaying information in a presentable form.
business report
The user interface of a BI system is often referred to as a...
dashboard
A large storage location that can hold vast quantities of data (mostly unstructured) in its native/raw format for future/potential analytics consumption is referred to as...
data lake
Data preparation, the third step in the CRISP-DM data mining process, is more commonly known as
data preprocessing
A data mining study is specific to addressing a well-defined business task, and different business tasks require
different sets of data
Six sigma performance measurement system has all of the following characteristics, except
emphasizes targets for each measurement
KPIs have all the following distinguish criteria, except
encodings
The very design that makes an oltp system efficient for transaction processing makes it inefficient for
end-user ad hoc reports, queries and analysis
the DMAIC performance improvement model all of the following steps, except
monitor
The data mining in cancer research case study explains that data mining methods are capable of extracting patterns and ________ hidden deep in large and complex medical databases
relationships
All of the following statements about data mining are true except
the ideas behind it are relatively new
Big data often involves a form of distributed storage and processing using hadoop and mapreduce. One reason for this is...
the processing power needed for the centralized model would overload a single computer
