Chapter 6 Quiz: Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management

According to Gartner, more than ________ percent of the critical data in large Fortune 1000 companies' databases are inaccurate or incomplete.

25

Data scrubbing is a more intensive corrective process than data cleansing.

FALSE

Data cleansing not only corrects errors but also:

enforces consistency among different sets of data that originated in a separate information system.

A data governance policy specifies all of the following except:

which type of business intelligence tool should be used.

Detecting and correcting data in a database or file that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or redundant is called:

Data cleansing

Implementing a web interface for an organization's internal database usually requires substantial changes to be made to the database.

FALSE

In-memory computing relies primarily on a computer's disk drives for data storage.

FALSE

Multiple data marts are combined and streamlined to create a data warehouse.

FALSE

Structured data accounts for the majority of organizational information and is one of the major sources of big data.

FALSE

Middleware is an application that transfers information from an organization's internal database to a web server for delivery to a user as part of a web page.

TRUE