MIS Midterm
One potential issue with the Point-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism is that if an owner purchases over ________ percent of the blocks (coins) that owner could potentially stop any future transactions.
50
Michelle runs a shop on Etsy. One month, she spends $2,800 to promote her shop on Etsy and other social media sites. In that month, she gains 50 new customers. What is her customer acquisition cost for that month?
$56 ($2800/50 customers)
Which of the following is a technology that attempts to ensure that, once the software is constructed, it cannot be altered?
blockchain
Assets are wrapped using Ethereum Request for ________ (ERC) protocols in order to connect them to the Ethereum blockchain.
comments
In order to be considered open data, databases must provide access rights so that they can be
redistributed
Machine-learning software is being used to explore databases of existing molecules (and their associated properties) to generate information that can be used to develop new drugs to treat a variety of conditions expeditiously and at lower costs. Firms at the forefront of this new strategy include
Atomwise, Insilico Medicine, Kebotix
Which of the following are popular college majors/emphasis areas for college students interested preparing for a career in AI?
Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics
One of Google's companies that is investigating AI and Machine Learning is called
DeepMind
What is the benefit to using social media for conducting market research?
Demographic data and market information is much easier to gather from social media sites than it was to previously collect.
Users in a social media information system can rely on providers to safeguard their personal information and profiles.
False
Information about geographic locations that is stored in a geographic information system (GIS) is referred to as geoadvertising.
False (Correct answer is geodata)
The type of e-commerce transaction that allows consumers to interact with government or authoritative bodies for activities such as paying taxes, securing building permits, or paying tuition at a university, is referred to as a consumer-to-governance transaction.
False (referred to as consumer-to-administration transaction)
An organization is said to have "e-commerce universality" if it has a strong online presence that enables it to quickly sell its products and/or services to almost anyone, regardless of the time or their location. Group starts
False (referred to as ubiquity not universality)
Organ on a chip (OOC) technology allows scientists to develop drugs without animal or human testing. Select the three companies that are developing OOC.
Hepregen, Organovo, Nortis
Researchers at ________ are on the verge of using machine learning and AI technologies to identify patterns in human speech that may be predictive of an eventual diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.The system can produce data and conclusions within only a couple of minutes with an accuracy rate of ________.
IBM; 71%
Which of the following are popular AI career fields?
Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Engineer
An advantage of using a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchange is that
P2P exchanges have low or no transactional fees
An advantage of the ________ consensus mechanism is that it forces all participants to act in their own self-interest, allowing for faster transaction times, and not requiring large amounts of computing power. What's the potential issue
Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
After mining the genesis block and an estimated 1 million Bitcoin, ________ apparently disappeared from Bitcoin in July 2010.
Satoshi Nakamoto
How has social media changed the way businesses measure consumer behavior?
Social media makes it easier to collect the kind of data that are meaningful to businesses.
Intel's XE-HP GPU, built in a collaboration between Intel, Hewlett Packard, and the Argonne National Laboratory is designed to support the Aurora
Supercomputer
A business-to-consumer transaction is considered to be the selling of products and services to individual consumers.
True
Accelerated mobile pages (AMPs) support m-commerce by utilizing a scaled-down version of hypertext markup language (HTML) to create web pages that load quickly on mobile devices. Group starts
True
The Imaging Analytics Engine developed by Zebra-Med can be used to uncover which of the following conditions that may be present in CT scans?
brain conditions, liver disease, lung conditions
Data analysts must blend facts and data with knowledge about the
business or organization
Unlike other large accessible databases that are controlled by corporate entities, such as Netflix or Spotify, public blockchains are hosted on a public ledger, which can be considered a huge database, that stores the data for a blockchain essentially runs as a peer-to-peer network. This means they have no
controlling central authority
Charging a fee, similar to a premium, for every transaction, ________ offer an easy way for cryptocurrency novices to gain trading experience.
cryptocurrency brokerage firms
DeFi stands for ________ finance.
decentralized
Trying to answer questions such as "what happened?" or "what is occurring?" or "what was the ROI?" is the role of
descriptive analytics
Data transformation is the process of converting the _____of data.
format
Vector and raster files are
geographic data
Which of the following are potential drawback of AI?
job loss due to automation, privacy concerns, increased human-caused errors
E-commerce transactions that are executed using wireless mobile devices are known as
m-commerce
Setting social media metrics is the second step in creating a social media information system (SMIS) because
metrics are needed to quantify the organization's progress toward achieving its social media goals.
Some popular social media management systems are becoming more difficult to manage because
millions of diverse users across the globe are active participants
NFTs stands for
non-fungible tokens (value as either an investment or for personal enjoyment. ex- baseball cards)
Qualitative data that is not categorized is called nominal data. Qualitative data that is categorized (ranked, for example) is considered _____ data.
ordinal
PII includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and more and stands for ______ identifiable information.
personally
The total value of a company is based on how much customers value its
products, services, and areas such as corporate philanthropy, social responsibility programs or policies, manufacturing processes, and brand attributes.
Like Bitcoin and Litecoin, the Dogecoin blockchain is a ________ blockchain.
proof-of-work (PoW)
For purposes of security, wallets are typically accessed through a combination of
public and private keys
In the business landscape, social media information systems are
relatively new and increasing in importance.
A major trend in data analytics is the use of artificial intelligence to focus on small data which is more precise, using small datasets that are capable of impacting decisions in the present. This is known as ______ AI.
scalable
Pulsed laser technology called LIDAR to detect and monitor the environment is an integral part of
self driving trucks
In order list the 5 steps of the data project life cycle
sensing, collection, wrangling, analysis, storage
While every election has its losers, one big winner in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was ________ media.
social
Most successful hacks that occur today are conducted through
social engineering
An asset that retains its worth rather than depreciating over time, such as precious metals and fine art are examples of
store-of-value assets
SQL stands for ______ query language.
structured
Which of the following is a popular data analytics program that offers business intelligence as well as data visualization?
tableau
What do most companies use as their main conduit for reaching and connecting with customers?
their website
To remain relevant in today's e-commerce landscape, many businesses use progressive ________ applications to undertake m-commerce.
web
