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