MIS Exam 2

decision tree

A ________ is a hierarchical arrangement of criteria that predict a classification or a value.

mart

A data ________ is a data collection, smaller than the data warehouse that addresses the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business.

(B) rewarding accomplishment

According to Hackman's three criteria for team success, which of the following IS requirements will be categorized under the meaningful and satisfying experience criterion? (A) communicate (feedback) (B) rewarding accomplishment (C) documenting definitions (D) managing many versions of content (E) managing tasks

(D) successful outcome

According to J. Richard Hackman, which of the following is a primary criterion for judging team success? (A) ability to be dynamic (B) experience in collaborating (C) least amount of conflict (D) successful outcome (E) availability of external help

structured

An organization uses a formula to compute the reorder quantity of an item in inventory. This is an example of a(n) ________ decision process.

(B) do not meet at the same time

Asynchronous communication occurs when team members ________. (A) cannot arrive at consensus after discussions (B) do not meet at the same time (C) engage in conflicting discussions (D) communicate in a sequential manner (E) talk with each other via video conference

(D) determining the schedule

Identify a task that should be performed during the planning phase of project management. (A) reporting project progress (B) preparing archival documents (C) form the team (D) determining the schedule (E) performing project tasks

(B) doing

Identify the project management phase in which the budget and tasks of a project are managed. (A) planning (B) doing (C) maintenance (D) finalizing (E) starting

improves process quality and increases team strength

Knowledge management (KM) benefits organizations because it ________.

online analytical processing

OLAP stands for ________

part of the collaboration's work product

Project data is data that is ________.

used to manage the product

Project metadata is data that is ________.

(B) setting the ground rules for the project and team

The fundamental purpose of the starting phase of a project is ________. (A) determining tasks and dependencies (B) setting the ground rules for the project and team (C) solving problems (D) managing tasks and budgets of the project (E) accomplishing the project tasks effectively

true

True or False: Data warehouses may include data that is purchased from outside sources.

true

True or False: The three primary activities in the business intelligence (BI) process are to acquire data, perform analysis, and publish results.

true

True or False: Push publishing can deliver results according to a schedule or as a result of an event or particular data condition.

(E) It is generated rapidly.

Which of the following is a characteristic of BigData? (A) It is typically only text-based. (B) It is processed using traditional techniques. (C) It is unstructured. (D) It is usually around 100 gigabytes in size. (E) It is generated rapidly.

(D) data mining

Which of the following is a fundamental category of business intelligence (BI) analysis? (A) automation (B) data hiding (C) encapsulation (D) data mining (E) cataloging

(B) Cooperation emphasizes iteration and feedback, and collaboration emphasizes consensus.

Which of the following is a key difference between collaboration and cooperation? (A)Unlike cooperation, collaboration occurs when a job has to be accomplished. (B) Cooperation emphasizes iteration and feedback, and collaboration emphasizes consensus. (C) Unlike cooperation, collaboration emphasizes iteration and feedback. (D) People should work together to cooperate, whereas they need not work together to collaborate. (E) Cooperation requires people to have a common goal, whereas collaboration occurs even without a common goal.

(B) Managerial decisions concern allocation and utilization of resources, whereas strategic decisions concern broad organizational issues.

Which of the following is a key difference between strategic decisions and managerial decisions? (A) Strategic decisions involve innovative issues, whereas managerial decisions do not involve innovative issues. (B) Managerial decisions concern allocation and utilization of resources, whereas strategic decisions concern broad organizational issues. (C) Strategic decisions deal with the utilization of resources, whereas managerial decisions deal with day-to-day activities. (D) Strategic decisions involve financial issues, whereas managerial decisions do not involve financial issues. (E) Managerial decisions concern organizational issues, whereas strategic decisions concern external issues.

(E) having experience as a collaborator

Which of the following is the least important characteristic of an effective collaborator? (A) being skillful at giving negative feedback (B) showing the ability to receive critical feedback (C) willing to put forward unpopular ideas (D) willingness to enter difficult conversations (E) having experience as a collaborator

(C) giving and receiving critical feedback

Which of the following is the most important trait that an effective collaborator should have? (A) avoiding unpopular ideas (B) persuasive presentation skills (C) giving and receiving critical feedback (D) previous experience as a collaborator (E) ability to resolve conflict

(E) OLAP reports are more dynamic than RFM reports.

Which of the following observations about RFM and OLAP reports is TRUE? (A) RFM reports are more easily manipulated than OLAP reports. (B) RFM reports can drill down into the data to a greater extent than OLAP reports. (C) RFM reports have measures and dimensions. (D) RFM reports are more generic than OLAP reports. (E) OLAP reports are more dynamic than RFM reports.

(E) These systems encode human knowledge in the form of If/Then rules.

Which of the following observations concerning expert systems is TRUE? (A) These systems are typically used by experts. (B) These systems are easy to develop and maintain. (C) These systems are not affected by any changes made to it. (D) these systems have lived up to the high expectations set by their name. (E) These systems encode human knowledge in the form of If/Then rules.

(B) Analysts do not create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis

Which of the following statements is TRUE about unsupervised data mining? (A) Neural networks are a popular unsupervised data mining application. (B) Analysts do not create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis. (C) Data miners develop a model prior to the analysis and apply statistical techniques to data. (D) Hypotheses must be made before running the analysis. (E) Unsupervised data mining requires tools such as regression analysis.

(A) Google Drive allows simultaneous edits.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of sharing a task list on Google Drive? (A) Google Drive allows simultaneous edits. (B) Sharing a task list on Google Drive is a very complex procedure. (C) Team members can share a task list without having a Google account. (D) Task lists updates are pushed out weekly. (E) Google Drive gives every team member permissions to edit, but restricts their contributions to the task list.

collaboration

____ is defined as a group of people working together to achieve a common goal via a process of feedback and iteration.

cooperation

______ is defined as a group of people working together, all doing essentially the same type of work, to accomplish a job.

RFM

________ analysis is a way of analyzing and ranking customers according to their purchasing patterns.

operational

________ decisions are concerned with day-to-day activities.

operational

________ decisions are the most structured and have very little need for collaboration.

strategic

________ decisions are those that support broad-scope, organizational issues.

Hadoop

________ includes a query language titled Pig.

granularity

________ is a term that refers to the level of detail represented by the data.

business intelligence

________ is defined as information containing patterns, relationships, and trends of various forms of data.

data mining

________ is the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.

data acquisition

________ is the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data.

pull publishing

________ requires the user to request business intelligence (BI) results.

provide feedback on each others work

a student group that is working on a project is considered to be a collaboration if the members ______.