Question 1

Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail or fine information granularities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following represents a reason an organization might encounter low-quality information?

Accepted Answer

A)  Online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy.
B)  Different systems have different information-entry standards and formats.
C)  Third-party and external information contains inaccuracies and errors.
D)  All of these.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

What is data mining?

Accepted Answer

A)  The common term for the representation of multidimensional information
B)  A particular attribute of information
C)  A variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information and infer rules from them that predict future behavior and guide decision making
D)  Process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data aloneE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

Accepted Answer

A)  Information cleansing and scrubbing
B)  Data-mining tools
C)  Data mining
D)  Business intelligenceE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 5

Which of the following uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making?

Accepted Answer

A)  Data analysis tools
B)  Electronic analysis tools
C)  Data-mining tools
D)  Data integrity toolsE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

Within the beginning stage of the data warehouse models process, which of the following are included in the internal databases?

Accepted Answer

A)  Marketing, sales, inventory, and billing
B)  Data mart 1, data mart 2, data mart 3
C)  Competitor and industry information, mailing lists, and stock market analysis
D)  Marketing information, and stock market analysis numbersE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

A data mart is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

A foreign key is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Companies can gain valuable business knowledge by viewing the data accessed and analyzed from their __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Companies can gain valuable business knowledge by...

Question 10

Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?

Accepted Answer

A)  Accuracy
B)  Completeness
C)  Quantity
D)  ConsistencyE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Which of the following statements means the same as easy-to-manage content?

Accepted Answer

A)  Website owners can make changes only with the aid of MIS professionals.
B)  The website cannot organize customer data.
C)  Users can update data-driven website with little or no training.
D)  Users with extensive training can update data-driven websites.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 12

What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that he or she cannot make a decision?

Accepted Answer

A)  Data rich, information poor
B)  Data rich, content poor
C)  Data rich, communication poor
D)  Data rich, intelligenceE) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 13

What is the role of a foreign key?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables.
B)  It is a unique way to identify each record.
C)  Is a field that uniquely identifies a give record in a table.
D)  All of these.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 14

Broadly defined, a __________ maintains information about various types of objects, events, people, and places.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Broadly defined, a __________ maintains information about...

Question 15

Which of the following refers to immediate, up-to-date information?

Accepted Answer

A)  Daily information
B)  Strategic information
C)  Real-time information
D)  Crisis informationE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 16

_________ mining analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.

Accepted Answer

The answer of _________ mining analyzes unstructured data associated with...

Question 17

Which of the following represents a reason data warehouses were created?

Accepted Answer

A)  Numbers and types of operational databases increased as businesses grew.
B)  Many companies had information scattered across multiple systems with different formats.
C)  Completing reporting requests from numerous operational systems took days or weeks.
D)  All of these.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 18

Which of the following is not one of the reasons operational systems are not appropriate for business analysis?

Accepted Answer

A)  It does not include information from other operational applications.
B)  Operational systems are integrated.
C)  Operational information is mainly current.
D)  Operational information frequently has quality issues.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 19

Which of the following encompasses all organizational information, where its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?

Accepted Answer

A)  Analytical information
B)  Transactional information
C)  Statistical information
D)  Targeted informationE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

Association ___________ reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Association ___________ reveals the relationship between variables...

Exam 6: Data: Business Intelligence

A foreign key is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table.

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_________ mining analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons operational systems are not appropriate for business analysis?

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What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?

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Association ___________ reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships.

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Which of the following encompasses all organizational information, where its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?

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Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail or fine information granularities.

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What is data mining?

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Which of the following represents a reason data warehouses were created?

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What is it called when a manager has so much data and information that he or she cannot make a decision?

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Which of the following uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making?

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Which of the following statements means the same as easy-to-manage content?

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Broadly defined, a __________ maintains information about various types of objects, events, people, and places.

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A data mart is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.

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Which of the following refers to immediate, up-to-date information?

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Within the beginning stage of the data warehouse models process, which of the following are included in the internal databases?

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Which of the following represents a reason an organization might encounter low-quality information?

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Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?

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What is the role of a foreign key?

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Companies can gain valuable business knowledge by viewing the data accessed and analyzed from their __________.

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