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46 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is not one of the principal BI enablers?
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Corporate processes
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What is data mining?
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Process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone
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A dimension is a particular attribute of information.
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True
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What do data warehouses support?
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OLAP and analytical processing
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A data warehouse is a _________ collection of information-gathered from many different ___________ databases-that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.
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Logical, operational
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Which of the following does not draw a parallel between the challenges in business and the challenges of war?
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Accurate and complete information
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The Data Warehousing Institute estimates that low-quality information costs U.S. businesses $60 billion annually.
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FALSE
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Which of the following statements is true regarding customer information?
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all of the above
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The data warehouse is a location for all of a business's information.
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false
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When does information cleansing occur in the data warehouse?
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During the ETL process and once it is in the data warehouse
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What does the Data Warehousing Institute estimate that low-quality information costs U.S. businesses annually?
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600 billion
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Achieving perfect information is almost impossible. The more complete and accurate an organization wants its information to be, the more it costs. Which two variables are used to determine the trade-off for perfect information?
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Accuracy versus completeness
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What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem?
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Genetic algorithm
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What integrates information from multiple components and tailors the information to individual preferences?
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Digital dashboard
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What is drill-down capability?
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Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information
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What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?
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neural network
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What is the study of the impact that changes in one (or more) parts of the model have on other parts of the model?
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Sensitivity analysis
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Which of the following is a type of transaction processing system?
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Order processing
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What is consolidation?
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Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information
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Which company has "The Wall of Shaygan", which is a digital dashboard that tracks 100-plus IT systems on a single screen?
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Verizon
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A shopping bot is one of the simplest examples of an intelligent agent.
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True
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What is slice-and-dice capability?
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The ability to look at information from different perspectives
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What is the DARPA grand challenge?
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Autonomous ground vehicle field test
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Which of the following is not a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems?
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People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information
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Which company offers a strategic business information service using artificial intelligence that enables organizations to track the product offering, pricing policies, and promotions of online competitors?
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RivalWatch
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Which system differentiates an executive information system from a decision support system and a transaction processing system?
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Stock market information system
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What can a model accomplish?
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All of the above
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What are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence
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ntelligent system
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Which of the following represents the top-down (executives to analysts) organizational levels of information technology systems?
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EIS, DSS, TPS
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What is a special-purpose knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users?
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Intelligent agent
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What is a community of fantasy?
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People participate in imaginary environments, such as fantasy football teams and playing one-on-one with Michael Jordan
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What is the conducting of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling, but also serving customers and collaborating with business partners?
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Ebusiness
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What is an approach to conducting electronic business on the Internet?
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Ebusiness model
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Which of the following represents businesses buying from and selling to each other over the Internet
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B2B
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Which business type describes Barnes and Noble?
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Click and mortar business
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What is a business that operates on the Internet only without a physical store?
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pure play business
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Ebusiness is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet.
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FALSE
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What is a business that operates in a physical store without an Internet presence?
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Brick-and-mortar business
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What is a community of relations?
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People come together to share certain life experiences, such as cancer patients, senior citizens, and car enthusiasts
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What type of online auction occurs when buyers use it to purchase a product or service, selecting the seller with the lowest bid?
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Reverse auction
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What is an electronic marketplace?
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Interactive business communities providing a central market space where multiple buyers and sellers can engage in ebusiness activities
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Ebusiness is something that a business can just go out and buy.
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false
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What is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet?
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ecommerce
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What type of online auction occurs when sellers use it as a selling channel to many buyers and the highest bid wins?
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forward auction
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Which ebusiness model is Carfax using?
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b2c
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Which of the following are the primary challenges to the ebusiness models?
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all of the above
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