Mis 111 Final

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A “Fishbone” process analysis diagram is also known as:

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A cause-and-effect diagram **

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n a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in one column(from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items?

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Time **

Front 3

All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of avertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what?

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Actor **

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What term describes the method of doing business by which a company sustains itself?

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Business Model **

Front 5

Which of the following does a Fishbone Diagram typically not inform you about a problem?

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The cost of correcting a problem with a process **

Front 6

The command shown in class, to ‘touch’ another computer over the internet using its addressand the command line, was what?

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Ping**

Front 7

A graphical description of a database that describes the way in which an organization’s dataand business activities are associated with one another is known as _______________:

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An Entity Relationship Diagram **

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In a relational database, what term refers to the collection of items that are all related to asingle unique value, where the single value often serves as the primary key?

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A record **

Front 9

What type of data mining analysis identifies patterns in the data based on geographic(physical) or temporal (time) proximity?

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Clustering **

Front 10

Subjective knowledge that is based an individual’s experiences is known as what?

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Tacit knowledge **

Front 11

How does telemedicine improve the delivery of medical care in rural communities?

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Telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel to physician’s offices **

Front 12

What type of data structure allows us to organize multi-dimensional information from a datawarehouse so that it can be viewed using different data abstractions (or projections)?

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Data cube **

Front 13

What technique has been used by companies such as Starbucks and Netflix used to engagelarge numbers of non-employees to innovate, manage, design and market new products?

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Crowdsourcing **

Front 14

The terms “contextual,” “relevant,” and “actionable” are commonly related to what term?

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Knowledge **

Front 15

Maintaining multiple copies of the same data in multiple information systems that can beindependently updated commonly results in what information management problem?

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Data inconsistency **

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The characteristics of big data (data science) are described as being related to volume (of theinformation), velocity (speed at which information is collected), and what other characteristic?

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Variety (integrating data from multiples sources) **

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With respect to a database, what term is used to describe an abstract representation of all ofthe information included in a data structure about a particular type of entity?

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Entity Class **

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The task of brainstorming in a group decision support system is similar to what step in theknowledge management cycle?

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Create **

Front 19

What collaboration tool was discussed in class that enhances the participants’ contextualawareness by sharing non-verbal information during meetings?

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Telepresence **

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The sequence of activities performed by users of GroupSystems’ ThinkTank product directlyparallel the steps in what other business process?

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Knowledge management cycle **

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Concerns over discrimination, data contamination, and intellectual property (ownership ofinformation) were legal and ethical issues discussed in relation to what topic?

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Data mining

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Which of the following knowledge management concepts includes an organizational culturefocused on problem solving, a desire to share knowledge because of mutual interest, andnorms that build trust, such as might be found in an MIS 111 FlexLab?

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Community of practice

Front 23

In the case study discussed in Database Management class, how did marketing useinformation to improve the profitability of their sales?

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Customers were classified according into a status level and market segment **

Front 24

Businesses like to use Virtual Private Networks for every reason except?

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Virtual networks are faster than ordinary internet connections**

Front 25

An entrepreneur developing detailed documentation of their business processes so that theycan be offered to other individuals as a franchise operation is an example of:

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Converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge **

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The success of a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is based upon two key features:contributor anonymity (i.e., the identity of the person making the comment or suggestion isnot known), and what other important feature?

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Parallel Discussions**

Front 27

What is the term used to describe the process of reducing the number of dimensions of amulti-dimensional data cube (e.g., from three dimensions, perhaps season, location, andproduct, into two dimensions, such as season and location)?

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Projection

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When analyzing a set of click-stream data, what term is used describe the percentage ofrows containing an item relative to the total number of rows?

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Support

Front 29

Which of the following statements is true about a strategic business decision?

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They are generally made by senior business managers **

Front 30

In the video case for telemedicine, Dr. Ana Lopez, who is the Medical Director of the ArizonaTelemedicine Program, described how advances pioneered at the University of Arizona intele-medicine and tele-pathology have improved the standard of health care in what way?

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Offering bundled, same-day assessment in the diagnosis of breast cancer **

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What is the process of solving problems and producing things by connecting people that youotherwise would not know using the internet?

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crowdsourcing

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COPLINK, developed at the University of Arizona in the MIS Department’s ArtificialIntelligence Lab, allows law enforcement officers to integrate database information to identifycrime suspects based on limited information (e.g., a license plate number or nick name).Upon what information system technology is this system’s design based?

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knowledge mgmt

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Often presented visually on an executive dashboard, what type of report focuses attention onbusiness processes whose performance falls outside the range of their defined KPI metrics?

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exception

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n the decision support process, formulating a module to be evaluated and setting criteria formaking a choice would occur during what phase of the decision making process?

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design phase

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Business metrics that describe the performance of critical business activities are known as:

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key performance indicator

Front 36

A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions such as color and graphical images likeinstrument gauges to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as a:

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Digital dashboard **

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n addition to possessing contextual and relevant information, what other characteristicaspect does knowledge possess?

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it is actionable

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In the root cause video case, the marble of national monument was wearing prematurely.What was the change identified by the in-depth root cause analysis of the problem?

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Changing the time the lights illuminating the monument were turned on **

Front 39

What common approach resulted in the development of the marine chronometer, the OxfordEnglish dictionary, and most recently Wikipeodia?

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crowdsourcing

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What technology was developed to address problems such as a lack of focus, fear ofspeaking, hidden agendas and misunderstandings then collaborating with others?

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Group Decision Support Systems **B. Data Mining

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What type of problem has an optimal solution can be reached through single set of stepsbased on an algorithm?

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structured

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When analyzing data using Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Multidimensional Analysis,the value of an item created by a projection would be the same as what Excel function?

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Sum

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if your laptop runs an application that needs to securely talk to a server, but isn’t executedwithin a browser, such as Firefox or Safari, what other technique is commonly used?

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VPN

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What term is used to describe how a product or service offered by a business fulfills theneeds of its customers?

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value proposition

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in a database entity relationship diagram, specifying the minimum and maximum possiblevalues that may exist for a relationship between two entities can best be described usingwhat database term?

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constraint

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Create – Identify a New Process

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brainstorm

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Capture – Identify Value

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organize

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Refine – Create an actionable context

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prioritize

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Manage/Store – Formatting and Currency

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document

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Knowledge

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decision