BUSN 420 Week 4 Quiz

BUSN 420 Week 4 Quiz | regent-university

Question 1

What encompasses all organizational information and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?                                          

·         Analytical information

·         Transactional information

·         Quality

·         Timeliness

                                               

Question 2

What is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, that cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools?                                               

·         Advanced analytics

·         Distributed computing

·         Data scientist

·         Big data

 

Question 3

What is the DSS analysis that checks the impact of a change in a variable or assumption on the model?                                  

·         Optimization analysis

·         Goal-seeking analysis

·         Sensitivity analysis

·         What-if analysis

                                               

Question 4

The primary purpose of a data warehouse is to ________.                                         

·         Organize departments

·         Combine strategic information

·         Interface between the computer and employees

·         All of these

                                               

Question 5

What tracks KPIs and CSFs by compiling information from multiple sources and tailoring it to meet user needs?                                 

·         Granularity

·         Digital Dashboard

·         Visualization

·         All of these

                                               

Question 6

What is RFID?                                   

·         Unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human.

·         Focus on creating artificial intelligence devices that can move and react to sensory input.

·         Uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.

·         A process that builds—layer by layer in an additive process—a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model.

 

Question 7

Which of the following asks users to write lines of code to answer questions against a database?             

·         Structured query language

·         Structured elements

·         Data mining tools

·         Relational query language

                                               

Question 8

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

·         Consistency

·         Completeness

·         Quantity

·         Accuracy

                                               

Question 9

What is a central location in which data is stored and managed?                                                  

·         Repository

·         Data broker

·         Data warehouse

·         Data aggregation

                                               

Question 10

Which of the following represents the bullwhip effect?                                

·         Customers receive distorted product demand information regarding sales information

·         Organizations know about employee events triggered downstream in the supply chain

·         Distorted product-demand information ripples from one partner to the next throughout the supply chain

·         The ability to view all areas up and down the supply chain

                                               

Question 11

What is extraction, transformation, and loading?                                             

·         It is a process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse

·         It is a process of entering data, tracking data, and loading it into a database

·         It is a process that is performed at the end of the data warehouse model prior to putting the information in a cube

·         It is a process that is performed at the beginning of the data mining model

                                               

Question 12

What can present the results of large data analysis looking for patterns and relationships that monitor changes in variables over time?                                      

·         Data visualization

·         Infographics

·         Business intelligence dashboards

·         Informing

Question 13

What is the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone?

·         Data extraction  

·         Data mining

·         Data mart analysis

·         Data integrity

                                               

Question 14

Which of the following metrics represents the time it takes to manufacture a product and deliver it to the retailer?                                               

·         Customer order cycle time

·         Inventory cycle time

·         Back order

·         Inventory turnover

                                               

Question 15

A database maintains information on ________.                                             

·         Transactions

·         Employees

·         Inventory

·         All of these

                                               

Question 16

What is the manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making?                                               

·         OLAP

·         DSS

·         TPS

·         OLTP

                                               

Question 17

What models information and provides assistance in evaluating and choosing among different courses of action?                                               

·         TPS

·         OLAP

·         DSS

·         OLTP

 

Question 18

Where would you find the customers' customer in a typical supply chain?                                            

·         Upstream

·         Not on the supply chain

·         Downstream

·         In the middle

                                               

Question 19

What is another term for information cleansing?                                              

·         Information mining

·         Information scrubbing

·         Information marts

·         Information scrapping

                                               

Question 20

In terms of big data what is velocity?                                     

·         Analysis of streaming data as it travels around the Internet.

·         Uncertainty of data, including biases, noise, and abnormalities.

·         Different forms of structured and unstructured data.