Exam 9: Business Intelligence Systems

External data purchased from outside resources are not included in data warehouses.

What is data mining?

________ are business intelligence documents that are updated at the time they are requested.

Which BI activity would a company be participating in if they were cataloging?

In the ________ phase, a BigData collection is broken into pieces and hundreds or thousands of independent processors search these pieces for something of interest.

________ process operational and other data in organizations to analyze past performance and make predictions.

________ is used to measure the impact of a set of variables on another variable during data mining.

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

________ is an open source program supported by the Apache Foundation that manages thousands of computers and that implements MapReduce.

The purchasing pattern of an individual never change.

BigData refers to data that have great variety and may have structured data as well as different formats.

Problem solving requires project management.

The three fundamental categories of BI analysis are reporting, data mining, and BigData.

Project management is one of the few domains in which business intelligence is rarely used.

________ is the process of sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data.

If the granularity of certain data is too coarse, the data can be separated into constituent parts using statistical techniques.

Reporting analysis is used primarily for classifying and predicting BI data.

Structured data is data in the form of rows and columns.

Placing business intelligence (BI) applications on operational servers can dramatically reduce system performance.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of a data warehouse?