Question 1

What is the query language used in Hadoop?

Accepted Answer

A)  Pig 
B)  Cow 
C)  SQL 
D)  NoSQL 
A)  Pig 
B)  Cow 
C)  SQL 
D)  NoSQL

Question 2

Data granularity refers to the amount of data represented by data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The source, format, assumptions and constraints, and other facts concerning certain data are called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  metadata 
B)  data structures 
C)  microdata 
D)  network packets 
A)  metadata 
B)  data structures 
C)  microdata 
D)  network packets

Question 4

Amazon uses business intelligence to decide product video.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

________ is the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.

Accepted Answer

A)  Data encryption 
B)  Data warehousing 
C)  Data mining 
D)  Data decryption 
A)  Data encryption 
B)  Data warehousing 
C)  Data mining 
D)  Data decryption

Question 6

The use of business intelligence (BI) for identifying changes in the purchasing patterns of customers is a labor-intensive process.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following statements is TRUE of BigData?

Accepted Answer

A)  BigData contains only structured data. 
B)  BigData has low velocity and is generated slowly. 
C)  BigData cannot store graphics, audio, and video files. 
D)  BigData refers to data sets that are at least a petabyte in size. 
A)  BigData contains only structured data. 
B)  BigData has low velocity and is generated slowly. 
C)  BigData cannot store graphics, audio, and video files. 
D)  BigData refers to data sets that are at least a petabyte in size.

Question 8

MapReduce is a technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in parallel.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

A ________ is designed to extract data from operational systems and other sources, clean the data, and store and catalog that data for processing by business intelligence tools.

Accepted Answer

A)  data mart 
B)  data center 
C)  data room 
D)  data warehouse 
A)  data mart 
B)  data center 
C)  data room 
D)  data warehouse

Question 10

Cluster analysis measures the impact of a set of variables on another variable.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Data marts are data collections that address the needs of a particular department or functional area of a business.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which of the following statements is TRUE of business intelligence (BI) publishing alternatives?

Accepted Answer

A)  The skills required to publish static content are extremely high. 
B)  It is more difficult to publish dynamic BI than to publish static content. 
C)  The skills required to create a publishing application for static content is high. 
D)  Push options for Web servers are manual. 
A)  The skills required to publish static content are extremely high. 
B)  It is more difficult to publish dynamic BI than to publish static content. 
C)  The skills required to create a publishing application for static content is high. 
D)  Push options for Web servers are manual.

Question 13

Explain supervised data mining.

Accepted Answer

With supervised data mining, data miners

Question 14

As information systems, BI systems have three standard components.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Data inconsistencies can occur from the nature of a business activity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The use of an organization's operational data as the source data for a business intelligence system is not usually recommended because it ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  is not possible to create reports based on operational data 
B)  is not possible to perform business intelligence analyses on operational data 
C)  requires considerable processing and can drastically reduce system performance 
D)  considers only the external data and not the internal data regarding the organization's functions 
A)  is not possible to create reports based on operational data 
B)  is not possible to perform business intelligence analyses on operational data 
C)  requires considerable processing and can drastically reduce system performance 
D)  considers only the external data and not the internal data regarding the organization's functions

Question 17

________ is an unsupervised data mining technique in which statistical techniques identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cluster analysis 
B)  Content indexing 
C)  Regression analysis 
D)  Cloud computing 
A)  Cluster analysis 
B)  Content indexing 
C)  Regression analysis 
D)  Cloud computing

Question 18

A ________ is a facility for managing an organization's business intelligence data.

Accepted Answer

A)  datasheet 
B)  dataspace 
C)  data warehouse 
D)  data table 
A)  datasheet 
B)  dataspace 
C)  data warehouse 
D)  data table

Question 19

In the case of ________, data miners develop models prior to conducting analyses and then apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the models.

Accepted Answer

A)  pull publishing techniques 
B)  supervised data mining 
C)  push publishing techniques 
D)  unsupervised data mining 
A)  pull publishing techniques 
B)  supervised data mining 
C)  push publishing techniques 
D)  unsupervised data mining

Question 20

The goal of ________, a type of business intelligence analysis, is to create information about past performance.

Accepted Answer

A)  push publishing 
B)  data mining 
C)  reporting analyses 
D)  BigData 
A)  push publishing 
B)  data mining 
C)  reporting analyses 
D)  BigData

Exam 9: Business Intelligence Systems

What is the query language used in Hadoop?

Data granularity refers to the amount of data represented by data.

The source, format, assumptions and constraints, and other facts concerning certain data are called ________.

Amazon uses business intelligence to decide product video.

________ is the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.

The use of business intelligence (BI) for identifying changes in the purchasing patterns of customers is a labor-intensive process.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of BigData?

MapReduce is a technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in parallel.

A ________ is designed to extract data from operational systems and other sources, clean the data, and store and catalog that data for processing by business intelligence tools.

Cluster analysis measures the impact of a set of variables on another variable.

Data marts are data collections that address the needs of a particular department or functional area of a business.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of business intelligence (BI) publishing alternatives?

Explain supervised data mining.

As information systems, BI systems have three standard components.

Data inconsistencies can occur from the nature of a business activity.

The use of an organization's operational data as the source data for a business intelligence system is not usually recommended because it ________.

________ is an unsupervised data mining technique in which statistical techniques identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

A ________ is a facility for managing an organization's business intelligence data.

In the case of ________, data miners develop models prior to conducting analyses and then apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the models.

The goal of ________, a type of business intelligence analysis, is to create information about past performance.

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