Exam 1: Introduction

__________ refers to the technology that allows data, collected from sensors in all types of machines, to be sent over the Internet to repositories where it can be stored and analyzed.

Picks and Axes Inc. is an Internet-based retail seller of hiking boots and mountaineering gear. The company decides to open retail stores across the major areas of the city to help complement its Internet-based strategy. This activity would be categorized as a(n)

A light bulb manufacturer uses descriptive analytics

Tactical decisions are concerned with

When a decision maker is faced with several alternatives and an uncertain set of future events, s/he uses __________ to develop an optimal strategy.

__________ refers to a programming model used within Hadoop that performs the two major steps for which it is named: the map step and the reduce step.

A forecast that helps direct police officers to areas where crimes are likely to occur based on past data is an example of ​

In the spectrum of business analytics, which is the most complex?

A better understanding of consumer behavior through analytics directly leads to

Optimization models can be used to

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service uses _____________ to identify patterns that distinguish questionable annual personal income tax filings.

__________ are used in the pharmaceutical industry to assess the risk of introducing a new drug.

Which of the following best exemplifies big data?

In the financial sector, __________ are used to construct financial instruments such as derivatives.

__________ is an open-source programming environment that supports big data processing through distributed storage and distributed processing on clusters of computers.