Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

________ systems are information systems that process operational and other data to analyze past performance,and to make predictions.

Accepted Answer

A) Enterprise planning 
B) Data mining 
C) Business intelligence 
D) Internal communication 
A) Enterprise planning 
B) Data mining 
C) Business intelligence 
D) Internal communication C

Question 3

What is clickstream data?

Accepted Answer

Clickstream data is that data which is captured from customers' clicking behavior.These data are very fine and include everything a customer does at the Web site.Because the data are too fine,the data analysts must throw away millions and millions of clicks.

Question 4

For email or collaboration tools,the push option is manual.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The management function of business intelligence servers maintains metadata about the authorized allocation of business intelligence results to users.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

________ 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 integration 
A) Data encryption 
B) Data warehousing 
C) Data mining 
D) Data integration

Question 9

The source data for a business intelligence system can be the data that the organization purchases from data vendors.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What is data granularity?

Accepted Answer

Data granularity refers to the level of

Question 11

Which of the following is true of business intelligence systems?

Accepted Answer

A) The business intelligence application processes the data to produce business intelligence for use by knowledge workers. 
B) Business intelligence is not applicable during project management. 
C) The software component of a business intelligence system is called a business intelligence database. 
D) The organization's own operational databases cannot be the source data for a business intelligence system. 
A) The business intelligence application processes the data to produce business intelligence for use by knowledge workers. 
B) Business intelligence is not applicable during project management. 
C) The software component of a business intelligence system is called a business intelligence database. 
D) The organization's own operational databases cannot be the source data for a business intelligence system.

Question 12

________ techniques emerged from the combined discipline of statistics,mathematics,artificial intelligence and machine-learning.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

Data marts are usually larger than data warehouses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Data mining analyses are used to create information about past performance,whereas reporting analysis is used primarily for classifying and predicting.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

When the BigData collection is broken into pieces,and hundreds or thousands of independent processors search these pieces for something of interest,the process is referred to as the ________ phase.

Accepted Answer

A) Crash 
B) Control 
C) Reduce 
D) Map 
A) Crash 
B) Control 
C) Reduce 
D) Map

Question 16

The purpose of a ________ is to extract and clean data from operational systems and other sources,and to store and catalog that data for processing by business intelligence tools.

Accepted Answer

A) data harvester 
B) data center 
C) data aggregator 
D) data warehouse 
A) data harvester 
B) data center 
C) data aggregator 
D) data warehouse

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The goal of ________ is to create information about past performance.

Accepted Answer

A) data integration 
B) data mining analysis 
C) reporting 
D) BigData 
A) data integration 
B) data mining analysis 
C) reporting 
D) BigData

Question 19

How is a data warehouse different from a data mart?

Accepted Answer

The purpose of a data warehouse is to ex

Question 20

Explain the functions of a data warehouse.

Accepted Answer

The functions of a data warehouse are to

Exam 9: Business Intelligence Systems

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

________ systems are information systems that process operational and other data to analyze past performance,and to make predictions.

What is clickstream data?

For email or collaboration tools,the push option is manual.

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

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

The management function of business intelligence servers maintains metadata about the authorized allocation of business intelligence results to users.

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

The source data for a business intelligence system can be the data that the organization purchases from data vendors.

What is data granularity?

Which of the following is true of business intelligence systems?

________ techniques emerged from the combined discipline of statistics,mathematics,artificial intelligence and machine-learning.

Data marts are usually larger than data warehouses.

Data mining analyses are used to create information about past performance,whereas reporting analysis is used primarily for classifying and predicting.

When the BigData collection is broken into pieces,and hundreds or thousands of independent processors search these pieces for something of interest,the process is referred to as the ________ phase.

The purpose of a ________ is to extract and clean data from operational systems and other sources,and to store and catalog that data for processing by business intelligence tools.

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

The goal of ________ is to create information about past performance.

How is a data warehouse different from a data mart?

Explain the functions of a data warehouse.

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