Question 1

The software component of a business intelligence system is called a business intelligence database.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

How is a data warehouse different from a data mart?

Accepted Answer

A data warehouse can be compared to a di

Question 3

The curse of dimensionality states that the more attributes there are,the more difficult it is to build a model that fits the sample data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of the following statements is true of business intelligence (BI)systems?

Accepted Answer

A)  Business intelligence systems are primarily used for developing software systems and data mining applications. 
B)  The four standard components of business intelligence systems are software, procedures, applications, and programs. 
C)  The software component of a business intelligence system is called an intelligence database. 
D)  Business intelligence systems analyze an organization's past performance to make predictions. 
A)  Business intelligence systems are primarily used for developing software systems and data mining applications. 
B)  The four standard components of business intelligence systems are software, procedures, applications, and programs. 
C)  The software component of a business intelligence system is called an intelligence database. 
D)  Business intelligence systems analyze an organization's past performance to make predictions.

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true of data with granularity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Granularity refers to the level of detail represented by the data. 
B)  If granularity is too coarse, data can be made finer by summing and combining. 
C)  The granularity of clickstream data is too coarse. 
D)  If granularity is too coarse, data can be separated into constituent parts using regression. 
A)  Granularity refers to the level of detail represented by the data. 
B)  If granularity is too coarse, data can be made finer by summing and combining. 
C)  The granularity of clickstream data is too coarse. 
D)  If granularity is too coarse, data can be separated into constituent parts using regression.

Question 6

Pull publishing delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Hadoop 
B)  BigData 
C)  Linux 
D)  Apache Wave 
A)  Hadoop 
B)  BigData 
C)  Linux 
D)  Apache Wave

Question 10

________ 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 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

How does business intelligence help marketers identify changes in the purchasing patterns of customers?

Accepted Answer

Retailers know that important life event

Question 13

Problematic data are termed dirty data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Data analysts who work with data warehouses are not usually experts in a given business function.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Regression analysis is used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Publish results is the process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Regression analysis is used in ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  static reporting 
B)  exception reporting 
C)  supervised data mining 
D)  unsupervised data mining 
A)  static reporting 
B)  exception reporting 
C)  supervised data mining 
D)  unsupervised data mining

Question 18

What is BigData?

Accepted Answer

BigData is a term used to describe data

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Data interpretation 
B)  Pull publishing 
C)  Push publishing 
D)  Data acquisition 
A)  Data interpretation 
B)  Pull publishing 
C)  Push publishing 
D)  Data acquisition

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

Exam 9: Business Intelligence Systems

The software component of a business intelligence system is called a business intelligence database.

How is a data warehouse different from a data mart?

The curse of dimensionality states that the more attributes there are,the more difficult it is to build a model that fits the sample data.

Which of the following statements is true of business intelligence (BI)systems?

Which of the following statements is true of data with granularity?

Pull publishing delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users.

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

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

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

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

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

How does business intelligence help marketers identify changes in the purchasing patterns of customers?

Problematic data are termed dirty data.

Data analysts who work with data warehouses are not usually experts in a given business function.

Regression analysis is used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

Publish results is the process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it.

Regression analysis is used in ________.

What is BigData?

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

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

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