Exam 10: Business Intelligence Systems

Neural networks are a popular unsupervised data-mining technique.

RFM can be a useful tool to determine who your best customers are,and who hasn't been into the store in a while.

What are expert systems? What are their primary disadvantages?

The world's best-known indexing engine is operated by ________.

An OLAP cube and an OLAP report are the same thing.

Expert systems have been unable to live up to the high expectations set by their name.

With unsupervised data mining,analysts do not create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis.

What is OLAP? What are some of its features?

A business intelligence system is designed to provide the right information,to the right user,at the right time.

Reporting tools are used to address questions like: What has happened in the past? What is the current situation? How does the current situation compare to the past?

Semantic security concerns the unintended release of protected information through the release of a combination of reports or documents that are independently not protected.

An OLAP report has measures and dimensions.Which of the following is an example of a measure?

What are the problems that can occur in a data set?

________ is the process of creating value from intellectual capital and sharing that knowledge with employees,managers,suppliers,customers,and others who need it.

Regression analysis is an example of an unsupervised data mining analysis.

The total contents of the Library of Congress could be stored in one terabyte.

________ tools are used to store employee knowledge and to make that knowledge available to employees,customers,vendors,auditors,and others who need it.

________ security concerns the unintended release of protected information through the release of a combination of reports or documents that are independently not protected.

________ reports allow users to drill down to view increasingly detailed levels of the data.

Expert systems attempt to capture human expertise and put it into a format that can be used by non-experts.