Exam 9: Business Intelligence

A(n)____ process is used to pull data from these disparate data sources to populate and maintain the data warehouse.

In the Balanced Scorecard,the financial perspective defines the long-term strategic objectives of the organization in traditional financial terms using measures such as revenue growth,costs,profit margins,cash flow,and net operating income.

The ____ is responsible for administering U.S.election laws regarding campaign funding.

____________________ mining is the study of human interaction based on data gathered from mobile phones and other portable communicating devices.

In the ___________________ step in the ETL process,the data that will be used to update the data warehouse is edited and,if necessary,converted to a compatible format.

Organizations increasingly are prohibiting or at least limiting the amount and kinds of critical data that is stored on laptops to prevent the loss of secret and important information.

When using the Plan-Do-Check-Act process,the problem-solving team identifies systemic changes and training needs to ensure a full,successful implementation of the solution in the ____ step.

The key to the quick responsiveness of OLAP processing is the pre-aggregation of detailed data into useful summaries of data in anticipation of questions that might be raised.

Digital ____________________ present a set of key performance indicators about the state of a process at a specific point in time.

A wide range of options for displaying results in a dashboard include maps,gauges,bar charts,trend lines,scatter diagrams,and other representations.

Identify some privacy concerns associated with data mining.

If the data within a data cube has been summarized at a given level,it is possible to use that data cube to answer questions at a more detailed level.

The data used in BI is often pulled one centralized database and is internally generated.

____ BPM software gather data from a business process and provide reports and dashboards to create actionable information.

____ includes a wide range of applications,practices,and technologies for the extraction,translation,integration,analysis,and presentation of data to support improved decision making.

Many companies update their data warehouse on a yearly basis.

List and discuss the steps in an effective process for applying BMP.

Data cubes are restricted to three dimensions.

____ BPM software provides built-in application programming interfaces to connect with each of the systems that a company uses to support a particular process and then monitors the process to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

The ____________________ step in the ETL process is designed to access the various sources of data and pull from each source the data desired to update the data warehouse.