Business Analytics
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Course Introduction
Business Analytics is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the exploration, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data to inform business decisions. This course covers fundamental concepts such as data collection, data cleaning, and descriptive statistics, as well as more advanced techniques including predictive modeling, data visualization, and the use of analytics tools. Students will learn to leverage data-driven insights to solve real-world business problems, improve operational efficiency, and support strategic planning across various industries. Emphasis is placed on practical applications, ethical considerations, and the development of critical thinking skills needed for analytics-driven decision making.
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Business Driven Information Systems 5th Edition by Paige Baltzan
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Chapter 1: Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS
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Q1) Imagine you are creating a new product to sell in an up-and-coming market.Which of the following statements indicates that it would be difficult for you to enter this new market?
A)The threat of new entrants force is high in the up-and-coming market.
B)The threat of new entrants force is low in the up-and-coming market.
C)The threat of new entrants force is high during the summer months in the up-and-coming market.
D)All of these are correct, depending on the time of year.
Answer: B
Q2) The business decisions made by the finance department include promotion data, sales data, and advertising data.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The actual hamburger is included in which category of making a hamburger?
A)input
B)process
C)output
D)All of these are correct.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Decisions and Processes: Value Driven Business
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Q1) What is represented by a circle in a business process model?
A)BPMN event
B)BPMN activity
C)BPMN flow
D)BPMN gateway
Answer: A
Q2) Online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) are similar MIS strategies used to help with business decision making. What is the primary difference between OLTP and OLAP?
A)OLTP is used at the operational level; OLAP is used at the managerial level
B)OLTP is used to capture transactional and event data; OLAP is used to manipulate information
C)OLTP is used to support structured decisions; OLAP is used to support semistructured decisions
D)All of these are correct.
Answer: D
Q3) Source documents are simplified representation or abstraction of reality.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
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Q1) A URL is a program that runs within another application such as a website.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Content providers are companies that generate revenue by providing digital content such as news, music, photos, or videos, and examples include Netflix and iTunes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What sources capital for a project by raising many small amounts from a large number of individuals, typically via the Internet?
A)explicit knowledge
B)crowdfunding
C)tacit knowledge
D)crowdsourcing
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business
Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS
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Q1) Which of the following is not considered a form of biometrics?
A)iris scan
B)password
C)fingerprint
D)handwriting
Q2) Which of the following describes confidentiality?
A)the assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them
B)policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage in the business environment
C)the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent
D)the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people
Q3) What area of information security focuses on preventing identity theft, phishing, and pharming scams?
A)prevention and resistance
B)detection and authorizing
C)detection and response
D)authentication and authorization
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Chapter 5: Infrastructures: Sustainable Technologies
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Q1) DreamWorks Animation Company used which sustainable infrastructure component to complete many of its films, including Shrek, Madagascar, and Antz?
A)agile computing
B)grid computing
C)cloud computing
D)server computing
Q2) What are the different options where an emergency notification service can be deployed?
A)through the firm's own infrastructure
B)by an outside service provider on company premises
C)by an outside service provider hosted remotely
D)All of these are correct.
Q3) Failback, a specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes, the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types.
Q5) Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure.
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Chapter 6: Data: Business Intelligence
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Q1) Web analytics analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Information integrity issues occur when the same data element has different values.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who is the person responsible for creating the original website content?
A)content creator
B)content editor
C)static information
D)dynamic information
Q4) Unstructured data is not defined, does not follow a specified format, and is typically freeform text such as emails, Twitter tweets, and text messages.Unstructured data accounts for about 80 percent of the data that surrounds us.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the four primary traits that determine the value of information.
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Chapter 7: Networks: Mobile Business: Module 3: Enterprise
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Q1) What is the conversion of IP addresses that identifies labels that use a variety of recognizable naming conventions?
A)domain grades
B)URL spaces
C)domain national sequences (DNS)
D)domain name system (DNS)
Q2) What is latitude?
A)a device that uses plastic or conductive polymers instead of silicon-based microchips, allowing them to be washed or exposed to water without damaging the chip
B)a satellite-based navigation system providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information
C)an east/west measurement of position
D)a north/south measurement of position
Q3) Mobile device management (MDM) administers and delivers applications to corporate and personal smart phones and tablets.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the different wireless network business applications.
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Chapter 8: Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
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Q1) Where would you find the suppliers' suppler in a typical supply chain?
A)upstream
B)downstream
C)in the middle
D)not on the supply chain
Q2) Which of the following operational CRM technologies does the customer service department typically use?
A)contact center, web-based self-service, call scripting
B)sales management, contact management, opportunity management
C)list generator, opportunity management, cross-selling and up-selling
D)list generator, campaign management, cross-selling and up-selling
Q3) What is the integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a unified view of all data?
A)backward integration
B)application integration
C)data integration
D)forward integration
Q4) Describe supply chain management along with its impact on business.
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Q5) Discuss the current technologies that organizations are integrating in enterprise resource planning systems.
Chapter 9: Systems Development and Project
Management: Corporateresponsibility
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Q1) Business requirements include the process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite services, or disassembled just as easily into their functional component?
A)service-oriented architecture
B)service
C)loose coupling
D)interoperability
Q3) Onshore outsourcing occurs when contracting an outsourcing arrangement with a company in a nearby country.Often this country will share a border with the native country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gate three is construction, and this phase includes building and developing the product.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Hardware and Software Basics
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Q1) Which license enables anyone on the network to install and use the software?
A)single user license
B)network user license
C)site license
D)application service provide license
Q2) What is a small unit of ultra-fast memory that is used to store recently accessed or frequently accessed data so that the CPU does not have to retrieve this data from slower memory circuits such as RAM?
A)RAM
B)cache memory
C)volatility
D)flash memory
Q3) Application service provider licenses specialty software paid for on a license basis or per-use basis or usage-based licensing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Disk optimization software helps save information if a computer crashes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Networks and Telecommunications
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Q1) What refers to a type of cable composed of four (or more) copper wires twisted around each other within a plastic sheath?
A)twisted-pair cable
B)coaxial cable
C)fiber-optic cable
D)transmission control protocol/internet protocol
Q2) What spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country?
A)local area network
B)wide area network
C)metropolitan area network
D)peer-to-peer network
Q3) Architecture includes Ethernet and transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).
A)True
B)False
Q4) What allows the management of networked nodes to be managed from a single point?
A)file transfer protocol (FTP)
B)simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
C)hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
D)simple network management protocol (SNMP)
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Knowledge-Glossary
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Q1) What is a primary key?
A)a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table
B)a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables
C)a table that uniquely identifies a given record in a field
D)a foreign key of one table that appears as an entity in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two records
Q2) What is a statement that defines an aspect of a business?
A)attribute
B)entity
C)business relational diagram
D)business rule
Q3) What kind of attribute is assigned to an attribute when no other value applies or when a value is unknown?
A)single-valued attribute
B)multivalued attribute
C)derived attribute
D)null-valued attribute
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