Information Systems Management Test Bank
Course Introduction
Information Systems Management explores the strategic role of information systems in modern organizations. The course covers the principles of designing, implementing, and managing information systems to support business processes, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Topics include systems analysis and design, data management, information security, project management, and the alignment of IT with organizational goals. Students learn to evaluate the impact of emerging technologies, address ethical and legal issues, and develop skills for effective leadership and communication within IT-enabled environments.
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Business Intelligence 2nd Edition by Efraim Turban Ramesh Sharda
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Chapter 1: Business Intelligence
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Q1) The process of business intelligence is based on the ________ of data to information, then to decisions, and finally to actions.
Answer: transformation
Q2) A BI system's components include a decision support system with source data; business performance management (BPM) for monitoring and analyzing performance; and a user interface such as a dashboard.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ________ is a business rules-based system that uses intelligence to recommend solution to repetitive decisions, such as pricing.
Answer: Automated Decision Systems (ADS)
Q4) Software monitors called ________ can be placed on a separate server in the network or on the transactional application databases themselves, and they can use event- and process-based approaches to proactively and intelligently measure and monitor operational processes.
Answer: intelligent agents
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Chapter 2: Data Warehousing
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Q1) List four fundamental characteristics of a data warehouse.
Answer: Subject-oriented
Integrated Time variant (time series)
Nonvolatile
Real time
Web based
Contains internal and external data
Contains metadata
Q2) A data warehouse differs from an operational database in that most data warehouses have a product orientation and are designed to handle transactions that update the database.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ________ is the process of loading and provides data via the data warehouse as they become available.
Answer: Real-time data warehousing (RDW) or active data warehousing (ADW)
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Chapter 3: Business Performance Management
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Q1) For a low-cost provider such as Wal-Mart, distribution capabilities are a critical success factor.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is not what an effective performance measurement system should do?
A) Align top-level strategic objectives and bottom-level initiatives.
B) Identify opportunities in a timely fashion.
C) Determine priorities and allocate resources based on those priorities.
D) Maintain measurement when the underlying processes and strategies change.
Answer: D
Q3) The primary challenge of dashboard design is to display all the required information to be displayed clearly and without distraction on a single screen in a manner that can be assimilated quickly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) ________ focuses on the elimination of waste or non-value-added activities.
Answer: Lean
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Chapter 4: Data Mining for Business Intelligence
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Q1) Technically speaking, data mining is a process that uses statistical, mathematical, and artificial intelligence techniques to extract and identify useful information and subsequent knowledge from large sets of data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Generally speaking, data mining tasks can be classified into three main categories: ________, prediction, and clustering.
Q3) Using existing and relevant data, data mining builds models to identify ________ among the attributes presented in the dataset.
Q4) At the highest level of abstraction, all data can be divided into interval data and ratio data.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ data mining finds patterns, associations, and other relationships hidden within datasets. It can uncover facts that an organization had not previously known or contemplated.
Q6) Sketch a simple taxonomy of data in data mining.
Q7) List the six steps in the CRISP-DM Data Mining Process.
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Chapter 5: Text and Web Mining
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Q1) Amazon.com leverages Web usage history dynamically and recognizes the user by reading a cookie written by a Web site on the visitor's computer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List three business applications of Web mining.
Q3) A simple keyword-based search engine suffers from several deficiencies, which include all of the following except:
A) a topic of any breath can easily contain hundreds or thousands of documents
B) many documents that are highly relevant to a topic may not contain the exact keywords defining them
C) web mining can identify authoritative Web pages
D) many of the search results are marginally or not relevant to the topic
Q4) Text mining is important to competitive advantage because knowledge is power, and knowledge is derived from text data sources.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe a marketing application of text mining.
Q6) Define the three main areas of Web mining and each area's source of information.
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Chapter 6: Business Intelligence Implementation: Integration and Emerging Trends
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Q1) MySpace and Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube are examples of ________.
A) Web logs
B) online social networks
C) social network analysis software
D) Live Spaces
Q2) Web 2.0 is not only changing what is on the Web, but also how it works.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Wikia is an example of a new business model that has emerged from Web 2.0. It s the accumulation of the "power of the crowd," but the potential of such a business model remains limited because of competition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Just as RFID generates major data streams for further analysis through BI technologies that can assist in decision making, another massive data source and technologies to make sense of the data are emerging. This type of data mining is called reality mining.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) RFID tag data, in its purest form, is a series of ________.
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