IT for Managers Test Preparation
Course Introduction
IT for Managers is designed to equip future business leaders with the essential knowledge and practical skills required to effectively leverage information technology in organizational contexts. This course addresses the strategic role of IT in enhancing business processes, driving innovation, and achieving competitive advantage. Students will explore topics such as information systems management, digital transformation, data-driven decision making, cybersecurity, and IT project management. Through case studies and real-world examples, participants will gain insights into evaluating technological investments, aligning IT initiatives with business strategy, and managing change in dynamic environments, preparing them to make informed decisions as technology-savvy managers.
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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) What is business performance management (BPM)?
Answer: BPM is a portfolio of applications and methodology. BPM extends the monitoring, measuring, and comparing of sales, profit, cost, profitability, and other performance indicators by introducing the concept of management and feedback.
Q2) Organizations are being compelled to capture, understand, and harness their data to support decision making in order to improve:
A) business operations
B) competition
C) compliance
D) risk
Answer: A
Q3) The management of Norfolk Southern, a large freight railroad company, invested in data warehousing technologies. Even though railroad transportation is a mature industry, Norfolk Southern gained a competitive advantage by using its data warehousing technologies to squeeze additional efficiency from its operations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Data Warehousing
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Q1) During data modeling, expertise is required to determine what data are needed, define business rules associated with the data, and decide what ________ and other calculations may be necessary.
Answer: aggregations
Q2) When DirectTV decided to implement an active data warehouse solution, the goal of the new system was to send fresh data to the call center at least daily. Once the capabilities of the solutions became apparent, that goal:
A) dropped to fresh data of less than 15 minutes to improve responsiveness.
B) dropped to fresh data every 12 hours to improve responsiveness.
C) increased to every 2 days to reduce maintenance costs.
D) increased to every 5 days to reduce maintenance costs.
Answer: A
Q3) ________ provides a fairly recent form of customer information files (CIF). It is a type of database often used as an interim staging area for a data warehouse.
Answer: Operational data store (ODS)
Q4) The ________ is a scaled-down version of the data warehouse that centers on the requests of a specific department, such as marketing or sales.
Answer: data mart
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Chapter 3: Business Performance Management
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Q1) Most companies use ________ to monitor organizational performance and correct deviations from present performance standards.
Answer: diagnostic control system
Q2) Logically speaking, a BPM system consists of three basic parts, or layers. Which of the following is not one of those parts or layers?
A) BPM applications
B) Dashboards and scorecards
C) Information hub
D) Source systems
Answer: B
Q3) Fundamentally, an operational plan is like a project plan that is designed to ensure that an organization's ________ is realized.
A) business policy
B) plan
C) strategy
D) business rules
Answer: C
Q4) Targets are measured against a baseline or ________.
Answer: benchmark
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Chapter 4: Data Mining for Business Intelligence
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Q1) ________ tells the nature of future occurrences of certain events based on what has happened in the past, such as predicting the winner of the Super Bowl or forecasting the absolute temperature of a particular day.
Q2) Compared to the other steps in CRISP-DM, data preprocessing consumes the most time and effort; most believe that this step accounts for roughly 80 percent of the total time spent on a data mining project
A)True
B)False
Q3) Data mining requires a separate, dedicated database.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ data mining finds patterns, associations, and other relationships hidden within datasets. It can uncover facts that an organization had not previously known or contemplated.
Q5) Identify and describe the two types of numerical data. Give an example of each.
Q6) At the highest level of abstraction, all data can be divided into interval data and ratio data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Text and Web Mining
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Q1) All of the following are types of data generated through Web page visits except:
A) data stored in server access logs, referrer logs, agent logs, and client-side cookies
B) user profiles
C) hyperlink analysis
D) metadata, such as page attributes, content attributes, and usage data
Q2) NLP has successfully been applied to a variety of tasks via computer programs to automatically process natural human language that previously could only be done by humans. List three of the most popular of these tasks.
Q3) Compared to polygraphs for deception-detection, text-based deception detection has the advantages of being nonintrusive and widely applicable to textual data and transcriptions of voice recordings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Two advantages associated with the implementation of NLP are word sense disambiguation and syntactic ambiguity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term "stop-words" are used by text mining to ________ commonly used words.
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Chapter 6: Business Intelligence Implementation: Integration and Emerging Trends
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Q1) Concepts such as virtual currencies often allow participants to buy or sell virtual goods or services, such as clothes or training.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Serious ________ issues may develop with the introduction of intelligent systems; liability and privacy are the dominant problem areas.
Q3) ________ is the popular term for describing advanced Web technologies and applications, including blogs, wikis, RSS, mashups, user-generated content, and social networks.
Q4) List three reasons for BI project failures.
Q5) The success of today's highly volatile perishables supply chains depends on:
A) the range of passive tags.
B) the level and timeliness of product visibility.
C) the network effect.
D) the shelf life of the products.
Q6) Wikia is working on community-developed Web searches. If they can create a successful one, ________ will have a challenger.
Q7) List four characteristics and benefits of SaaS.
Q8) What are four major advantages of using Second Life for decision support? Page 8
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