IT in Business Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
IT in Business explores the strategic role of information technology in modern organizations, highlighting how digital tools enhance business processes, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Students will examine core concepts such as information systems, data management, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and the integration of emerging technologies in various business functions. The course emphasizes real-world applications, case studies, and ethical considerations, preparing students to leverage IT effectively in driving innovation, improving efficiency, and solving complex business challenges.
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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 9th Edition by Efraim Turban
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Chapter 1: Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence
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Q1) Computerized systems enable people to overcome their <i>cognitive limits</i> by quickly accessing and processing vast amounts of stored information.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) List and define the three interpersonal roles of a manager as described by Mintzberg.
Answer: <i>Figurehead</i>.Symbolic head; obliged to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or social nature.
<i>Leader</i>.Responsible for the motivation and activation of subordinates; responsible for staffing,training,and associated duties.
<i>Liaison</i>.Maintains self-developed network of outside contacts and informers who provide favors and information.
Q3) ________ indicates that an individual's problem-solving capability is limited when a wide range of diverse information and knowledge is required.
Answer: Cognitive limit
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Chapter 2: Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support
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Q1) ________ is synonymous with the whole process of management.
Answer: Decision making
Q2) Which of the following is a study of the effect of a change in one or more input variables on a proposed solution?
A) Sensitivity analysis
B) Boundary analysis
C) Fish bone analysis
D) Input-output analysis
Answer: A
Q3) Aside from estimating the potential utility or value of a particular decision's outcome,the best decision makers are capable of accurately estimating the ________ associated with the resultant outcomes resulting from making each decision.
Answer: risk
Q4) Problem identification is the conceptualization of a problem in an attempt to place it in a definable category,possibly leading to a standard solution approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Decision Support Systems Concepts,
Methodologies, and Technologies:
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Q1) The de facto DSS hardware standard is a(n)________ through which the DBMS provides data.
A) Web server
B) data center
C) mainframe
D) local area network
Answer: A
Q2) ________ systems have models embedded in them,but they are still not well understood in practice.
A) Web analytics
B) Data mining and OLAP
C) XML
D) Data dictionary
Answer: B
Q3) List the four main functions of MBMS (model base management system)software
Answer: Model creation,using programming languages,DSS tools and/or subroutines,and other building blocks
Generation of new routines and reports
Model updating and changing
Model data manipulation
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Chapter 4: Modeling and Analysis
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Q1) Continuous distributions are situations with unlimited numbers of possible events that follow density functions,such as the normal distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a characteristic of a linear programming model?
A) A limited quantity of economic resources is available for allocation.
B) The resources are used in the production of products or services.
C) The maximum number of constraints is four.
D) There are two or more ways in which the resources can be used.
Q3) ________ analysis calculates the values of the inputs necessary to achieve a desired level of an output.
Q4) Which of the following packages are preprogrammed (sometimes called ready-made)models and optimization systems that sometimes serve as building blocks for other quantitative models?
A) Quantitative software
B) Qualitative software
C) Development tool
D) Application
Q5) List and briefly discuss the three major components of linear programming.
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Chapter 5: Data Mining for Business Intelligence
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Q1) List the six steps in the CRISP-DM Data Mining Process.
Q2) ________ are essentially a hierarchy of if-then statements.They are most appropriate for categorical and interval data.
A) Neural nets
B) Clusters
C) Decision trees
D) Time-series
Q3) A query that can be run by an end users and is not programmed in advance is considered a(n)________ query.
A) tailored
B) casual
C) informal
D) ad hoc
Q4) List five of the data mining mistakes often made in practice.
Q5) On the commercial side,the most common use of data mining has been in ________ sectors.
A) manufacturing and heath care
B) finance, retail, and health care
C) online retail and government
D) R&D and scientific
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Chapter 6: Artificial Neural Networks for Data Mining
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Q1) A ________ is able to increase or decrease the strength of the connection from neuron to neuron.
Q2) The purpose of the neural network is to compute the ________ of the output.
Q3) A general Hopfield network is a single large layer of neurons with total interconnectivity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The summation function computes the ________ sums of all the input elements entering each processing element. A) weighted B) averaged C) total D) aggregated
Q5) The artificial neurons receive the information from external input stimuli,perform a ________ on the inputs,and then pass on external outputs.
Q6) In a neural network,the knowledge is stored in the ________ associated with each connection between two neurons.
Q7) ANN stands for ________.
Q8) List the relationships between biological and artificial networks.
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Chapter 7: Text and Web Mining
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Q1) A(n)________ is one or more Web pages that provide a collection of links to authoritative pages.
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the three main areas of Web mining?
A) Web search mining
B) Web content mining
C) Web structure mining
D) Web usage mining
Q3) ________ mining is the process of extracting useful information from the links embedded in Web documents.
Q4) The two main approaches to text classification are ________ and ________.
A) knowledge engineering; machine learning
B) categorization; clustering
C) association; trend analysis
D) knowledge extraction;
Q5) A vast majority of business data are stored in text documents that are ________.
A) mostly quantitative
B) virtually unstructured
C) semi-structured
D) highly structured
Q6) List three business applications of Web mining.
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Chapter 8: Data Warehousing
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Q1) The ________ is a scaled-down version of the data warehouse that centers on the requests of a specific department,such as marketing or sales.
Q2) Data warehouse is a(n)________,integrated,time-variant,nonvolatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process.
A) analysis-oriented
B) object-oriented
C) subject-oriented
D) model-oriented
Q3) A(n)________ contains the attributes needed to perform decision analysis,descriptive attributes used for query reporting,and foreign keys to link to dimension s.
Q4) Which of the following are created when operational data need to be analyzed multidimensionally?
A) Oper marts
B) Customer information file
C) Dependent data marts
D) Independent data marts
Q5) List four characteristics of a data warehouse.
Q6) Describe the data warehousing process.
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Chapter 9: Business Performance Management
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Q1) Describe the steps in DMAIC performance model.
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
Q3) An operational plan translates an organization's strategic objectives and goals into a set of well-defined tactics and initiatives,resource requirements,and expected results for some future time period,usually,but not always,a month.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ outline those things that an organization must excel at to be successful in their market space.
Q5) To dramatically increase the success of Six Sigma,the Six Sigma results should "pay as you go" and be confirmed by objective parties.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Collaborative Computer-Supported Technologies
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Q1) CPFR is an industry-wide project in which suppliers and retailers collaborate in ________ and demand forecasting.
A) planning
B) scheduling
C) purchasing
D) transportation
Q2) Describe the major steps in a standard GSS.
Q3) The advancement of Web-based systems allows ________ where members are in different locations and even in different countries.
Q4) ________ refers to the ability of participants in a group to work simultaneously on a task.
Q5) Most of the complex decisions in organizations are made by groups whose members work together in the same location and at the same time.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The success of a GSS depends mostly on its ________.
Q7) ________ is the use of electronic communication that allows two or more people at different locations to have a simultaneous conference.
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Chapter 11: Knowledge Management
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Q1) The ability of an organization to learn,develop memory,and share knowledge is dependent on its ________,which is a pattern of shared basic assumptions.
Q2) Firms adopt knowledge management systems:
A) to help deal with employee turnover.
B) to increase productivity.
C) to improve customer service.
D) all of the above.
Q3) The purpose of building a knowledge management system (KMS)is to maintain a well-informed,productive workforce and to help large organizations provide a consistent level of customer service.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Organizational learning and memory depend more on technology than on the people issues.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the role of the CKO.
Q6) A learning organization must have an organizational memory and a means to save,represent,and ________ its organizational knowledge.
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Chapter 12: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
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Q1) ________ is a technique for processing linguistic terms,which extends the notions of logic beyond simple true/false statements.
Q2) Which of the following is usually included in an expert system that interacts with users?
A) Blackboard
B) Justifier
C) Knowledge acquisition subsystem
D) All of the above
Q3) Describe the capabilities of human experts.
Q4) Expert systems allow knowledge to be transferred more easily at a lower cost.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The process of eliciting knowledge is called ________.
Q6) A(n)________ is a person who has the special knowledge,judgment,experience,and methods,and the ability to apply these talents to give advice and solve problems.
Q7) Describe the characteristics of expertise.
Q8) ________ are intuitive knowledge,or rules of thumb,learned from experience.
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Q9) A(n)________ network is a set of mathematical models that simulate the way a human brain functions.
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Chapter 13: Advanced Intelligent Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is not a step in case-based reasoning process?
A) Retrieve
B) Reuse
C) Retain
D) Reserve
Q2) Genetic algorithms ________ by producing offspring that are better and better measured by a fitness-to-survive function.
Q3) What is fuzzy logic?
Q4) ________ is the degree of autonomy and authority vested in an agent and can be measured by the nature of the interaction between the agent and other entities in the system.
Q5) What are the advantages of using case-based reasoning?
Q6) Fuzzy sets use a spectrum of possible values called ________.
Q7) Human learning is a combination of many complicated cognitive processes.Which of the following is not included in human's cognitive processes?
A) Induction
B) Simulation
C) Deduction
D) Analogy
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Chapter 14: Management Support Systems: Emerging
Trends and Impacts
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Q1) What is privacy? Why is it difficult to enforce privacy regulations?
Q2) A major objective of Web 2.0 is to enhance creativity,information sharing,and ________.
Q3) Virtual communities takes place over a computer network and parallel typical physical communities,such as neighborhoods,clubs,or associations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Virtual worlds are well-developed,interesting tools for businesses and consumers and have gained widespread acceptance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List four major disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support.
Q6) Web 2.0 is not only changing what is on the Web,but also how it works.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe social network analysis (SNA)software.
Q9) RFID tag data,in its purest form,is a series of ________. Page 17
Q8) Define the components of RFID and how active and passive tags works.
Q10) What are four major advantages of using Second Life for decision support?
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