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Question 1 TrueQuestion 2 Big data is a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, that cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools.

1.  False

What is supply chain management (SCM)?

1. A means of managing all aspects of a customer's relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability.
2. The management of information flows between and among activities in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and corporate profitability.
3. Takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all downstream systems and processes.
4. Connects the plans, methods, and tools aimed at integrating separate enterprise system.

 

Question 3

What processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment?

1. Distributed computing
2. Data artist
3. Analysis paralysis
4. Advanced analytics

 

Question 4

What is enterprise resource planning (ERP)?

1. Connection of the plans, methods, and tools aimed at integrating separate enterprise system.
2. The management of information flows between and among activities in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and corporate profitability.
3. Integration of all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise wide information about all business operations.
4. A means of managing all aspects of a customer's relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability.

 

Question 5

Primary key is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given record in a table.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 6

 

Explain ETL and the role of a data mart in business.

 

Question 7

Compare operational CRM and analytical CRM.

 

Question 8

Artificial intelligence simulates human thinking and behavior, such as the ability to reason and learn. What is the ultimate goal of AI?

1. To build an intelligent agent.
2. To build a system that can mimic an expert agent.
3. To build an intelligent system.
4. To build a system that can mimic human intelligence.

 

Question 9

Efficiency MIS metrics include throughput, transaction speed, and system availability.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 10

What is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises?

1. Customer relationship management
2. Supply chain management
3. Business process reengineering
4. Enterprise resource planning

 

Question 11

Describe Porter's Five Forces Model and explain each of the five forces.

 

Question 12

Describe a database, a database management system, and the relational database model.

 

Question 13

Compare core enterprise resource planning components and extended enterprise resource planning components.

 

Question 14

What is customer relationship management (CRM)?

1. A means of managing all aspects of a customer's relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability.
2. Connection of the plans, methods, and tools aimed at integrating separate enterprise system.
3. Integration of all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system (or integrated set of IT systems) so employees can make decisions by viewing enterprisewide information about all business operations.
4. The management of information flows between and among activities in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and corporate profitability.

 

Question 15

Data-mining tools use a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 16

Which of the following contains a subset of data warehouse information?

1. Data pool
2. Data miner
3. Data mart
4. Data analyzing tool

 

Question 17

Effectiveness MIS metrics measure the impact MIS has on business processes and activities, including customer satisfaction and customer conversion rates.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 18

A data warehouse is a _________ collection of information, gathered from many different ___________ databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.

1. Logical, operational
2. Logical, transactional
3. Physical, transactional
4. Physical, operational

 

Question 19

A repository is a central location in which data is stored and managed.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 20

What is RFID?

1. Uses electronic tags and labels to identify objects wirelessly over short distances.
2. Unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously, or without a human.
3. Focus on creating artificial intelligence devices that can move and react to sensory input.
4. A process that builds—layer by layer in an additive process—a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model.

 

Question 21

MIS is a business function. Which of the following does MIS perform to help aid the company in decision making and problem solving?

1. Moves information about people.
2. Moves information about products.
3. All of these.
4. Moves processes across the company to improve systems.

 

Question 22

Explain the four primary traits that determine the value of information.

 

Question 23

Foreign key is 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.

1.  True
2.  False

 

Question 24

Define the relationship between supply chain management and decision making.

 

Question 25

What is business intelligence?

1. Data converted into a meaningful and useful context.
2. Skills, experience, and expertise, coupled with information and intelligence, that create a person's intellectual resources.
3. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object.
4. Information collected from multiple sources that analyzes patterns, trends, and relationships for strategic decision making.

 

Question 26

Which of the following governs the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, and the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information?

1. Information ethics
2. Ethical information
3. Information technology
4. Information policies

 

Question 27

What is information?

1. Data converted into a meaningful and useful context.
2. Data collected from multiple sources that analyzes patterns, trends, and relationships for strategic decision making.
3. Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object.
4. Skills, experience, and expertise, coupled with information and intelligence that creates a person's intellectual resources.