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TEST BANK for Business Intelligence,
Analytics, and Data Science: A
Managerial Perspective 4th Edition by
Ramesh Sharda
All Chapters 1-8 With 100% Verified Q&As| A+ Grade
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TABLE OF CONTENT

1. An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science

2. Descriptive Analytics I: Nature of Data, Statistical Modeling, and Visualization

3. Descriptive Analytics II: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

4. Predictive Analytics I: Data Mining Process, Methods, and Algorithms

5. Predictive Analytics II: Text, Web, and Social Media Analytics

6. Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization and Simulation

7. Big Data Concepts and Tools

8. Future Trends, Privacy and Managerial Considerations in Analytics
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Chapter 1 An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science

1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are responses to external pressures,
not for taking advantage of opportunities.

Accurate Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3



2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain experts using manual
processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.

Accurate Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13



3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring activities to problem
analysis and solution applications.

Accurate Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11



4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and tools only.

Accurate Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 16
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5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had little impact on modern BI
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6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel computing and/or
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7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures and employee interactions is the
domain of cognitive science.

Accurate Answer: FALSE

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 12



8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise definitions
agreed to by practitioners.

Accurate Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13



9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems.

Accurate Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 14



10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well established in the early
1970s.

Accurate Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15
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11) Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits, and cash
register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of BI.
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12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole," because all the
information went into it, but little ever came back and ad hoc real-time querying was virtually impossible.
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