UGA MIST FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

UGA MIST FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. 4-step process that makes up "analytics"
Answer:
1. Asking meaningful questions
2. Acquiring relevant data
3. Analyzing the data quantitatively
4. Presenting the results

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2. 3 major categories of skills required for data science
Answer:
1. Hacking skills
2. Math and statistics knowledge
3. substantive expertise

Question:
3. social network theory
Answer:
the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, organizations, systems, and other
connected knowledge entities

Question:
4. nodes
Answer:
(part of social network theory)
the individual people in the network

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5. links
Answer:
(part of social network theory)
the relationships and flows between the nodes

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6. 1st order questions
Answer:
Absolute and concrete questions (ex. What should we do?)

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7. 2nd order questions
Answer:
Abstract matters (ex. Why should we do it?, how should we go about solving this?)

,Question:
8. Organizational impacts of "muting" HiPPOs
Answer:
Shifts towards data-driven decision making taking power away from HiPPOs

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9. Business Process
Answer:
Sequence of tasks or activities that take a set of inputs and convert them into desired outputs

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10. Processes
Answer:
A flow of related activities that work together to achieve an objective

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11. Function
Answer:
A discrete action that produces a result

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12. Silo Effect
Answer:
workers complete their tasks in their functional silos without regard to the consequences for the other
components of the process

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13. Consequences of poor organizational coordination
Answer:
-Delays
-Increased Lead times
-Excess Inventory
-Lack of visibility across the processes

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14. BPNM
Answer:
the emerging standard for specifying business processes in a business process model

Question:
15. 4 elements of BPMN
Answer:
event
task/activity
flow/arc
gateway

, Question:
16. event
Answer:
(an aspect of BPMN)
represents a thing that happens instantly (ex: an invoice has been received)

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17. task/activity
Answer:
(an aspect of BPMN)
a unit of work that has a duration (ex: an activity to pay an invoice)

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18. flow/arc
Answer:
(an aspect of BPMN)
connects objects with each other and shows the order of elements in the process (arrowhead)

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19. gateway
Answer:
(an aspect of BPMN)
object that represents things that separate and/or recombine flows

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20. parallel gateway
Answer:
a type of gateway in BPMN
provides mechanism to synchronize parallel flow and to create parallel flow, depicted by a diamond with a
plus sign in middle

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21. exclusive gateway
Answer:
a type of gateway in BPMN
indicates locations within a business process where the sequence flow can take on or more alternative
paths -- only one of the paths can be taken, depicted by a diamond with an "x" in the middle

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22. Pools
Answer:
resource classes are captured using pools
independent organizational entities
ex: customer, supplier, East Talon Hospital, Tartu Clinic)

Question:
23. lanes