ISM 4402 MID-TERM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1.Solution applications, mobile access, >data monitoring, problem analysis - Answer -
Business applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring to other
activities. Which of the following is NOT one of those activities?
2.ECOSYSTEM - Answer -Different types of players are identified and described in the
analytics
3. False - Answer -Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services
were well established in the early 1970s.
4.Descriptive - Answer -________ Analytics help managers understand current events
in the organization including causes, trends, and patterns.
5.Google developed and released as an Apache project the Hadoop Distributed File
System (HDFS) for storing large amounts of data in a distributed way.
• Google developed and released as an Apache project the MapReduce algorithm for
pushing Computation to the data, instead of pushing data to a computing node. -
Answer -What storage system and processing algorithm were developed by Google for
Big Data?
6.ATM withdrawal, bank deposit, >sales report, cash register scans - Answer -Which of
the following is NOT an example of transaction processing?
8.1. A data warehouse, with its source data
Business analytics, a collection of tools for manipulating, mining, and analyzing the
data in the data warehouse
Business performance management (BPM) for monitoring and analyzing performance
. A user interface (e.g., a dashboard) - Answer -What are the four major components of
a Business Intelligence (BI) system?
7.Data warehouse - Answer -________ Providers focus on providing technology and
services aimed toward integrating data from multiple sources.
9.False - Answer -Due to industry consolidation, the analytics ecosystem consists of
only a handful of players across several functional areas.
, 10.Data Warehouse - Answer -A(n) ________ is a major component of a Business
Intelligence (BI) system that holds source data.
12.1980 s - Answer -In what decade did disjointed information systems begin to be
integrated?
13.• Descriptive or reporting analytics refers to knowing what is happening in the
organization and understanding some underlying trends and causes of such
occurrences.
• Predictive analytics aims to determine what is likely to happen in the future. This
analysis is based on statistical techniques as well as other more recently developed
techniques that fall under the general category of data mining.
• Prescriptive analytics recognizes what is going on as well as the likely forecast and
makes decisions to achieve the best performance possible. - Answer -List and describe
three levels or categories of analytics that are most often viewed as sequential and
independent, but also occasionally seen as overlapping.
11.DATABASES, LEGACY SYSTEMS, ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS. - Answer -BI
applications must be integrated with -
14. False - Answer -Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that
are responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.
15. Intelligent agents - Answer -Software monitors referred to as ________ can be
placed on a separate server in the network and use event- and process-based
approaches to measure and monitor operational processes.
16.Amazon uses clustering algorithms to segment customers into different clusters to
be able to target specific promotions to them. The company also uses association
mining techniques to estimate relationships between different purchasing behaviors.
That is, if a customer buys one product, what else is the customer likely to purchase?
That helps Amazon recommend or promote related products. For example, any product
search on Amazon.com results in the retailer also suggesting other similar products that
may interest a customer. - Answer -How does Amazon.com use predictive analytics to
respond to product searches by the customer?
17. False - Answer -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.
18. False - Answer -Managing information on operations, customers, internal
procedures and employee interactions is the domain of cognitive science.
20.end-user ad hoc reports, queries, and analysis. - Answer -The very design that
makes an OLTP system efficient for transaction processing makes it inefficient for
1.Solution applications, mobile access, >data monitoring, problem analysis - Answer -
Business applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring to other
activities. Which of the following is NOT one of those activities?
2.ECOSYSTEM - Answer -Different types of players are identified and described in the
analytics
3. False - Answer -Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services
were well established in the early 1970s.
4.Descriptive - Answer -________ Analytics help managers understand current events
in the organization including causes, trends, and patterns.
5.Google developed and released as an Apache project the Hadoop Distributed File
System (HDFS) for storing large amounts of data in a distributed way.
• Google developed and released as an Apache project the MapReduce algorithm for
pushing Computation to the data, instead of pushing data to a computing node. -
Answer -What storage system and processing algorithm were developed by Google for
Big Data?
6.ATM withdrawal, bank deposit, >sales report, cash register scans - Answer -Which of
the following is NOT an example of transaction processing?
8.1. A data warehouse, with its source data
Business analytics, a collection of tools for manipulating, mining, and analyzing the
data in the data warehouse
Business performance management (BPM) for monitoring and analyzing performance
. A user interface (e.g., a dashboard) - Answer -What are the four major components of
a Business Intelligence (BI) system?
7.Data warehouse - Answer -________ Providers focus on providing technology and
services aimed toward integrating data from multiple sources.
9.False - Answer -Due to industry consolidation, the analytics ecosystem consists of
only a handful of players across several functional areas.
, 10.Data Warehouse - Answer -A(n) ________ is a major component of a Business
Intelligence (BI) system that holds source data.
12.1980 s - Answer -In what decade did disjointed information systems begin to be
integrated?
13.• Descriptive or reporting analytics refers to knowing what is happening in the
organization and understanding some underlying trends and causes of such
occurrences.
• Predictive analytics aims to determine what is likely to happen in the future. This
analysis is based on statistical techniques as well as other more recently developed
techniques that fall under the general category of data mining.
• Prescriptive analytics recognizes what is going on as well as the likely forecast and
makes decisions to achieve the best performance possible. - Answer -List and describe
three levels or categories of analytics that are most often viewed as sequential and
independent, but also occasionally seen as overlapping.
11.DATABASES, LEGACY SYSTEMS, ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS. - Answer -BI
applications must be integrated with -
14. False - Answer -Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that
are responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.
15. Intelligent agents - Answer -Software monitors referred to as ________ can be
placed on a separate server in the network and use event- and process-based
approaches to measure and monitor operational processes.
16.Amazon uses clustering algorithms to segment customers into different clusters to
be able to target specific promotions to them. The company also uses association
mining techniques to estimate relationships between different purchasing behaviors.
That is, if a customer buys one product, what else is the customer likely to purchase?
That helps Amazon recommend or promote related products. For example, any product
search on Amazon.com results in the retailer also suggesting other similar products that
may interest a customer. - Answer -How does Amazon.com use predictive analytics to
respond to product searches by the customer?
17. False - Answer -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.
18. False - Answer -Managing information on operations, customers, internal
procedures and employee interactions is the domain of cognitive science.
20.end-user ad hoc reports, queries, and analysis. - Answer -The very design that
makes an OLTP system efficient for transaction processing makes it inefficient for
