ISTM 210 - Exam 3 (Phinney) Questions And
Answers Verified 100% Correct
Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) - ANSWER -Contains
information about an organizations sales, marketing, customer service records, and
much more.
Data Warehouses - ANSWER -Where an organization stores and consolidates
disparate data in a central location
Slice and Dice - ANSWER -Taking out parts of the data you need
Datamart - ANSWER -Limited in the compexity of databases, and smaller than
warehouses, but cheaper to implement
ETL - ANSWER -Tools that are used to standardize data across systems, allowing
it to be queried
Extract, Transform, and Load - ANSWER -ETL is an acronym for...
Extract - ANSWER -Collecting the data (from multiple sources)
Transform - ANSWER -Structuring data so it can be placed into the Data
Warehouse
Load - ANSWER -Putting the data into the warehouse
True - ANSWER -True or False: ETL must happen in order
Hadoop - ANSWER -An infrastructure for storing and processing large sets of
data across multiple servers that was named after a yellow toy elephant
Map Reduce - ANSWER -The processing arm, or engine of Hadoop that allows
data to be queried directly on the server where it lives.
,Map, Shuffle, and Reduce - ANSWER -MSR is an acronym for...
Map - ANSWER -Takes input data and gets it ready to be analyzed
Shuffle - ANSWER -Brings related pieces of data closer together to make the
analytics more efficient
Reduce - ANSWER -Takes the data and performs calculations to get user closer to
an ANSWER
Query - ANSWER -In map reduce, only the _______ is transported through the
network.
Data Analysis - ANSWER -Makes sense of an organization's collected data and
turn it into useful information and validate its future decisions
Data Mining - ANSWER -The examination of huge sets of data to find patterns
and connections, and identify outliers
Data Discovery - ANSWER -Data Mining is sometimes called...
Topic Analytics - ANSWER -Catalogs phrases of an organization's customer
feedback into relevant topics
Text Analytics - ANSWER -Searches through unstructured text data to look for
useful patterns
Text-Mining - ANSWER -Text Analytics is sometimes called...
Business Analytics - ANSWER -Attempts to make connections between data so
organization's can try to predict future trends that may give them a competitive
advantage
, Descriptive Analytics - ANSWER -Defines an organization's past data that can be
grouped into significant pieces
Predictive Analytics - ANSWER -Attempts to reveal future patterns in a
marketplace
Decision Analytics - ANSWER -Builds on Predictive Analysis to make decisions
about future industries and marketplaces
Data Visualization - ANSWER -The graphic display of the results of data mining,
analytics and BI in general, typically in real time
Dashboards - ANSWER -Easy-to-use graphical interfaces that characterize
specific data analysis through visualization
IBM's Watson - ANSWER -Supercomputer that knows almost anything, but
struggles with real world messy data
Competed on Jeopardy
Hadoop - ANSWER -What infrastructure does IBM's Watson use?
Open-Source - ANSWER -Hadoop is an _______ software
Nutch - ANSWER -What was the original name of Hadoop?
Chief Analytics Officer - ANSWER -The position of CAO stands for...
Entity - ANSWER -Anything the organization wishes to store information about
Attribute - ANSWER -The actual information an organization is storing (AKA:
Field)
Record - ANSWER -All the fields containing data about one entity
Answers Verified 100% Correct
Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) - ANSWER -Contains
information about an organizations sales, marketing, customer service records, and
much more.
Data Warehouses - ANSWER -Where an organization stores and consolidates
disparate data in a central location
Slice and Dice - ANSWER -Taking out parts of the data you need
Datamart - ANSWER -Limited in the compexity of databases, and smaller than
warehouses, but cheaper to implement
ETL - ANSWER -Tools that are used to standardize data across systems, allowing
it to be queried
Extract, Transform, and Load - ANSWER -ETL is an acronym for...
Extract - ANSWER -Collecting the data (from multiple sources)
Transform - ANSWER -Structuring data so it can be placed into the Data
Warehouse
Load - ANSWER -Putting the data into the warehouse
True - ANSWER -True or False: ETL must happen in order
Hadoop - ANSWER -An infrastructure for storing and processing large sets of
data across multiple servers that was named after a yellow toy elephant
Map Reduce - ANSWER -The processing arm, or engine of Hadoop that allows
data to be queried directly on the server where it lives.
,Map, Shuffle, and Reduce - ANSWER -MSR is an acronym for...
Map - ANSWER -Takes input data and gets it ready to be analyzed
Shuffle - ANSWER -Brings related pieces of data closer together to make the
analytics more efficient
Reduce - ANSWER -Takes the data and performs calculations to get user closer to
an ANSWER
Query - ANSWER -In map reduce, only the _______ is transported through the
network.
Data Analysis - ANSWER -Makes sense of an organization's collected data and
turn it into useful information and validate its future decisions
Data Mining - ANSWER -The examination of huge sets of data to find patterns
and connections, and identify outliers
Data Discovery - ANSWER -Data Mining is sometimes called...
Topic Analytics - ANSWER -Catalogs phrases of an organization's customer
feedback into relevant topics
Text Analytics - ANSWER -Searches through unstructured text data to look for
useful patterns
Text-Mining - ANSWER -Text Analytics is sometimes called...
Business Analytics - ANSWER -Attempts to make connections between data so
organization's can try to predict future trends that may give them a competitive
advantage
, Descriptive Analytics - ANSWER -Defines an organization's past data that can be
grouped into significant pieces
Predictive Analytics - ANSWER -Attempts to reveal future patterns in a
marketplace
Decision Analytics - ANSWER -Builds on Predictive Analysis to make decisions
about future industries and marketplaces
Data Visualization - ANSWER -The graphic display of the results of data mining,
analytics and BI in general, typically in real time
Dashboards - ANSWER -Easy-to-use graphical interfaces that characterize
specific data analysis through visualization
IBM's Watson - ANSWER -Supercomputer that knows almost anything, but
struggles with real world messy data
Competed on Jeopardy
Hadoop - ANSWER -What infrastructure does IBM's Watson use?
Open-Source - ANSWER -Hadoop is an _______ software
Nutch - ANSWER -What was the original name of Hadoop?
Chief Analytics Officer - ANSWER -The position of CAO stands for...
Entity - ANSWER -Anything the organization wishes to store information about
Attribute - ANSWER -The actual information an organization is storing (AKA:
Field)
Record - ANSWER -All the fields containing data about one entity
