Which of the following is the definition of decision making you learned from this class?
It is to make successful business plans.
It is to choose among alternative courses of action to improve organization performance.
It is to provide leadership for an organization.
It is to minimize costs.It is to maximize profit. - Answers It is to choose among alternative courses of
action to improve organization performance.
Select a number from 1 (earliest) to 5 (latest) to reflect the chronological sequence of each of the
following stages in the decision making process:
1. Identify alternative solutions.
2. Choose one alternative
3. Define a decision making situation
4. Evaluate each alternative using the chosen criteria
5. Determine the criteria used to evaluate alternative solutions - Answers 1. -3
2.- 5
3- 1
4.- 4
5. - 2
The characteristics of a business analytics approach to decision making include _____. (Check all that
apply).
Fact-based
Scientific
Computer-assisted
Data-driven
Intuition-based
Experience-based
Subjective
Conventional - Answers Fact-based
Scientific
Computer-assisted
Data-driven
"We will not offer online shopping because our customers always prefer shopping at our brick-and-
mortar stores" is an example of making decisions based on _____.
Feeling
Rule of thumb
Tradition
Fact
Evidence - Answers Tradition
Match the category of Business Analytics on the left to the type of questions it addresses on the right.
1. Descriptive Analytics [ Choose ] Who is responsible for this to happen? What could happen? What
has happened? What should happen? When did this happen? Why this is happening? How did this
happen?
,2. Predictive Analytics [ Choose ] Who is responsible for this to happen? What could happen? What
has happened? What should happen? When did this happen? Why this is happening? How did this
happen?
3. Prescriptive Analytics [ Choose ] Who is responsible for this to happen? What could happen? What
has happened? What should happen? When did this happen? Why this is happening? How did this
happen? - Answers 1. What has happened?
2. What Could happen?
3. What Should happen?
Descriptive analytics techniques include the following EXCEPT:
Reports
Data-mining
Data queries
Data dashboards
Simulations - Answers Simulations
Which of the following is a descriptive data mining technique?
Linear Programming.
What-If Analysis.
Cluster Analysis.
SQL.
Decision Analysis-Utility Theory. - Answers Cluster Analysis.
Which of the following is/are characteristic of big data? (Check all that apply).
Vitality
Validity
Valence
Veracity
Variety
Volume - Answers Variety
Volume
Veracity
Which of the following is a predictive analytics software tool?
EndNote
Simulation
SAS Enterprise Miner
Time-Series forecasting
Regression tree - Answers SAS Enterprise Miner
, Which of the following is a prescriptive analytics technique?
Linear regression
Cluster analysis
Decision rules
SimulationWhat-If analysis - Answers Decision rules
We discussed many business analytics applications in various business domains in this class. Which of
the following is/are explicitly cited as an illustrative example? (Check all that apply).
Artificial intelligence
Health care
Sports
Statistics
Accounting - Answers Health care
Sports
Business Analytics tools are essentially _____.
Methods
Techniques
Models
Algorithms
Software - Answers Software
Which of the following Business Analytics functionalities will be covered in this class? Check all that
apply.
Data management
Data analysis
Data reporting
Data pre-processing
Data outsourcing
Data warehousing - Answers Data analysis
Data reporting
Data pre-processing
Which of the following is TRUE about JMP? Check all that apply.
Its goal is to transform a world of data into intelligence.
It requires a product key to activate.