MISY 5360 MidTerm | Lamar University | UPDATED
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: What type of analytics seeks to determine what is likely to
happen in the future?
A: Predictive
Q2: Is Star schema considered a special case of snowflake
schema?
A: True
Q3: Which of the following methods use Supervised Learning
(Select all that apply)?
A: Classification, Regression
Q4: How can the data field 'ethnic group' be best described?
A: Nominal data
Q5: What type of analytics seeks to recognize what is going on as
well as the likely forecast and make decisions to achieve the
best performance possible?
A: Prescriptive
Q6: In data mining, do classification models help in prediction?
A: True
Q7: What is the extraction of information from data generated
through Web page visits and transactions called?
A: Web usage mining
Q8: What is the measure of dispersion calculated by simply taking
the square root of the variations?
A: Standard deviation
Q9: Which characteristic of data requires that the variables and
data values be defined at the lowest (or as low as required)
level of detail for the intended use of the data?
A: Data granularity
Q10: Is Ratio data a type of categorical data?
, A: False
Q11: What is a collection of terms specific to a narrow field called?
A: Term dictionary
Q12: Is converting continuous valued numerical variables to ranges
and categories referred to as discretization?
A: True
Q13: In the 2000s, what did the DW-driven DSSs begin to be
called?
A: BI systems
Q14: Does data source reliability mean that data are correct and
are a good match for the analytics problem?
A: False
Q15: What is a Web client that connects to a Web server, which is in
turn connected to a BI application server, reflective of?
A: Three tier architecture
Q16: In data mining, what is finding an affinity of two products to be
commonly together in a shopping cart known as?
A: Associate rule mining
Q17: Can real-time data warehousing be used to support the
highest level of decision making sophistication and power?
A: Yes
Q18: What is the major feature that enables real-time data
warehousing in relation to handling the data?
A: Speed of data transfer
Q19: What is the name of the report developed by Kaplan and
Norton?
A: Balanced scorecard-type reports
Q20: What does Web content mining involve?
A: Analyzing unstructured web content
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: What type of analytics seeks to determine what is likely to
happen in the future?
A: Predictive
Q2: Is Star schema considered a special case of snowflake
schema?
A: True
Q3: Which of the following methods use Supervised Learning
(Select all that apply)?
A: Classification, Regression
Q4: How can the data field 'ethnic group' be best described?
A: Nominal data
Q5: What type of analytics seeks to recognize what is going on as
well as the likely forecast and make decisions to achieve the
best performance possible?
A: Prescriptive
Q6: In data mining, do classification models help in prediction?
A: True
Q7: What is the extraction of information from data generated
through Web page visits and transactions called?
A: Web usage mining
Q8: What is the measure of dispersion calculated by simply taking
the square root of the variations?
A: Standard deviation
Q9: Which characteristic of data requires that the variables and
data values be defined at the lowest (or as low as required)
level of detail for the intended use of the data?
A: Data granularity
Q10: Is Ratio data a type of categorical data?
, A: False
Q11: What is a collection of terms specific to a narrow field called?
A: Term dictionary
Q12: Is converting continuous valued numerical variables to ranges
and categories referred to as discretization?
A: True
Q13: In the 2000s, what did the DW-driven DSSs begin to be
called?
A: BI systems
Q14: Does data source reliability mean that data are correct and
are a good match for the analytics problem?
A: False
Q15: What is a Web client that connects to a Web server, which is in
turn connected to a BI application server, reflective of?
A: Three tier architecture
Q16: In data mining, what is finding an affinity of two products to be
commonly together in a shopping cart known as?
A: Associate rule mining
Q17: Can real-time data warehousing be used to support the
highest level of decision making sophistication and power?
A: Yes
Q18: What is the major feature that enables real-time data
warehousing in relation to handling the data?
A: Speed of data transfer
Q19: What is the name of the report developed by Kaplan and
Norton?
A: Balanced scorecard-type reports
Q20: What does Web content mining involve?
A: Analyzing unstructured web content
