TEST BANK
Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective
RAMESH SHARDA, DURSUN DELEN, EFRAIM TURBAN
Fourth edition
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TEST BANK FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS,
AND DATA SCIENCE: A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE, 4TH
EDITION RAMESH SHARDA, DURSUN DELEN AND EFRAIM
TURBAN FULL TESTBANK ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE 2025 WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS|| GRADED A+
Chapter01: An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data
Science
1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are
responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.
ANSWER- FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3
2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain
experts using manual processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and
monitoring activities to problem analysis and solution applications.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11
4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and
tools only.
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ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 16
5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had
little impact on modern BI innovations.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11
6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel
computing and/or Hadoop/Spark.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 11-12
7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures
and employee interactions is the domain of cognitive science.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 12
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8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS)
have precise definitions agreed to by practitioners.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 14
10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well
established in the early 1970s.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15
11) 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.
12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the
black hole," because all the information went into it, but little ever came back and
ad hoc real-time querying was virtually impossible.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20
Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective
RAMESH SHARDA, DURSUN DELEN, EFRAIM TURBAN
Fourth edition
,1|Pag e
TEST BANK FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS,
AND DATA SCIENCE: A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE, 4TH
EDITION RAMESH SHARDA, DURSUN DELEN AND EFRAIM
TURBAN FULL TESTBANK ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE 2025 WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS|| GRADED A+
Chapter01: An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data
Science
1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are
responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.
ANSWER- FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3
2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain
experts using manual processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and
monitoring activities to problem analysis and solution applications.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11
4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and
tools only.
,2|Pag e
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 16
5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had
little impact on modern BI innovations.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11
6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel
computing and/or Hadoop/Spark.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 11-12
7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures
and employee interactions is the domain of cognitive science.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 12
, 3|Pag e
8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS)
have precise definitions agreed to by practitioners.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 14
10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well
established in the early 1970s.
ANSWER- FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15
11) 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.
12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the
black hole," because all the information went into it, but little ever came back and
ad hoc real-time querying was virtually impossible.
ANSWER- TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20
