TEST BANK for Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective, 4th edition Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.

TEST BANK for Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective, 4th edition
Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.




TEST BANK for Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A

Managerial Perspective, 4th edition Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen

and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.




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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. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.
Business Intelligence, 4e (Sharda/Delen/Turban)

Chapter 1 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.

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
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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. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.


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



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.

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Answer:s 4 TRUE

Diff:s42 Pages4Ref:s420



13) Successfuls4BIs4iss4as4tools4fors4thes4informations4systemss4department,s4buts4iss4nots4exposeds4t

os4thes4largers4organization.

Answer:s 4 FALSE

Diff:s42 Pages4Ref:s420



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s4aligneds4tos4itss4businesss4intelligences4analysiss4initiatives.


Answer:s 4 FALSE

Diff:s42 Pages4Ref:s420-21



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eansed,s4ands4loadeds4intos4as4datas4warehouses4tos4produces4reportss4ands4analyses.

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