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A Managerial Perspective, 4th edition Ramesh Sharda, Dursun
Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711 A+
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
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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
8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise
definitions agreed to by practitioners.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
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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
13) Successful BI is a tool for the information systems department, but is not exposed to the
larger organization.
Answer: FALSE
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Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20
14) BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be
aligned to its business intelligence analysis initiatives.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20-21
15) Traditional BI systems use a large volume of static data that has been extracted, cleansed,
and loaded into a data warehouse to produce reports and analyses.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 21
16) Demands for instant, on-demand access to dispersed information decrease as firms
successfully integrate BI into their operations.
17) The use of dashboards and data visualizations is seldom effective in identifying issues in
organizations, as demonstrated by the Silvaris Corporation Case Study.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 24
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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 A+
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
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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
8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise
definitions agreed to by practitioners.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13
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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
13) Successful BI is a tool for the information systems department, but is not exposed to the
larger organization.
Answer: FALSE
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Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20
14) BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be
aligned to its business intelligence analysis initiatives.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20-21
15) Traditional BI systems use a large volume of static data that has been extracted, cleansed,
and loaded into a data warehouse to produce reports and analyses.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 21
16) Demands for instant, on-demand access to dispersed information decrease as firms
successfully integrate BI into their operations.
17) The use of dashboards and data visualizations is seldom effective in identifying issues in
organizations, as demonstrated by the Silvaris Corporation Case Study.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 24
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