TEST BANK FOR
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS, AND DATA SCIENCE: A
MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE, 4TH EDITION RAMESH SHARDA,
DURSUN DELEN AND EFRAIM TURBAN ,
ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED|| LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE 2025
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS|| GRADED A+
,1|Page
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|Page
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|Page
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, 4TH EDITION RAMESH SHARDA,
DURSUN DELEN AND EFRAIM TURBAN ,
ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED|| LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE 2025
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS|| GRADED A+
,1|Page
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|Page
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|Page
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
