Enabling The Organization-decision Making
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- Business Driven TechnologyIdentifying Competitive AdvantagesStrategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive AdvantagesMeasuring the Success of Strategic InitiativesOrganizational Structures That Support Strategic InitiativesValuing Organizational InformationStoring Organizational Information-DatabasesAccessing Organizational Information-Data WarehouseEnabling the Organization-Decision MakingExtending the Organization-Supply Chain ManagementBuilding a Customer-Centric Organization-Customer Relationship ManagementIntegrating the Organization From End to End-Enterprise Resource PlanningCreating Innovative OrganizationsEbusinessCreating Collaborative PartnershipsIntegrating Wireless Technology in BusinessDeveloping Software to Streamline OperationsMethodologies for Supporting Agile OrganizationsManaging Organizational ProjectsDeveloping a 21st-Century OrganizationAppendix: Business BasicsAppendix: Business ProcessAppendix: Hardware and Software BasicsAppendix: Mis InfrastructuresAppendix: Networks and TelecommunicationsAppendix: Information SecurityAppendix: EthicsAppendix: Operations ManagementAppendix: Sustainable Mis InfrastructuresAppendix: Business IntelligenceAppendix: Global Information SystemsAppendix: Global Trends
Question 1
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Which of the following is not a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems?
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People need to analyze large amounts of information.
People must make decisions quickly.
People must apply sophisticated analysis techniques to make good decisions.
People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information.
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Question 2
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What can a model accomplish?
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Calculate risks
Understand uncertainty
Manipulate time
All of these
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Question 3
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Which of the following is a quantitative model typically used by a DSS?
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Sensitivity analysis
What-if analysis
Goal-seeking analysis
All of these
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Question 4
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What is the study of the effect that changes in one (or more)part of the model has on other parts of the model?
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Drill-down
Sensitivity analysis
Statistical analysis
Goal-seeking analysis
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Question 5
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What finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal,such as a desired level of output?
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Drill-down
Sensitivity analysis
What-if analysis
Goal-seeking analysis
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Question 6
Multiple Choice
What is consolidation?
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Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.
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Question 7
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What is drill-down capability?
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Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.
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Question 8
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What is slice-and-dice capability?
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Involves the aggregation of information and features simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.
The ability to look at information from different perspectives.
Enables users to get details, and details of details, of information.
Finds the inputs necessary to achieve a goal, such as a desired level of output.
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Question 9
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What integrates information from multiple components and tailors the information to individual preferences?
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Drill-down
Sensitivity analysis
What-if analysis
Digital dashboard
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Question 10
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What are various commercial applications of artificial intelligence called?
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Drill-down
Sensitivity analysis
Digital dashboard
Intelligent systems
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Question 11
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What is a category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works?
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Intelligent system
Artificial intelligence
Expert systems
Neural network
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Question 12
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Which of the following is the most commonly used form of AI in the business arena?
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Intelligent system
Artificial intelligence
Expert system
Neural network
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Question 13
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What is a special-purpose,knowledge-based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users?
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Intelligent system
Artificial intelligence
Neural network
Intelligent agent
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Question 14
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What is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary,survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem?
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Intelligent system
Artificial intelligence
Neural network
Genetic algorithm
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Question 15
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Which of the following represents the top-down (executives to analysts)organizational levels of information technology systems?
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TPS, DSS, EIS
DSS, TPS, EIS
EIS, DSS, TPS
None of these. It varies from organization to organization.
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Question 16
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Which of the following is an incorrect enterprise view of information technology?
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Processes are analytical for executives and transactional for analysts.
Granularity is coarse for executives and fine for analysts.
Processing is OLTP for executives and OLAP for analysts.
None of these.
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Question 17
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Which of the following is a type of transaction processing system?
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Order processing
Sales
Manufacturing
Transportation
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Question 18
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Which of the following is a type of decision support system?
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Order processing
Inventory tracking
Manufacturing
All of these
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Question 19
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Which system differentiates an executive information system from a decision support system and a transaction processing system?
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Order processing system
Manufacturing system
Stock market information system
Transportation system
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Question 20
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A genetic algorithm is an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary,survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem.
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True
False
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