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Q:
What is data governance?
A. occurs when the same data element has different values
B. occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data
C. refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data
D. the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems
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What is the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems?
A. information inconsistency
B. information integrity issues
C. data governance
D. master data management
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What refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data?
A. information inconsistency
B. information integrity issues
C. data governance
D. master data management
Q:
What is the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data?
A. data intelligence
B. data governance
C. data forbearance
D. data forecasting
Q:
Some of the serious business consequences that occur due to using low-quality information to make decisions are all of the following except
A. inability to accurately track customers.
B. inability to identify selling opportunities.
C. the success of the organization depends on appreciating and leveraging the low-quality information.
D. lost revenue opportunities from marketing to nonexistent customers.
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Which of the following represents a reason for low-quality information?
A. Online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect the privacy.
B. Different systems have different information entry standards and formats.
C. Third-party and external information contains inaccuracies and errors.
D. All of these are correct.
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Which of the following would not be considered part of the accurate characteristic of high-quality information?
A. Is the name spelled correctly?
B. Is the email address invalid?
C. Do the name and the phone values have the exact same information?
D. Is aggregate information in agreement with detailed information?
Q:
Which of the following would not be considered part of the consistent characteristic of high-quality information?
A. Do all sales columns equal the total for the revenue column?
B. Is the two-digit state code missing in the information?
C. Is all summary information in agreement with detailed information?
D. Does the order number match the item and the color options available?
Q:
Which of the following would not be considered part of the unique characteristic of high-quality information?
A. Are there any duplicate orders?
B. Are there any duplicate customers?
C. Is aggregate information in agreement with detailed information?
D. Is each transaction and event represented only once in the information?
Q:
Which of the following would not be considered part of the timely characteristic of high-quality information?
A. Is the zip code missing in the address?
B. Is the information current with respect to business needs?
C. Is the customer address current?
D. Is the information updated weekly or hourly?
Q:
Which of the following would not be considered part of the complete characteristic of high-quality information?
A. Is a value missing from the personal information?
B. Is each transaction represented only once in the information?
C. Is the address incomplete?
D. Is the area code missing for the phone information?
Q:
Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?
A. accuracy
B. completeness
C. quantity
D. consistency
Q:
What is it called when each transaction, entity, and event is represented only once in the information?
A. uniqueness
B. accuracy
C. consistency
D. timeliness
Q:
Which of the following lists include all of the five characteristics common to high-quality information?
A. accuracy, completeness, strength, support, and positive feedback
B. accuracy, association, referral, sales, and marketing
C. accuracy, competition, support, customer service, and visibility
D. accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and uniqueness
Q:
What are information integrity issues?
A. occurs when the same data element has different values
B. occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data
C. refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data
D. the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems
Q:
Which of the following occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data?
A. information inconsistency issue
B. information integrity issue
C. data control issue
D. data mining issue
Q:
What occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data?
A. information inconsistency
B. information integrity issues
C. data governance
D. master data management
Q:
What occurs when the same data element has different values?
A. information inconsistency
B. information integrity issues
C. data governance
D. master data management
Q:
What is information inconsistency?
A. occurs when the same data element has different values
B. occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data
C. refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data
D. the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems
Q:
Which of the following occurs when the same data element has different values?
A. data modeling issue
B. data mining issue
C. data governance issue
D. information inconsistency issue
Q:
Most people request real-time information without understanding that continual ________ is one of its biggest pitfalls.
A. improvements
B. change
C. clustering
D. cleansing
Q:
Which of the following are examples of analytical information?
A. airline ticket, sales receipts, and packing slips
B. hotel reservation, sales receipts, and packing slips
C. future growth analysis, sales projections, and product statistics
D. packing slips, grocery receipt, and competitor information
Q:
Which of the following are examples of transactional information?
A. airline ticket, sales receipts, and packing slips
B. trends and sales statistics
C. product sales results, grocery receipts, and growth projections
D. airline tickets and sales growth spreadsheets
Q:
Which of the following provides real-time information in response to requests?
A. sales system
B. transactional system
C. real-time system
D. salary system
Q:
Which of the choices below does not represent an organization that requires up-to-the-second information?
A. 911 response center
B. stock traders
C. banks
D. construction companies
Q:
Which of the following refers to immediate, up-to-date information?
A. daily information
B. strategic information
C. real-time information
D. crisis information
Q:
Which of the following implies that information is current with respect to the business requirement?
A. uniqueness
B. accuracy
C. consistency
D. timeliness
Q:
Which of the following implies that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information?
A. uniqueness
B. completeness
C. consistency
D. accuracy
Q:
What is a real-time system?
A. provides immediate, up-to-date information
B. provides real-time information in response to query requests
C. encompasses all organization information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks
D. encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks
Q:
What is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information?
A. It is only available to high-level executives due to the expense.
B. It is only available in aggregate levels of granularity.
C. It continually changes.
D. It rarely changes.
Q:
What provides real-time information in response to query requests?
A. real-time information
B. real-time systems
C. information level
D. information quality
Q:
What is immediate, up-to-date information?
A. real-time information
B. real-time systems
C. information granularity
D. information governance
Q:
Which of the following represents the different information levels?
A. detail, summary, aggregate
B. document, presentation, spreadsheet, database
C. individual, department, enterprise
D. executives, managers, operational employees
Q:
What encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performance of managerial analysis tasks?
A. transactional information
B. analytical information
C. timeliness
D. quality
Q:
Which of the following encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks?
A. analytical information
B. transactional information
C. statistical information
D. targeted information
Q:
Which of the following encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support daily operational tasks?
A. targeted information
B. analytical information
C. productive information
D. transactional information
Q:
What are the two different categories for information type?
A. analytical and productive
B. analytical and analysis
C. transactional and analytical
D. transactional and analysis
Q:
Which of the following represent the four primary traits that help determine the value of information?
A. information type, information timeliness, information quality, and information governance
B. information statistics, information tracking, information quality, and information governance
C. information type, information chance, information analytics, and information policy
D. information timeliness, information quality, information quantity, and information governance policy
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Which of the following refers to the extent of detail within the information?
A. knowledge information
B. information granularity
C. chance information
D. information analytics
Q:
What encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks?
A. transactional information
B. analytical information
C. timeliness
D. quality
Q:
Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include developing reports for each salesperson, product, and part as well as departmental-wide sales reports by salesperson, product, and part. Bens duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different information ________.
A. levels
B. formats
C. granularities
D. formulas
Q:
Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include developing individual and departmental goals, and generating financial analysis across departments and the enterprise as a whole for the executive team to review. Bens duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different information ________.
A. lists
B. formats
C. granularities
D. levels
Q:
Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include writing letters, memos, and emails along with generating reports for financial analysis and marketing materials for products. Bens duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different information ________.
A. lists
B. formats
C. granularities
D. levels
Q:
Which of the following is not a primary trait of information?
A. governance
B. type
C. timeliness
D. quantity
Q:
Which of the following represents the different information granularities?
A. detail, summary, aggregate
B. document, presentation, spreadsheet, database
C. individual, department, enterprise
D. executives, managers, operational employees
Q:
Which of the following represents the different information formats?
A. detail, summary, aggregate
B. document, presentation, spreadsheet, database
C. individual, department, enterprise
D. executives, managers, operational employees
Q:
Employees need to compare different types of information for what they commonly reveal to make strategic decisions. Which of the choices below represents the three common types of information found throughout an organization?
A. levels, forms, granularities
B. levels, forms, data
C. levels, formats, granularities
D. data, formats, granularities
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A data miner is a business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.
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Association detection occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of over-analysis (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome.
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A data artist is a business analytics specialist who uses visual tools to help people understand complex data.
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Analysis paralysis occurs when the user goes into an emotional state of over-analysis (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome.
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Data visualization tools can help uncover correlations and trends in data that would otherwise go unrecognized.
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Data visualization tools move beyond Excel graphs and charts into sophisticated analysis techniques such as pie charts, controls, instruments, maps, time-series graphs, and more.
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Web mining analysis describes technologies that allow users to see or visualize data to transform information into a business perspective.
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Infographics can present the results of large data analysis looking for patterns and relationships that monitor changes in variables over time.
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Social media analytics analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.
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Web analytics analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences.
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Web analytics analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation.
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Text analytics analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences. Text mining a firms customer support email might identify which customer service representative is best able to handle the question, allowing the system to forward it to the right person.
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Speech analytics is heavily used in the customer service department to help improve processes by identifying angry customers and routing them to the appropriate customer service representative.
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Speech analytics is the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather information; brings structure to customer interactions and exposes information buried in customer contact center interactions with an enterprise.
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Social media analytics analyzes text flowing across the Internet, including unstructured text from blogs and messages.
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Distributed computing focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization.
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Advanced analytics processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment.
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Association detection is a technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.
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Association detection reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationship.
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Infographics (information graphics) displays information graphically so it can be easily understood.
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Advanced analytics focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization.
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Distributed computing processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment.
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Volume includes the uncertainty of data, including biases, noise, and abnormalities.
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Velocity includes different forms of structured and unstructured data.
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Velocity includes the analysis of streaming data as it travels around the Internet.
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Define data mining, and explain the three common forms for mining structured and unstructured data.
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Volume includes the scale of data.
Q:
Explain ETL and the role of a data mart in business.
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Veracity includes the uncertainty of data, including biases, noise, and abnormalities.
Q:
Define a data warehouse, and provide a few reasons it can make a manager more effective.
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Variety includes different forms of structured and unstructured data.
Q:
Identify the advantages of using business intelligence to support managerial decision making.
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The four common characteristics of big data include variety, veracity, volume, velocity.