Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective 4th Edition Test Bank Latest Updated 2026–2027 Comprehensive Exam Prep Resource with Verified Questions and Answers for Mastery of Data-Driven Business Decision-Making.

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Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.




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Managerial, Perspective,, 4th, edition, Ramesh, Sharda,, Dursun, Delen,

and, Efraim, Turban., ISBN-13:, 9780137305711.




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Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.
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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
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pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.
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2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain experts using
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manual processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.
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Answer: TRUE L




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3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring activities to
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problem analysis and solution applications.
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4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and tools only.
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5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had little impact on modern BI
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innovations.

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Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.


6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel computing and/or
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Hadoop/Spark.

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7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures and employee interactions
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is the domain of cognitive science.
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8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise
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definitions agreed to by practitioners.
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9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems.
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10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well established in the
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early 1970s.
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11) Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits, and
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cash register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of BI.
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Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen and Efraim Turban. ISBN-13: 9780137305711.



12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole," because all
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the information went into it, but little ever came back and ad hoc real-time querying was virtually
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impossible.

Answer: TRUE L




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13) Successful BI is a tool for the information systems department, but is not exposed to the larger
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organization.

Answer: FALSE L




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14) BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be aligned to
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its business intelligence analysis initiatives.
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Answer: FALSE L




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15) Traditional BI systems use a large volume of static data that has been extracted, cleansed, and
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loaded into a data warehouse to produce reports and analyses.
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Answer: TRUE L




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16) Demands for instant, on-demand access to dispersed information decrease as firms successfully
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integrate BI into their operations.
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