MISY 5360 CERTIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
▶ accountability Answer: Mechanisms for identifying responsible parties
▶ liability Answer: permits individuals to recover damages done to them
▶ Due Process Answer: Laws are well known and understood, with an
ability to appeal to higher authorities
▶ 5 step process for ethical analysis Answer: 1. Identify and clearly
describe the facts.
2. Define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values
involved.
3. Identify the stakeholders.
4. Identify the options that you can reasonably take.
5. Identify the potential consequences of your options.
▶ cookies Answer: track visits to site
▶ web beacons Answer: tiny graphics embedded in emails and web pages
▶ spyware Answer: Installed on a computer without the user's knowledge
to track user's behavior
▶ intellectual property Answer: tangible and intangible products of the
mind created by individuals of corporations
▶ cloud computing Answer: computing resources obtained over the
internet
▶ green computing Answer: practices and technologies for designing,
making, using, and disposing of computer hardware to reduce
environmental impact
, ▶ java Answer: os independent object oriented programming language
▶ html5 Answer: enables multimedia embedding without 3rd party plugins
like flash
▶ database Answer: collection of related files containing records on
people, places, and things
▶ entity Answer: generalized category representing person place or thing
▶ Database Management System (DBMS) Answer: software for creating,
storing, maintaining, and accessing database files; makes using databases
more efficient
▶ data warehouse Answer: database that stores current and historical
data of potential interest to decision makers throughout the company
▶ data mart Answer: subset of a data warehouse in which only a focused
portion of the data warehouse information is kept
▶ Hadoop Answer: an open source program supported by the Apache
Foundation that manages thousands of computers and that implements
MapReduce
▶ in-memory computing Answer: relies primarily on a computer's main
memory (RAM) for data storage
▶ data mining Answer: Finds hidden patterns and relationships in large
databases and infers rules from them to predict future behavior
▶ text mining Answer: Unstructured data (mostly text files) accounts for 80
percent of an organization's useful information.
▶ web mining Answer: discovery and analysis of useful patterns and
information from the World Wide Web
▶ When a manager does not receive forecasts, sales projections, or
appropriate dashboards, the business objective of ______________ is not
achieved. Answer: improving decision making
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
▶ accountability Answer: Mechanisms for identifying responsible parties
▶ liability Answer: permits individuals to recover damages done to them
▶ Due Process Answer: Laws are well known and understood, with an
ability to appeal to higher authorities
▶ 5 step process for ethical analysis Answer: 1. Identify and clearly
describe the facts.
2. Define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values
involved.
3. Identify the stakeholders.
4. Identify the options that you can reasonably take.
5. Identify the potential consequences of your options.
▶ cookies Answer: track visits to site
▶ web beacons Answer: tiny graphics embedded in emails and web pages
▶ spyware Answer: Installed on a computer without the user's knowledge
to track user's behavior
▶ intellectual property Answer: tangible and intangible products of the
mind created by individuals of corporations
▶ cloud computing Answer: computing resources obtained over the
internet
▶ green computing Answer: practices and technologies for designing,
making, using, and disposing of computer hardware to reduce
environmental impact
, ▶ java Answer: os independent object oriented programming language
▶ html5 Answer: enables multimedia embedding without 3rd party plugins
like flash
▶ database Answer: collection of related files containing records on
people, places, and things
▶ entity Answer: generalized category representing person place or thing
▶ Database Management System (DBMS) Answer: software for creating,
storing, maintaining, and accessing database files; makes using databases
more efficient
▶ data warehouse Answer: database that stores current and historical
data of potential interest to decision makers throughout the company
▶ data mart Answer: subset of a data warehouse in which only a focused
portion of the data warehouse information is kept
▶ Hadoop Answer: an open source program supported by the Apache
Foundation that manages thousands of computers and that implements
MapReduce
▶ in-memory computing Answer: relies primarily on a computer's main
memory (RAM) for data storage
▶ data mining Answer: Finds hidden patterns and relationships in large
databases and infers rules from them to predict future behavior
▶ text mining Answer: Unstructured data (mostly text files) accounts for 80
percent of an organization's useful information.
▶ web mining Answer: discovery and analysis of useful patterns and
information from the World Wide Web
▶ When a manager does not receive forecasts, sales projections, or
appropriate dashboards, the business objective of ______________ is not
achieved. Answer: improving decision making
