QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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●● Artificial intelligence involves the development of machines and
computer systems that can simulate human intelligence processes.
Answer: True
●● Users still need help from the IT function of the organization to
create customer reports using modern reporting tools.
Answer: False
●● is a mathematical theory for developing strategies that maximize
gains and minimize losses while adhering to a given set of rules and
constraints.
Answer: Game theory
●● You joined an agriculture business as an Assistant Marketing
Manager and you are full of ideas on how to improve sales. When you
voiced your thoughts to your boss, she mentions "do not reinvent the
wheel". It means
Answer: before starting any new project, try to build on expertise and
knowledge of others in the organization.
,●● is a popular and sophisticated software package that can be used to
edit photographs and other visual images.
Answer: Adobe Photoshop
●● Although computers excel at numerical calculations, they are not as
good at dealing with symbols and three-dimensional objects.
Answer: True
●● is a wide range of adaptive and rehabilitative devices to help people
with disabilities perform tasks that they were formerly unable to
accomplish or had great difficulty accomplishing.
Answer: Assistive technology
●● Data cubes can be created on an ad hoc basis. There is no need to
create them ahead of time.
Answer: False
●● Marketing manager who does not have deep knowledge of IS or data
science, will NOT be able to use Business Intelligence (BI) tools.
Answer: False
●● Goal of business intelligence is__.
Answer: Support and improve decision making
,●● NOT true about linear regression?
Answer: Technique implies causality between the independent and
dependent variables
●● Mastery over which subject is NOT required for being a data
scientist?
Answer: English
●● One goal of business intelligence is__.
Answer: Present the results in an easy to understand manner
●● In OLAP data cubes, you would likely find numeric measures
categorized by time and geography.
Answer: True
●● Projected shortage of data scientists in the USA?
Answer: 100,000-200,000
●● NOT a commonly used BI tool?
Answer: Automated custom service
●● Excel's scenario manager can be used to solve optimization-type
problems.
, Answer: False
●● Which IBM's BI product?
Answer: Cognos
●● Linear regression you are to find a line that best fits the data.
Sometimes the line may be curved.
Answer: False
●● What determines the size of words in a word cloud?
Answer: Frequency of occurrence of the word in source documents
●● ___ encourages nontechnical end users to make decisions based on
facts and analyses rather than intuition.
Answer: Self-service analytics
●● An international package shipping company like FedEx needs to be
able to track the location of every package at every stage in the process,
from pick-up to delivery. Which specific type of software would be
useful in this situation?
Answer: enterprise search
●● do not need any previous training in computers or expert systems.