JMU COB 204 CHAPTERS 9 QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Business Intelligence Systems - ANSWERS✔-information systems that process
operational, social, and other data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends
for use by business professionals and other knowledge workers
\.Decision Support System (DSS) - ANSWERS✔-decision marking BI system
\.BI application - ANSWERS✔-the software component of a BI system
-project management
-problem solving
-deciding
-informing
\.data acquisition - ANSWERS✔-the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing,
relating, and cataloging source data
\.BI analysis - ANSWERS✔-the process of creating business intelligence
\.Publish results - ANSWERS✔-the process of delivering business intelligence to
the knowledge workers who need it
, \.push publishing - ANSWERS✔-delivers business intelligence to users without any
request from the users
\.pull publishing - ANSWERS✔-requires the user to request BI results
\.data warehouses - ANSWERS✔-a facility for managing an organization's BI data
\.transactional database - ANSWERS✔-A database designed to keep track of the
day-to-day transactions of an organization.
\.data mart - ANSWERS✔-a subset of a warehouse that contains databases that
have information with common elements.
\.Granularity - ANSWERS✔-refers to the level of detail represented by the data
\.data smart - ANSWERS✔-data collection, smaller than the data warehouse, that
addresses the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business
\.reporting application - ANSWERS✔-a BI application that inputs data from one or
more sources and applies reporting operations to that data to produce business
intelligence
\.Basic Reporting Operations - ANSWERS✔-1. Sorting
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Business Intelligence Systems - ANSWERS✔-information systems that process
operational, social, and other data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends
for use by business professionals and other knowledge workers
\.Decision Support System (DSS) - ANSWERS✔-decision marking BI system
\.BI application - ANSWERS✔-the software component of a BI system
-project management
-problem solving
-deciding
-informing
\.data acquisition - ANSWERS✔-the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing,
relating, and cataloging source data
\.BI analysis - ANSWERS✔-the process of creating business intelligence
\.Publish results - ANSWERS✔-the process of delivering business intelligence to
the knowledge workers who need it
, \.push publishing - ANSWERS✔-delivers business intelligence to users without any
request from the users
\.pull publishing - ANSWERS✔-requires the user to request BI results
\.data warehouses - ANSWERS✔-a facility for managing an organization's BI data
\.transactional database - ANSWERS✔-A database designed to keep track of the
day-to-day transactions of an organization.
\.data mart - ANSWERS✔-a subset of a warehouse that contains databases that
have information with common elements.
\.Granularity - ANSWERS✔-refers to the level of detail represented by the data
\.data smart - ANSWERS✔-data collection, smaller than the data warehouse, that
addresses the needs of a particular department or functional area of the business
\.reporting application - ANSWERS✔-a BI application that inputs data from one or
more sources and applies reporting operations to that data to produce business
intelligence
\.Basic Reporting Operations - ANSWERS✔-1. Sorting
