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Chapter 06
Data: Business Intelligence
True / False Questions
1. Information granularity refers to the extent of detail within the information (fine and detailed,
or coarse and abstract).
True False
2. Information quality refers to the extent of detail within the information (fine and detailed, or
coarse and abstract).
True False
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,3. Organizational information has three characteristics including levels, formats, and
granularities.
True False
4. The four primary traits of the value of information include type, timeliness, quality, and
governance.
True False
5. Organizational information has three characteristics including timeliness, quality, and
governance.
True False
6. The four primary traits of the value of information include levels, formats, granularities, and
type.
True False
7. There are only two main primary traits that help you determine the value of information
including timeliness and quality.
True False
8. If a manager identifies numerous information integrity issues he should consider the reports
generated from that data as invalid and not use them when making decisions.
True False
9. Real-time information refers to the extent of detail within the information (fine and detailed,
or coarse and abstract).
True False
10. Information granularity means immediate, up-to-date information.
True False
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,11. Real-time systems provide real-time information in response to requests.
True False
12. Information integrity issues occur when the same data element has different values.
True False
13. Information integrity issues occur when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or
duplicate data.
True False
14. Data governance refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and
security of company data.
True False
15. Transactional information is used when performing operational tasks and repetitive decisions
such as analyzing daily sales reports and production schedules to determine how much
inventory to carry.
True False
16. Timely information must be up-to-the-second to be accurate.
True False
17. Organizational information comes at the same level, formats and granularities.
True False
18. Reports for each sales person, product, and part are examples of detail (or fine) information
granularities.
True False
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, 19. Master data management (MDM) 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. MDM is commonly included in data governance.
True False
20. Data governance 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.
True False
21. Accurate information asks if there is an incorrect value in the information.
True False
22. Complete information asks if there is a value missing from the information.
True False
23. Consistent information asks if the aggregate or summary information in agreement with
detailed information.
True False
24. Timely information asks if the information current with respect to the business needs.
True False
25. Unique information asks if each transaction and event represented only once in the
information.
True False
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