MIS 111 Exam 2
_________ are/is the largest-volume application running over the Internet. - ANS-Email
\___________ are the most widely applied and commercially successful intelligent systems.
- ANS-Expert systems
\______________ analysis is the study of the impact that changes in one or more parts of a
decision-making model have on other parts. - ANS-Sensitivity
\_______________ is best for handling "gray" decision-making problems. - ANS-Fuzzy logic
\_______________ is knowledge that has been codified or documented. - ANS-Explicit
knowledge
\_______________ support local control, whereas _________________ support central
control. - ANS-Data marts; data warehouses
\__________________ is used to plan and control Business Intelligence activities. -
ANS-Governance
\__________________ problems are fuzzy and complex. - ANS-unstructured
\A "Fishbone" process analysis diagram is also known as: - ANS-A cause-and-effect diagram
\A cause and effect diagram, also known as a fishbone diagram, informs what type of
decision? - ANS-Causality
\A Mekko, or Marimekko or market map chart, which paints a picture of the overall market
and helps to drive discussions about growth opportunities or acquisitions by showing the
relationship between each segment or bar to the total. A Mekko chart is similar to what other
type of chart discussed in class? - ANS-Stacked Bar Chart
\According to the Yale Center for Globalization, in the early stages of history, common
agents of globalization included all of the following except ________. - ANS-Royalty
\After checking you kitchen for ingredients, your shopping list would formally be known as: -
ANS-Shortages
\All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a
vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what? - ANS-Actor
\Allocating resources based on the frequency of past incidents in a specific geographic area
would be an example using what predictive DM strategy? - ANS-Nearest neighbor
\As part of their Smart Campus research, what MIS researcher is using CatCard data (digital
traces) to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention, or their
likelihood of returning to campus after their freshman year? - ANS-Sudha Ram
\Assuming orders are currently processed correctly, using CFAR still would improve a
company in all of the following ways, except what? - ANS-Process effectiveness
\Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, accounting checks that the purchase
order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all match. What is
the term that is used to describe this auditing process? - ANS-Three-way match
\Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, the accounting team checks that the
purchase order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all
match. What is the term that is used to describe this auditing process? - ANS-Three-way
Match
\Big Data 4 V's - ANS-Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity
, \By allowing group members to contribute idea anonymously online, the ThinkTank system
could help a participant overcome which of the following difficulties? - ANS-fear of speaking
\Customers are in the ____________ component of the supply chain. - ANS-Downstream
\Data warehouses store __________ data, used primarily by _______ companies. -
ANS-historical; large
\Dr. Sudha Ram used CatCard data (digital traces) as a part of her research to analyze
students' routines and relationships to predict student retention.
What knowledge management term would you use to classify the CatCard transactional
data? - ANS-Explicit data
\Environmental Systems Research Institute is an international supplier of _________. -
ANS-GIS
\ERP ___________ systems also benefit businesses by generating forecasting analyses of
product consumption based on critical variables such as geographical area, season, day of
the week, and type of customer. - ANS-CRM
\ERP address information silos by _____________. - ANS-integrating functional areas
\How does telemedicine improve the delivery of medical care in rural communities? -
ANS-telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel to a physician's office
\How does the Heart Attack Diagnoses Decision Tree transform medical expert's
knowledge? - ANS-Tacit to Explicit
\If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be
returned? - ANS-VLOOKUP will return a value based on the first match
\If you want to evaluate the best product to market to your customers every month, you
would use the __________ functional characteristic of a genetic algorithm. - ANS-Selection
\In a business process diagram, a diamond shape is used to indicate what action? -
ANS-Decision
\In a decision matrix, a 'weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the
analysis? - ANS-Relative importance
\In a decision matrix, a "weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the
analysis? - ANS-Relative importance
\In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in on column
(from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items? - ANS-Time
\In a vertical cross-functional diagram, items are ordered in one column relates to what? -
ANS-Time
\In the ______________ component of SCM, the organization should come up with a
strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for the
product or service. - ANS-Plan
\In the case study presented in class, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program
focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except: - ANS-Validating
\In the decision process, problem identification and classification occur during which phase?
- ANS-Intelligence
\In the project prioritization example, if "Priority" was based on a vendor's announced
end-of-life support for a production system would this be a quantitative or qualitative
decision? - ANS-Qualitative
\In the Ruby Tuesday's sales analysis case, analyzing historical data about the sales
dimensions of products categories, sales regions, and months of the year would be best
using which of the following approaches we've previously discussed? - ANS-Data cubes
_________ are/is the largest-volume application running over the Internet. - ANS-Email
\___________ are the most widely applied and commercially successful intelligent systems.
- ANS-Expert systems
\______________ analysis is the study of the impact that changes in one or more parts of a
decision-making model have on other parts. - ANS-Sensitivity
\_______________ is best for handling "gray" decision-making problems. - ANS-Fuzzy logic
\_______________ is knowledge that has been codified or documented. - ANS-Explicit
knowledge
\_______________ support local control, whereas _________________ support central
control. - ANS-Data marts; data warehouses
\__________________ is used to plan and control Business Intelligence activities. -
ANS-Governance
\__________________ problems are fuzzy and complex. - ANS-unstructured
\A "Fishbone" process analysis diagram is also known as: - ANS-A cause-and-effect diagram
\A cause and effect diagram, also known as a fishbone diagram, informs what type of
decision? - ANS-Causality
\A Mekko, or Marimekko or market map chart, which paints a picture of the overall market
and helps to drive discussions about growth opportunities or acquisitions by showing the
relationship between each segment or bar to the total. A Mekko chart is similar to what other
type of chart discussed in class? - ANS-Stacked Bar Chart
\According to the Yale Center for Globalization, in the early stages of history, common
agents of globalization included all of the following except ________. - ANS-Royalty
\After checking you kitchen for ingredients, your shopping list would formally be known as: -
ANS-Shortages
\All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown in single column of a
vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what? - ANS-Actor
\Allocating resources based on the frequency of past incidents in a specific geographic area
would be an example using what predictive DM strategy? - ANS-Nearest neighbor
\As part of their Smart Campus research, what MIS researcher is using CatCard data (digital
traces) to analyze students' routines and relationships to predict student retention, or their
likelihood of returning to campus after their freshman year? - ANS-Sudha Ram
\Assuming orders are currently processed correctly, using CFAR still would improve a
company in all of the following ways, except what? - ANS-Process effectiveness
\Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, accounting checks that the purchase
order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all match. What is
the term that is used to describe this auditing process? - ANS-Three-way match
\Before paying an invoice in the procurement process, the accounting team checks that the
purchase order, the goods receipt document (bill-of-lading), and the vendor's invoice all
match. What is the term that is used to describe this auditing process? - ANS-Three-way
Match
\Big Data 4 V's - ANS-Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity
, \By allowing group members to contribute idea anonymously online, the ThinkTank system
could help a participant overcome which of the following difficulties? - ANS-fear of speaking
\Customers are in the ____________ component of the supply chain. - ANS-Downstream
\Data warehouses store __________ data, used primarily by _______ companies. -
ANS-historical; large
\Dr. Sudha Ram used CatCard data (digital traces) as a part of her research to analyze
students' routines and relationships to predict student retention.
What knowledge management term would you use to classify the CatCard transactional
data? - ANS-Explicit data
\Environmental Systems Research Institute is an international supplier of _________. -
ANS-GIS
\ERP ___________ systems also benefit businesses by generating forecasting analyses of
product consumption based on critical variables such as geographical area, season, day of
the week, and type of customer. - ANS-CRM
\ERP address information silos by _____________. - ANS-integrating functional areas
\How does telemedicine improve the delivery of medical care in rural communities? -
ANS-telemedicine reduces the need for patients to travel to a physician's office
\How does the Heart Attack Diagnoses Decision Tree transform medical expert's
knowledge? - ANS-Tacit to Explicit
\If the search column for a VLOOKUP contains a duplicate value, which value will be
returned? - ANS-VLOOKUP will return a value based on the first match
\If you want to evaluate the best product to market to your customers every month, you
would use the __________ functional characteristic of a genetic algorithm. - ANS-Selection
\In a business process diagram, a diamond shape is used to indicate what action? -
ANS-Decision
\In a decision matrix, a 'weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the
analysis? - ANS-Relative importance
\In a decision matrix, a "weighting" allows what additional information to be included in the
analysis? - ANS-Relative importance
\In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in on column
(from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items? - ANS-Time
\In a vertical cross-functional diagram, items are ordered in one column relates to what? -
ANS-Time
\In the ______________ component of SCM, the organization should come up with a
strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for the
product or service. - ANS-Plan
\In the case study presented in class, Nestle's Digital Acceleration Team training program
focuses on developing skills in all of the following business issues, except: - ANS-Validating
\In the decision process, problem identification and classification occur during which phase?
- ANS-Intelligence
\In the project prioritization example, if "Priority" was based on a vendor's announced
end-of-life support for a production system would this be a quantitative or qualitative
decision? - ANS-Qualitative
\In the Ruby Tuesday's sales analysis case, analyzing historical data about the sales
dimensions of products categories, sales regions, and months of the year would be best
using which of the following approaches we've previously discussed? - ANS-Data cubes
