BUS 365 Week 9 Quiz – Strayer New
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Quiz 8 Chapter 11
Business Intelligence and
Decision Support
Multiple
Choice
1.
Managers rely on business intelligence, data mining, and the decision
support systems in order to minimize __________.
a)
business processes
b)
inventory loss
c)
customer dissatisfaction
d)
uncertainty
2. What
levels of management can today’s BI vendors’ products and
software-as-a-service (SaaS) packages support?
a) tactical
or operational
b) strategic,
tactical, or operational
c) strategic
or operational
d) entry
and middle
3. What
types or sizes of organization can afford today’s BI packages?
a)
Fortune 500 and national government agencies only
b) major
global corporations only
c) major
global and large corporations only
d) all
sizes including small and medium enterprises
4. The
latest BI tools provide __________, which are reducing managers’ dependence on
analysts and tech staff.
a) a
high degree of self-sufficiency
b)
complex interfaces
c)
programming languages
d) query
languages
5. DIRECTV’s business model is based on great customer
service, attracting new customers, and preventing __________, in which
customers switch to a competitor’s service.
a) SCM
b) CRM
c) customer churn
d)
customer downsizing
6. As a
manager, what type of problems would indicate that you could benefit from a BI
solution?
a) Not
having the right data
b) Low
demand products
c) Slow
network speeds
d) High
fixed costs
7. From
an IT perspective, which of the following best describes BI and BI apps?
a)
Stand-alone
b) Support
a specific objective
c) Acollection of ISs and technologies
d)
Web-based systems designed for for-profits
8. The
value of __________ to managers is that these apps pull data from a data
warehouse or other data store and then graphically depict the data in
meaningful displays.
a)
analytics
b)
mashups
c)
decision support systems
d)
dashboards
9. The
term __________ started in the music
world, but has been adopted by IT to mean an application that combines data
from different sources into a new application.
a)
analytics
b)
mashup
c)
visualization
d)
dashboard
10. WildTrack is using a BI
data analysis solution from SAS to track and monitor their constantly changing
__________, which are endangered
African rhinos.
a)
accounts
b) inventory
c) raw
materials
d)
supply chain
11. At
Jamba Juice, poor quality data was damaging profits so traditional BI was
deployed at the __________ level; and operational BI was deployed at the
__________ level.
a)
corporate; store
b) transaction;
product
c)
accounting; marketing
d)
strategic; regional
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