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Test Bank for Business Intelligence 4th Edition by Sharda,

Delen and Turban A+
Chapter 1: An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science



1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are responses to

external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.

Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3



2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain experts using

manual processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13



3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring activities

to problem analysis and solution applications.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11



4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and tools only.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 16




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5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had little impact on

modern BI innovations.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 11



6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel computing and/or

Hadoop/Spark.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 11-12



7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures and employee

interactions is the domain of cognitive science.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 12



8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise

definitions agreed to by practitioners.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 13

9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems. Answer: TRUE

Diff: 1 Page Ref: 14




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10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well established

in the early 1970s.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 15

11) Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits,

and cash register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of

BI. Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 19



12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole,"

because all the information went into it, but little ever came back and ad hoc real-time querying

was virtually impossible.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20



13) Successful BI is a tool for the information systems department, but is not exposed to the

larger organization.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20



14) BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be

aligned to its business intelligence analysis initiatives.

Answer: FALSE


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Diff: 2 Page Ref: 20-21



15) Traditional BI systems use a large volume of static data that has been extracted, cleansed,

and loaded into a data warehouse to produce reports and analyses.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 21



16) Demands for instant, on-demand access to dispersed information decrease as firms

successfully integrate BI into their operations.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 3 Page Ref: 21



17) The use of dashboards and data visualizations is seldom effective in identifying issues in

organizations, as demonstrated by the Silvaris Corporation Case Study.

Answer: FALSE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 24

18) The use of statistics in baseball by the Oakland Athletics, as described in the Moneyball

case study, is an example of the effectiveness of prescriptive analytics.

Answer: TRUE

Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5



19) Due to industry consolidation, the analytics ecosystem consists of only a handful of

players across several functional areas.


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