CH 12

Senior managers typically deal with ____ decisions.

• unstructured

• structured

• semistructured

• programming

In business intelligence, the decision making process involves four phases, NOT including:

• wisdom

• intelligence

• design

• choice

• implementation

Which is NOT a primary reason for IT investment's failure?

• Information quality

• Management filters

• Organizational inertia

• CEO incompetence

Computer algorithms that precisely define steps for a highly structured decision are referred to:

• high-velocity automated decision making

• genetic algorithms

• high structured decision algorithms

• expert systems

Business analytics refer to infrastructure for collecting, storing, analyzing data produced by business.

• True

• False

OLAP can be best categorized as:

• business intelligence

• business anlyatics

• business infrastructure

• business vendors

The business intelligence environment consists of six elements NOT including:

• business intelligence infrastructure

• business analytics toolsets

• delivery platforms

• user interfaces

• none of the above

Data warehouse belongs to which component of business intelligence?

• Data from business environment

• Business intelligence infrastructure

• Business analytics toolsets

• User interface

Main functionalities of BI systems do NOT include:

• parameterized reports

• dashboard

• forecasts

• ad hoc query

• None of the above

Using variety of data, techniques to predict future trends and behavior patterns is about:

• predictive analytics

• data mining

• OLAP

• big data analytics