BUIS LEARNING UNIT 1

_____ is understanding the role of information in generating and using business intelligence.

• Information literacy

• Business ability

• Business mastery

• Information retrieval

Business _____ provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations and environments and gives organizations a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

• intelligence

• differentiation

• indexing

• exploration

In designing a management information system (MIS), the first task is to _____.

• clearly define the system’s objectives

• collect data

• analyze data

• provided information in a useful format

In designing a management information system (MIS), after defining the system’s objectives, the next step is to _____.

• provide information in a useful format

• collect and analyze data

• use information for decision making

• integrate the hardware and software components

The data component of an information system is:

• the input to the information system.

• a series of integrated files containing relevant facts.

• a set of facts that have been analyzed by the process component.

• the output of the information system.

In the context of the data component of an information system, internal data sources include _____.

• personnel records

• population statistics

• economic conditions

• government agencies

Database management systems _____.

• are used to create, organize, and manage databases

• improve routing and delivery schedules of databases

• are written for specific database applications

• include transaction-processing reports for database analysis

The purpose of an information system’s _____ component is generating the most useful type of information for making decisions.

• internal data

• external data

• process

• database

The _____ component of an information system consists of raw facts and by itself is difficult to use for making decisions.

• cache

• kernel

• data

• process

Which is essential for information to be useful?

• Relevance

• Summarization

• Language independence

• Data variability