MBA Chap 3.1

Which of the following data management technologies store data that are generated by business apps and operations?

• Data marts

• Data warehouses

• Databases

• Transaction-processing systems (TPS).

________ tools and techniques process data and do statistical analysis for insight and discovery.

• Operational intelligence

• Business intelligence

• Information accessibility

• Information fluidity

Ad-hoc requests for specific data from a database or warehouse are called ___________.

• Unplanned reports

• Relational reports

• Volatile

• Queries

After data are extracted from a database and processed to standardize their format, they are then loaded into a _______ and ready for analysis.

• Synchronized, low-latency system

• Decision support system

• Data warehouse

• DBMS

Users typically access data as needed from a database management system by using ________.

• BI tools

• SQL

6. Data in a (a)   are volatile because they record ongoing transactions.

• Database

• Data warehouse

• Data mart

• Data silo

Organizations that cannot afford the cost of a data warehouse, but want the benefits of online analytic processing invest in (a)   .

• spreadsheets

• big data

• text mining

• data marts

Data warehouses and data marts are optimized for all of the following except:

• Transaction processing

• Data mining

• Business intelligence

• Decision support

A function performed by a DBMS to integrate, match, or link data from disparate sources is data (a)   .

• filtering

• profiling

• synchronization

• maintenance

(a)   is the elapsed time between when data are created and when they are made available for a query or report.

• Synchronization

• Latency

• Volatility

• Tolerance