ISYS Knowledge Check Ch. 17

What kind of data resides in fixed formats?

Unstructured
Structured and Semi-Structured
Structured
Semi-Structured
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Structured

What is a smaller Data Warehouse?

Datamart
Data Store
Data Depository
Data Silo
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Datamart

What decade did businesses start DSS?

1960’s
1970’s
1980’s
1950s
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1950s

What refers to different kinds of data?

Variety
Velocity
Volume
Veracity
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Variety

Why is keeping enormous amounts of inventory a bad thing?

Your customers always find what they need
It doesn’t take up too much space
It’s inexpensive
It’s too expensive
1 / 1 (100.0%)

It’s too expensive

What refers to the amount of data?

Veracity
Volume
Variety
Velocity
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Volume

What software helps BI become more usable through visualization?

Dashboards
GUI
Console
Boundary
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Dashboards

What refers to quality of data?

Velocity
Veracity
Volume
Variety
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Veracity

What is Doug Cutting’s son’s toy elephant’s name?

Hadoop
Edvald
Eugene
Edward
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Hadoop

How much data is unstructured?

70%
90%
100%
80%
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80%

What attempts to reveal future patterns in the marketplace?

Projecting Analytics
Extrapolative Analytics
Prognostic Analytics
Predictive Analytics
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Predictive Analytics

Large collected datasets are called what?

Large Data
Big Data
Yottabyte Data Sets
Yottabyte Sets
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Big Data

What allows a cluster system that allows data to be stored on multiple servers?

Business Intelligence
Early Bot Technologies (Lycos Engine)
Constellation Server Technologies (Oracle Group LLC)
Hadoop
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Hadoop

What refers to an assortment of software applications to analyze an organization’s raw data?

UML and SDLC
UML
BI
SDLC
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BI

What is another term for Data Mining?

Data Recognition
Early Data Encounter (EDE, at the server)
Data Detection
Data Discovery
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Data Discovery

What is a graphical interface that characterizes specific data analysis through visualization?

Boundary
Dashboard
Console
GUI
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Dashboard

What consolidates disparate data?

Data Store
Data Depository
Data Warehouse
Data Silo(s) (usually multiple repositories)
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Data Warehouse

In BI, which of the following is not part of ETL?

Transmission
Load
Transform
Extract
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Transmission

What data is disorganized and not easily read?

Structured
Semi-Structured
Unstructured and Structured
Unstructured
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Unstructured

In BI, what does the acronym CRM mean?

Certified Reference Material
Crew Resource Management
Computer Resource Management
Customer Relationship Management
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Customer Relationship Management

What provides a standard format to organize data?

Normalization
Prevailing Data
Standardized Data
Uniform Data (Stored)
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Normalization

What refers to how fast data is collected?

Veracity
Velocity
Volume
Variety
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Velocity

What held up the emergence of the Cloud?

Internet speeds
Hard Drive Space
Hard Drive Scarcity
Security
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Internet speeds

What is another term for Text Analytics?

Text-mining
Text Abstraction
Text Extraction
Text Withdrawal
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Text-mining

In relation to BI, what does the acronym DSS mean?

Department of Social Security
Decision Support System
Digital Spread Spectrum
Digital Signature Standard
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Decision Support System