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Business
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2010

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Reffering to data, what is drilling?
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starting with broad information then looking at specific parts
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what is a business model?
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-simp. ex. thats reps a more complex object
-set of assumtions and relationships that describe the workings of a system
-a simulation that describes how a business process will respond in the real world
- a tool to evaluate whether a proposed solution will have the expected outcome
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which part of an organization commonly makes strategic decisions
Definition
senior managment
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When diagnosing uncommon or bioterrorism events, physician may utilize :
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expert systems
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an important economic principle of the info security is that spending on info security should be:
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proportional to the cost of the potential damage to the businesss
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a "fishbone" process analysis diagram is also know as:
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A cause- and -effect diagram
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with respect to data mining, forecasting is defined as the process of:
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analyzing data based on historical trends
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explicit knowledge describing the policies of an organization is also known as:
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know as leaky knowledge
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with respect to a business model, the value proportion describes what?
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how a product or service fulfills the needs of a customer
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which of these symbols are typically NOT included in a data flow diagram?
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dashboards
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which phases of the SDLC (software development life cycle) would commonly use dataflow diagrams, unified modeling language (UML) and cross-fuctional flowcharts
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design
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which of the following would be a characteristic of a structured problem?
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a solution that can be determined through a sequence of steps
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which type of decision deals with managing common, everyday issues relating to clerical and production business processes?
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operational decisions
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which of the following are types of feasibility studies?
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-technical
-operational
-economic
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COPLINK can search for trends that meet multiple criteria specified using terms with the range of values relating to the person, the vehicle, and the location of the crime. this method of searching was helpful to a detective investigating a crime because:
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-COPLINK allows info that is not exact to be used in a search
-quickly finds suspects that match the known aspects of the crime
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which phase of the SDLC process typically is the longest phase in terms of time?
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support
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In a vertical cross-functional diagram, what do the columns represent?
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actors
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In Data Mining, some of the commonly used analysis methods are:
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classification, clustering, association, sequencing, forecasting
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In a Business Flowchart, what does the diamond symbol stand for?
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decision
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The REDFLEX systems currently in use in Arizona is:
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Uses road sensors and cameras to record cars running red traffic lights
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The information contained in a data warehouses should have what characteristics?
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A. The information should be in a consistent format B. The information should be non-volatile (invariant over time)
C. The information should be relevant and organized
D. The information should have know relationships and associations
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What concerns have privacy experts raised the US Department of Homeland Security’s ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Analysis) system?
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. The lack of adequate oversight and accountability will result in mission creep
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Which type of business model shows expected production and sales over time?
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forecasting model
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A low product price may stimulate sales, allowing a company to achieve economies of scale that reduce cost, allowing an even lower price, and so on. Which of the following characteristics of system dynamics best describes this occurrence?
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feedback loops
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Marketing expenditures below a certain level might have negligible effect; and additional marketing above a certain level can reach saturation or diminishing returns. This kind of relationship is best characterized by which of the following aspects of system dynamics?
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non-linear responses
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In a Decision Support System (DSS), turning data into useful information and knowledge is managed by the:
Definition
Model Management Module
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What advantage does having ideas posted anonymously during a meeting mediated by a Group Decision Support Systems have over a traditional meeting?
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it encouraged the discussion to the focus on ideas
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According to Gartner Research, what was the impact of "phishing" attacks on people using online banking?
Definition
the number of people paying bills online decreased
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What method of Data Mining Analysis relates to the temporal (time) ordering of events?
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sequencing
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In a manufacturing system, a BOM (Bill of Materials) includes what type of information?
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- the individual items and subassembley that compose a product
-the quantities of each item and subassembly used in building a product
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Tacit, or “sticky” knowledge, is based on information that is:
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-Subjective and cognitive
- related to an individuals experience
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In the real-time data mining video presented in class, the use of OLAP (on-line analytic processing) as part of the data validation process resulted in the system:
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A.Correcting unintentional errors by users
B. Preventing users from entering accurate information
C. Considering previously entered responses as valid data
D. Giving an impression of bias to the users of the system
Term
What are the commonly used strategies for transitioning the business operations from an old (legacy) business system to a new one?
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Phased conversion, Pilot conversion, cut-over conversion and parallel conversion.
Term
An example of the Pareto principle would be:
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A. 80% of process defects arise from 20% of the process issues
C. 80% of customer complaints arise from 20% of your products or services
Term
Using a firewall to improve security focuses on what type of action?
Definition
preventative
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the amber alert system is used too:
Definition
quickly inform the public schools about a missing or abducted child
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Which of the following models would be used to describe aspects of a business?
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A. Revenue model
B. Production Model
C. Workflow Model
D. Organizational Model
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A business intelligence tool that uses abstractions, such as color and graphical images like instrument gauges, to allow executives to grasp business situations quickly is known as:
Definition
digital dashboard
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Data mining is the process of using knowledge discovery to do what?
Definition
identify novel and unexpected patterns in data
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