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The core components of any system,regardless of size,are a database and a database management system.

A) True
B) False

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Broadly defined,a __________ maintains information about various types of objects,events,people and places.

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Identify the advantages of using business intelligence to support managerial decision making.

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BI can provide managers with the ability...

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Relational integrity constraints enforce business rules vital to an organisation's success and often require more insight and knowledge than business-critical integrity constraints.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the questions below can be answered using business intelligence?


A) Where has the business been?
B) Where is the business now?
C) Where is the business going?
D) All the answers are correct.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following is not a primary trait of information?


A) Transactional
B) Analytical
C) Timeliness
D) Quantity

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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A data mart is the process of analysing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone.

A) True
B) False

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Today's Chief Information Officers are finding that business intelligence software is unnecessary and a financial burden for most companies.

A) True
B) False

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Redundancy is the duplication of data,or storing the same data in multiple places.

A) True
B) False

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What encompasses all organisational information and has the primary purpose of supporting the performing of managerial analysis tasks?


A) Transactional information
B) Analytical information
C) Timeliness
D) Quality

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following is not a benefit of BI?


A) Disables efficient collection and distribution of vital data and statistics
B) Helps align the organisation towards its key objectives
C) Enables faster and fact-based decision making
D) Combines multiple sources of data

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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Extraction,transformation and ___________ is a process that extracts information from internal and external databases,transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions and loads it into a data warehouse.

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Which of the following illustrates the primary concepts of the relational database model?


A) Ethics, applications, keys and relationships
B) Entities, attributes, keys and relationships
C) Endeavour, aspire, control and regulate
D) Early, after, before and future

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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What is the primary difference between an entity and an attribute?


A) An attribute is a table, an entity is a column from the attribute table
B) An entity is specific; whereas, an attribute is not data at all but brainstorming ideas that take place before the entity is created
C) An attribute refers to applications, and an entity refers to executives
D) An entity is a table that stores information about people, places or events; whereas, an attribute is a column or specific field of the data elements associated with an entity

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Identify The business benefits of a relational database.

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What are the rules that help ensure the quality of information?


A) Information integrity
B) Integrity constraints
C) Relational integrity constraints
D) Business-critical integrity constraints

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Your textbook discussed a record store example where one user could perform a query to determine which recordings had a track length of four minutes or more,and another user could perform an analysis to determine the distribution of recordings as they relate to the different categories.What database advantage is this an example of?


A) Increased scalability and performance
B) Increased information security
C) Reduced information redundancy
D) Increased flexibility

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Databases offer many security features including passwords to provide authentication,access levels to determine who can access the data,and access controls to determine what type of access they have to the information.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following forms of data mining assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes?


A) Clustering
B) Classification
C) Estimation
D) Affinity grouping

E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Many organisations today find it next to impossible to understand their own strengths and weaknesses,let alone those of their biggest competitors,because the enormous volume of organisational data is inaccessible to all but the MIS department.

A) True
B) False

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