Archives
Chapter 1 1 Pushing programming out to distributed data is achieved solely by using the Hadoop Distributed File System
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 1 An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Decision Support 1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage […]
Chapter 2 1 Moving the data into a data warehouse is usually the easiest part of its creation
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 2 Data Warehousing 1) In the Isle of Capri case, the only capability added by the new software was increased processing speed of processing reports. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 […]
Chapter 3 1 Data is the contextualization of information, that is, information set in context
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 3 Business Reporting, Visual Analytics, and Business Performance Management 1) The WebFOCUS BI platform in the Travel and Transport case study decreased clients’ reliance on the IT function when […]
Chapter 4 1 Statistics and data mining both look for data sets that are as large as possible
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 4 Data Mining 1) In the Cabela’s case study, the SAS/Teradata solution enabled the direct marketer to better identify likely customers and market to them based mostly on external […]
Chapter 5 1 Regional accents present challenges for natural language processing
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 5 Text, Web, and Social Analytics 1) Text analytics is the subset of text mining that handles information retrieval and extraction, plus data mining. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page […]
Chapter 6 1 MapReduce can be easily understood by skilled programmers due to its procedural nature
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 6 Big Data and Analytics 1) In the opening vignette, the CERN Data Aggregation System (DAS), built on MongoDB (a Big Data management infrastructure), used relational database technology. Answer: […]
Chapter 7 1 Web-based e-mail such as Google’s Gmail are not examples of cloud computing
Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Business Intelligence, 3e (Sharda/Delen/Turban) Chapter 7 Business Analytics: Emerging Trends and Future Directions 1) Oklahoma Gas & Electric employs a two-layer information architecture involving data warehouse and improved and expanded integration. Answer: FALSE Diff: […]