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Which of the following implies that information is current with respect to the business requirement?


A) Uniqueness
B) Accuracy
C) Consistency
D) Timeliness

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

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Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics common to high quality information?


A) Accuracy
B) Completeness
C) Quantity
D) Consistency

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

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What is a primary key?


A) A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table
B) A primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship among the two tables
C) Characteristics or properties of an entity class
D) A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given attribute in a table

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

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Detail,summary,and _________ are the typical information granularities.

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What is the time duration to make transactional data ready for analysis,and loading the summarized,aggregated,cleansed data into a data warehouse?


A) Data latency
B) Analysis latency
C) Decision latency
D) None of the above

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

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List and describe the various benefits an organization can expect to receive from BI deployment?

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Direct quantifiable benefits include wor...

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Customer ID,Customer Name,Contact Name,and Customer Phone are all types of ____________.

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__________________ data and information can significantly improve the chances of making a good decision and directly increase an organization's bottom line.

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List,describe,and provide an example of each of the five characteristics of high quality information. Accuracy determines if all values are correct.Example-is the name spelled correctly? Completeness determines if any values are missing.Example-is the address complete? Consistency ensures that aggregate or summary information is in agreement with detailed information.Example-do totals equal the true total of the individual fields? Uniqueness ensures that each transaction,entity,and event is represented only once in the information.Example-are there any duplicate customers? Timeliness determines if the information is current with respect to the business requirement.Example-is the information updated weekly?

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Accuracy determines if all values are co...

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In the relational database model,what is a person,place,thing,transaction,or event about which information is stored?


A) Entity
B) Entity class
C) Attribute
D) Attribute class

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

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When Wal-Mart receives inventory to an individual store,this would be an example of using __________________?


A) Analytical information
B) Transactional data
C) Real-time data
D) Real-time information

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

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Identify the importance of ensuring the cleanliness of information throughout an organization.

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An organization must maintain high quali...

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Organizational information comes in different ___________,formats,and granularities.

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List the four primary sources of low quality information.

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What is an integration?


A) Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other
B) Takes information entered into a given system and sends it to the database
C) Takes information entered into a given system and sends it to other processes
D) Takes information entered into a given system and sends it to the DBMS

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

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What does the Data Warehousing Institute estimate that low-quality information costs U.S.businesses annually?


A) $500 million
B) $60 billion
C) hundred of billions of dollars
D) It is impossible to determine

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

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What is information that people use to support their decision-making efforts?


A) Information cleansing and scrubbing
B) Data-mining tools
C) Data mining
D) Business intelligence

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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In the relational database model,what are characteristics or properties of an entity class?


A) Entity
B) Entity class
C) Attribute
D) Attribute class

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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The best way to communicate information is via ______________.

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Information are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event.

A) True
B) False

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