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Chapter 6 Test Bank
Chapter 6 Test Bank
2) The traditional file environment does not typically have a problem with
A) data inconsistency.
B) program-data independence.
C) lack of flexibility in creating ad-hoc reports.
D) poor security.
E) data sharing.
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
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5) ________ creates confusion that hampers the creation of information systems that integrate
data from different sources.
A) Batch processing
B) Data redundancy
C) Data independence
D) Online processing
E) Data quality
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
6) Data ________ occurs when the same data is duplicated in multiple files of a database.
A) redundancy
B) repetition
C) independence
D) partitions
E) discrepancy
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
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7) When the same attribute in related data files has different values, this is called data
A) redundancy.
B) duplication.
C) dependence.
D) discrepancy.
E) inconsistency.
Answer: E
Page Ref: 219
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
10) The coupling of data with the software programs that manipulate the data, such that changes
in programs requires changes to the data, is called program-data dependence.
Answer: TRUE
Page Ref: 220
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
11) Databases record information about general categories of information referred to as entities.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
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12) When you design the new contracts database for the publishing house mentioned above, what
fields do you anticipate needing? Which of these fields might be in use in other databases used
by the company?
Answer: Author first name, author last name, author address, agent name and address, title of
book, book ISBN, date of contract, amount of money, payment schedule, date contract ends.
Other databases might be an author database (author names, address, and agent details), a book
title database (title and ISBN of book), and financial database (payments made).
Page Ref: 218-221
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Synthesis
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
13) List at least three conditions that contribute to data redundancy and inconsistency.
Answer: Data redundancy occurs when different divisions, functional areas, and groups in an
organization independently collect the same piece of information. Because it is collected and
maintained in so many different places, the same data item may have:
1. different meanings in different parts of the organization,
2. different names may be used for the same item, and
3. different descriptions for the same condition. In addition, the fields into which the data is
gathered may have different field names, different attributes, or different constraints.
Page Ref: 219
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.1: What are the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment?
14) Which of the following features enables a DBMS to reduce data redundancy and
inconsistency?
A) enforces referential integrity
B) couples program and data
C) data dictionary
D) two-dimensional tables
E) minimizes isolated files with repeated data
Answer: E
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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20) In a table for customers, the information about a single customer would reside in a single
A) field.
B) row.
C) column.
D) table.
E) entity.
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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22) A field identified in a table as holding the unique identifier of the table's records is called the
A) primary key.
B) key field.
C) primary field.
D) unique ID.
E) primary entity.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
23) A field identified in a record as holding the unique identifier for that record is called the
A) primary key.
B) key field.
C) primary field.
D) unique ID.
E) key attribute.
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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24) In a relational database, the three basic operations used to develop useful sets of data are
A) select, project, and where.
B) select, join, and where.
C) select, project, and join.
D) where, from, and join.
E) where, find, and select.
Answer: C
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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29) An automated or manual file that stores information about data elements and data
characteristics such as usage, physical representation, ownership, authorization, and security is
the
A) data dictionary.
B) data definition diagram.
C) entity-relationship diagram.
D) relationship dictionary.
E) data table.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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30) The specialized language programmers use to add and change data in the database is called
A) a data access language.
B) a data manipulation language.
C) structured query language.
D) a data definition language.
E) a DBMS.
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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33) The process of streamlining data to minimize redundancy and awkward many-to-many
relationships is called
A) normalization.
B) data scrubbing.
C) data cleansing.
D) data defining.
E) optimization.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
34) A schematic of the entire database that describes the relationships in a database is called a(n)
A) data dictionary.
B) intersection relationship diagram.
C) entity-relationship diagram.
D) data definition diagram.
E) data analysis table.
Answer: C
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
35) A one-to-many relationship between two entities is symbolized in a diagram by a line that
ends with
A) one short mark.
B) two short marks.
C) three short marks.
D) a crow's foot.
E) a crow's foot topped by a short mark.
Answer: E
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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36) You are creating a database to store temperature and wind data from national airport
locations. Which of the following fields is the most likely candidate to use as the basis for a
primary key in the Airport table?
A) address
B) city
C) airport code
D) state
E) day
Answer: C
Page Ref: 223
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
37) The logical and physical views of data are separated in a DBMS.
Answer: TRUE
Page Ref: 221
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
38) Every record in a file should contain at least one key field.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
39) NoSQL technologies are used to manage sets of data that don't require the flexibility of
tables and relations.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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40) The DBMS programming language that end users and programmers use to manipulate data
in the database is called CGI.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
42) A physical view shows data as it is actually organized and structured on the data storage
media.
Answer: TRUE
Page Ref: 222
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
43) DBMS have a data definition capability to specify the structure of the content of the
database.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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44) Relational DBMSs use key field rules to ensure that relationships between coupled tables
remain consistent.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
45) The small publishing company you work for wants to create a new database for storing
information about all of their author contracts. What factors will influence how you design the
database?
Answer: Student answers will vary, but should include some assessment of data quality, business
processes and user needs, and relationship to existing IT systems. Key points to include are:
Data accuracy when the new data is input, establishing a good data model, determining which
data is important and anticipating what the possible uses for the data will be, beyond looking up
contract information, technical difficulties linking this system to existing systems, new business
processes for data input and handling, and contracts management, determining how end users
will use the data, making data definitions consistent with other databases, what methods to use to
cleanse the data.
Page Ref: 221-230
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Synthesis
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
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47) Identify and describe three basic operations used to extract useful sets of data from a
relational database.
Answer: The select operation creates a subset consisting of all records (rows) in the table that
meets stated criteria. The join operation combines relational tables to provide the user with more
information than is available in individual tables. The project operation creates a subset
consisting of columns in a table, permitting the user to create new tables that contain only the
information required.
Page Ref: 224
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.2: What are the major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why is a
relational DBMS so powerful?
49) Which of the following technologies would you use to analyze the social media data
collected by a major online retailer?
A) OLAP
B) data warehouse
C) data mart
D) Hadoop
E) DBMS
Answer: D
Page Ref: 232
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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50) Which of the following is not one of the techniques used in Web mining?
A) content mining
B) structure mining
C) server mining
D) usage mining
E) data mining
Answer: C
Page Ref: 238
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Reflective thinking
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
51) You work for a retail clothing chain whose primary outlets are in shopping malls, and you are
conducting an analysis of your customers and their preferences. You wish to find out if there are
any particular activities that your customers engage in, or the types of purchases made in the
month before or after purchasing select items from your store. To do this, you will want to use
data mining software that is capable of
A) identifying associations.
B) identifying clusters.
C) identifying sequences.
D) classification.
E) forecasting.
Answer: C
Page Ref: 237
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Synthesis
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
52) You work for a national car rental agency and want to determine what characteristics are
shared among your most loyal customers. To do this, you will want to use data mining software
that is capable of
A) identifying associations.
B) identifying clusters.
C) identifying sequences.
D) classification.
E) forecasting.
Answer: D
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Synthesis
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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54) All of the following are technologies used to analyze and manage big data except
A) cloud computing.
B) noSQL.
C) in-memory computing.
D) analytic platforms.
E) Hadoop.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
55) A household appliances manufacturer has hired you to help analyze their social media
datasets to determine which of their refrigerators are seen as the most reliable. Which of the
following tools would you use to analyze this data?
A) text mining tools
B) sentiment analysis software
C) Web usage mining technologies
D) data mining software for identifying associations
E) data mining software for forecasting
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Evaluation
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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56) The tool that enables users to view the same data in different ways using multiple dimensions
is
A) predictive analysis.
B) SQL.
C) OLAP.
D) data mining.
E) Hadoop.
Answer: C
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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60) ________ tools are used to analyze large unstructured data sets, such as e-mail, memos,
survey responses, etc., to discover patterns and relationships.
A) OLAP
B) Text mining
C) In-memory
D) Clustering
E) Classification
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
61) In place of application server software to allow a Web server to communicate with a back-
end database, you can use
A) CGI.
B) HTML.
C) Java.
D) SQL.
E) NoSQL.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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62) HTML has become the preferred method of communicating with back-end databases because
it is a cross-platform language.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
63) Legacy systems are used to populate and update data warehouses.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
64) Multiple data marts are combined and streamlined to create a data warehouse.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
66) OLAP is unable to manage and handle queries with very large sets of data.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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67) With in-memory computing, a computer's primary memory (RAM) is used for processing.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
68) An application that transfers information from an organization's internal database to a Web
server for delivery as part of a Web page to the user is called middleware.
Answer: TRUE
Page Ref: 239
Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
69) Implementing a Web interface for an organization's internal database usually requires
substantial changes to be made to the database.
Answer: FALSE
Page Ref: 239
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
70) You can manipulate data on a Web server by using a CGI script.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
71) To analyze unstructured data, such as memos and legal cases, you would use text mining
tools.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
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CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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73) In associations, a data mining tool discovers different groupings within data, such as finding
affinity groups for bank cards.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
74) High-speed analytic platforms use both relational and non-relational tools to analyze large
datasets.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Reflective thinking
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
75) A database server is software that handles all application operations between browser-based
computers and a company's back-end business applications or databases.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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76) In data mining, the technique of predicting uses a series of existing values to determine what
other future values will be.
Answer: FALSE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
77) You have been hired by a national furniture leasing company to implement its first business
intelligence systems and infrastructure. To prepare for your initial report, describe the types of
data in their firm they can use to support business intelligence and the systems that you will
implement to support both their power users and casual users, and explain how these systems or
tools work together.
Answer: All types of data can be used for their business intelligence systems, including
operational, historical, machine-generated, Web/social data, audio and video data, and external
data. The large datasets can be collected in a Hadoop cluster and used by an analytic platform to
support power user queries, data mining, OLAP, etc. A data warehouse can be used to house all
data, including smaller data sets and operational data, and be used to support casual use, for
queries, reports, and digital dashboards, as well as support the analytic platforms. Smaller data
marts can be created from the data warehouse to enable faster querying and typical queries from
casual users.
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Synthesis
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
78) Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by an office stationery
supply company to achieve low-cost leadership.
Answer: Sales databases could be used to make the supply chain more efficient and minimize
warehousing and transportation costs. You can also use sales databases, as well as text mining
and sentiment analysis, to determine what supplies are in demand by which customers and
whether needs are different in different geographical areas. Business intelligence databases could
be used to predict future trends in office supply needs, to help anticipate demand, and to
determine the most efficient methods of transportation and delivery.
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Evaluation
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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79) Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by a toy manufacturer to
achieve product differentiation.
Answer: Product databases could be made available to customers for greater convenience and
ordering online. Databases could be used to track customer preferences and to help anticipate
customer desires. Sales databases could also help clients such as toy stores anticipate when they
would need to re-supply, providing an additional service. Data mining, Web mining, and
sentiment analysis of big data could help anticipate trends in sales or other factors to help
determine new services and products to sell to clients.
Page Ref: 230-240
Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Evaluation
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
80) What makes data mining an important business tool? What types of information does data
mining produce? In what type of circumstance would you advise a company to use data mining?
Answer: Data mining is one of the data analysis tools that helps users make better business
decisions and is one of the key tools of business intelligence. Data mining allows users to
analyze large amounts of data and find hidden relationships between data that otherwise would
not be discovered. For example, data mining might find that a customer that buys product X is
ten times more likely to buy product Y than other customers.
Data mining finds information such as:
• Associations or occurrences that are linked to a single event.
• Sequences, events that are linked over time.
• Classification, patterns that describe the group to which an item belongs, found by examining
existing items that have been classified and by inferring a set of rules.
• Clusters, unclassified but related groups.
I would advise a company to use data mining when they are looking for new products and
services, or when they are looking for new marketing techniques or new markets. Data mining
might also be helpful when trying to analyze unanticipated problems with sales whose causes are
difficult to identify.
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Evaluation
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
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81) What are the differences between data mining and OLAP? When would you advise a
company to use OLAP?
Answer: Data mining uncovers hidden relationships and is used when you are trying to discover
data and new relationships. It is used to answer questions such as: Are there any product sales
that are related in time to other product sales?
In contrast, OLAP is used to analyze multiple dimensions of data and is used to find answers to
complex, but known, questions, such as: What were sales of a product—broken down by month
and geographical region, and how did those sales compare to sales forecasts?
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Evaluation
LO: 6.3: What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases
to improve business performance and decision making?
82) The organization's rules for sharing, disseminating, acquiring, standardizing, classifying, and
inventorying information is called a(n)
A) information policy.
B) data definition file.
C) data quality audit.
D) data governance policy.
E) data policy.
Answer: A
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
83) The special organizational function whose responsibilities include physical database design
and maintenance is called
A) data administration.
B) database administration.
C) information policy administration.
D) data auditing.
E) database management.
Answer: B
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
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84) Which common database challenge is illustrated by a person receiving multiple copies of an
L.L. Bean catalog, each addressed to a slightly different variation of his or her full name?
A) data normalization
B) data accuracy
C) data redundancy
D) data inconsistency
E) data duplication
Answer: D
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Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
85) Detecting and correcting data in a database or file that are incorrect, incomplete, improperly
formatted, or redundant is called
A) data auditing.
B) defragmentation.
C) data scrubbing.
D) data optimization.
E) data normalization.
Answer: C
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Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
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87) Which of the following is not a method for performing a data quality audit?
A) surveying entire data files
B) surveying samples from data files
C) surveying data definition and query files
D) surveying end users about their perceptions of data quality
E) surveying managers about their perceptions of data quality
Answer: C
Page Ref: 242
Difficulty: Difficult
AACSB: Analytical thinking
CASE: Analysis
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
88) The policies and processes for managing the integrity and security of data in a firm are
referred to as data governance.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
89) The organizational function that is in charge of policies and procedures for managing internal
data resources is called data administration.
Answer: TRUE
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Difficulty: Moderate
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
90) Data scrubbing is a more intensive corrective process than data cleansing.
Answer: FALSE
Page Ref: 242
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Information technology
CASE: Content
LO: 6.4: Why are information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance essential
for managing the firm's data resources?
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