SOLVED

1) Which of the following statements is true about business intelligence? A) It is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community, through the use of information technology. B) It is the process by which a customer-owned mutual organization or co-operative changes legal form to a joint stock company. C) It is the use of information systems to gather and analyze information from internal and external sources in order to make better business decisions. D) It is an organization’s process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. E) It is the use of human resources to gather and analyze information from external sources in order to make better business decisions. 2) “Backward looking” budgets are typically based on ________. A) forecasts B) marketing research C) future trends D) historical data E) current market conditions 3) Responding to threats and opportunities and continuous planning is based on analyzing data from the ________ level of the organization. A) operational B) executive C) tactical D) business E) strategic 4) Taking entities as tables, each row is a ________. A) field B) record C) attribute D) form E) query 5) Taking entities as tables, each column is a(n) ________. A) attribute B) record C) form D) bot E) query 6) An attribute is also referred to as a(n) ________. A) form B) record C) field D) query E) bot 7) A(n) ________ is a collection of related attributes about a single instance of an entity. A) bot B) form C) query D) field E) record 8) In DBMS, data are kept separate from the applications’ programming code. This means that ________. A) an application cannot be changed without making changes to the database B) an application’s programming code needs to be updated continuously to keep up with the database C) an application needs to be changed when database is changed D) database does not need to be changed if a change is made to an application E) database needs to be changed when a change is made to an application 9) A common way to represent a data model is a(n) ________. A) entity-relationship diagram B) normalization diagram C) report-query diagram D) form-record diagram E) report generator 10) Data type helps the DBMS ________. A) present the data in a useful format B) format data C) allocate storage space D) eliminate data duplication E) retrieve information 1