A sales manager would like to know how many products were sold last
week. Which type of analytics answers this question?
A)
predictive analytics
B)
descriptive analytics
C)
diagnostic analytics
D)
prescriptive analytics
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Which of the following is NOT considered a core driver of the
information age?
A)
information
B)
business intelligence
C)
static report
D)
data
2
Which of the following represents the three different levels of a
company pyramid from the top to the bottom?
A)
Managerial—Strategic—operational
B)
Strategic—Managerial—Operational
C)
Operational—Managerial—Strategic
D)
Strategic—Operational—Managerial
3
What is the relationship between Critical success factors (CSFs) and
performance indicators (KPIs) ?
A)
CSFs are business strategy elements, whereas KPIs measure the
progress of the CSFs.
B)
CSFs build the business environment, whereas KPIs explain how
to build the CSFs.
C)
KPIs are used first, and CSFs are applied later.
D)
KPIs promote employees on their performance, whereas CSFs
demote employees based on their performance.
4
Which of the following is a type of effectiveness MIS metric?
A)
transaction speed
B)
system availability
C)
usability
D)
throughput
5
What encompasses all the data contained within a single business
process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the
performance of daily operational or structured decisions?
A)
online transaction processing
B)
online analytical processing
C)
analytical information
D)
transactional data
6
What type of MIS infrastructure contains accessibility, availability,
maintainability, portability, reliability, scalability, and usability?
A)
Agile
B)
Sustainable
C)
Information
D)
Enterprise
7
What is a disaster recovery plan?
A) Fully equipped backup facility
B) A separate facility with no equipment
C) A facility with equipment requiring setup
D) A detailed process for recovering systems after a disaster
8
Which of the following are examples of external databases in the data
warehouse model?
A)
Marketing, sales, inventory, and billing
B)
Accounting data mart
C)
Competitor and industry data, mailing lists, and stock market
analyses
D)
Marketing data, sales data, and stock market analyses
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A retail store records each sale at checkout. What type of data is
generated?
A)
unstructured data
B)
analytical data
C)
productive data
D)
transactional data
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A growing e-commerce company is experiencing significant performance
issues during peak shopping periods. Which of the following best describes
the distributed computing approach that would address this challenge?
A)
A system where multiple independent computers communicate
through networks to achieve a common goal, sharing computational tasks
across standard hardware
B)
A centralized database with improved indexing and query
optimization to handle increased transaction volume
C)
A cloud storage solution that maintains backup copies of all data in
case of system failure
D)
A mainframe computer with dedicated processing power that handles
all computational tasks from a central location
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A bank’s transaction system experiences a critical hardware failure
during peak business hours. Immediately, the system automatically
switches all operations to a secondary backup server to ensure
continuous service. After repairs are completed, the system restores
normal operations by moving back to the primary server.
Which terms best describe these two actions?
A)
Backup and Recovery
B)
Fault Tolerance and Failback
C)
Failover and Failback
D)
Fault Tolerance and Backup
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A company wants to run multiple operating systems on one physical
server to reduce hardware costs. What technology enables this?
A) RAID
B) Virtualization
C) Redundancy
D) Optical storage
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A website crashes whenever traffic increases significantly. Which
infrastructure characteristic is insufficient?
A) Reliability
B) Scalability
C) Usability
D) Portability
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A customer’s last purchase date in the system is from two years ago,
even though the customer made a purchase yesterday. Which
characteristic of high-quality data is being violated?
A) Accurate
B) Complete
C) Timely
D) Unique
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Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Accurate data means all required fields are filled.
B) Timely data is data that contains no duplicate records.
C) Consistent data means summary data matches detailed data.
D) Unique data ensures values are updated daily.
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