In order to manage an organization's human resource activities, such as hiring employees, tracking, and influencing employee retention, HR personnel use
a. descriptive and predictive analytics. b. descriptive and prescriptive analytics.
c. predictive and prescriptive analytics. d. predictive analytics.
Q. 2In the spectrum of business analytics, which is the most complex?
a. Descriptive
b. Predictive
c. Prescriptive
d. Operational
Q. 3_______________ analytics use techniques that take input data and yield a best course of action.
a. Prescriptive
b. Simulation
c. Strategic
d. Operational
Q. 4A ____________________ decision is concerned with how the organization should achieve the goals and objectives set by its strategy.
a. tactical
b. strategic
c. intuitive
d. operational
Q. 5A _______________ decision involves higher-level issues and is concerned with the overall direction of the organization, defining the overarching goals and aspirations for the organization's future.
a. strategic
b. tactical
c. intuitive
d. operational
Q. 6_______________ analytics are techniques that use models, constructed from past data, to predict the future or to ascertain the impact of one variable on another.
a. Predictive
b. Descriptive
c. Simulation
d. Prescriptive
Q. 7__________ is an open-source programming environment that supports big data processing through distributed storage and distributed processing on clusters of computers.
a. Hadoop
b. Excel
c. Java
d. MapReduce
Q. 8______________________ refers to a programming model used within Hadoop that performs the two major steps for which it is named: the map step and the reduce step.
a. MapReduce
b. Internet of Things (IoT)
c. Advanced analytics
d. Optimization model