In comparison with primary storage, hard drives are ________.
A) more expensive
B) slower in processing information
C) more volatile and lose data when power is turned off
D) smaller in storage capacity
Q. 2Data that are problematic for business intelligence are termed ________.
A) clustered data
B) intrinsic data
C) dirty data
D) granular data
Q. 3How are policies enforced in information systems?
A) Each user can select the policies to be enforced on the individual's account.
B) Information systems come with built-in policies that are installed into the system.
C) The operational-level employees decide the policies that need to be enforced in an information system.
D) Managers develop policies that are enforced by the information systems.
Q. 4Web sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn are examples of social media.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 5Which of the following is likely to be a change that will occur in the common sales process after the implementation of SAP?
A) The sales agent is given the authority to approve a sale.
B) Before every sale, the warehouse manager receives a request from the sales department for updates on inventory levels.
C) The pre-sales activities are removed from the sales process, and inventory and price data are maintained by the warehouse.
D) A unified system is implemented to track all sales data.
Q. 6With the introduction of SAP HANA, the database operations of Big Data systems are faster when compared to MapReduce systems. Which of the following statements justifies this improvement?
A) The system now uses a relational database technology.
B) SQL statements are used to access data from secondary storage.
C) A solid-state memory device is used to store data.
D) The tasks in the system are divided into multiple servers.
Q. 7Organizations conduct ________ to identify the differences between the business requirements that emerge from strategic planning and the capabilities of the chosen enterprise resource planning system.
A) access controls
B) inherent processes
C) gap analysis
D) dashboards