Question

1. You want to spend a maximum of $100,000 on your first house. You need to use a(n) _____ analysis to figure out the location and size of those types of homes.

A. affinity

B. goal-seeking

C. sensitivity

D. what-if

2. _______ is a capability of dashboards that reflect the latest data available on KPIs or some other metric often in real time.

A. Drill down

B. Exception reporting

C. Status access

D. Trend analysis

3. ___________ decisions deal with routine and repetitive problems.

A. Midstructured

B. Semistructured

C. Structured

D. Unstructured

4. Considering the nature of decisions, executing specific tasks efficiently and effectively is

A. financial planning.

B. management control.

C. operational control.

D. strategic planning.   

5. You are looking at a sales report from last month. You notice one salesperson's numbers are much lower than the rest, so you click on that person's name to get more details on the products they sold last month. You are using the _______ feature of a dashboard.

A.CSF

B. drill down

C. exception reporting

D. trend analysis

6. ________ analytics drives the coupons you get at the grocery store when you use your loyalty card.

A. Descriptive

B. Predictive

C. Prescriptive

D. Useful

7. __________ can perform two basic operations: 1) identifying previously unknown patters and 2) predicting trends and behaviors.

A. Data mining

B. DSS

C. OLAP

D. OLTP   

8. As a purchasing manager, you have to purchase widgets every week to replenish your inventory. This is a(n) ________ decision.

A. midstructured

B. semistructured

C. structured

D. unstructured

9. ________ is an informational role.

A. Analyzer

B. Leader

C. Liaison

D. Resource allocator

10. _________ is a decisional role.

A. Disseminator

B. Disturbance handler

C. Figurehead

D. Monitor

11. You are an employee in Inside Sales. This means you take calls and address customer issues like entering orders, updating orders, and providing order status reports. This is a(n) _____ task and a(n) _______ decision.

A. structured; management control

B. structured; operational control

C. unstructured; management control

D. unstructured; operational control

12. _________ is a capability of dashboards that gives the user the ability to go to details at several levels by a series of menus or by clicking on a portion of the screen that can be expanded.

A. CSF

B. Drill down

C. Exception reporting

D. Trend analysis

Answer 1

Answer:

1)  goal-seeking
2)  Status access
3)  Structured
4)  operational control
5)  Drill down
6)  Predictive
7)  Data mining
8)  structured
9)  Analyzer
10) Resource allocator
11) structured; operational control
12) drill down