Business Driven Information Systems 8th Edition by Paige Baltzan test bank

 

46)  Who collects, queries, and consumes organizational data to uncover patterns and provide insights for strategic business decisions?

      
       A) business intelligence manager 
       B) data scientist
       C) data worker
       D) data analyst
      

 

47)  What role does a data analyst perform?

      
       A) collects, queries, and consumes organizational data to uncover patterns and provide insights for strategic business decisions
       B) extracts knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information
       C) records, measures, and reports monetary transactions
       D) supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services
      

 

48)  What are the three key skills required for a data analyst?

      
       A) understanding of math and statistics
       B) coding skills to work with data
       C) business area subject matter expertise
       D) All of the answers are correct.
      

 

49)  What is the science of fact-based decision making?

      
       A) business intelligence  
       B) information
       C) knowledge
       D) analytics
      

 

50)  What is the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions?

      
       A) business analytics
       B) descriptive analytics
       C) prescriptive analytics
       D) predictive analytics
      

 

51)  What describes past performance and history?

      
       A) diagnostic analytics    
       B) descriptive analytics
       C) prescriptive analytics
       D) predictive analytics
      

 

52)  What extracts information from data and use it to predict future trends and identify behavioral patterns?

      
       A) diagnostic analytics    
       B) descriptive analytics
       C) prescriptive analytics
       D) predictive analytics
      

 

53)  What creates models indicating the best decision to make or course of action to take?

      
       A) diagnostics analytics  
       B) descriptive analytics
       C) prescriptive analytics
       D) predictive analytics
      

 

54)  What are business analytics?

      
       A) the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions     
       B) describe past performance and history