Information Technology for Managers
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Information Technology for Managers provides an in-depth exploration of how modern information systems and digital technologies impact organizational effectiveness and competitiveness. The course examines key IT concepts and trends relevant to managerial decision-making, including data management, business analytics, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and emerging technologies. Through case studies and practical examples, students learn how managers leverage IT to streamline operations, enable innovation, and drive strategic business value. The course also addresses IT project management, ethical considerations, and the alignment of IT strategies with overall business objectives, preparing future managers to effectively oversee technology initiatives and lead digital transformation efforts within their organizations.
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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 9th Edition by Efraim Turban
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Chapter 1: Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence
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Q1) A(n)________ is a rule-based system that provides a solution,usually in one functional area,such as finance or manufacturing,to a specific repetitive managerial problem.
A) decision support systems (DSS)
B) transaction processing system (TPS)
C) online analytical processing (OLAP) system
D) automated decision system (ADS)
Answer: D
Q2) ________ are a type of user interface that provides a comprehensive visual view of corporate performance measures,trends,and exceptions.
Answer: Dashboards
Q3) ________ is the application of scientific approach and mathematical models to the analysis and solution of managerial decision situations.
Answer: Operations research
Q4) The process of business intelligence is based on the ________ of data to information,then to decisions,and finally to actions.
Answer: transformation
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Chapter 2: Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support
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Q1) Problem ________ is the conceptualization of a problem in an attempt to place it in a definable category,possibly leading to a standard solution approach.
Answer: classification
Q2) ________ is synonymous with the whole process of management.
Answer: Decision making
Q3) The process of modeling involves determining the (usually mathematical,sometimes symbolic)relationships among the variables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Rationality is bounded only by limitations on human processing capacities but not by individual differences.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) ________ is the critical act of decision making when the actual decision and commitment to follow a certain course of action are made.
Answer: Choice
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Chapter 3: Decision Support Systems Concepts,
Methodologies, and Technologies:
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Q1) One key issue that DBMS must handle is data security.Data can be ________ so that even in the case of unauthorized access,the viewed data is scrambled and unintelligible.
Answer: encrypted
Q2) A key component of DSS is the ability to visualize the results.For example,it is important for executives to visualize the results of modifying assumptions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ________ models are used to support the day-to-day working activities of the organization.Typical decisions involve e-commerce transaction acceptance,approval of personal loans by a bank,production scheduling,inventory control,maintenance planning and scheduling,and quality control.
Answer: Operational
Q4) As the size of the data to be stored and accessed increases,processing times and storage space also grow,sometimes dramatically.Large databases present major ________ problems.
Answer: scalability
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Chapter 4: Modeling and Analysis
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Q1) ________ diagrams are graphical models of mathematical models,which can facilitate the process of identifying the model's variables.
A) Decision
B) Tree
C) Fish bone
D) Influence
Q2) In decision making under uncertainty,the decision maker considers situations in which several outcomes are possible for each course of action.In this case,the decision maker can estimate the probability of occurrence of the possible outcomes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ is a family of tools designed to help solve managerial problems in which the decision maker must allocate scarce resources among competing activities to optimize a measurable goal.
Q4) One recent trend in modeling involves the development of model libraries and solution technique libraries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Data Mining for Business Intelligence
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Q1) List and briefly explain four of the factors to be considered when assessing a model to be used for classification.
Q2) The most commonly used measure to calculate the closeness between pairs of items in cluster analysis is the ________.
Q3) The ________ algorithm is the most commonly used algorithm to discover association rules.
Q4) Data types such as date/time,unstructured text,image,and audio need to be converted into some form of categorical or numeric representation before they can be processed by data mining algorithms.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ data mining begins with a proposition by the user,who then seeks to validate the truthfulness of the proposition
Q6) Two types of categorical data are nominal data and ordinal data. A)True
B)False
Q7) Generally speaking,data mining tasks can be classified into three main categories: ________,association,and clustering.
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Chapter 6: Artificial Neural Networks for Data Mining
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Q1) The summation function computes the ________ sums of all the input elements entering each processing element.
A) weighted
B) averaged
C) total
D) aggregated
Q2) Sigmoid function is an S-shaped transfer function in the range of 0 to 1 and is also a useful ________ transfer function.
A) integer
B) binary
C) linear
D) nonlinear
Q3) Implementation of an ANN often requires interfaces with other computer-based information systems and user training.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One popular approach,known as the feedforward-backpropagation paradigm,in organizing neurons,does not allow any ________ linkage.
Q5) Explain threshold value and its role in the network.
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Chapter 7: Text and Web Mining
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Q1) In ________,the problem is to group an unlabelled collection of objects,such as documents,customer comments,and Web pages into meaningful groups without any prior knowledge.
A) search recall
B) classification
C) clustering
D) grouping
Q2) What are three of the challenges for effective and efficient knowledge discovery posed by the Web?
Q3) ________ is a technique used to detect favorable and unfavorable opinions toward specific products and services using textual data sources,such as customer feedback in Web postings and the detection of unfavorable rumors.
Q4) ________ mining is the extraction of useful information from data generated through Web page visits and transactions.
Q5) What is the primary purpose of text mining within the context of knowledge discovery?
Q6) List three business applications of Web mining.
Q7) Compare and contrast text mining and data mining.
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Q8) Define the three main areas of Web mining and each area's source of information.
Chapter 8: Data Warehousing
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Q1) Which of the following is not a direct benefit of a data warehouse?
A) End users can perform extensive analysis in numerous ways
B) A consolidated view of the data provides a single version of the truth
C) Simplified data access
D) Improved customer service and satisfaction
Q2) Which of the following is not a data source to a data warehouse?
A) ERP
B) legacy
C) POS
D) ETL
Q3) Describe a star schema.
Q4) The advantage of three-tier architecture for data warehousing is its separation of the functions of the data warehouse,which eliminates resource constraints and makes it possible to easily create data ________.
A) banks
B) cubes
C) bases
D) marts
Q5) List five benefits of a hosted data warehouse.
Q6) Identify at least five data warehouse best practices.
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Chapter 9: Business Performance Management
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Q1) The term business performance management (BPM)refers to the business processes,methodologies,metrics,and technologies used by enterprises to measure,monitor,and manage business performance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ is used to identify and prioritize the internal strengths and weaknesses in an organization's processes,structures,and its technologies and applications.
Q3) Fundamentally,an operational plan is like a project plan that is designed to ensure that an organization's ________ is realized.
A) business policy
B) plan
C) strategy
D) business rules
Q4) ________ focuses on reducing the variation or improving the consistency of a process.
Q5) What are the three key components of business performance management (BPM)?
Q6) ________ focuses on the elimination of waste or non-value-added activities.
Q7) What are the characteristics of well-designed dashboards and scorecards?
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Chapter 10: Collaborative Computer-Supported
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Q1) List the benefits of VoIP for individual users.
Q2) The idea of CPFR is achieve fewer out-of-stock situations and resultant lost sales by increasing inventory levels in the supply chain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In order for collective intelligence (CI)to happen,four features are needed.Which of the following is not one of those features?
A) acting locally
B) openness
C) peering
D) sharing
Q4) The term,wiki,refers to the collaborative software that facilitates the operation of a wiki Web site;.and means ________ in the Hawaiian language.
A) slow
B) quick
C) integration
D) collaboration
Q5) The success of a GSS depends mostly on its ________.
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Chapter 11: Knowledge Management
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Q1) Explicit knowledge is:
A) easy to explain.
B) easy to apply.
C) easy to document.
D) easy to explain, document and apply.
Q2) All of the following describe the practice approach to knowledge management except:
A) It deals mostly with tacit knowledge.
B) It provides an environment to generate and transfer high-value tacit knowledge.
C) It uses formal controls and procedures with an emphasis on technology to transfer and disseminate knowledge.
D) It relies on informal social groups.
Q3) Tacit knowledge is usually in the domain of subjective,cognitive,and experiential learning; it is highly personal and difficult to formalize.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the knowledge management system cycle steps.
Q5) Describe electronic document management.
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Chapter 12: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is not an advantage of using multiple experts in the development of an ES?
A) groupthink
B) fewer mistakes
C) enhanced quality
D) wider domain
Q2) ________ is a data-driven approach that starts from available information or from a basic idea,which is used to try to draw conclusions.
Q3) Inexact knowledge and imprecise reasoning are important aspects of expertise in applying commonsense to decision-making situations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An ________ is a system that uses human knowledge captured in a computer to solve problems that ordinarily require human expertise.
Q5) Expert systems allow knowledge to be transferred more easily at a lower cost. A)True
B)False
Q6) Identify the advantages of artificial intelligence over natural intelligence.
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Chapter 13: Advanced Intelligent Systems
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Q1) ________ is the degree to which agents themselves travel through a network.Some agents may be static,either residing on the client machine or initiated at the server.
Q2) Genetic algorithms are sets of computational procedures that conceptually follow steps inspired by the biological processes of ________.
Q3) Which of the following is not a step in case-based reasoning process?
A) Retrieve
B) Reuse
C) Retain
D) Reserve
Q4) Case-based reasoning (CBR)is analogical reasoning that adapts solutions that had been used to solve old problems to solve new problems.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Survival of the fittest (natural selection)is used in ________.
A) genetic algorithms
B) fuzzy logic
C) case-based reasoning
D) fuzzy neural networks
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Chapter 14: Management Support Systems: Emerging
Trends and Impacts
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Q1) List four major disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support.
Q2) ________ content is a major characteristic of Web 2.0,as is the emergence of social networking.
Q3) The success of today's highly volatile perishables supply chains depends on the level and the timeliness of ________.
A) product visibility
B) product data
C) supply chain management
D) RFID
Q4) Many people recognize that MSS tools are effective and efficient means to increase ________ even though the privacy of many innocent people is compromised.
Q5) Categories of interaction in a virtual community include each of the following except:
A) communication
B) information
C) EC element, such as advertisements
D) private community
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Q6) Privacy is the right to be left alone and the right to be free from ________ personal intrusions.