1. What should be a major characteristic of a DSS?

A). Automates decision making. B). Includes a spreadsheet model.

C). Responds quickly to the changing needs of decision makers. D). All of the above
2. In which of Steven Alter's categories of DSS would you place data warehouses?
A) Analysis Information systems B) Accounting & financial models C)Data analysis
systems D)None
3. What would one conclude after visiting DSS-related sites on the World-Wide Web?
A) There is limited support for DSS researchers B) The Web is where the DSS research is
occurring. C) The quality and value of DSS-related Web sites is outstanding. D)
All of the above
4. Which type of DSS will have data warehouses, OLAP and Executive Information
Systems? A). Communications-Driven
B). Data-Driven C). Document-Driven D). Knowledge-Driven
5. What type of system records current information and emphasizes data integrity and
consistency?
A). Data Analysis System. B). File Drawer System C). Transaction Processing System D)
None
6. What is the most important component of a Decision Support System?
A). Architecture & network design. B). User interface. C). Mathematical & analytical tools.
D) None
7. Which of the following web sites provides organized information on a wide variety of DSS
topics?
A). http://DSSResources.COM B). http://www.usatoday.com
C). http://www.zoogdisney.com D). http://www.hotmail.com
8. Information has three dimensions. There are
A) Time, consent, & form B) Time, content, &form C) Cost, content, & form D) Time,
content, & Value
9.According to the emerging class of applications focuses on personalized decision support,
modeling, information retrieval, data warehousing, what-if scenarios, and reporting is called
A) Decision Support Trends B) Decision Support History C) Decision Support models D)
None
10. Growth of corporate intranets, extranets has increased the use of “executive class”
information delivery and decision support. This has opened the door to the use of which of
the following tool?
A) Business intelligence B) Business Knowledge C) Business Ideas C) Busyness pattern D)
None
11.According to your textbook, the Decision support systems use all of the following
EXCEPT: A) Analytical models, B) Specialized databases C) Online
Transaction processing D) None
12.__ was the original type of information system developed to support managerial decision
making.
A) Management information systems B) DSS C) Management Tracking Systems D) None
13.It analyses complex relationships among thousands of data items stored in data marts, data
warehouses, and other multidimensional databases to discover patterns, trends, and exception
conditions:
A) OLTP B) OLAP C) OISE D) OLALA
14.___ is complex data using interactive 3 dimensional graphical forms as charts, graphs &
maps. A) Data Entry Systems B) Data Analysis systems C) ALL D) Data
visualization systems
15. Another name of goal seeking analysis is:
A) How to B) How can C) Why not D) What’s up
16. Decision support system involves all of the following types of analytical modeling
activities except? A) what-if analysis B) Sensitivity analysis C) Goal-seeking analysis D)
Heuristics
17. In which of the following types of analysis, the value of only one variable is changed
repeatedly, and the resulting changes on other variables are observed.
A) what-if analysis B) Sensitivity analysis C)
Goal-seeking analysis D) None of the above
18.In which of the following types of analysis, the goal is to find the optimum value for one
or more target variables, given certain constraints?
A) what-if analysis B) Optimization C) Goal-seeking analysis D) None of the above
19_____ is one of the most common and useful types of data mining for marketing. The
purpose of market basket analysis is to determine what products customers purchase together
with other products. A) Market Box Analysis B) Market of Business Administration C)
Market Bazaar Analysis D) None
20.The first goal of executive information systems is to provide top executives with
immediate and easy access to information about a firm’s _______________, that is, key
factors that are critical to accomplishing an organization’s strategic objectives.
A) Critical Success Factors B) Critical
Accomplishing Factors C) Critical executive system D) None
21.“A user checks the current company stock price, his available vacation days, and receives
an order from a customerll from the browser on his desktop. That is the next— generation
intranet, also known as: A) Corporate or enterprise
information system B) corporate or enterprise information portal
C) Corporate or enterprise homepage D) None of the above
22. Itis a field of science & technology based on disciplines of computer science, biology,
psychology, linguistics, mathematics, and engineering.
A) Natural intelligence B) Artificial intelligence C) Articulate Intelligence D) None of the
above
23._______ involves using multi-sensory human- computer interfaces that enable human
users to experience computer-simulated objects, spaces, activities, and “worlds” as if they
actually exist. A) Virtual office B) Virtual reality C) Real reality D) Reality
24. The components of an expert system include a _____ module that perform inferences on
the knowledge in the knowledge base and communicate answers to a user’s questions.
A) Database & software B) knowledge base &
software C) Communication base D) knowledge base
25. A subject-oriented, integrated, nonvolatile collection of data to support management
decisions:
A) Data Mining. B) Data Warehousing .C) Web Mining. D) Text Mining.
26. The data Warehouse is__________.
A) read only. B) write only. C) read write only. D) none.
27.The aspect of the data warehouse environment is that data within the data warehouse
is______.
A) subject-oriented. B) time-variant. C) integrated .D) All of the above.
28. The time horizon in Data warehouse is usually __________.
A) 1-2 years. B) 3-4years. C) 5-6 years. D) 5-10 years.
29. The data is stored, retrieved & updated in ____________.
A) OLAP. B) OLTP. C) SMTP. D) FTP.
30. __________describes the data contained in the data warehouse.
A) Relational data. B) Operational data. C) Metadata. D) Informational data.
31.____predicts future trends & behaviors, to make proactive knowle dge-driven decisions.
A) Data warehouse. B) Data mining. C) Data marts. D) Metadata.
32. __________ server is the heart of the warehouse.
A) Data mining database B) Data warehouse database C) Data mart database.D) None
33.______________ is the specialized data warehouse database.
A) Oracle. B) DBZ. C) Informix. D) Redbrick.
34. ____is the structure of the data in operational databases and used by operational
applications.
A) User-level metadata. B) Data warehouse metadata. C) Operational metadata D) None
35).________level meta data is held in the catalog of the warehouse database system.
A) Application B) Algorithmic. C) Departmental D) Core warehouse
36. Expansion for DSS in DW is__________.
A) Decision Support system. B)Decision Single System. C)Data warehouse System. D) Both
A& C
37. Data can be updated in _____environment.
A. data warehouse. B. data mining .C. operational. D. informational.
38. Record cannot be updated in _____________.
A. OLTP B. files C. RDBMS D. data warehouse
39. . ______________databases are owned by particular departments or business groups.
A. Informational. B. Operational. C. Both informational and operational. D. Flat.
40. The star schema is composed of __________ fact table.
A. one. B. two. C. Three D. four.