Model Question Paper

Course: Introduction to Business Intelligence

1. A system working automatically, specifically developed to transfer information to various

elements of any industrial, scientific or government entity is referred as which of the following
terms?
a. BI system
b. Analytical system
c. Testing system
d. Analytics BI Adoption
2. Which business intelligence technique can the organization employ to analyze its historical data
and predict future values?
a. Predictive Modeling
b. Prescriptive Modeling
c. Data Visualization
d. Summary Modeling
3. An organization is a culmination of different users with different knowledge areas and expertise.
Even a basic user must be able to use BI queries and develop reports. Which of the following
attributes to the above stated task?
a. SQL-intensive query building
b. SQL-free query building
c. No-SQL free query building
d. No-SQL intensive query building
4. Which kind of BI reporting is based on result manipulation of the database queries so as to
adapt and improvise the result requirements?
a. Interactive Reporting
b. Static Reporting
c. Standard Reporting
d. Managed Reporting
5. What kind of service is used by push environments so as to contain all the important
information about the data and user environment?
a. Directory Service
b. Direction Service
c. Listing Service
d. Catalogue Service
6. Which of the following software application can be used in a BI system to query the relevant
data and information?
a. MS SQL
b. MS Powerpoint
c. MS Word
d. MS Projects
7. Which type of software handles all aspects of an organization's interaction with its customers?
 a. CRM
b. ERP
c. DSS
d. EIS
8. Which OLAP operation is used to select two or more dimensions from a given data cube and
create a new sub cube?
a. Dicing
b. Slicing
c. Pivot
d. Drill-Down
9. What type of tools allow the user to build and message information so as to perform
appropriate analysis?
a. Access tools
b. Safety tools
c. Privacy tools
d. Design tools
10. BI involves four big criterias comprising of High-Value, Actionable and Accurate categories. What
is the fourth category?
a. Timely
b. Testing
c. Designing
d. Recruiting
11. Which kind of servers act as the foundation for business intelligence, business modeling, data
mining tools?
a. OLAP servers
b. Web Servers
c. Data Servers
d. Service Servers
12. Which of the following option cannot be regarded as a best practice for BI dashboard design?
a. Use an iterative method to refine designs during development
b. Specify the data that the targeted users must monitor
c. Unlimited quantity of information displayed to the users
d. Maintain the BI dashboard data relevantly and up to date.
13. Which term is regarded as the process of knowledge discovery in data, and is used to uncover
hidden patterns and valuable information from large data sets?
a. Data Mining
b. Skill Mining
c. Automation
d. Information retrieval
14. Which type of application sits atop other BI tools and directs the user to take certain follow-on
steps that depend on initial results?
a. Guided Analysis
b. Data Mining
c. KPI
 d. Unstructured Analysis
15. Which among the following is not correct in the context of a BI dashboard?
a. It’s a visualization tool
b. It collects all the related information from a data source
c. It is used to store the current and historical data
d. It's used to manipulate data
16. Old style EIS software were built using fourth-generation programming languages, these
systems used which type of queries?
a. Pre-defined queries
b. Post-defined queries
c. Hand-written queries
d. AI-written queries
17. Executive Information Systems evolved based on the practicality of dashboards. Which of the
following is the key to a dashboard utility?
a. Data Presentation
b. Data Processing
c. Data Manipulation
d. Data Deletion
18. What is the basis of difference between executive-level Executive Information System and mid-
level Executive Information Systems?
a. Scope of data
b. Working of data
c. Application of data
d. Processing of data
19. Which of the following is considered as an indicator of the measurement of success in any
organization?
a. Benchmarks
b. Performance Measures
c. Statistical Algorithms
d. Topologies
20. Which type of dashboard can be used to measure short-term productivity and effectiveness
based on an organization?
a. Static Dashboards
b. Tactical Dashboards
c. Strategic Dashboards
d. Technical Dashboards
21. What type of data visualization is a scatter plot?
a. Point chart
b. Line chart
c. Bar chart
d. Scatter chart
22. What is the purpose of a correlation analysis?
a. To determine the relationship between two variables
b. To visualize the spread of a dataset
 c. To compare the central tendency of two datasets
d. To determine the distribution of a dataset
23. What is a negative correlation?
a. When two variables have no relationship
b. When two variables have a weak relationship
c. When two variables have a moderate relationship
d. When two variables have an inverse relationship
24. What is a scatter plot used for?
a. To show the relationship between two variables
b. To show the distribution of a single variable
c. To compare different groups in a dataset
d. To visualize time series data
25. What does the slope of a scatter plot indicate?
a. The strength of the relationship between two variables
b. The spread of the data
c. The center of the data
d. The outliers in the data
26. What is the difference between a scatter plot and a line graph?
a. Line graphs show the relationship between two variables over time
b. Scatter plots do not show the relationship between two variables
c. Line graphs are better for small datasets
d. Line graphs are better for showing categorical data
27. Which of the following job designation is responsible for monitoring and making sure the system
works as advertised?
a. Analysts
b. Developers
c. Testers
d. Administrators
28. Which of the following initial activities can be accomplished in parallel or directly after the
assessment of the current BI state?
a. Developing BI Strategy
b. Developing BI Architecture
c. Developing BI Solution Set
d. Developing BI Techniques
29. A pre-set list of metrics and state that indicate the wellness of a project can be referred which of
the following term?
a. Checkpoint
b. Backup
c. Recovery
d. Execution State
30. A BI end-user tool is likely to reduce the number of people involved in the research and analysis
process. This statement represents which of the following options?
a) Reducing cost
b) Reducing business direction
c) Reducing core team
d) Reducing Crowd