Question 1

Suppose your employer has four manufacturing units, each with its own data operations. They are considering using BI tools. Which of the following is a valid recommendation regarding the BI initiative?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Automate data entry at the factories for reduction in error rates
B)  ​Implement BI tools in each factory separately
C)   Create a data warehouse so that data from the factories are combined for BI analysis
D)   ​None of these answers

Question 2

Often times, information on dashboards are color coded, using the color ____ for problem areas.

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

Which of the following is a potential disadvantage with self-service BI?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Accelerates and improves decision making.
B)  ​Can lead to over spending on unapproved data sources and business analytics tools.
C)   ​Encourages nontechnical end users to make decisions based on facts and analyses rather than intuition.
D)   ​Gets valuable data into the hands of the people who need it the most-end users.

Question 4

One of the goals of business intelligence is to _________.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​present the results in an easy to understand manner
B)  educate the users about business statistics
C)   ensure the transaction data is properly stored
D)   use the most sophisticated techniques

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a commonly used BI tool?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​​data visualization
B)  linear regression
C)   ​drill-down analysis
D)   ​automated customer service

Question 6

To analzye various alternative scenarios, a manager would use _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​the spreadsheet's 'what-if' capability
B)  the graphing features of spreadsheet software
C)   the reporting feature of a BI tool
D)   ​a data visualization tool A

Question 7

_______ tools can present data in an easy-to-understand fashion via formatted data, graphs, and charts.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

Mastery over which subject is NOT required for being a data scientist?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Computer science
B)  Mathematics
C)   Statistics
D)   English D

Question 9

What determines the size of words in a word cloud?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​length of the word or phrase
B)  ​difficulty in pronouncing the word or phrase
C)   ​whether the word is a pronoun
D)   ​frequency of occurrence of the word in source documents

Question 10

Which of the following is IBM's BI product?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Power BI
B)  ​Business objects
C)   Cognos
D)   ​Hyperion

Question 11

Suppose you wish to predict the value of shopping cart contents (order total), based on the amount of time the customer spent at the online store site. In a linear regression model, you will use order total as the ____ variable .

Accepted Answer

Y
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Question 12

Which of the following will be a 'fact' measure in a data cube used at a chain retail business?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sales revenue
B)  ​Month name
C)   Product category
D)   ​City name

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT considered business intelligence practice?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Data extraction
B)  Visualization
C)   ​Analysis
D)   Transaction processing

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a data scientist?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​strong business acumen
B)  ​a deep understanding of analytics
C)   ​a healthy appreciation of the limitations of their data
D)   business leadership skills

Question 15

In OLAP data cubes, you would likely find numeric measures categorized by time and geography.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Linear regression is useful when you wish to predict the value of a quantitative variable based on a another quantitative variable.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of these analysis methods describes neural computing?

Accepted Answer

A)  a ​specialized set of algorithms sorts through data and forms statistical rules about relationships among the items
B)  ​historical data is examined for patterns that are then used to make predictions
C)   ​historical if-then-else cases are used to recognize patterns
D)   ​a mathematical procedure to predict the value of a dependent variable based on a single independent variable

Question 18

From which vendor is the BI product Business Objects available?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​IBM
B)  SAP
C)   ​​Google
D)   ​Microsoft

Question 19

If you wish to present traffic trends on your company's Website, a _____ format is preferable to tabular formats.

Accepted Answer

The answer of If you wish to present traffic trends...

Question 20

What is the projected shortage of data scientists in the USA, according to a McKinsey & Co. report?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​100,000 or less
B)  ​100,000 to 200,000
C)   200,000 to 500,000
D)   more than 500,000

Exam 6: Business Intelligence and Analytics

Suppose your employer has four manufacturing units, each with its own data operations. They are considering using BI tools. Which of the following is a valid recommendation regarding the BI initiative?

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Often times, information on dashboards are color coded, using the color ____ for problem areas.

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Which of the following is a potential disadvantage with self-service BI?

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One of the goals of business intelligence is to _________.

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Which of the following is NOT a commonly used BI tool?

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To analzye various alternative scenarios, a manager would use _______.

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_______ tools can present data in an easy-to-understand fashion via formatted data, graphs, and charts.

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Mastery over which subject is NOT required for being a data scientist?

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What determines the size of words in a word cloud?

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Which of the following is IBM's BI product?

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Suppose you wish to predict the value of shopping cart contents (order total), based on the amount of time the customer spent at the online store site. In a linear regression model, you will use order total as the ____ variable .

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Which of the following will be a 'fact' measure in a data cube used at a chain retail business?

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Which of the following is NOT considered business intelligence practice?

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a data scientist?

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In OLAP data cubes, you would likely find numeric measures categorized by time and geography.

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Linear regression is useful when you wish to predict the value of a quantitative variable based on a another quantitative variable.

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Which of these analysis methods describes neural computing?

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From which vendor is the BI product Business Objects available?

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If you wish to present traffic trends on your company's Website, a _____ format is preferable to tabular formats.

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What is the projected shortage of data scientists in the USA, according to a McKinsey & Co. report?

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