knowledge management resource

According to the video case "What is Blockchain?", how can the use of Blockchain significantly reduce the likelihood of financial fraud?

every Blockchain transaction will be recorded on a public and distributed ledger

What type of DBMS (Database Management System) architecture stores information on an interconnected network of database servers?

Distributed Database

According to the "What is a database?" video case, what is the name of the database language that makes it possible to easily manage the requested data?

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Benefits such as lowering the cost of audit and regulatory compliance, providing "seek and find"  access to auditors, and changing the nature of compliance from  passive to active are all examples of what aspect of a Blockchain distrubuted ledger?

Immutability

What term is used to describe the business rules governing the relationships connecting entities?

Constraint

If database fields compose database records, what do database records compose?

Database Table

In relational database modeling, operators that illustrate an association between two entities are known as which of the following?

Relationship

________ are generated and captured by operational systems and describe the business' activities.

Transactional data

Which of the following is an accurate representation of the data hierarchy from smallest to largest?

bit, byte, field, record, file, database

According to DOMO, about how long does it take for users to upload 48 hours of new video to YouTube, post 100,000 new tweets to Twitter, and Instagram users to share 3,600 new photos?

One minute

Which of the following is NOT one of the terms used to describe the way in which data mining is able to identify actionable patterns in business data?

Alignment

What term is used to describe a a low-cost, scaled-down version of a data warehouse that is designed for the end-user needs in an SBU (Strategic Business Unit) or an individual department?

Data mart

Both data marts and data warehouses typically use ________, which involves the multidimensional data analysis of accumulated data by end users.

OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)

________ is an example of a source system for a data warehouse.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Systems

Commonly associated with clustering data mining, describing data as having temporal proximity indicates the data are connected by what common attribute?

Time

Amazon uses what data mining method to intelligently suggest additional items other customer have often purchased together (e.g., "People that purchased Taxes for Dummies also purchased the E&Y Tax Guide)?

Assocation

What data mining method uses historical information to predict future events based on statistical models such as regression analysis?

Forecasting

What aspect of the knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) process does data mining perform?

Pattern Evaluation

Which of the following characteristics of a data warehouse describes the characteristic that once data has been loaded that no alteration or changes can be made?

Non-volatile

In the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence for 2023, Generative AI is considered to be in which time period / phase?

Peak of Inflated Expectations

What was the name of the machine (automaton) that was available from about 1770 to 1854 (when it was destroyed in a fire) that appeared to play chess on its own, but was actually a hoax?

The Turk

In the context of language modelling, training a model to understand the grammar structure of natural language relates to what aspect of the language?

Syntax

Which of the following capabilities of artificial intelligence could be potentially abused to allow mass surveillance of people?

Facial recognition

According to the What is Generative AI? video case, what new capability does Generative AI allow artificial intelligence systems to perform using data and models?

To create images, video and text in a conversational way

________ deals with more objective, rational, and technical knowledge.

Explicit knowledge

What term is used to describe the most effective and efficient ways accomplishing business processes?

Best Practices

Which of the following is the correct order of the KMS (knowledge management systems) cycle?

create, capture, refine, store, manage, disseminate

Translating a manual from one language to another is an example of changing one form of explicit knowledge to another form of explicit knowledge for the purpose of ________________.

Dissemination

When an entrepreneur creates economic value by changing their personal tacit knowledge about a novel business process or innovation into explicit knowledge that can be franchised, this is an example of what knowledge management activity?

Capture

What MIS Regents professors developed a sophisticated data-analysis software called COPLINK that is used by law-enforcement agencies worldwide?

Dr. Hsinchun Chen

The web-based system developed MIS Professor Ram using WiFi log data help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic on campus in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Scheduling appointments for getting a vaccine shot

The COVID Watch Tracking App used what data mining method to inform individuals to know about possible exposure to COVID when related to geographic and temporal proximity?

Clustering

n the COPLINK: Integrating Information video case study, what Arizona city was the focus on the case study of how law enforcement uses COPLINK to investigate crimes?

Mesa, Arizona

Which of the following decision support strategies compares alternatives using branching technque based on known quantitative data, explicit knowledge and object facts to make a decision?

Decision Trees

Which of the following meeting difficulties would NOT commonly be considered as a behavioral issues related to meeting participants?

Prematurely closing (ending) the meeting

Which of the following is NOT a type of analytics commonly performed by organizations?

Transformative Analytics

Which of the following DSS (decision-support system) methods assesses how responsive the output of a model is to any change in an input while keeping other inputs constant?

Sensitivity Analysis

What is a term that is colloquially used by practicing managers to describe business problems?

Pain point

Which of the following predictive outcome strategies uses the approach of finding data with characteristics that are similar to a new record, using the approach that if you know about a person's friends, you can also know about the person?

Nearest Neighbor Technique

In the Case-based Reasoning R⁴ cycle by Aamodth and Piaza, a verified solution would be added to the Case-Base following what step in cycle?

Retain

Which of the following actions was identified as a prerequisite to the "Revise" step in the Case Based Reasoning "R4 Cycle"?

Evaluate the quality of the solution

In the Project Selection (Niven) example discussed in the video case on Decision Matricies by Dr. Martin from DePaul University, if a criterion received 5 points as a rating but that criterion's weight was 10%, what would be the score used for that criterion?

0.5

In the "ThinkTank Group DSS" video case study, which of the following was NOT identified as an area supported by ThinkTank for breakthroughs when making collaborative decisions?

Interation

What type of visualization is often used to show multi-step quantities where there is attrition or refinement?

Funnel Chart

In the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) process, which of the following steps would NOT commonly be considered an action performed in the "transform" step.

Uploading data to a new repository (Extraction)

Pie charts, Stacked Area charts, and Bubble charts are all related to which of the following categories of visualizations?

Volumetric

Which of the following is another name for a "Stock Chart" that is used to compare display "high-low" paired data, such as found with stock prices or daily temperatures, over time?

Candlestick Chart

Which of the following is software modeling tool that is commonly used for creating more advanced business intelligence visualizations?

Tableau

_______ is a capability of dashboards that reflect the latest data available on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) or some other metric often in real time.

Status Access

Which of the following "natures of decisions" relates to managers executing specific tasks efficiently and effectively?

Operational control

Considering the nature of decisions, the long-range goals and policies for growth and resource allocation is related to:

strategic planning.

What phase of the Decision Making Process (Intelligence, Design, and Choice, also known as the "IDC Phases") identified a method for considering data, also known as an "algorithm"?

Design

What term is used to describe intuitive interactive displays of information, including dials, gauges, and traffic lights that indicate the status of an item or the state of a performance metric compared with a goal or target value?

Executive Dashboard

Identifying majors with specific language and mathematics requirements using the Degree Search selection filters help you solve what type of business problem?

Structured

Business metrics that assess the execution of critical business activities are known as:

Key performance indicators

In the Dashboard Data Quality case study on Covid 19, what technology decision made by the the Public Health of England (PHE developers) limited the spreadsheet rows of data and resulted in contact tracing for over 15,000 Covid 19 cases not being properly managed?

Data was lost because the PHE used an old Excel XLS file format that was limited to 65,000 rows of data

In the video case discussing "Data-driven Decisions at Nestle," the team focused on visualizations of information that was primarily based on information from what source?

Social Media Platforms

What term is used to describe the practice of evaluating requirements and brining direction and control over data and information?

Data Governance

Cisco uses the term "the power of in-person" to describe the ability of what technology to improve access to subject matter experts and to open doors for small business people?

Telepresence

What was the name of the innovative collaborative classroom pioneered by the Eller College of Management in the early 2000's?

Arizona Telesuite

Commonly used as a means of generating revenue, which of the following is the largest volume application running on the Internet?

E-mail

Which of the following terms describes the the movement of information as it progresses through the sequence of steps that make up an organization's work procedures?

Workflow

Which of the following is a benefit of telecommuting for employees?

Reduced stress

Which of the following Excel functions will return the number of cells in a range by adding the values that match specified criteria?

COUNTIF

Which of the following Decision Support Strategies use conditional execution to make a recommendation?

Rule Induction

Which of the following Excel functions will return the total value of a number of cells in a range by adding the values that match specified criteria in a corresponding cell?

SUMIF

Which of the following would be an example of a programming construct that is a logical function that evaluates a single condition and results in only one value?

IF Function

What conditional programming construct allows a program to select one of three or more distinct outcomes by placing one conditional construct inside another?

Nested IF Statement

While e-Inclusion focuses on participation of all individuals and communities in all aspects of the information society no matter their country, gender, age, or wealth, what categoy of e-Empowerment is tightly connected with the concept of e-Democracy and the galaxy of interactions between citizens and government that e-Democracy enables?

Citizenship Level

Which of the following three terms is defined by our reading as an umbrella term that comprises all uses of information and telecommunication technologies in the public sector"?

Digital government

Which of the following three Core Components of eGovernance leverages the public's investment in ICT (Information and Computer Technologies) to foster transparency and accountability within both national and local public institutions, to improve their functioning and effectiveness?

e-Administration

Which of the following terms was NOT described as a desirable outcome of a E-Government strategy by the OMB (Office of Management and Budget)?

Profiting

The California Budget Challenge focuses on having citizens assess what type of feasibility constraint?

Economic feasibility

In the "Tallinn Declaration User-centricity principles," which of the following was not one of the principles that member states should commit to adopting?

Penalties for failure to use digital services

As described in the Relationship-based Organizing video case, information from what social media platform is used to improve the effectiveness of campaign worker's persuasion voter outreach activities?

Facebook

In the Relationship-based Organizing (NGP VAN) video case, which of the following was discussed as a strategy for motivating supporters to do tasks such as posting on their social media or sending personal emails to friends that the NGP VAN has targeted for outreach?

Displaying points and badges that they have earned on a campaign leaderboard

As described in the "Democracies Online", which of the following would NOTbe a considered as aspect associated "Political Organizations"?

Provide User Connectivity, Increase Bandwidth, Lower Costs, and Bring More Users

From the perspective of the Democracy Online framework, which group would participate through activities such as committing time to participate, helping others learn, communicating respectfully and responsibly, and starting/volunteering with citizen-based online democracy efforts and community networks?

Citizens in the Online Commons

In our discussion of eGovernment, what term was used to describe how the City of St. Paul allow its citizens to choose to receive an email notification when any new content is published related to specific content categories or to a specific city neighborhood?

Personalization

The California Budget Challenge focuses on having citizens assess what type of feasibility constraint?

Economic feasibility

Which of the following terms does the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) use to encompass genetic data, racial information, information about religious and political views, sexual orientation, and trade union membership, among others?

Sensitive Personal Data

Privacy advocates prefer the _________ model of informed consent.

opt-in

Court decisions in many countries have determined the right of privacy is not absolute, but must be balanced against what?

The needs of society and the public's right to know

According to Social Intelligence, approximately what percentage of employers have decided not to hire a candidate based on inappropriate, discriminatory, or unsafe content they found online?

75%

According to Social Intelligence, approximately what percentage of employers use information individuals post on social network sites to research job candidates during the hiring process?

90%

According to Social Intelligence, approximately what percentage of employers check up on current employees on social media?

50%

As described in the Accenture "Building Your Brand" video case, what should you be scanning for when reviewing descriptions of ideal jobs to help you build an online profile that contributes to your job search process?

Using keywords you find in your online profile

According to Helium.com, about what percentage of applicants are eliminated before the job interview due related specifically to the applicant having posting inappropriate comments about previous jobs?

10%

What type of addressing in Excel allows you to reference a cell or range in another worksheet in the same workbook?

Cross-sheet reference

In the sample Excel worksheet shown below, which of the following would be the correct Excel syntax to reference cell B15 on the "The First Quarter" worksheet from another worksheet?

='The First Quarter'!B15

What Excel function allow you to search for data in a worksheet by matching a specified value in the top row of a table and then returning a value in the worksheet from the matched column that is found in a specified row?

HLOOKUP

In the following example, if we change the "column_index_num" value from 3 to 6 (e.g., =VLOOKUP(5, B3:H16, 6,) ), what value will be returned?

=VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, column_index_num, range_lookup)

24.53

In the Excel expression "=VLOOKUP(5, B4:H16, 3, range_lookup)", what value should be used for range_lookup to return a value only when the lookup value in the table_array matches "5"?

=VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, column_index_number, range_lookup)

FALSE