Deck 10: The Future of Business Intelligence

Question 1

Possible vulnerabilities in the data chain include which three?

A) Company front doors, data lines between the store and the bank, and credit card readers
B) Credit Card readers, credit card signatures, and corporate servers
C) Credit card readers, data lines between the store and the bank, and corporate computer servers
D) Cash registers, company front door, and remote computers
E) None of the above

Answer 1

Credit card readers, data lines between the store and the bank, and corporate computer servers

Question 2

Which of the following is a principle outlined by the PCI Securities Council?

A) Appoint a high ranking corporate official
B) Protect cardholder data
C) Develop a comprehensive strategy for risk management
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Answer 2

Protect cardholder data

Question 3

Web 2.0 has led to the development of what services?

A) Text mining
B) Web mining
C) Wikis
D) Democratic
E) None of the above

Answer 3

Wikis

Question 4

_______ are programs that allow access from a user's desktop to Web-based content.

A) Widgets
B) Web Services
C) RSS feeds
D) Both b and c
E) All of the above

Question 5

Predictive BI technologies require which of the following to work effectively?

A) Substantial amount of time
B) Substantial amount of data
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above

Question 6

Which BI predictive technology is used to predict the creditworthiness of an individual?

A) Decision trees
B) Prediction or opinion markets
C) Textual analytics
D) None of the above
E) All of the above

Question 7

Which predictive technology spurred a viral marketing frenzy for a t-shirt?

A) Social networking based recommendations
B) Collaborative filtering
C) Neural networks
D) Content-based filtering
E) All of the above

Question 8

_____________ are being discovered, created and applied on the move by knowledge workers.

A) Knowledge and business analytics
B) Business intelligence and nomadic computing
C) Mobile financial services
D) Multi-party interactive games
E) None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following is a personal bias?

A) Filtering
B) Distorted inference
C) Bolstering
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 10

What are some of the challenges faced when launching successful BI initiatives?

A) Personal and organizational biases
B) People within the BI processes
C) The integration of data and information
D) Both b and c
E) None of the above