Business intelligence And Analytics System For Decision Support 10th Edition by Sharda - Test Bank

Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support, 10e (Sharda)

Chapter 3   Data Warehousing

1) In the Isle of Capri case, the only capability added by the new software was increased processing speed of processing reports.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 79

2) The "islands of data" problem in the 1980s describes the phenomenon of unconnected data being stored in numerous locations within an organization.

Answer:  TRUE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 82

3) Subject oriented databases for data warehousing are organized by detailed subjects such as disk drives, computers, and networks.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 83

4) Data warehouses are subsets of data marts.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 1     Page Ref: 84

5) One way an operational data store differs from a data warehouse is the recency of their data.

Answer:  TRUE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 84-85

6) Organizations seldom devote a lot of effort to creating metadata because it is not important for the effective use of data warehouses.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 87

7) Without middleware, different BI programs cannot easily connect to the data warehouse.

Answer:  TRUE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 90

8) Two-tier data warehouse/BI infrastructures offer organizations more flexibility but cost more than three-tier ones.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 91

9) Moving the data into a data warehouse is usually the easiest part of its creation.

Answer:  FALSE

Diff: 2     Page Ref: 93