A simplified representation or abstraction of reality.
What is a model?
This maintains information about various types of objects, events, people, and places.
What is a database?
This system is a logical collection of information gathered from many different operational databases.
What is a Data Warehouse
A person who extracts knowledge from data by performing statistical analysis, data mining, and advanced analytics on big data to identify trends, market changes, and other relevant information
What is a data scientist?
Is what an operational decision would be considered, and arise in situations where established processes offer potential solutions.
What are Structured Decisions?
This analysis finds the inputs necessary to achieve a specific end.
What is Goal Seeking Analysis?
A statement about what will happen or might happen in the future.
What is prediction?
This is why relational databases use primary keys and foreign keys.
What is create logical relationships?
These individuals that seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction?
Who are cyberterrorists?
analyzing the impact of last month’s marketing campaign is an example of this level of decision making.
What is Managerial level decision making?
These are the three different levels of a company pyramid from the top to the bottom.
What are Strategic, Managerial, Operational
A measure of the quality of information.
It is a process that pulls information from internal and external databases, changes it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and puts it into a data warehouse.
What is extraction, transformation, and loading?
This is a form of data mining that assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes.
What is classification?
This refers to the level of detail in the model or the decision-making process.
What is granularity?
Govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies.
What is information ethics?
The four primary traits that help determine the value of information
What are Information type, Information Timeliness, Information Quality, and Information Governance?
This examines two or more data sets to identify patterns and trends.
What is Comparative Analysis?
A category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works.
What is a Neural Network?
Is the basic business system that serves the operational level and assists in making structured decisions.
What is transaction processing system?
Checks the impact of a change in variable or assumption in a model.
What is a What-if Analysis?
A field that uniquely identifies a given recording in a table.
What is a Primary Key?
This subset of a data warehouse includes focus on the particular needs of a given business unit.
What is a data mart?
A function that uses processes and algorithms across many machines in a computing environment?
What is distributed computing?
Is when you manipulate information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making.
What is online analytical processing (OLAP)?