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31) Which of the following a difference between strategic-level and : 1283746
31) Which of the following is a difference between strategic-level and operational-level decision making?
A) Strategic-level decisions involve regular interactions with customers unlike operational-level decision making.
B) Unlike operational-level decision making, strategic-level decision making mostly deals with routine transactions.
C) Unlike operational-level decisions, strategic-level decisions follow predetermined policies and procedures and are programmed in nature.
D) The business intelligence needed to make decisions is less structured at the strategic level than at the operational level.
32) Jane Adams is a director at Wilderness, a travel house in Manhattan. What type of decision does she take in opening another branch of the company in Chicago?
A) strategic-level decision
B) tactical-level decision
C) operational-level decision
D) mid-level decision
33) Which of the following is a feature of the executive information system?
A) It involves tools that facilitate decision making for junior-level executives.
B) It involves tools that support strategic-level decision making for senior managers.
C) It consists of tools used for routine transactions in operational processes.
D) It consists of tools used to undertake programmed tasks which deal directly with customers.
34) The term ________ refers to tools that support strategic-level decision making for senior managers.
A) executive information system
B) transaction processing system
C) accounting information system
D) content management system
35) Which level of decision making does the executive information system support?
A) operational
B) strategic
C) tactical
D) specific
36) Why are distinctions between management and executive information systems difficult to make?
A) The systems always have identical time horizons.
B) The vast difference in the fields of application for these information systems renders any comparison between them inconsequential.
C) The systems offer retrieval capabilities that people cannot customize to their decision making needs.
D) The systems often have similar functionality.
37) Which of the following prevents the slowing down of an operational system?
A) building a data warehouse
B) housing all data on a common server
C) running system queries simultaneously
D) storing critical data on e-mail
38) Jonathan, a systems manager at the Unisun Bank of New Jersey, is asked to look into the problem of information overload on the bank’s operational systems. Which of the following actions would best help Jonathan get the systems to work faster and prevent information overload?
A) building a data warehouse optimized for complex queries
B) housing all transactional data on a common server
C) creating a process of running system queries simultaneously
D) storing critical data on e-mail or locally on workstations
39) Intelligent agents that extract business intelligence from publicly accessible Web sites are also known as ________.
A) mashups
B) bots
C) servers
D) androids
40) Which of the following functions do intelligent agents undertake in business intelligence?
A) extracting useful business information from publicly accessible Web sites
B) tracking the performance of employees in the organization
C) retrieving information from data warehouses whenever required and reducing information overload
D) tracking fraudulent transactions conducted by the employees of the organization
