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MIS MCQs on Information System, Data-Information-Knowledge and Knowledge Management System

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This is another article based on MCQs, related to Management Information System. These are the general MCQs which are commonly asked in exams and include topics like the basic introduction to Information System and its types, Data-Information-Knowledge and Knowledge Management System.



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Q 1) A data warehouse is which of the following?

a. Can be updated by end users
b. Organized around important subject areas
c. Contains numerous naming conventions and formats
d. Contains only current data

Solution: b) Organized around important subject areas

Q 2) A goal of data mining includes which of the following?

a. To create a new data warehouse
b. To explain some observed event or condition
c. To confirm that data exists
d. To analyze data for expected relationships

Solution: b) To explain some observed event or condition

Q 3) A snowflake schema is which of the following types of table?

a. Helper
b. Fact
c. Dimension
d. All of the above

Solution: d) All of the above

Q 4) A star schema has what type of relationship between a dimension and fact table?

a. One to one
b. One to many
c. Many to many
d. All of them

Solution: b) One to many

Q 5) An _____ is a set of entities of the same type that share the same properties, or attributes.

a. Entity set
b. Relation set
c. Attribute set
d. Entity model

Solution: a) Entity set

Q 6) Data scrubbing is which of the following?

a. A process to load the data in the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
b. A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse
c. A process to reject data from the data warehouse and to create the necessary indexes
d. A process to upgrade the quality of data after it is moved into a data warehouse.

Solution: b) A process to upgrade the quality of data before it is moved into a data warehouse

Q 7) Data transformation includes which of the following?

a. Separating data from one source into various sources of data
b. A process to change data from a summary level to a detailed level
c. Joining data from one source into various sources of data
d. A process to change data from a detailed level to a summary level

Solution: b) A process to change data from a summary level to a detailed level

Q 8) Entity is a ______.

a. Thing in real world
b. Object of relation
c. Present working model
d. Model of relation

Solution: a) Thing in real world

Q 9) Fact tables are which of the following?

a. Partially denormalized
b. Partially normalized
c. Completely normalized
d. Completely denormalized

Solution: c) Completely normalized

Q 10) Identify the step of KMS. Like a library the knowledge must be kept current.

a. Create
b. Capture
c. Refine
d. Manage

Solution: d) Manage

Q 11) Point out the wrong statement.

a. Data is factual information for analysis
b. BI is a category of database software that provides an interface to help users quickly and interactively scrutinize the results in a variety of dimensions of the data
c. Customer relationship management entails all aspects of interaction that a company has with its customers
d. None of the above

Solution: b) BI is a category of database software that provides an interface to help users quickly and interactively scrutinize the results in a variety of dimensions of the data

Q 12) The generic two-level data warehouse architecture includes which of the following?

a. Data that can extracted from numerous internal and external sources
b. Near real-time updates
c. At least one data mart
d. All of the above

Solution: d) All of the above

Q 13) The set of processes developed in an organization to create, gather, store, transfer, and apply knowledge, best describes ________.

a. Organizational learnings
b. Knowledge management
c. Organizational memory
d. Knowledge assets

Solution: b) Knowledge management

Q 14) A ____ is a system where operations like data extraction, transformation and loading operations are executed.

a. Data staging
b. ETL
c. Data integration
d. None of the above

Solution: a) Data staging

Q 15) Data mining is used for _____.

a. Customer profiling
b. Text mining
c. Web analysis
d. All of the above

Solution: d) All of the above

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