http://trustedanswers.blogspot.in/2013/12/multiple-choice-answers_6627.html 1. La Belle Inc. introduced a new line of accessories for teenaged girls last season. Following its immense popularity with the targeted group, the company anticipated high sales this season. It ordered raw materials accordingly, and even ensured that they had sufficient inventory to meet excess demand, if any. However, the success of the new line turned out to be a fad, as the teens soon turned to other products offered by competing brands, and La Belle's sales declined. This caused a huge discrepancy in the amount of raw materials they needed and the amount of inventory they had piled up in anticipation of good sales. This is an example of ________. 2. Which of the following statements is true about product flow, a key element of supply chain? Answer It refers to the movement of goods from the supplier to production, from production to distribution, and from distribution to the consumer. 3. The purpose of a data warehouse is to ________. Answer standardize the format of data retrieved from different systems allow managers to run queries and reports themselves without having to know query languages or the structure of the underlying data put key business information into the hands of more decision makers reduce the complexity of the data to be analyzed provide capabilities for discovering "hidden" predictive relationships in the data 4. Taking entities as tables, each column is a(n) ________. 5. Fen-phen was an anti-obesity medication that consisted of two drugs: fenfluramine and phentermine. Fenfluramine was initially marketed by American Home Products, but was shown to cause potentially fatal pulmonary hypertension and heart valve problems. This eventually led to the withdrawal of the drug and legal damages of over $13 billion. This is an example of ________. 6. A query is used to ________. Answer eliminate data duplication prevent illegal or illogical entries from entering the database retrieve information from a database organize and sort the data in a database allocate storage space for a database 7. Ben buys an Olympus E-PL2 from Sony which starts malfunctioning. When he opts for an exchange, the customer representative says that an exchange or repair is not possible because the damage was of a physical nature and not covered under warranty. Which of the following consequences, if true, would be an example of consumer-to-consumer electronic commerce? 8. Which of the following explains Web analytics? 9. Which of the following statements is true about business intelligence? 10. The systems that are used to interact with customers and run a business in real time are called ________. 11. Which of the following is a mechanism for consumer-to-consumer transactions? 12. Which of the following statements about just-in-time strategies is true? 13. In DBMS, data are kept separate from the applications' programming code. This means that ________. 14. Business case arguments based on data, quantitative analysis, and/or indisputable factors are known as arguments based on ________. fads 15. ________ refers to the display of complex data relationships using a variety of graphical methods.

• published: 05 Dec 2013
• views: 0