Management Science (MGSC) 300 Test 1 Practice

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• When does the optimal LP solution change with small changes in coefficients (sensitivity analysis)?
• What is the primary purpose of incorporating decision variables in optimization models?
• Which service model focuses on data shared among clouds, systems, and applications regardless of data source or storage location?
• What is the purpose of the reduction step in the assignment problem?
• In a standard normal distribution, what does the variable Z represent?
• What is a network CPM/PERT model used for?
• Which statement correctly distinguishes batch processing from OLTP?
• What is the Assignment problem about?
• Which term denotes the ability to respond quickly?
• What does the dual problem represent in linear programming?
• Which term describes the process of aligning IT architecture with organizational strategy to maximize its value?
• Which term describes the idea that data should be interpreted within its context?
• In the Simplex method, what does degeneracy mean?
• Which older switching method originated with telephone networks and is inefficient for digital transmission?
• Which term describes a set of metrics that present data in easy-to-understand and comparison-ready formats?
• Which device modulates a signal for transmission over communication media?
• EVPI is defined as
• Which concept involves delaying lower-priority traffic to manage bandwidth and improve performance?
• Which statement describes the critical path?
• Which term describes the information-carrying capacity of a channel measured in bits per second?
• Which term describes processing and storing data efficiently while inspecting for data quality through filtering and profiling?
• Which service model provides end-user applications such as Salesforce?
• What is the term for how an enterprise generates revenue or sustains itself?
• Which concept describes applications that require low latency to function properly?
• Model of the integration of cloud, mobile, and social technologies. the cloud forms the core. mobile devices are the endpoints. social networks create the connection
• Which term denotes the control of enterprise data through formal policies and procedures to help ensure data can be trusted and accessible?
• What does the Law of Large Numbers state?
• Which term describes transferring data by dividing into smaller packets that are routed independently?
• Mean and standard deviation of a discrete random variable are computed as
• Which concept facilitates the integration of the various infrastructure silos within organizations: optimizes the use of resources, balances workloads, and maximizes operation efficiency by dynamically distributing workloads and provisioning networks?
• Are any computing resource provided over the internet on-demand, rather than run applications from software stored on company-owned server of computer
• Forces that shape or create the future of business, the economy, and society
• How do independent events differ from mutually exclusive events?
• What is Vogel's Approximation Method (VAM) used for?
• Slack can be computed as
• Which techniques used by a modem adapt the signal to the transmission media?
• Which term is described as a technique of qualitatively or quantitatively analyzing a data set to reveal patterns, trends, and associations that often relate to human behavior and interaction to enhance decision making?
• Which term describes processing and storing data efficiently while inspecting for errors, inconsistencies, redundancies, and incomplete information?
• Which statement accurately describes a probability distribution?
• Which term describes the capabilities enabling everyday objects to share information via the internet?
• A constraint is binding at the optimum when it is what?
• What is the difference between an objective function and a constraint in linear programming?
• In decision analysis, EMV stands for
• What is the optimality condition in transportation problems?
• Which term describes measures that demonstrate the effectiveness of a business process at achieving organizational goals?
• What term describes a language that simplifies data access by letting users specify what data to access without describing how to retrieve it?
• Which concept refers to the use of IT tools to collect, process, consolidate, store, and secure data from sources that are often fragmented and inconsistent?
• Which term describes a system designed to manage transaction data, balancing transaction-processing efficiency and query efficiency?
• TPS stands for what in data processing?
• What protocol provides unique addressing for devices on a network?
• Which deployment model provides single-tenant environments with stronger security and control for regulated industries?
• Which statement best describes electronic records management?
• Which basic technology makes global communication possible, with each device having a unique IP address to send and receive packets?
• What does a nonbasic variable with a positive reduced cost indicate in a maximization problem?
• Which statement about a binding constraint at the optimum is true?
• What is the general term for infrastructure that uses the Internet and private networks to access, share, and deliver computing resources? Scalable delivery as a service to end-users over a network.
• How is PERT used to estimate project duration?
• In PERT, the expected project duration is:
• Which statement describes the broad category involving interpreted words and concepts in context?
• OLTP stands for what?
• Which term refers to a secure connection that encrypts data over a public network?
• Which statement describes extranets?
• Which term describes prioritizing the flow of network traffic by delaying less important traffic?
• What is the critical path in CPM?
• What comprises the activities that convert inputs into outputs by doing work?
• Which term describes a data architecture that centralizes resources to improve control and security?
• Which deployment model uses multi-tenant virtualized services utilizing the same pool of servers across a public network?
• Ability to quickly integrate new business functions or to easily reconfigure software or applications?
• What term denotes the limit in the range of frequency signals in a channel?
• Which factor is driving BI use: data is big business?
• Which term represents the network of devices that can collect and exchange data?
• The result of processes where maximizing efficiency relative to competitors is a critical success factor is known as what?
• Which term describes the ability to adapt to changing needs quickly?
• Slack value calculation given ES=2, EF=5, LS=6, LF=9 is
• How is the shadow price interpreted in LP?
• Which statement characterizes a non-critical activity in CPM/PERT?
• Which of the following are listed as benefits of virtualization?
• Which deployment model provides single-tenant environments with stronger security and control for regulated industries and critical data?
• What is the purpose of the 'allowable increase' and 'allowable decrease' in LP sensitivity analysis?
• What is a feasible region in linear programming?
• Cloud services are defined as which of the following?
• What is the difference between Early Start/Finish and Late Start/Finish?
• What is the relationship between the optimal values of the primal and dual problems in linear programming?
• In a transportation problem, what is the objective?
• Which technology is used to secure transmissions by encrypting packets before they are transmitted over a network?
• What is the MODI method in transportation problems?
• Which is an example of a declarative language?
• Which term describes the action of correcting, standardizing, and verifying the consistency and integrity of the data?
• Which term refers to infrastructure that uses the Internet and private networks to access, share, and deliver computing resources?
• Which service model provides hardware and software powering computing resources like EC2 and S3?
• Crosses boundaries and used by people through the enterprise. Increased importance through new regulations and pressure to reduce costs. Reduces legal risks associated with unmanaged or inconsistently managed information
• Which statement best describes the relationship between feasible and optimal solutions?
• How do you compute the expected time and variance for a PERT activity?
• What does the reduction step accomplish in the assignment problem algorithm?
• What term describes collections of data sets or records stored in a systematic way, including data generated by business applications, sensors, operations, and TPS?
• Which term describes a database architecture with better control of data quality and IT security?
• What is the core idea of the Hungarian algorithm?
• What is a basic feasible solution (BFS) in LP?
• Which term describes service models such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and DaaS?
• In a two-variable linear program, what does the optimal solution correspond to?
• Which factor is driving BI use: cloud enabled BI and analytics?
• Which term refers to a database architecture that allows both local and remote access and uses client/server architecture to process requests?
• IoT stands for which phrase?
• Which factor is driving BI use: smart devices everywhere?
• Which statement aligns with the principle of 90/90 data use?
• What is the expected value in decision making under risk?
• Which term describes the series by which an organization coordinates and organizes tasks to get work done?
• Which technologies are widely used to automate business processes from transportation to healthcare?
• Which statement best describes z-score interpretation?
• Which practice designates higher priority to time-sensitive traffic?
• Which term refers to maintaining data accuracy and reliability over time?
• Which term describes a means of organizing large business databases by grouping them to fit the way business is conducted?
• Which processing technique processes each transaction as it occurs?
• Which term refers to the network of physical objects that can collect and exchange data via the internet?
• What is the main objective of the simplex method in linear programming?
• Which describes IT capacity that can be easily scaled up or down as needed?
• Which factor is driving BI use: advanced BI and analytics?
• In the context of the simplex method, a basic feasible solution corresponds to what geometric feature?
• Which method breaks data into packets and reassembles them at the destination?
• Which statement describes intranets?
• Which technology enables sensor-embedded products to share reliable real-time data via radio signals?
• Which term refers to the practice of managing data across the enterprise to ensure trustworthiness and accessibility?
• Which network refers to the network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to exchange data?
• What is the term for transforming activities or information into a digital format that can be collected, stored, searched, and analyzed electronically?
• How do you convert a value to a z-score?
• What describes a normal distribution?
• In the assignment linear program, what does x_ij indicate?
• What term refers to the physical assets such as laptops and printers that support information systems?
• Which statement best defines an information system?
• What is a probability distribution?
• Which term refers to the broad category involving interpreted words and concepts in context?
• Which term refers to tools and techniques that process data and conduct statistical analysis for insights and discovery, helping identify meaningful relationships?
• What is the role of a pivot in the simplex method?
• Which of the following is a widely cited set of five information system components?
• What is the standard form of a linear programming problem?
• Which term enables short-range wireless communication between devices using radio waves?
• Which term refers to integrating, matching, or linking data from disparate sources?
• Which term describes dirty data: lacking integrity/validation, incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, inaccessible, or overwhelmed?
• Using the MODI method for a transportation problem, what condition signals that the current solution is optimal (for minimization)?
• What is the term for the maximum bits per second that can be transmitted?
• Which statement describes the difference between discrete and continuous distributions?
• Which term is associated with a system designed to manage transaction data and balance processing efficiency and query performance?
• Which term is used for analyzing consumer feedback to understand consumer intent?
• Which principle requires ISPs to treat all internet traffic equally?
• Which term most closely matches the ability to respond quickly to changes?
• Which technology originated with telephone calls and is inefficient for digital transmission?
• Which service model offers platforms and tools that enable faster coding and deployment, such as Google App Engine?
• In the transportation problem, what does the variable x_ij represent?
• What does a reduced cost indicate for a nonbasic variable in the simplex method (maximization)?
• What concept is described as a software layer that creates its own operating system and applications as a virtual computer?
• SMAC stands for which integrated model?
• What is Slack (float) in project management?
• How should you set up Excel Solver to solve a linear programming problem?
• Which technology framework controls compute, storage, and networking by abstracting hardware, enabling centralized management of data center resources?
• Outputs created through work toward the desired benefit or expected performance improvement are called what?
• What does x ≥ 0 denote in the standard LP form?
• In the simplex method, which type of variable can enter the basis to improve the objective?
• In communications, what term refers to the binary information we want to send?
• Data such as real-time voice and high-quality video are typically described as having what characteristic?
• Which device converts digital data to analog signals for transmission over telephone lines?
• Which term describes a means of organizing large business databases by dividing into sections that fit the way business is conducted?
• What is a confidence interval?
• Which term refers to the capabilities that arise when physical things are connected to the internet via sensors?
• Which sequence best describes the basic information system flow?
• Which statement about the critical path is true?
• Which term describes providing authorized access to data in both planned and ad hoc ways within an acceptable time frame?
• What is the purpose of incorporating decision variables in optimization models?
• Which enables two devices within close proximity to establish a communication channel and transfer data through radio waves?
• Which processing technique collects all transactions over a period and updates the data store after processing?
• Which deployment model uses multiple-tenant virtualized services utilizing the same pool of servers across a public network (distributed)?
• How do we model an assignment problem as a linear program?
• Which statement best describes the Northwest Corner method in transportation problems?
• Non-negativity constraints in linear programming ensure that decision variables are allowed to take which values?
• What is hypothesis testing in statistics?
• Which term is defined as software that enables users to analyze data from various dimension or angles, categorize them, and find correlative patterns among fields in the data warehouse?
• A simple random variable is defined as
• Which action slows down noncritical traffic to prioritize latency-sensitive applications?
• What is the role of slack variables in converting inequalities to equalities?
• What are the goals of SDDC?
• Which constraint defines the demand side in a transportation problem?
• What term describes all the frequency components contained in a signal?
• Which constraint defines the supply side in a transportation problem?
• Which concept integrates data from multiple databases and data silos for complex analysis and decision-making, and is loaded at specific times to be non-volatile?
• When is a transportation problem considered degenerate, and what does it imply?
• In decision analysis, EVPI is the maximum amount a decision-maker would pay to obtain perfect information.
• Which system integrates with data collection systems like TPS and business applications and provides an organized way to store, access, and manage data?
• What term describes data and applications that are time delay sensitive?
• Which characteristic distinguishes a discrete distribution from a continuous distribution?
• What is the purpose of a decision tree in decision analysis?
• Which term corresponds to checking and controlling data integrity over time?
• Which term best fits a collection of workflows, tools, scanners, and databases used to manage and archive electronic documents and image paper documents?
• Which of the following lists the core components of an information system?
• Deliverables are outputs created by a project or process aimed at delivering value to stakeholders
• Which statement best describes the feasible region in an LP with nonnegativity constraints?