ISDS 2001 FINAL SAMPLE TEST QUESTIONS FALL 2013 1 Most important service provided by Harrah s Total Rewards program provided Harrah s with a vast collection of high volume real time transaction data about its customers and their behaviors it 2 BPM encompasses a core set of processes including financial and 3 planning consolidation and reporting modeling analysis and monitoring of KPIs linked to organizational strategy operational is an enterprise wide strategy that seeks to prevent organizations from optimizing local business at the expense of overall corporate performance BPM 4 A n plan translates an organization s strategic objectives and goals into a set of well defined tactics and initiatives resource requirements and expected results for some future time period Operational 5 An effective performance measurement system should all of the above In the BPM cycle which stage has budgets forecasts models initiatives 6 and targets PLAN 7 Which of the following is the bet known and most widely used performance measurement system Balanced scorecard 8 Which of the following are visual displays used to chart progress against strategic and tactical goals and targets Performance scorecard 9 Sigma is a Greek alphabet letter used by statisticians to measure the in a process Variability 10 DMAIC is a business improvement model Closed loop 11 A basic task in the strategic planning process is to which is a standard strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats SWOT assessment of the company CONDUCT AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN 12 Best practice organizations tend to utilize operational planning which begins the operational planning process by defining the alternative tactics and initiatives that cant be used to reach a particular target tactic centric 13 An organizations strategic objectives and key metrics should serve as drivers for the allocation of an organizations tangible and intangible assets top down 14 Which case study describes the web based KPI scorecard system that offers insights into the steps this company took to implement expedia 15 An effective diagnostic control system encourages management by exception 16 offers a systematic way to uncover problematic assumptions that otherwise remain unnoticed and unchallenged DISCOVERY DRIVEN PLANNING 17 Hackett s benchmarking results indicate world class companies closely align strategic and tactical plans enabling areas to contribute more effectively to overall business goals FUNCTIONAL 18 Which of the following issues related to BI implantation is false Developing an effective BI application is no longer complex 19 Major objectives for BI software integration include all of the following EXCEPT improving dashboard design 20 One of the significant differences between Web 2 0 and the traditional web is the of web 2 0 GREATER COLLABORATION AMONG INTERNET USERS AND OTHER USERS CONTENT PROVIDERS AND ENTERPRISES 21 The intention of is to achieve a feeling of telepresence and participation from a distance Active environments 22 Today collaboration on decisions that are more strategic in nature than ever before decisions that may transforms the business involves non routine activities such as brainstorming d 23 Active tags have a battery as their own power source and do not need a reader to energize them like passive tags do what is the difference between passive and active RFID tags 24 Gillette used RFID to determine whether stores have stocked their shelves with particular items for a particular promotion 25 RFID generates major data streams ready for analysis through BI technologies Another massive data source is emerging along with the data mining technologies to make sense of the data which is referred to as REALITY MINING