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Multiple Choice

• Different methods of developing useful information from large data bases are dealt with under

• data manipulation.
• data warehousing.
• big data.
• data mining.

ANSWER: d

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.07 - Big Data and Data Mining

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• The process of capturing, storing, and maintaining data is known as
• data manipulation.
• data mining.
• data warehousing.
• big data.

ANSWER: c

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.07 - Big Data and Data Mining

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: IMA: Reporting KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

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• The subject of data mining deals with
• methods for developing useful decision-making information from large data bases.
• keeping data secure so that unauthorized individuals cannot access the data.
• computational procedure for data analysis.
• computing the average for data.

ANSWER: a

POINTS: 1

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.07 - Big Data and Data Mining

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: IMA: Reporting KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

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• In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. The scale of measurement for gender

is _____ scale.

• ordinal
• nominal
• ratio
• interval

ANSWER: b

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: IMA: Reporting KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

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• The scale of measurement that is used to rank order the observation for a variable is called the _____ scale.
• ratio
• ordinal
• nominal
• interval

ANSWER: b

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

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• A restaurant asks their customers to fill out a questionnaire indicating whether their service was excellent, very good,

good, or poor. The rating scale used is an example of the _____ scale.

• ordinal
• ratio
• nominal
• interval

ANSWER: a

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: IMA: Reporting KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

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• The data measured on ordinal scale exhibits all the properties of data measured on

• ratio scale.
• interval scale.
• nominal scale.
• nominal and interval scales.

ANSWER: c

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

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• Measurement of body temperature is an example of a variable that uses
• the ratio scale.
• the interval scale.
• the ordinal scale.
• either the ratio or the ordinal scale.

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POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic STATE STANDARDS: United States - AK - DISC: IMA: Reporting KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

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• Arithmetic operations provide meaningful results for variables that
• use any scale of measurement except nominal and ordinal.
• appear as non-numerical values.
• are quantitative.
• have non-negative values.

ANSWER: c

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

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DATE MODIFIED: 1/18/2019 3:47 PM

• Height is an example of a variable that uses the _____ scale.
• ratio
• interval
• nominal
• ordinal

ANSWER: a

POINTS: 1

DIFFICULTY: Easy

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice

HAS VARIABLES: False

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: BSST.ASWC.20.01.02 - Data

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