53) ________ is the process of sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data.
A) Push publishing
B) Publish results
C) Cloud computing
D) Reporting analysis
54) Which of the following refers to data in the form of rows and columns?
A) granulated data
B) structured data
C) micro data
D) coarse data
55) The goal of ________, a type of business intelligence analysis, is to create information about past performance.
A) push publishing
B) data mining
C) reporting analyses
D) BigData
56) ________ are reports produced when something out of predefined bounds occurs.
A) Exception reports
B) Static reports
C) Dynamic reports
D) Subscription reports
57) ________ is the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.
A) Data encryption
B) Data warehousing
C) Data mining
D) Data decryption
58) ________ techniques emerged from the combined discipline of statistics, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning.
A) Push publishing
B) Pull publishing
C) Data mining
D) Exception reporting
59) Which of the following statements is true of unsupervised data mining?
A) Analysts apply unsupervised data mining techniques to estimate the parameters of a developed model.
B) Analysts create hypotheses only after performing an analysis.
C) Regression analysis is the most commonly used unsupervised data mining technique.
D) Data miners develop models prior to performing an analysis.
60) ________ is an unsupervised data mining technique in which statistical techniques identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.
A) Cluster analysis
B) Content indexing
C) Regression analysis
D) Cloud computing
61) In the case of ________, data miners develop models prior to conducting analyses and then apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the models.
A) pull publishing techniques
B) supervised data mining
C) push publishing techniques
D) unsupervised data mining
62) Regression analysis is used in ________.
A) progress reporting
B) bug reporting
C) supervised data mining
D) unsupervised data mining