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Self-test your entry-level knowledge for the BIPM masters program!
- 1.What is the major object of study of the BIPM masters program?
- A.
Hardware and Software
- B.
Effectiveness and Efficiency
- C.
Pain and Gain
- D.
Data and Processes
- 2.Which is a typical BIPM job profile?
- A.
Marketing Manager
- B.
Software Developer
- C.
Business-IT Architect
- D.
Logistics Expert
- 3.Which statement regarding "effectiveness" and "efficiency" is not true?
- A.
An activity can be effective but inefficient
- B.
An activity can be efficient but ineffective
- C.
An activity can be neither effective nor effecient
- D.
Efficiency and effectiveness are more or less the same
- 4.The acronym "CIO“ stands for…
- A.
Corporate Integration Order
- B.
Chief Information Officer
- C.
Closed Innovation Office
- D.
Central Information Offensive
- 5.What are Porter’s „Five Forces“?
- A.
CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO and COO
- B.
Love, Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll
- C.
Customers, Suppliers, Competitors, New Entrants and Substitute Products
- D.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Positioning
- 6.What is a "brick and mortar“ company?
- A.
Do-it-yourself-stores like Homedepot, B&Q and Bauhaus
- B.
A business model with focus on real estate investments
- C.
Cement producers
- D.
Companies based on a classic business model with physical presence
- 7.Since a couple of years, "cloud computing" is a mega-trend in Business-IT. What is strongly linked to cloud computing?
- A.
Internet of things
- B.
Software as a service
- C.
Near field communication
- D.
Augmented reality
- 8.What is not true for "data security"?
- A.
It is about virus protection
- B.
It is about e-mail encryption
- C.
It is about software quality testing
- D.
It is about authenticated user access
- 9.Which is the least true for "business projects"?
- A.
Business projects are part of the corporate business model
- B.
Business projects have a well-defined starting date and end date
- C.
Business projects require a special organization
- D.
Business projects deliver a unique result
- 10.Which of the following is not a procedural approach for "project management"?
- A.
SCRUM
- B.
Spiral Model
- C.
CMM
- D.
Waterfall Model
- 11.Which statement about "data" is true?
- A.
In Business Informatics, "data" and "information" are basically the same
- B.
"Stored data" can be understood as "knowledge"
- C.
"Data in context" can be understood as "information"
- D.
Data can be either explicit or implicit
- 12.Which is not true for "business processes"?
- A.
Each business process should have a customer
- B.
Each business process has input and output
- C.
Each business process should generate profit
- D.
Each business process is time consuming
- 13.Which technique is not suitable for "modeling" information systems?
- A.
IPRA
- B.
ERM
- C.
BPMN
- D.
UML
- 14.Which technique is used to create a (system) hierarchy?
- A.
Nominal Group Technique
- B.
De-aggregation
- C.
Brainstorming
- D.
Diagram Mapping
- 15.What is not true for the BPMN?
- A.
BPMN stands for “Business Process Model and Notation”
- B.
The BPMN supports different types of events
- C.
In BPM, an activity is represented by a "function" or "transformation"
- D.
In BPMN, an organizational unit is represented by a "pool" or “lane”
- 16.Which kind of software integrates all/most enterprise functions and provides services to all/most departments in an organization?
- A.
ERP
- B.
SCM
- C.
CRM
- D.
ECM
- 17.Which supplier does not provide "enterprise systems" (ERP systems)?
- A.
SAP
- B.
Apple
- C.
Microsoft
- D.
Infor
- 18.Which is not a "business information system"?
- A.
SAP's HCM Solution (Human Capital Management)
- B.
Oracle's BPM Suite (Business Process Management)
- C.
Microsoft's Excel (Spread Sheet)
- D.
IBM's BI Solution (Business Intelligence)
- 19.Software implementation projects usually start with a software selection procedure. Which task does not belong to the software selection?
- A.
Specification of technical requirements
- B.
Specification of business requirements
- C.
Vendor evaluation
- D.
Preparation of the pilot operation
- 20.Which statement is not true for "analytical information systems"?
- A.
One goal is decision support
- B.
Historical data is important
- C.
Primarily appending new data, instead of updating data
- D.
Only relevant for strategic questions
- 21.
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Which statement is true for the following Entity-Relationship-Model?- A.
There must be at least one customer in the database
- B.
Each order is related exactly to one product
- C.
Each line-item belongs to exactly one order
- D.
An order can belong to multiple customers
- 22.Which language is the following statement? SELECT FirstName, Name, Street, ZIP, City FROM Student WHERE ZIP = '10825' ORDER BY Name;
- A.
CPL
- B.
MDL
- C.
SQL
- D.
OPL
- 23.Which of the following resampling methods is with replacement?
- A.
Cross Validation
- B.
Bootstrap
- C.
Jacknife
- D.
Permutation
- 24.Which sentence best describes the bias-variance tradeoff?
- A.
Nearest-neighbor (NN) classifiers tend to have low variance and high bias
- B.
The bias in ridge regression typically grows with increasing regularization
- C.
The variance in k-NN classifiers increases with increasing k
- D.
The bias-variance tradeoff does not apply to classification trees
- 25.You are showing off a new classifier which has the power to detect doping residues in blood samples with the following accuracy: It yields a positive result in 92% of the cases where doping drugs were actually used and a (correct) negative result in 94% of the cases when the athlete was clean. Assume that 10% of all athletes take these drugs. What is the probability that a person found to have a positive test result actually cheated?
- A.
0.92
- B.
0.94
- C.
0.63
- D.
0.37
- 26.
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Which of the following partitions of a two-dimensional feature space cannot be obtained by recursive binary splitting?- A.
Top left panel
- B.
Top right panel
- C.
Bottom left panel
- D.
Bottom right panel
- 27.
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What is true for the following model?- A.
This is an organizational chart
- B.
This is a software module hierarchy
- C.
This is a data structure
- D.
Determination is not possible
- 28.By combining data from various publicly available sources Harvard Law School student Tyler Vigen has found out that there’s a correlation between the number of movies Nicolas Cage appears in each year and the number of people who drown in their swimming pool. The MOST logical conclusion is that ...
- A.
Less people will drown in their swimming pool once Cage retires
- B.
No causal inference can be made from observational data
- C.
Correlation does not imply causation
- D.
More people will drown in their swimming pool if Cage makes more movies
- 29.Willingness to take risks is assumed to be an important component of entrepreneurship. We hypothesize that willingness to take risks causes people to start and run a business. Here, ...
- A.
“willingness to take risks” is the dependent variable
- B.
“willingness to take risks” is the outcome variable
- C.
“entrepreneurship” is the independent variable
- D.
“entrepreneurship” is the dependent variable
- 30.[This is the last question. You can explore more on Solid Science Research Methods]If the data support our predictions, this leads us to conclude that ...
- A.
The hypothesis is provisionally supported
- B.
We need to develop new predictions that can be disconfirmed
- C.
Our predictions are confirmed, but we cannot say anything about the hypothesis
- D.
We can stop taking data
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