Decision Support Systems Course Syllabus Quiz

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How are decision support systems (DSSs) designed to accommodate changes in the environment and user decision making approach?

  • By emphasizing complexity to challenge users
  • By imposing rigid and inflexible structures
  • By focusing on features that make them easy to use and interactive (correct)
  • By limiting access to data and retrieval functions

What is a key characteristic of the problems that decision support systems (DSSs) help people make decisions about?

  • Highly predictable and routine
  • Well-structured and easily specified in advance
  • Low complexity and static nature
  • Rapidly changing and unstructured (correct)

Which level of an organization do decision support systems (DSSs) primarily serve?

  • Freelancers and independent contractors
  • Mid and higher management (correct)
  • Entry-level employees
  • Frontline workers

What do knowledge-based systems include as part of decision support systems (DSSs)?

<p>Systems that capture, store, and reuse knowledge from human experts (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of a decision support system (DSS)?

<p>Facilitating organizational processes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are decision support systems (DSSs) designed to accommodate changes in the environment and decision-making approach of the user?

<p>By emphasizing flexibility and adaptability (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Sprague's definition of a properly termed DSS emphasize?

<p>Combining analytic techniques with traditional data access and retrieval functions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of problems do decision support systems (DSSs) tend to be aimed at according to Sprague?

<p>Rapidly changing and underspecified problems (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do academics perceive a decision support system (DSS) as primarily?

<p>A tool to support only upper-level management decisions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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