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Decision Support Systems Course Syllabus Quiz
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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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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