DSS Mastery Quiz

<p>Semi-structured and unstructured decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide artificial intelligence enhancements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To improve the effectiveness of decision making</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Support for only structured situations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>End-users can build simple systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To analyze data and support decision making</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decision makers control the decision-making process in DSS</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide decision makers with relevant information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Middle management</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To act as intermediaries between MSS and manager</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Semi-structured and unstructured decisions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide storage, retrieval, and control</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Utilizes models for analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To improve the effectiveness of decision making</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>End-users can build simple systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variety of decision-making processes and styles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide access to a variety of data sources, formats, and types</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A key element in most MSS</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Problem identification and environmental analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Problem identification, variable identification, forecasting, multiple models, and model management</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantitative models use mathematical links while non-quantitative models capture symbolic relationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Test and validate model, conduct experiments, and evaluate results</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Simulation captures the richness of reality and is a technique for conducting experiments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stochastic and time-dependent simulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stochastic simulation uses discrete or continuous probability distributions while deterministic simulation does not</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Optimization via algorithm finds the best solution from many alternatives using a step-by-step process, while optimization via an analytic formula finds the best solution in one step using a formula.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heuristics involve finding a good enough solution using common-sense rules, while predictive models involve predicting future occurrences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Certainty assumes complete knowledge, while risk assumes that all potential outcomes are known.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A static model is a single snapshot of the situation, while a dynamic model evaluates scenarios that change over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Graphical representations of a model that are a framework for expressing MSS model relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers