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494 PARTI Advanced Technologies Accounting information 2. Each of the following is a necessary element for database and applications access, and the the successful warehousing of data EXCEPT third is for Internet access. 2 cleansing extracted data. 6. Which statement is NOT true! b. transforming data. a. Drill-down capability is an OLAP feature of c. modeling data data mining tools available to the user. d. loading data b. The data warehouse should be separate from e all of the above are necessary operational systems 3. Which of the following is typically NOT part of an c Denormalization of data involves dividing the ERP's OLAP applications! data into very small tables that support detailed analysis a Decision support systems d Some decisions supported by a daca warehouse b. Information retrieval are not fundamentally different from those that c. Ad hoc reporting'analysis are supported by traditional databases d. Logistics a Data deansing involves transforming data into e Wharf analysis Standard business terms with standard data values. 4 There are a number of risks that may be asso- 7. Which statement is LEAST accurate! ciated with ERP implementation. Which of the 2. Implementing an ERP system has more to do following was NOT stated as a risk in the with changing the way an organization does chapter! business than it does with technology 1. A drop in a firm's performance after mple: b. The phased-in approach to ERP implementa- mentation because the firm looks and works con is particularly suited to diversified organi- differently than it did while using a legacy zations whose units do not share common system processes and data b. Implementing companies have found that staff Because the primary reason for implement- members, employed by ERP consulting firms, ing an ERP is to standardize and integrate do not have sufficient experience in imple operations diversified organizations whose mending new systems units do not share common processes and c. Implementing firms fail to select systems that data do not benefit and tend not to imple properly support their business activities Tieng ERP d. The selected system does not adequately meet d. To take full advantage of the ERP process the adopting firm's economic growth reengineering will need to occur. e ERPs are too large complex and generic for them e A common reason for ERP failure is that the to be well integrated into mont company cultures ERP does not support one or more important 5. Which statement is NOT true business processes of the organization 8. Which of the following is not a typical core a. In a typical two-tier, client-server architecture, application in an ERP system! the server handles both application and data base duties 1. Sales and distribution b. Client computers we responsible for present b. Business planning ing data to the user and passing user input back e Production planning to the server d. Online analytical processing (OLAP Two-tier architecture is for local area network e Logistics applications where the demand on the server 9. Auditors of ERP systems is restricted to a relatively small population of a need not be concerned about segregation of duties because these systems possess strong d. The database and application functions are separated in the three-tier model computer control In three-tier client server architectures, b focus on output controls such as independent verification to reconcile batch toch one tier is for user presentation, one is for users