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Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Expertise of organizational members that has not been formally documented best describes: | Tacit knowledge |
| Case-based reasoning is not well-suited for diagnostic systems in medicine. | False |
| Your company wants to develop intelligent techniques to create a "smart" oven that can perfectly cook basic foodstuffs, such as roasts and bread. | Fuzzy logic |
| Virtual reality systems: | Provide architects, engineers, and medical workers with precise, photorealistic simulations of objects |
| Which type of intelligent agent models the behavior of consumers, stock markets, and more, by seeing them as autonomous agents that follow relatively simple rules for interaction: | Agent-based modeling |
| Tools for the management, delivery, tracking, and assessment of various types of employee learning best describes a: | Learning management system |
| The terms used in a fuzzy logic system to describe imprecise states or conditions are referred to as: | Membership functions |
| Expertise is thought to be collective and individual experience of applying knowledge to the solution of problems. | False |
| Intelligent agents can discover underlying patterns, categories, and behaviors in large data sets. | False |
| The flow of events or transactions captured by an organization's system describes: | Data |
| Expert systems work by applying a set of AND/OR rules against a knowledge base, both of which are extracted from human experts. | False |
| _______ knowledge exists in formal documents, as well as in formal rules that organizations derive by observing experts and their decision-making behaviors. | Semi-structured |
| Systems that integrate different types of techniques, such as genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and expert systems, into a single application are called _______ systems. | Hybrid AI |
| Apple's Siri application is an example of: | Intelligent agent |
| Structured knowledge is explicit knowledge that exists in informal documents. | False |
| Forward chaining is: | A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that begins with information entered by the user |
| Semistructured information is all the knowledge in a firm that resides in the heads of experienced employees. | False |
| An inference engine is: | A strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert system by forward chaining or backward chaining |
| A ___________ is a type of intelligent technique that finds patterns and relationships in massive data sets too large for a human to analyze. | Neural network |
| About ________ percent of the United States GDP is produced by the knowledge and information sectors. | 45 |
| For a firm, organizational resources are needed to transform data into knowledge. | True |
| Hardware and software that attempt to emulate the processing patterns of the biological brain best describe: | A neural network |
| The last step in the knowledge management value chain is: | Apply |
| What type of intelligent technique helped Procter % Gamble determine the most efficient methods for their trucks to deliver goods? | Intelligent agents |
| Which of the following would not be classified as a knowledge work system: | Expert system |
| In content management, once a taxonomy is developed, documents must then be _________ with the proper classification. | Tagged |
| Which of the following statements about 3D printing is not true: | It is only usable to make prototypes |
| Specialized systems built for engineers, scientists, and other knowledge workers charged with discovering and creating new knowledge for a company are called: | KWS |
| What is the first value-adding step in the knowledge business value chain? | Data and information acquisition |
| Virtually all expert systems deal with problems of: | Classification |
| Expert systems capture the knowledge of skilled employees in the form of a set of rules in a software system that can be used by others in the organization. | True |
| 3-D printers can produce fully functioning components, such as working batteries and LEDs. | True |
| Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between collaboration and knowledge management: | Knowledge is useful only when shared with others |
| Which of the following is a type of intelligent technique: | Case-based reasoning |
| Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of the importance of knowledge to a firm: | Knowledge is unconditional |
| Fuzzy logic systems "learn" patterns from large quantities of data by sifting through data, searching for relationships, building models, and correcting over and over again the model's own mistakes. | False |
| Knowledge is universally applicable and easily moved. | False |
| Investment workstations: | Are used in the financial sector to analyze trading situations and manage the investment process |
| You are an automotive engineer working on an application with will automatically parallel park a car. The intelligent technique you may find most useful is: | Fuzzy logic |
| Changing organizational behavior by sensing and responding to new experience and knowledge is called: | Organizational learning |
| Which of the following is not used to capture tacit knowledge: | Neural network |
| Informal social networks of professionals and employees within and outside the firm who have similar work-related activities and interests are called communities of: | Practice |
| A ________ is a scheme for classifying information and knowledge in such a way that it can be easily accessed. | Taxonomy |
| Expert systems are the primary tools used for knowledge discovery. | False |
| _______ seeks to enhance human perception by combining a live direct view of the physical world with computer-generated images. | AR |
| Software programs that work without direct human intervention to carry out specific tasks for individual users, business processes, or software applications are called: | Intelligent agents |
| Which of the following would not be considered semistructured knowledge: | Request for proposals |
| Intelligent techniques include CAD and VRML | False |
| Expert systems are expensive and time consuming to maintain because: | Their rules must be reprogrammed every time there is a change in the environment, which in turn may change the applicable rules. |
| You are advising a multimedia company on the best type of knowledge management system to help them archive digital video and sound clips. Which of the following will suit their needs: | Digital asset management system |
| Most knowledge workers require specialized knowledge work systems, but they also rely on: | Office systems |
| What is meant by the statement "knowledge is sticky"? | Knowledge is hard to move |
| Backward chaining is: | A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that begins with a hypothesis |
| Which of the following is not a typical component of an enterprise content management system: | KWS |
| Which of the following are the three major types of knowledge management systems: | Enterprise-wide knowledge management systems, knowledge work systems, and intelligent techniques |
| While systems such as KWS can manage semistructured and unstructured information, enterprise-wide content management systems are designed to manage a firm's structured information. | False |
| To automate routine tasks to help firms search for and filter information for use in electronic commerce and supply chain management a firm would most likely use: | Intelligent agents |
| The model of human knowledge used by expert systems is referred to as: | The knowledge base |
| Fuzzy logic is a type of: | Intelligent technique |
| Which of the following is not one of the main four dimensions of knowledge described in this chapter: | Knowledge is timeless |
| Because neural network applications cannot always explain why they arrive at a particular solution, they are not well suited for use in the medical profession. | False |
| VRML requires the use of a powerful server as well as large amounts of bandwidth. | False |
| In this technique, descriptions of past experiences of human specialists are stored in a database for later retrieval when the user encounters a situation with similar characteristics. | CBR |
| Which of the following techniques is used for knowledge discovery: | Data mining |
| Fuzzy logic can describe a particular phenomenon or process linguistically and then represent that description in a small number of flexible rules. | True |
| Which of the following describes a difference between neural networks and genetic algorithms: | Neural networks are programmed to "learn." |
| Expert systems: | Work in very limited domains |
| The set of business processes, culture, and behavior required to obtain value from investments in information systems is one type of: | Organizational and management capital |
| A MOOC is: | A type of online course |
| Which of the following does not describe the dimensions of knowledge in a firm: | It is subject to the laws of diminishing returns |
| ________ often are designed and optimized for the specific tasks to be performed. | Knowledge workstations |