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Nigel Ward works at a high power investment firm in Los Angeles. Nigel is responsible for promoting the firm's vision and creating the companywide goals and strategies. He also monitors the overall strategic performance of the company and its direction for future business strategies. At what level of the organizational pyramid would you categorize Nigel?

A) Strategic
B) Owner
C) Operational
D) Managerial

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Operational decisions or semistructured decisions arise in situations where established processes offer potential solutions.

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Roy Sartore has been hired to oversee all of the plans that the city of Denver has created to expand its train transportation system by adding six more lines to the metro area. Roy will be responsible for planning the project, managing the processes, and finalizing each new line as it is completed. How would you categorize the majority of the decisions Roy will have to make to complete his job?

At which level of an organization do employees develop, control, and maintain core business activities required to run the day-to-day operations?

Which of the following is the most commonly used form of AI in the business arena?

At which level will a manager use analytics to make decisions?

Artificial intelligence simulates human thinking and behavior, such as the ability to reason and learn. What is the ultimate goal of AI?

Unstructured decisions occur in situations in which no procedures or rules exist to guide decision makers towards the correct choice.

Which of the following would you include as decisions and responsibilities typically found at the operational level of a company?

What is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it?

What is a process that employs specialized algorithms to model and study complex datasets; the method is also used to establish relationships among data and datasets?

What arises in situations where established processes offer potential solutions?

The manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making is referred to as OLTP, or online transaction processing.

Virtual reality is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

Which of the following is considered the output in the systems thinking example of a DSS?

Operational decisions are considered structured decisions.

An infographic (information graphic) is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance. People use infographics to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.

Sensitivity analysis, what-if analysis, optimization analysis, and market basket analysis are the common DSS analysis techniques.

Source documents are the original transaction records.

Strategic decisions are highly structured decisions.