Review

The following questions are designed to reinforce key information presented in the chapter. If you are unable to answer a question, review the appropriate lesson and then try the question again. Answers to the questions can be found in Appendix A: Questions and Answers.

1. Status on an individual order is best kept on which type of system, analytical or operational?
2. How are key performance indicators derived from roles during the requirements definition and architecture analysis phase?
3. What types of information does an analysis of the data life cycle provide the process?
4. What activities are used to collect information during the opportunity evaluation phase?
5. Your organization wants to set up a data warehouse. This warehouse will have inputs from seven different operational systems and will ultimately contain many subject areas. It is a big project. How do you make it manageable?

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