Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-1 in Your New Role as a DBA

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Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-1 In your new role as a DBA, you have inherited a database that has a lot of problems. Your first task, you decide, is to identify whether or not the information in your database contains the qualities of valuable information, and which quality may be missing. Once you have worked with the data entry team to make sure that they are getting the monthly sales data into the database in a timely fashion, your next challenge is to change the method of disseminating this information from a printed report that is snail-mailed to all sales managers across the country, to an online dissemination strategy that e-mails the reports to the managers. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?

• A) cost-effective information
• B) useful information
• C) organized information
• D) verifiable information

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Definitions:

Compounded Annually

The process of calculating interest on both the initial principal and the accumulated interest from previous periods on a yearly basis.

Interest Rate

The percentage of the principal that is paid as a fee over a certain period of time for the use of borrowed money.

Compounded Semiannually

The process of applying interest to an initial sum plus any previously earned interest, calculated twice a year.

Interest Rate

The percentage of the principal amount charged by a lender to a borrower for the use of assets, typically expressed on an annual basis.