Jeremy Announced to His Accounting Team That the Company's Financial

question 156

Multiple Choice

Jeremy announced to his accounting team that the company's financial reports should be completed "by next week." Subsequently, members of his team had completely different ideas about when the reports were due. At which stage of communication are the team members?

• A) understanding the context
• B) message decoding
• C) providing feedback
• D) message encoding

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Definitions:

Unstructured Data

Data that does not follow a specified format or structure, making it difficult to collect, process, and analyze using conventional methods.

Relational Database

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Big Data

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Traditional DBMS

Database management systems that support a model, typically the relational model, which uses a structured query language (SQL) for defining and manipulating data.