[Year 12 IT Apps] Question about practice exam from Potts text

[Mark Kelly]

It smells like (d) in that expert systems do offer decisions based on 
stored facts and the answers given to key questions.  DSS, as I see 
them, include modelling, forecasting and simulating, which is not quite 
what the question was implying.

I'd lean a bit more towards (d) but not be too happy about the question.

Bane, Janet A wrote:
> Hi everyone
>  
> My kids are doing the practice exam from the Potts textbook (its on the 
> website, in student resources).  One of the multiple questions reads as 
> follows:
>  
> 
> 9.  A computer system designed to analyse data and produce a 
> recommendation or a decision is
> 
> a/an
> 
> a. Transaction Processing System
> 
> b. Management Information System
> 
> c. Decision Support System
> 
> d. Expert System
> 
> The answer given is D.  I think this is wrong, it should be C.  What do 
> others think?
> 
>  
> Janet Bane
> 
> Patterson River SC
> 

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