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1. Describe the evolution from centralized DBMSs to distributed DBMSs.
2. List and discuss some of the factors that influenced the evolution of the DDBMS.
3. What are the advantages of the DDBMS?
4. What are the disadvantages of the DDBMS?
5. Explain the difference between a distributed database and distributed processing.
6. What is business intelligence? Give some recent examples of BI usage, using the Internet for assistance. What BI benefits have companies found?
7. What are decision support systems, and what role do they play in the business environment?
8. Explain how the main components of the BI architecture interact to form a system. Describe the evolution of BI information dissemination formats.
9. What are the most relevant differences between operational data and decision sup- port data?
10. What is a data warehouse, and what are its main characteristics? How does it differ from a data mart?