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AD-702 (B) RGPV B.Tech

Business Intelligence (BI)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for AD-702 (B)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Introduction to Business Intelligence 9 topics
  • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • Scope of BI solutions and their fitting into existing infrastructure
  • BI Components
  • Future of Business Intelligence
  • Functional areas and description of BI tools
  • Data mining & warehouse
  • OLAP
  • Drawing insights from data: DIKW pyramid
  • Business Analytics project methodology - detailed description of each phase
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Business Intelligence Implementation 7 topics
  • Key Drivers
  • Key Performance Indicators and Performance Metrics
  • BI Architecture/Framework
  • Best Practices
  • Business Decision Making
  • Styles of BI‑ventDriven alerts – a cyclic process of Intelligence Creation
  • Ethics of Business Intelligence
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Decision Support System 5 topics
  • Representation of decision‑making system
  • Evolution of information system
  • Definition and development of decision support system
  • Decision Taxonomy
  • Principles of Decision Management Systems
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Analysis & Visualization 6 topics
  • Definition and applications of data mining
  • Data mining process
  • Analysis methodologies
  • Typical pre‑processing operations: combining values into one, handling incomplete or incorrect data, handling missing values, recoding values, sub setting, sorting, transforming scale, determining percentiles, data manipulation, removing noise, removing inconsistencies, transformations, standardizing, normalizing, min‑max normalization, z‑score standardization, rules of standardizing data
  • Role of visualization in analytics
  • Different techniques for visualizing data
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Business Intelligence Applications 5 topics
  • Marketing models: Relational marketing, Salesforce management
  • Business case studies
  • Supply chain optimization
  • Optimization models for logistics planning
  • Revenue management system
Unit 5 notes
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Exam insights

Counted from 3 past AD-702 (B) papers.

Marks asked per paper, by unit

  • Unit 1 Introduction to Business Intelligence 42 marks
  • Unit 2 Business Intelligence Implementation 28 marks
  • Unit 3 Decision Support System 16 marks
  • Unit 4 Analysis & Visualization 12 marks
  • Unit 5 Business Intelligence Applications 16 marks

Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.

Asked again and again

  1. Explain the components of Business Intelligence.

    Asked 3 times: 2023, 2024

  2. Describe the BI Architecture/Framework.

    Asked 2 times: 2024

  3. Discuss the role of data mining in Business Intelligence.

    Asked 2 times: 2024

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