QUESTION 9 Match the items in the following two lists by matching the letter of

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QUESTION 9 Match the items in the following two lists by matching the letter of the information quality that best describes the information quality violation presented in the second column. Some letters may not be used at all and some may be used more than once ? At Belmont, Inc., warehouse personnel write the picked a. Completeness quantity on the picking ticket as the goods are picked from the shelf. These clerks are not very careful, and the recordedAccuracy picked quantities are often wrong. C. Timeliness Garth Company has been recording shipments of goods d. Validitv that were not ordered by their customers. e Relevance '-Shipments at Lasting, Inc. are entered into PCs in the shipping depai ment office. The paperwork often gets lost between the shipping dock and the office, and some shipments do not get entered. y-Clerks at Fairmont Corp. enter customer orders into PCs connected to the accounting system. The clerks are supposed to enter a code into a field to indicate if the order was mailed, faxed, or phoned in. But they do not always enter this code. Consequently, data on the recorded orders regarding the type of order is not reliable. Caroline in the shipping department has been given the job of monitoring shipments to make sure that they are shipped in a timely manner. To do this, she uses a monthly report of items ordered but not shipped in the past month

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Solution:

1) b. Accuracy

2) d. Validity

3) a. Completeness

4) e. Relevance

5) c. Timeliness

Explanation:

1) The recorded quantities are inaccurate

2) The recorded shipments do not correspond with an authorized business event, thus indicates a validity violation.

3) Few business events that occurred in reality are excluded in the database, so this is a violation of completeness.

4) Since the data is irrelevant thus there is a violation of relevance.

5) The report is not up to date because it is only issued on a monthly basis, thus there is a violation of timeliness.

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