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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
form
sensitivity analysis
fixed cost
client side development
2. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
fixed cost
scatterplot
finance charge
singularity
3. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.
business intelligence
microfinance
singularity
scatterplot
4. The total interest paid over the life of the loan. The finance charge is calculated by adding up all of the loan payments and then subtracting from this total the amount originally borrowed.
contribution margin
finance charge
dynamic reports
differentiate
5. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
business intelligence
pivot table
gadgets
startup costs
6. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.
enterprise systems
business intelligence
data warehouse
contribution margin
7. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.
drill down
layout
industry Analysis
assumptions area
8. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
finance charge
system development life cycle
gadgets
site template
9. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
singularity
affinity
SQL
theme
10. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.
finance charge
master
schematic report
latency
11. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.
differentiate
form
Porter's five forces
assumptions area
12. Describes how best to represent information
microfinance
business intelligence
analytical design
sensitivity analysis
13. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.
business analyst
dashboard
theme
website authoring tools
14. The ability to capture and store information gathered from a form into a database. Database integration also refers to the ability to extract and display information from a database on a website.
enterprise resource planning
singularity
database integration
landscape orientation
15. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate
extract - transform - load (ETL)
layout
usibility
sensitivity analysis
16. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
system development life cycle
client side development
form
contribution margin
17. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.
fixed cost
dashboard
pie chart
relational database
18. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
analytical design
report
market segment
bar graph
19. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
camelback notation
bar graph
Doing Business As (DBA) license
theme
20. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
PowerPoint presentation
demographics
foreign key
database
21. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
form
relational database
theme
page template
22. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
Pitchbook
gadgets
singularity
user centered design
23. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns
foreign key
database
variable cost
microfinance
24. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table
form
assumptions area
information systems
website authoring tools
25. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
affinity
relational database
Pitchbook
fixed cost
26. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
assumptions area
microfinance
template
business analyst
27. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
theme
line graph
industry Analysis
data mining
28. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
PowerPoint presentation
enterprise systems
extract - transform - load (ETL)
demographics
29. A method for designing information systems. The life cycle proceeds through the following stages: an analysis of the current state - development of requirements - design of a solution - development from the design and finally to implementation or rol
cloud development
layout
enterprise resource planning
system development life cycle
30. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
microfinance
variable cost
landscape orientation
differentiate
31. An analysis of five key forces which profiles the attractiveness of an industry. These include the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers - barriers to entry - threat of substitutes - and the competitive rivalry of firms already in the industry.
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32. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
contribution margin
form
market segment
business intelligence
33. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
template
assumptions area
database
differentiate
34. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.
report
template
theme
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
35. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.
usibility
differentiate
Pitchbook
layout
36. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.
business intelligence
website authoring tools
database integration
enterprise resource planning
37. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.
PowerPoint presentation
form
client side development
Doing Business As (DBA) license
38. The process of uncovering the numbers that contribute to creating a summary number. Drill down is like being shocked at you ATM balance and then calling the bank to get a list of withdrawls and payments made against your account.
static reports
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
enterprise systems
drill down
39. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.
contribution margin
scatterplot
PowerPoint presentation
theme
40. A built in Excel function that calculates loan payments. Inputs to the function include the loan amount (pv) - the interest rate (rate) - and the number of loan payments (nper).
static reports
demographics
affinity
payment (PMT) function
41. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.
scatterplot
differentiate
database
PowerPoint presentation
42. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.
analytical design
information systems
website authoring tools
client side development
43. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
theme
PowerPoint presentation
layout
sensitivity analysis
44. Look like standard reports but with a major difference. They are interactive and allow the user to drill down to disover the source for the summary numbers.
PowerPoint presentation
schematic report
dynamic reports
business analyst
45. A wat to get information out of a database. Often a report will gather information together from multiple tables and present it as a single table
report
website authoring tools
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
enterprise resource planning
46. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
theme
form
camelback notation
Porter's five forces
47. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
relational database
payment (PMT) function
startup costs
industry Analysis
48. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse
microfinance
business analyst
extract - transform - load (ETL)
camelback notation
49. This is a job title typical for an IS graduate. Business analysts work both with business units such as Human Resources and the programmers. They discover the needs of the business unit and then translate those needs into documentation for the progra
business analyst
user centered design
PowerPoint presentation
form
50. Repear the primary key from the parent table in each corresponding record of the child table as a foreign key to link tables together
scatterplot
enterprise resource planning
form
foreign key