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Business Analyst

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1. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.






2. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.






3. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.






4. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.






5. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.






6. A business presentation combining concise text and graphics. Schematic reports should be brief - well organized - and easy to navigate. Though usually designed in PowerPoint - schematic reports are intended primarily to be read rather than projected.






7. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.






8. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate






9. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.






10. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.






11. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure






12. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.






13. 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.






14. 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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15. A PowerPoint template well suited for creating schematic reports because of its small font size and versatile layouts.






16. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.






17. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.






18. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.






19. Repear the primary key from the parent table in each corresponding record of the child table as a foreign key to link tables together






20. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table






21. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.






22. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.






23. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.






24. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data






25. 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.






26. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.






27. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.






28. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.






33. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.






34. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.






35. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse






36. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.






37. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.






38. The combination of people - information technology - and business processes to accomplish a business objective.






39. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts






40. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.






41. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






42. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






43. Describes how best to represent information






44. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table






45. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns






46. 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.






47. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.






48. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.






49. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.






50. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.