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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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).






7. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.






8. 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.






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






10. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






22. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.






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






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






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






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






28. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.






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






30. Describes how best to represent information






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






32. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.






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






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






35. 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.






36. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.






37. A model report in which the theme is predefined. In some templates even some of the slides are already created. For example - the Pitchbook template includes a title slide - a table of contents slide - and a section heading slide.






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






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






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






41. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.






42. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.






43. 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






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






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






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






47. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness






48. Model slides that define the theme elements. The slide master defines the background elements - colors - and fonts. The layout masters provide a menu of possible layouts to apply to a slide.






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






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







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