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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. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






3. Describes how best to represent information






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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).






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






24. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






43. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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