SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Business Analyst
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
certifications
,
business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
report
data warehouse
microfinance
Porter's five forces
2. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
assumptions area
gadgets
differentiate
client side development
3. 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
website authoring tools
static reports
site template
business analyst
4. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.
latency
template
line graph
database integration
5. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
cloud development
line graph
data mining
Pitchbook
6. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.
layout
user centered design
page template
system development life cycle
7. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
business intelligence
user centered design
database integration
affinity
8. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.
industry Analysis
data mining
PowerPoint presentation
foreign key
9. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
affinity
camelback notation
site template
website authoring tools
10. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
differentiate
relational database
static reports
business analyst
11. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
business intelligence
Doing Business As (DBA) license
sensitivity analysis
microfinance
12. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.
PowerPoint presentation
extract - transform - load (ETL)
SQL
Porter's five forces
13. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
business analyst
SQL
sensitivity analysis
singularity
14. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table
cloud development
form
Pitchbook
relational database
15. Repear the primary key from the parent table in each corresponding record of the child table as a foreign key to link tables together
dashboard
template
site template
foreign key
16. 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.
pivot table
site template
dynamic reports
latency
17. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.
Porter's five forces
landscape orientation
pivot table
data warehouse
18. 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.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
19. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
demographics
camelback notation
form
variable cost
20. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
form
payment (PMT) function
enterprise resource planning
primary key
21. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
primary key
SQL
static reports
usibility
22. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table
system development life cycle
drill down
primary key
latency
23. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
static reports
industry Analysis
microfinance
dashboard
24. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.
demographics
usibility
user centered design
pie chart
25. 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.
page template
Doing Business As (DBA) license
schematic report
data warehouse
26. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
bar graph
gadgets
client side development
market segment
27. 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
business analyst
analytical design
report
microfinance
28. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
demographics
finance charge
pivot table
market segment
29. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.
relational database
scatterplot
business intelligence
client side development
30. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.
bar graph
business analyst
site template
Doing Business As (DBA) license
31. 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
relational database
system development life cycle
pie chart
contribution margin
32. 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.
schematic report
database integration
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
template
33. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data
pivot table
schematic report
sensitivity analysis
theme
34. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.
camelback notation
primary key
dashboard
scatterplot
35. Describes how best to represent information
analytical design
finance charge
gadgets
Pitchbook
36. 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.
finance charge
primary key
form
data warehouse
37. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.
usibility
master
assumptions area
finance charge
38. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
variable cost
report
client side development
contribution margin
39. 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.
drill down
camelback notation
dashboard
database
40. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
variable cost
business analyst
page template
user centered design
41. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.
foreign key
landscape orientation
user centered design
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
42. 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.
usibility
PowerPoint presentation
contribution margin
database integration
43. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
gadgets
site template
payment (PMT) function
page template
44. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.
fixed cost
microfinance
static reports
analytical design
45. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
system development life cycle
dashboard
page template
camelback notation
46. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
line graph
demographics
startup costs
industry Analysis
47. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
fixed cost
startup costs
differentiate
data mining
48. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
camelback notation
market segment
schematic report
affinity
49. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
gadgets
report
user centered design
site template
50. A PowerPoint template well suited for creating schematic reports because of its small font size and versatile layouts.
page template
website authoring tools
data mining
Pitchbook