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Business Analyst

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






2. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Describes how best to represent information