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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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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9. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






28. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






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






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






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






32. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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. 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).






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






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






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






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






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