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Business Analyst

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1. 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).






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






3. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






19. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






25. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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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31. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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