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Business Analyst

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






2. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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. 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






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






26. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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