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Business Analyst

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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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32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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).






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






45. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






47. 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






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






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






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