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1. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
industry Analysis
enterprise resource planning
gadgets
microfinance
2. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
latency
cloud development
user centered design
payment (PMT) function
3. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.
database
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
gadgets
bar graph
4. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
page template
enterprise systems
PowerPoint presentation
Doing Business As (DBA) license
5. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
contribution margin
page template
singularity
form
6. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
cloud development
bar graph
primary key
Porter's five forces
7. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
database integration
sensitivity analysis
enterprise systems
scatterplot
8. Describes how best to represent information
business analyst
SQL
analytical design
theme
9. 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.
report
client side development
template
business analyst
10. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
data mining
drill down
line graph
report
11. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table
primary key
database integration
dynamic reports
usibility
12. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
cloud development
master
data warehouse
SQL
13. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.
layout
template
Doing Business As (DBA) license
affinity
14. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
relational database
microfinance
dynamic reports
form
15. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
static reports
client side development
enterprise systems
enterprise resource planning
16. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.
Doing Business As (DBA) license
variable cost
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
demographics
17. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
information systems
cloud development
SQL
scatterplot
18. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
Pitchbook
client side development
usibility
differentiate
19. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
SQL
layout
dashboard
site template
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
industry Analysis
startup costs
foreign key
drill down
21. 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.
singularity
site template
website authoring tools
drill down
22. 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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23. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
affinity
information systems
data warehouse
bar graph
24. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data
singularity
scatterplot
pivot table
data warehouse
25. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.
bar graph
schematic report
variable cost
client side development
26. 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.
usibility
dashboard
demographics
finance charge
27. 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.
Porter's five forces
form
layout
schematic report
28. 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.
Porter's five forces
dynamic reports
database integration
latency
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
Doing Business As (DBA) license
primary key
database
business analyst
30. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.
camelback notation
theme
extract - transform - load (ETL)
relational database
31. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.
extract - transform - load (ETL)
business analyst
website authoring tools
Pitchbook
32. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
demographics
pivot table
payment (PMT) function
website authoring tools
33. The combination of people - information technology - and business processes to accomplish a business objective.
foreign key
data warehouse
information systems
industry Analysis
34. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
industry Analysis
page template
assumptions area
analytical design
35. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse
line graph
extract - transform - load (ETL)
PowerPoint presentation
demographics
36. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
primary key
cloud development
form
gadgets
37. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
form
fixed cost
primary key
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
38. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
data warehouse
variable cost
market segment
line graph
39. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
business intelligence
assumptions area
camelback notation
market segment
40. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.
variable cost
scatterplot
site template
user centered design
41. 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
report
business intelligence
static reports
dynamic reports
42. 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.
Pitchbook
dynamic reports
industry Analysis
differentiate
43. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.
enterprise resource planning
layout
dashboard
database
44. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.
schematic report
singularity
master
data mining
45. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
cloud development
layout
page template
client side development
46. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate
usibility
pivot table
camelback notation
SQL
47. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
theme
extract - transform - load (ETL)
database
form
48. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
pie chart
singularity
demographics
pivot table
49. 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
dynamic reports
Doing Business As (DBA) license
data mining
system development life cycle
50. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns
microfinance
database
analytical design
information systems