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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






11. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.


22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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.






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. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate






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






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






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






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






44. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






48. Describes how best to represent information






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






50. 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.