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Business Analyst

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






8. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






9. Describes how best to represent information






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






16. 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.


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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