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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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).






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






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






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






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






35. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






36. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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