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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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.


31. 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.






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






33. Describes how best to represent information






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. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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