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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
startup costs
business analyst
variable cost
market segment
2. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.
business intelligence
system development life cycle
master
dynamic reports
3. 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.
drill down
enterprise resource planning
enterprise systems
pie chart
4. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
site template
extract - transform - load (ETL)
gadgets
Pitchbook
5. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
database
sensitivity analysis
PowerPoint presentation
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
6. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate
usibility
fixed cost
variable cost
enterprise resource planning
7. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
form
microfinance
dynamic reports
enterprise resource planning
8. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
scatterplot
fixed cost
template
pivot table
9. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
market segment
industry Analysis
website authoring tools
contribution margin
10. 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.
schematic report
template
website authoring tools
layout
11. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.
pie chart
differentiate
startup costs
extract - transform - load (ETL)
12. 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
business analyst
business intelligence
foreign key
market segment
13. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
theme
enterprise systems
assumptions area
scatterplot
14. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
business intelligence
industry Analysis
relational database
assumptions area
15. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.
layout
data warehouse
database
master
16. 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.
enterprise resource planning
camelback notation
database
finance charge
17. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
SQL
form
dashboard
theme
18. 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.
19. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.
site template
singularity
startup costs
assumptions area
20. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.
system development life cycle
user centered design
form
client side development
21. Repear the primary key from the parent table in each corresponding record of the child table as a foreign key to link tables together
contribution margin
enterprise systems
foreign key
assumptions area
22. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.
report
assumptions area
system development life cycle
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
23. 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
database
line graph
data warehouse
24. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
sensitivity analysis
page template
demographics
gadgets
25. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
microfinance
PowerPoint presentation
enterprise resource planning
information systems
26. 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.
report
master
assumptions area
static reports
27. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
SQL
template
landscape orientation
industry Analysis
28. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.
data warehouse
usibility
static reports
scatterplot
29. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
primary key
cloud development
static reports
gadgets
30. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
primary key
variable cost
differentiate
theme
31. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.
bar graph
static reports
business analyst
extract - transform - load (ETL)
32. 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.
theme
variable cost
dynamic reports
business intelligence
33. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.
form
sensitivity analysis
landscape orientation
pie chart
34. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.
form
Pitchbook
PowerPoint presentation
industry Analysis
35. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.
form
landscape orientation
report
theme
36. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns
static reports
pivot table
database
payment (PMT) function
37. A PowerPoint template well suited for creating schematic reports because of its small font size and versatile layouts.
foreign key
variable cost
camelback notation
Pitchbook
38. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
demographics
fixed cost
user centered design
affinity
39. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse
database integration
payment (PMT) function
extract - transform - load (ETL)
industry Analysis
40. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.
variable cost
template
form
user centered design
41. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data
page template
dashboard
startup costs
pivot table
42. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
industry Analysis
payment (PMT) function
page template
line graph
43. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.
data mining
pie chart
dynamic reports
foreign key
44. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
database integration
data warehouse
static reports
variable cost
45. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
industry Analysis
pivot table
foreign key
payment (PMT) function
46. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.
relational database
demographics
Pitchbook
Doing Business As (DBA) license
47. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
pivot table
website authoring tools
camelback notation
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
48. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table
primary key
affinity
report
relational database
49. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
gadgets
demographics
enterprise systems
scatterplot
50. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
affinity
user centered design
PowerPoint presentation
theme