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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data






2. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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).






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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