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Business Analyst

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






9. 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.


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






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






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






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






14. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






16. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.