Test your basic knowledge |

Business Analyst

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.






2. 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.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






4. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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).






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






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






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






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. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






33. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.