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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.

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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.