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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






12. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






41. 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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42. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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