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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.






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






3. 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).






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






5. 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.






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. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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