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






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






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






5. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






8. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.