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Business Analyst

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






20. 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.






21. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






36. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






39. 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.


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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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