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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Describes how best to represent information






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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).






40. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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