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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Describes how best to represent information

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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