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(Abridged) We conducted a Chandra ACIS observation of the nearby SculptorGroup Sd galaxy NGC 7793. At the assumed distance to NGC 7793 of 3.91 Mpc, thelimiting unabsorbed luminosity of the detected discrete X-ray sources (0.2-10.0keV) is approximately 3x10^36 ergs s^-1. A total of 22 discrete sources weredetected at the 3-sigma level or greater including one ultra-luminous X-raysource (ULX). Based on multiwavelength comparisons, we identify X-ray sourcescoincident with one SNR, the candidate microquasar N7793-S26, one HII regionand two foreground Galactic stars. We also find that the X-ray counterpart tothe candidate radio SNR R3 is time-variable in its X-ray emission: we thereforerule out the possibility that this source is a single SNR. A marked asymmetryis seen in the distribution of the discrete sources with the majority lying inthe eastern half of this galaxy. All of the sources were analyzed usingquantiles to estimate spectral properties and spectra of the four brightestsources (including the ULX) were extracted and analyzed. We searched fortime-variability in the X-ray emission of the detected discrete sources usingour measured fluxes along with fluxes measured from prior Einstein and ROSATobservations. From this study, three discrete X-ray sources are established tobe significantly variable. A spectral analysis of the galaxy's diffuse emissionis characterized by a temperature of kT = 0.19-0.25 keV. The luminosityfunction of the discrete sources shows a slope with an absolute value of Gamma= -0.65+/-0.11 if we exclude the ULX. If the ULX is included, the luminosityfunction has a long tail to high L_X with a poor-fitting slope of Gamma =-0.62+/-0.2. The ULX-less slope is comparable to the slopes measured for thedistributions of NGC 6946 and NGC 2403 but much shallower than the slopesmeasured for the distributions of IC 5332 and M83.

A Chandra Observation of the Nearby Sculptor Group Sd Galaxy NGC 7793