Name: Roll No: Section: ____

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Post Graduate Programme in Management

Information Technology Concepts

Quiz 1 (Wed,1-Jul-2015)

Time: 30 min.(08:30 to 09:00 am) PGP-1, Term-1

Laptop-based, Open Book Exam Marks: 20

Instructions:

(a). Unzip/Unrar the ITC_Quiz-1_2015.rar file, with the password: Wed-01%July%2015$IIML@

(b). All Questions are compulsory and of 2 marks each.

Functions to be used

1. Text Functions, Round, Roundup, Rounddown, Ceiling, Floor, Vlookup, Index, Match

2. Row(), Rows(),Column(),Columns()

Q 1 Write a formula to find total number of cells in Quiz 1 worksheets $F$9:$S$10649 (without using count or

variants of count function)? Please do not delete the blank rows and columns on top and left of given range.

Formula Value

=ROWS(G9:G10649)*COLUMNS(F9:S9) 148974

Q2 In column A, Data has been listed. In Column B, write the corresponding type of data from structured, semi

structured and unstructured data.

Data Type of Data

Tweets collected from Twitter unstructured

Data Attendance Recording System structured

Collection of XML Files Semi structured

E-mails Semi structured

IVRS system without the customer support executive Structured

Browsing behavior of web users Unstructured

Data collected in MS Access File Structured

Collection of images Unstructured

Q3. Vlookup function is used to extract the city of a customer. The 3rd argument of the Vlookup function is col_index.

Write a formula to extract the integer value of column of named City, that will be used as the 3rd argument in the

vlookup function.

Formula Value

=MATCH(A3,F9:S9,0) 6 Q 4 Write a formulae to extract the mobile number of ROHIT O SEN

Formula Value

=INDEX(F9:S10649,MATCH("ROHIT O SEN",G9:G10649,0),MATCH("Mobile number",F9:S9,0)) 9095324975

Q 5 Write a formulae to extract the joining date for the customer whose mobile number is 9024142247

Formula Value

=VLOOKUP(A8,J9:S10649,4,FALSE) 26-Sep-12

Q6. Write a formula in cell T10, to extract the first name of the first customer

Formula First name of first

customer

=LEFT(G10,FIND(" ",G10)) SOURAV

Q 7 Currently in all the email ids there are two underscore character. As a new policy, company wants to replace all

the second underscore sign in email ids by a dot (.) character. Write a formula in cell U10 to bring the change in

email ids

Formula New Email id of first customer

=SUBSTITUTE(H10,"_",".",2) sourav_v.wangkhomba@yahoo.com

Q8 Company plans to give bonus points to all the customers. Rules have been defined as per the bonus (named)

range in the worksheet range $A$1:$B$4. Write a formula to extract the bonus point for the first customer.

Last purchase amount Bonus point

< 1000 10

>= 1000 but less than 3000 25

>= 3000 100

Formula Bonus for first customer

=VLOOKUP(Q10,bonus,2,1) 25

Q 9. In cell D2, to calculate the average age of customers the formula used = average(age) returns #div/0!. Write the

steps to rectify the error and return the right average age. .

Step(s) Average age

In an empty column (say column E) row 10 i.e in cell E10

write formulae = value(I2) or =value(age).

Double click on bottom right corner of cell E10 to populate

the data in column E.

In cell D2 write formulae = average(E10:E10649)

39.01795113

Q 10. Write a formula to change the points earned column data (given in Column R) to its next higher integer in

multiple of 10.

Formulae Value of points_earned

for first customer

=CEILING(R10,10) 30