MCQ for CBA

1. Miss Golapi is reviewing a spreadsheet for a colleague. She notes that part of all
the formulas contain dollar symbols in the cell references, for example =A1*$B$
and starts deleting the dollar symbols. Is that a good or bad idea and why?
A. Good idea. The person who created the spreadsheet clearly made a typing error by
including the dollar symbols.
B. Bad idea. The dollar symbols are needed to format the calculated values of the
formula with the correct currency symbol.
C. Bad idea. The dollar symbols mark the references in the cells as Relative
References. Removing these will cause the formula to calculate incorrect values.
D. Bad idea. The dollar symbols mark the references in the cells as Absolute
References. Removing these will cause the formula to calculate incorrect values.

2. Which of the following formatting options can you set for Conditional Formatting
rules?

A. Light Red Fill With Dark Red Text, Yellow Fill With Dark Yellow Text and Green Fill
With Dark Green Text.

B. Light Red Fill With Dark Red Text.

C. Light Red Fill, Light Yellow Fill and Light Green Fill.

D. You can apply any of the formatting detailed in the options above as well as number,
shading and font formatting.

3. How would you remove the Duplicate Customer information?

A. Use the Remove Duplicates option in the Data Tools group to automatically delete
duplicate entries on the worksheet.

B. Use the Find and Replace function to find and automatically replace duplicate
entries on the worksheet.

C. Use the Highlight Cell Rules – Duplicate Values option to automatically delete
duplicate entries on the worksheet. D. All of the options above are correct.
4. What is the purpose of formatting numbers as text (add leading apostrophe in
front of numbers) and would this ever be useful?

A. No, text formatting is applied to cells containing words and letters only.

B. Yes, this technique is used when you wish Excel to treat numbers as text, for
example, a phone number.

C. Yes, this function is used when you wish Excel to calculate how many letters a word
or phrase has.

D. All of the above options are correct.

5. What does SUMIFs function do?

a) Adds up cell values based on a condition

b) Returns a subtotal in a list or database

c) Summarize cell values based on a condition

d) Adds all the numbers in a range of cells

6. Which function gives out today’s date?

A. =Date()

B. =hour()

C. =month()
D. =today()

7. Which of the following is a comparison operator for inserting a “not equal to”
argument in an IF, COUNTIF or SUMIF function?

A. <=

B. >=

C. <>

D. =

8. What is a nested IF statement?

a) It is an IF statement that has been inserted into a cell

b) It is an IF statement that has been inserted into another IF statement

c) It is an IF statement that has been inserted into a graphic such as a shape.

d) None of the options listed above are correct.

9. Paul entered the following formula into a cell but it keeps popping up with an
error. The formula he entered is:
=IF(B9>500,IF(F9="Yes",B9*B20,B9*B21)"Empty"). Which of the following is the
corrected version?

a) =IF(B9>500,IF(F9="Yes",B9*B20,B9*B21),"Empty") – the comma before the last

c) =IF(B9>500,=IF(F9="Yes",B9*B20,B9*B21)"Empty") – the equal sign before the nested

d) None of the options listed above are correct.

10. What is the shortcut for creating absolute references and how do you use it?

a) Select the cell reference you wish to make Absolute and press Ctrl+a on your keyboard.

b) Select the cell reference you wish to make Absolute and press F4 on your keyboard.

c) Select the cell reference you wish to make Absolute and press Ctrl+F4 on your keyboard

d) Select the cell reference you wish to make Absolute and press Ctrl+$ on your keyboard.

11. Which of the following is NOT an argument you will find in a SUMIFs function?

a) sum_range

b) value_if_true

c) criteria_range1

d) criteria2

12. Which of the following options correctly represent a formula with Absolute
References?
A.=(A$1$-B$1$)

B.=(A$1-B$1)

C.=($A1-$B1)

D.=($A$1-$B$1)

13. A numeric value can be treated as label value if …… precedes it.

A. Apostrophe (‘) B. Exclamation (!) C. Hash (#) D. Tilde (~)

14. Study the formulas listed below. Which of the formulas contain an error that will
prevent it from working?

A. =Sum(A1, A4) B. =B26-M13 C. =C4/C1 D. B4=A1+A5

15. In a VLOOKUP formula, what does the argument column_index_number mean?

A. This is the secret INDEX number that each column in an Excel worksheet has.

B. This is the number of the column within the selected table_array where the lookup
result is located.

C. This is a numerical representation of the letters at the top of a worksheet. For

D. This is numbers you assign to columns in your worksheet.

A. +

B. $

C. =

D. &

17. To link a cell to another sheet or spreadsheet you _______________.

A. Type = and click on the other sheet or spreadsheet cell

B. Type the name of the sheet and the cell reference

C. Type the name of the sheet, a ” ' “ and the cell reference

D. Type the name of the sheet, a “!” and the cell reference

18. What does the VLOOKUP function do?

A. Looks up text that contain ‘v’

B. Checks whether text is the same in one cell as in the next

C. Finds related records

D. All of the above options are correct.

19. Copying formulas saves a lot of time. Which of the following is a method for
copying a formula?

A. Ctrl+c to copy the formula, Ctrl+v to paste the formula.

B. Drag the Fill Handle down, up, left or right to copy a formula.

C. Press the Copy button on the Ribbon to copy the formula and the Paste button on
the Ribbon to Paste it.

D. All of the above options are correct.

20. Which functionin Excel tells how many numeric entries are there ?
A.NUM

B.COUNT

C.SUM

D.CHKNUM

21. What is the intersection of a column and a row on a worksheet called?

A.Column

B.Value

C.Address

D.Cell

22. A features that displays only the data in column (s) according to specified criteria

A.Formula B.Sorting C.Filtering D.Pivot

23. Which one is not a Function in MS Excel ?

A.SUM

B.AVG

C.MAX

D.MIN

24. Which functionin Excel checks whether a condition is true or not ?

A.SUM

B.COUNT

C.IF

D.AVERAGE

25. In Excel, Columns are labelled as ___

B. 1,2,3 etc

C. A1, A2, etc.

D. $A$1, $A$2, etc.