A short Quiz over Excel

Compose an email message and type your full name. Then, on one line of the message after the other, indicate which would be the correct answer for each of the following nine questions, (e.g. ‘12 b’, if ‘b’ was the correct answer for question 12). Send your email to Jing Li (JLi5@gc.cuny.edu) and yourself.

 

Question 1)

The advantage for using a spreadsheet is:

a)    calculations can be done automatically

b)    changing data automatically updates calculations (as long as Excel is not set to calculate manually).

c)     more flexibility

d)    all of the above

 

Question 2)

The intersection of a row and a column is called

a)    data

b)    a field

c)     a cell

d)    an equation

 

Question 3)

When you are typing an equation into a cell the first thing that must be entered is

a)    the first cell referenced

b)    parenthesis

c)     quotation marks

d)    an equal sign

 

Question 4)

Labels are used in a spreadsheet to:

a)    tell the computer what we are doing

b)    help us identify the information

c)     do the calculations

d)    set up the equations

 

Question 5)

The cell labeled F5 refers to

a)    row F column 5

b)    column F row 5

c)     functions available in cells

d)    Function key F4

 

Question 6)

There are three types of data found in a spreadsheet

a)    data, words, numbers

b)    equations, data, numbers

c)     words, numbers, labels

d)    numbers, formulas, labels

 

Question 7)

The formula =B2+A3 is located in cell b3. If this was copied and pasted into cell D4 the resulting formula would be:

 

A

B

C

D

1

2

4

5

5

2

3

3

4

6

3

5

=B2+A3

3

8

4

4

3

4

????????

 

a)    =C2+C3

b)    =D3+C3

c)     =D3+C4

d)    none of the above

 

Question 8)

The formula =$C$3*D3 is located in cell B1. If this was copied and pasted into cell C1, what would the resulting formula be:

 

A

B

C

D

1

 

=$C$3*D3

?????????

 

2

3

3

4

6

3

5

4

3

8

4

4

3

4

9

 

a)    =$c$3*e3

b)    =c3*e3

c)     =$c$3*d3

d)    24

 

Question 9)

A constant is another name for this type of data

a)    Number

b)    Equation

c)     Formula

d)    description