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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)
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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
Tweets collected from Twitter
Data Attendance Recording System
Collection of XML Files
E-mails
IVRS system without the customer support executive
Browsing behavior of web users
Data collected in MS Access File
Collection of images

Type of Data
unstructured
structured
Semi structured
Semi structured
Structured
Unstructured
Structured
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
=VLOOKUP(A8,J9:S10649,4,FALSE)

Value

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
=SUBSTITUTE(H10,"_",".",2)

New Email id of first customer

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
=VLOOKUP(Q10,bonus,2,1)

Bonus for first customer

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 39.01795113
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)
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)
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