Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2019 Comprehensive, 1st edition Mary Anne Poatsy Test Bank

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Test Bank

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Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2019 Comprehensive

Edition:

1st Edition

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Mary Anne Poatsy Keith Mulbery Jason Davidson

Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Office Common Features, Chapter 1 1. In Word or PowerPoint, a quick way to select an entire paragraph is to: b. triple-click inside the paragraph.

2. When you want to copy the format of a selection but not the content, you should: d. click Format Painter in the Clipboard group.

3. Which of the following is not a benefit of using OneDrive? c. Hold video conferences with others.

4. What does a red wavy underline in a document, spreadsheet, or presentation mean? a. A word is misspelled or not recognized by the Office dictionary.

5. Which of the following is true about headers and footers? c. Headers appear at the top of every page in a document.

6. You can get help when working with an Office application in which one of the following areas? a. The Tell me box 7. To access commands that are not on the ribbon, you need to open which of the following? b. Dialog Box 8. To create a document without knowing much about the software, you should use which of the following? c. Template 9. Which is the preferred method for resizing a picture so that it keeps its proportions? b. Use a corner sizing handle 10. Which is not a description of a tag in a Word document? d. Document title

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 1 1. Cell A5 is the active cell. You want to make cell B10 the active cell. Which of the following is not a method for going to cell B10? d. Type B10 in the Formula Bar and press Enter.

2. Which step is not part of planning a worksheet design? b. Enter labels, values, and formulas.

3. Cell A2 contains the regular price $100. Cell B2 contains the discount rate 15%. Cell C3 contains =A2*(1-B2) to calculate the sale price of $85. Which of the following formulas produces the same result? b. =A2-(A2*B2) 4. What should you do if you see pound signs (###) instead of values or results of formulas? a. Increase the column width.

5. You just copied a range of data containing formulas. However, you want to preserve the formula results and the original number and text formatting in the pasted range. Which paste option would you select? c. Values & Source Formatting 6. The label Souvenir Shop is in cell A1, and April Sales Report is in cell B1. You select the range A1:E1 and click Merge & Center. What is the result? d. Souvenir Shop is centered over the range A1:E1, and April Sales Report is deleted.

7. What number format places a dollar sign on the left side of the cell, includes commas to separate thousands, displays two decimal places, and displays zero values as hyphen? d. Accounting Number Format 8. You want to copy the March worksheet to use it to enter data for April. After you right-click the March sheet tab and select Move or Copy, you click OK in the Move or Copy dialog box without changing any settings. What happens? c. The March sheet is moved to the left of the first sheet tab. The worksheet is not copied.

9. The Header & Footer Tools tab contains commands that insert codes into a header or footer. These codes enable the header or footer text to change automatically. You can insert a code for all of the following except: a. Your Name.

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10. Assume that the data on a worksheet consume a whole printed page and two columns on a second page. You can do all of the following except what to force the data to print all on one page? b. Increase the left and right margins

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 2 1. If cell E15 contains the function =PMT(B$15/12,C7*12,-D8), what type of cell reference is B$15? c. Mixed reference 2. What function would most efficiently accomplish the same thing as =(B5+C5+D5+E5+F5)? a. =SUM(B5:F5) 3. When you start to type =AV, what feature displays a list of functions and defined names? b. Formula AutoComplete 4. A formula containing the entry =J$7 is copied to a cell three columns to the right and four rows down. How will the entry display in its new location?

a. =M$7 5. Which of the following functions should be used to insert the current date and time in a cell? c. =NOW() 6. Which of the following is not a comparison operator? c. & 7. Which of the following is not true about the VLOOKUP function? b. The lookup table must be in descending order.

8. The function =PMT(C5,C7,-C3) is stored in cell C15. What must be stored in cell C5? b. Periodic interest rate 9. Which of the following is not an appropriate use of the MAX function? d. =MAX(D15-C15) 10. What is the keyboard shortcut to create an absolute reference? c. F4

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 3 1. Which type of chart is the least appropriate for depicting yearly rainfall totals for five cities for four years? a. Pie chart 2. Why would Series 1 and Series 2 display in a chart legend? c. Column headings were not selected when creating a chart.

3. You moved a chart to its own chart sheet. What chart element can you add to provide a grid that contains a copy of the data source at the bottom of the chart? b. Data table 4. You want to create a single chart that shows the proportion of yearly sales for five divisions for each year for five years. Which type of chart can accommodate your needs? d. 100% stacked column chart 5. A combo chart displays the number of new jobs on the primary value axis, percentage growth on the secondary value axis, job titles in the category axis, “New Job Growth by 2026” as the chart title, but no legend. Which is the least important title to include in the chart? c. The category axis Job Titles 6. The value axis currently shows increments such as 50,000 and 100,000. What option would you select to display the values in increments of 50 and 100? a. Show Axis in Thousands 7. If you want to show exact values for a data series in a bar chart, which chart element should you display? d. Data labels 8. You applied a chart style to a clustered column chart. However, you want to experiment with other settings to change the colors used in the chart without individually changing colors. Which of the following does not apply changes to the entire chart? b. Change colors in the Format Data Series task pane.

9. Currently, a column chart shows values on the value axis, years on the category axis, and state names in the legend. What should you do if you want to organize data with the states on the category axis and the years shown in the legend? a. Click Switch Row/Column in the Data group on the Design tab.

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10. You created a worksheet that tracks data for a basketball team. The range B10:F10 contains the difference in final points between your team and the other team. What is the recommended sparkline to create to represent this data? c. Win/Loss

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 4 1.

You have a large dataset that will print on several pages. You want to ensure that related records print on the same page with column and row labels visible and that confidential information is not printed. You should apply all of the following page setup options except which one to accomplish this? d. Change the print page order.

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You are working with a large worksheet. Your row headings are in column A. Which command(s) should be used to see the row headings and the distant information in columns X, Y, and Z? a. Freeze Panes command

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Which statement is not a recommended guideline for designing and creating an Excel table? c. Leave one blank row between records in the table.

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Which of the following characters are wildcards in Excel? a. *

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What should you do to ensure records in a table are unique? b. Use the Remove Duplicates command.

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Which Conditional Formatting rule is best suited to highlight sales value greater than $5,000? c. Greater Than

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Which date filter option enables you to restrict the view to only dates between April 1, 2021 and April 30, 2021? d. Between

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Which of the following is a fully qualified structured reference? b. =Sales[@Purchase_Price]-Sales[@Down_Payment]

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Which of the following is not an aggregate function that can be applied in a total row? d. VLOOKUP ..

10. If you would like to set a conditional formatting rule based on the function =AND(G6=”Finance”, H7<7000) which formatting rule type is needed? c. Use a formula to determine which cells to format

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 5 1. You want to apply a subtotal to a dataset containing names, departments, and salaries.

What is the first step you need to do? d. Sort the dataset by a field containing categories 2. Why would you click the collapse outline symbol above a column of outlined data? b. You want to hide the detailed columns to focus on the result column.

3. After creating a blank PivotTable, you click a field containing monetary amounts in the PivotTable Fields task pane. Where does Excel place that field? c. Values area 4. What is the default summary statistic for any value field added to a PivotTable? d. Sum 5. You created a PivotTable and changed some values in the dataset from which the PivotTable was created. How does this affect the PivotTable? b. Changes in the dataset do not affect the PivotTable until you refresh the PivotTable.

6. What settings should you select to apply a different color scheme and display a different fill color for every other row or horizontal within the PivotTable? c. Banded Rows check box and a different PivotTable style 7. Why would you would you create a slicer for a PivotTable? a. To filter data in a PivotTable 8. Which of the following is not used when creating a calculated field in a PivotTable? d. A cell reference to a value outside of the PivotTable 9. You created a PivotChart showing sales by quarter by sales rep. How do you remove a sales rep from the chart without deleting the data? c. Filter the Sales Rep field in the PivotChart and deselect the employee’s check box.

10. You want to create a PivotTable that uses fields from two Excel tables. What is the first step? a. Create a relationship on a common field between the two tables.

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 6 1.

Which what-if analysis tool is the best option for complex calculations requiring constrained optimization? d. Solver

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What tool is used to view existing range names? c. Name Manager

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Which tool is most effective when comparing the impact of various combinations of production expenses and new customer acquisition on net sales profit. c. Two-variable data table

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This tool calculates the value required in a single cell to produce a result with in a related cell. a. Goal Seek

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This analysis tool can handle multiple adjustable cells while minimizing, maximizing, or meeting goals. b. Solver

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Which of the following is an Excel add-in? b. Solver

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Which of the following in not an acceptable range name? c. 2021_Rate

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What is the keyboard shortcut to open the Paste Name dialog box? b. F3

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Which of the following tools can incorporate constraints? b. Solver

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The Solver add-in displays on this tab in the ribbon. c. Data tab

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 7 1. The date 8/3/2021 is stored in cell C1. What function is used to extract just 3? d. =DAY(C1) 2. The date February 16, 2021, is stored in cell B1. The last day of the semester (May 7, 2021) is stored in cell B2. Which function calculates the number days until the end of the semester? b. =DAYS(B2,B1) 3. For which situation would you use the SWITCH function? c. You have a spreadsheet with a list of articles and a column containing authors’ initials (JD, KM, MP, RG). You want to create another column that evaluates the initials and returns their respective names 4. A workbook contains a list of houses and the months that they were sold in Florida. You are interested in determining the average price of sold houses in June in Ft. Lauderdale. What function is best suited for this calculation? a. AVERAGEIFS 5. You want to create a spreadsheet with populations. Which of the following could not be used to produce a map in Excel? b. City names, such as Boston, Denver, Los Angeles 6. What function would you use to calculate the total interest paid for the first year of a mortgage? a. CUMIPMT 7. A dataset contains a list of U.S. Representatives, the states they represent, the years they were elected, and their salaries. You want to identify the highest-paid representative who was elected before 1/1/2020. What is the best function to use? c. MAXIFS 8. You constructed a loan amortization table with beginning balance, monthly payment, interest paid, principal repayment, and ending balance columns. If all the formulas are correct, which is the only column that shows an increase in value throughout the term of the loan? d. Principal Repayment

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9. A local police chief wants to create a rule that a person will be ticketed if an officer pulls over a person for exceeding the speed limit by at least five miles per hour or if that person has two or more speeding violations on record. Which function should be used? c. OR 10. What function would you use to calculate the total number of periods in a loan or investment? a. NPER

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 8 1.

Which of the following functions should be used to determine how far the sample data is spread around the mean? b. STDEV.S

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In the linear equation y=mx + b, which function would you use to calculate b? c. INTERCEPT

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What does a negative COVARIANCE indicate? c. An inverse relationship between datasets.

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A worksheet contains sales dollars for agents with your company. The values are $1,250, $1,090, $985, $985, $880, $756, $675, $650, and $600. What function could be used to return the third largest value? c. LARGE

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What function would you use to calculate the strength of a relationship between two or more variables? b. CORREL

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You hypothesize that there is a relationship between lack of regular exercise and illness. To research this theory, you have compiled a sample set of data that contains numbers of days in which an hour or more of exercise is completed as well as numbers of days sick within a calendar year. What tools in Excel could you use to investigate the relationships between the data? a. CORREL

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Which of the following functions should be used to determine how closely a linear trendline represents the data being evaluated? b. RSQ

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What is the difference between STDEV.S and STDEV.P? a. STDEV.S calculates standard deviation of a sample; STDEV.P calculates the standard deviation of a population.

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What is the difference between a sample and a population? b. A population contains all data you want to evaluate, while a sample contains a ..

portion of the data.

10. What keystroke combination is required to calculate a Frequency data array? c. Ctrl+Shift+Enter

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 9 1. You have a workbook that contains sales data where each sales rep’s data is stored on a separate worksheet. Which task is the least likely to be done while the worksheets are grouped? c. Enter specific values for the first sales rep.

2. You want to create a hyperlink to an online dataset from the United States Census Bureau.

What type of link do you create? a. Existing File or Web Page 3. A worksheet contains over 400 rows. The first 10 rows contain input data, and functions containing summary statistics are in the last 10 rows. What is the most efficient method to see the input area and summary statistics at the same time without having to scroll back and forth between sections? d. Use the Split command and adjust one pane to see the input section and another pane to see the summary statistics.

4. Which function correctly adds data in cell D25 across multiple worksheets? b. =SUM(Monday:Friday!D25) 5. The SalesQtr2 workbook contains links to data in the April, May, and June workbooks.

Which workbook is the destination file? d. SalesQtr2 6. You use Trace Precedents for a cell containing a formula. What indicates an error in the precedents used? a. A red tracer arrow displays between the dependent and precedent cells 7. You want to monitor the results of cell formulas on a different worksheet as you change data on another worksheet. You should create a: c. Watch Window.

8. Which validation alert style should you use to prevent the user from entering invalid data? b. Stop 9. You want to make sure employees enter data only in particular cells and not change or delete other data. What is the first step? d. Unlock cells that will be used for data entry.

10. If you forget the password you used to protect a workbook, how do you reset it? a. You cannot reset the password. ..

Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 10 1. A special character that is used to separate a text file is called a: b. delimiter 2.

Which of the following file formats cannot be imported using Get & Transform? d. MP3

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Which of the following Power BI tools is best suited for editing data before import? c. Power Query Editor

4. In which of the following scenarios would you choose to embed versus import data? d. You do not want to save the original data sources.

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When creating a 3D Map, what is the best way to view your data from different perspectives over time? b. Add scenes

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What tool should be used to remove fields and format data when importing? a. Power Query Editor

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What Power Add-In is best for visualizing geospatial data? d. 3D Maps (Power Map)

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Which of the following is not a dimension of a 3D Map layer? a. Columns

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Which of the following tools can be used to aggregate relational data from multiple sources? a. Power Pivot

10. Which of the following is not a benefit of shaping data with the Power Query Editor? d. Shaped data does not retain links to external file sources

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Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 11 1. When you are performing an advanced filter, in which argument box do you enter the range for the dataset? b. List range 2. You are entering the conditions in a criteria range to perform an advanced filter. You want to find records in which the state abbreviation is CA or WA. Where do you enter these conditions? d. CA below the STATE label and WA below the CA condition 3. Which function identifies the lowest value in a database column based on specified criteria located in a criteria range? a. DMIN 4. Which function identifies and returns the position of a value within an array? c. MATCH 5. What function should you use to look up a specified value within a database at the intersection of a specific row and column position? b. INDEX 6. Column A contains numbers such as 2021001. You enter 2021-001 in the adjoining cell in column B. What feature can you use to quickly complete the text pattern down column B? d. Flash Fill 7. A column contains phone numbers such as (801)-555-1234. What function should you use to extract the last four digits? b. RIGHT 8. A column contains names in uppercase, which is hard to read. Which function displays the names where the first letter of each word is capitalized? c. PROPER 9. A worksheet contains addresses in column C. The addresses use commas after the street, city, and state, such as 129 Elm Street, Burlington, NC, 27215. Column D contains the phone number. You use Text to Columns to divide the addresses into multiple columns using comma delimiters. You successfully divide the addresses into four columns. What happens to the phone numbers in column D? a. The phone numbers are overwritten with city names.

10. Database functions such as DSUM contain all of the following arguments except? d. Output ..

Multiple Choice Answer Key Exploring Microsoft Excel, Chapter 12 1. What does a red triangle in the upper right-hand corner of a cell indicate? a. A hidden comment 2. In Windows 10, where would you save the template so it is available in the available templates list in Backstage view? c. C:\Users\Username\Documents\Custom Office Templates 3. Where can you search and download Office templates? a. Template gallery 4. Which of the following would cause a run-time error? b. Running a macro on a protected worksheet.

5. Which tool should be used to locate and remove private metadata? c. Document Inspector 6. Which of the following is not a benefit of using macros? d. Macros cannot contain viruses 7. In which programming language are Excel macros written? c. VBA 8. Which of the following is not true about macros? d. Templates cannot contain macros.

9. Which of the following statements is true about macro security? b. Setting your Trust Center options to include files in a specific folder and then saving macro-enabled files in that folder allows you to open those files with the content enabled.

10. Which of the following is the file extension for a macro enabled template? c. xltm

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