Name:____________________________ Roll-No.

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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
IPMX-## 20YY-YY
Information Technology Concepts (ITC)
Laptop-Based, Open TextBook(s), ITC End-Term Exam
Day: Term-I
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 hrs. Marks: 50
Location: IIM-L Noida campus class-room(s)

Instructions: Rar File Password: Dreams don t work unless you do

1. Sharing of TextBook(s) is NOT allowed. No Wi-Fi hotspots, thumb drives are to be used.
2. Right-clicking à extract here option, open ITC-IPMX-Sample-EndTerm.rar file with the above password.
3. Rename the extracted folder to <IPMX##ABCD_Your First Name>
4. The unzipped folder contains one workbook, with four worksheets, containing data for the questions. For
most questions, formula/ steps used and answer values obtained are to be written on this answer sheet.
5. DO NOT FORGET to fill this answer sheet with your answers. Submit this answer sheet after the exam.
6. After the submission of answer-sheets, WiFi would be enabled, to be able to email your Excel file.
7. Email the zipped folder with the solved workbook, as attachment, to vivekg.ipmx@gmail.com, and cc
to ipmxoffice@iiml.ac.in, with Sub: 20YY-IPMX-ITC-EndTerm, no later than 16:30 hrs. (4:30 pm)
8. DO NOT try to copy answers, from each other.

For Q.1 – Q.4, refer to ‘Points’ worksheet (4 x 4 = 16 marks)

Q1. In column M, while calculating Points-Earned’, a few errors, in some cells, have been generated. Find the number
of cells in column M, containing errors (of any type)
Formula used No. of Errors in Col.‘M’

Q2. Given the formula (using Vlookup function) in cell R5, to give the ‘Last-Visited-Store’ for the customer whose
‘Customer-id’ is given in cell P5. The formula in cell R5 is: =VLOOKUP(P5, A1:M10641, 11, FALSE)
Modify this formula in cell R5, so that the third argument is not 11, but rather, it should read the content of cell R4,
and then display, in cell R5, the corresponding column value, for the given ‘Customer-id’ in P5 cell.
Fill in the Blank in the following Formula

=Vlookup(P5, A1:M10641,_____________________________________________________,FALSE)

Q3. Write a formula to extract the first name of the first customer (without using ‘Text to Columns’)
Formula used First name of first customer

Q4. Currently in all the email ids, there are two underscore characters. As a new policy, the company wants to replace
all the second underscore sign in email ids by a dot (.) character. Write a formula to bring the change in email ids
Formula used New Email id of first customer

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 For Q.5 – Q.8, refer to ‘ProjectMgmt’ worksheet (4 x 4 = 16 marks)
Q5. How many activities ended on a Thursday?
Steps and Formula used Value

Q6. a. How many responsible managers are there?

b. For how many activities, Mr. Suresh is responsible.

Steps/ Formula/ Tool Used Value

Steps/ Formula used to find # activities for which Suresh is responsible Value

Q7. a. How many activities are there, which had started on a Monday, AND ended on a Friday?
b. How many activities are there, which either started on a Monday, OR ended on a Friday?

Steps/ Formula used for activities started on Mon., AND ended on Fri. Value

Steps/ Formula used for activities started on Mon., OR ended on Fri. Value

Q8. Calculate the total duration of Training Phase, using Offset function, starting from cell A1
Steps/ Formula used Value

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 For Q.9a – Q.9d, refer to ‘MutualFund’ worksheet (4 x 2 = 8 marks)
Q9. Refer to the Mutualfund sheet, to answer the following questions, using Pivot Table:

9a. In the given data, there are 259 mutual funds. What
percentage of Total Assets, belong to the fund(s), with
‘Low’ Turnover and ‘Low’ Risk.

Value obtained:

9b. How many funds belong to ‘Very High’ Risk Category

Value obtained:

9c. How many ‘Large Cap’ funds are with ‘Average’ Risk.

Value obtained:

9d. What is the Average ‘Expense Ratio’ for funds with

objective as ‘Growth’.

Value obtained:

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 For Q.10 – Q.11, refer to ‘Sales’ worksheet (2 x 2 = 04 marks)
Q10. Use conditional formatting (by writing formulas) to colour GREEN, all cells filled with positive number, and to
colour RED, all cells with negative values (excluding top header and leftmost two columns containing text).
Conditional Formula used Applies to range
For Positive Numbers:

For Negative Numbers:

Q11. Based on the selected State in cell J6 (that has validation), using conditional formatting (by writing formulas),
colour YELLOW those rows (in columns A to H), where the state in column B matches the one selected in cell J6
Conditional Formula used Applies to range

For Q.12 a, b and c parts, Use a Blank Worksheet (2 x 3 = 06 marks)

Q12. a) Calculate the current (as of 24thApril,2019), age of Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Dt. of Birth: 25thDec 1924), in
years, months and days

Formula used Age in years, months, and days

Q12. b) Write a formula, to generate positive, EVEN, integer random number, less than or equal to 100.

Formula, to generate positive, EVEN, integer random number, less than or equal to 100

Q12. c) If in cell A1, 100 is given, in cell B1, 200 is given, and in cell C1, a formula: =A1+B1+C1 is
given, then what happens? How to resolve it? When you resolve it, then what is the value obtained in
cell C1? If we want 900 in cell C1, then what we need to do?

Steps used

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