INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED COMPUTING FOR

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Practice Class 1

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Exercise 1.

Create an Excel workbook to manage the conference booking data as following requirements:

1. Use the conditions (below) to set up useful validation rules, input messages and/or error Alerts for each
field.

Field Conditions

Add sequential numbers from 1 to 250

Number
automatically
Whole numbers –3 digits e.g. range between
Booking reference
300 and 400
Conference booking closes October 31st,
Booking date
2021

Surname Text. 10 letters allowed.

Firstname Text. 20 letters allowed.

Title Field should only accept ‘Mr’, ‘Ms’ or ‘Dr’

No. of nights Accom. Reqd. Min=0, max=3

Options are: ‘None’, ‘Vegetarian’, ‘Vegan’ or

Dairy requirements
‘No dairy’

Options are: ‘Full fee’, ‘Discount fee’ or

Category
‘Student’
Based on Category options, cost options are:
Cost
‘£350’, ‘£180’, ‘£90’ (equivalent to ‘Full fee’,
 ‘Discount fee’ or ‘Student’ respectively)
Options are: ‘Debit/Credit card’, ‘Cheque’,
Payment method
‘PayPal’ or ‘Invoice”
Breakfast Preference Options are: Fruit, Vegetable, Nut.
Based on breakfast preference, choose menu
for each category: Fruit menu: Apples,
Oranges, Cherries, Mangos, Peaches, Kiwis.
Menu Details Vegetable menu: Carrots, Broccoli, Potato,
Cauliflower, Kale.
Nut menu: Peanuts, Walnuts, Cashews,
Almonds.

2. Create your own database by filling 20 rows of the table.

3. Combine 2 columns Surname and First Name into one Full-name column
(Use formula =Column1&””&Column2)
4. Freeze field name.
5. Compute City tax rate = Cost*7%
6. Compute Total Payment = Cost + City Tax Rate
7. Format the table.

Exercise 2:

Conversio Assessment
Mid- Avg. n
No. ID Full name term Final point point
20182111 Hoàng Thị Vân Anh 7.5 8    
20182209 Vũ Thị Mai Trinh 7 6.5    
20182212 Phạm Văn Tuân 7 6.5    
20182117 Trần Quang Anh 3 7    
20182145 Ngô Việt Hoàng 8 8    
20182147 Bùi Thị Minh Hương 8.5 7    
20182123 Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Bích 6.5 7    
20182154 Đào Thúy Hường 7.5 8.5    
20192156 Đào Thị Huyền 7 6    
20182132 Trịnh Tiến Dũng 6.5 7    
20182135 Đặng Thị Thu Hà 7 6.5    
20192137 Phan Thu Hằng 7.5 6.5    
20182198 Nguyễn Quang Thiện 7 7.5    
Nguyễn Thị Thanh
20182152 Hương 8.5 8.5    
20182143 Vũ Minh Hiếu 6.5 7    
20182202 Nguyễn Thị Lệ Thu 8.5 8    
 20182204 Nguyễn Văn Toàn 5.5 7    
20182150 Nguyễn Thị Hương 8 6.5    
20182189 Dương Hồng Quân 7 7.5    
20192173 Võ Thị Mai 8 9    
20182175 Vũ Duy Mạnh 6 7.5    
20182163 Lưu Quang Linh 7.5 7.5    
20182165 Nguyễn Thị Kim Linh 7.5 7    
20182167 Hoàng Mai Ly 7.5 8    
20192170 Lưu Thị Mai 8.5 9    
20182139 Hoàng Công Hiển 7.5 8    
20182141 Bùi Trung Hiếu 7 7.5    
20182127 Phạm Thị Ngọc Diệp 7.5 8    
20182130 Nguyễn Trung Đức 6.5 7    
Nguyễn Thị Như
20182181 Nguyệt 8 7    
20192183 Triệu Yến Nhi 3 5    
20182185 Trần Thị Cẩm Nhung 7.5 6.5    
20182187 Bùi Thị Minh Phượng 7.5 8    
20182191 Trần Trung Quang 6 7.5    
20182119 Vũ Nhật Anh 7.5 7.5    
20182121 Nguyễn Trọng Bảo 6.5 7    
20182200 Nguyễn Thị Thoan 7 7.5    
20182194 Phan Văn Rơn 5.5 7    
20182196 Lê Danh Sơn 7 6.5    
20182207 Trần Thu Trang 6 9    
20182177 Bùi Mai Nga 7.5 8.5    
20192179 Ngô Thị Hoàng Ngân 8 7.5    
20192113 Ngô Hoàng Anh 8.5 7
20192115 Nguyễn Thị Vân Anh 7 8.5
20190257 Phạm Thị Uyên 7.5 7.5    
1) Add sequential numbers automatically in column No.
2) Ascending sort for column ID (Use Data/Sort),
3) Split column Full name into 2 columns: Surname & Middle name and First name. Freeze the
First-name column.
4) Avg. point = (Mid-term*0,4 + Final*0,6), round up to 0.5
5) Conversion point and rank: (Using If function)

Avg. point Conversion point Assessment

9,5 -10 A+ Pass
8,5 – < 9,5 A Pass
8 – < 8,5 B+ Pass
 7–<8 B Pass
6,5 – < 7 C+ Pass
5,5 – < 6,5 C Pass
5- < 5,5 D+ Pass
4–<5 n D Fail
<4 F Fail

6) Insert Grade Year column, classify grade year of each student based on ID (2019 = second-year
student; 2018 = third-year student)
7) Format the table