MS Excel MCQ Questions and Answers (Microsoft Office)

MS Excel MCQ
1. what is the extension file excel 2004 ?
a) .xls b) .excel c) .xcel d) .xcl
Ans. A
2. what is the extension file excel 2007 and above ?
a) .xls b) .excel c) .xlsx d) .xcl
Ans. C
3. Worksheet is also called an array of____.
a) column b) cells c) box d) formula
Ans. b
4. How Cells are named in MS Excel?
A Alphabetically B Numerically
C Alphanumerically D Special Character
Ans. c
5. What is the maximum limit of rows in MS Excel 2010?
A 1084567 B 1048567 C 1048576 D 1084576
Ans. c
6. What is the maximum limit of column in MS Excel 2010?
A 16384 B 16438 C 16843 D 16348
Ans. a
7. Which bar lies top of the window in Excel Screen?
A Status Bar B Ruler C Title Bar D Scroll Bar
Ans. c
8. How rows are numbered in MS Excel?
A Alphabetically B Numerically C Alphanumerically D Special characters
Ans. b
9. How columns are named in MS Excel?
A Alphabetically B Numerically C Alphanumerically D Special characters
Ans. a
10. Which tab is used to include pivot table, charts, hyperlinks to a spread sheet?
A Insert B Page Layout C Data D Review
Ans. a
11. Which tab in Excel is used when importing, querying, outlining and subtotaling the data placed
into a worksheet’s data list?
A Formula B Data
C Review D Insert
Ans. b
12. Which tab in Excel is used for proofing, protecting, and marking up a spread sheet?
A Formula B Data
C Review D View
Ans. c

13. Which tool in Ms office is best for organizing data and making lists?
A Access B Excel C Power Point D Word
Ans. b
14.What is the file extension of Excel 2010?
A xls B xlsb C xlsm D xlsx
Ans. d
15. How does the single element in a worksheet known as in Excel?
A Cell B Column C Range D Row
Ans. a
16. What do you mean by A3,B13:B20,C7 reference in Excel?
A Range B Union C Formula D General
Ans. a
17. Which type of key should combine with ctrl key to create a macro key in Excel?
A Numeric B Alphabetic C Alphanumeric D Special characters
Ans. b
18. Which bar is used to display the sheet information and insertion point location in MS Excel?
A Ruler B Scroll Bar C Status Bar D Title Bar
Ans. c
19. Which tab is used to change the display of worksheet area and the data it contains?
A Page Layout B Data C Review D View
Ans. d
20. Which view in Excel displays the pages exactly as they appear when printed?
A Custom View B Full screen View C Page Break View D Page Layout view
Ans. d
21. Which tab is used for creating, formatting and editing a spreadsheet?
A Data B Home C Insert D Review
Ans. b
22. Which function is used to count the number of cells that contain numbers, in a range?
A Count () B Countif() C Sum() D Sumif()
Ans. a
23. Which function is used to add the values in a range?
A Count() B Sum()
C ABS() D Sumif()
Ans. b
24. which symbol is used to excute formulas in MS Excel?
A =
B ‘
C #
D “
Ans. a

25. Where does the result displays when a formula is entered in Excel?
A Current Cell
B Next Cell
C Previous Cell
D Formula Bar
Ans. a
26. Which function in Excel is used to find the biggest value in a range?
A Ceiling B DMAX C LEN D MAX
Ans. d
27. Which one of the following is a text function in MS Excel?
A MID() B NOW() C COUNT() D SIGN
Ans. a
28. Which one of the following is a ‘Date & Time’ function in Excel?
A FIND() B MOD() C NOW() D MID()
Ans. c
29. Which function is used to find the middle number in a range?
A MEDIAN() B MID() C TRIM() D MODE()
Ans. a
30. What is the purpose ‘Tab’ key in MS Excel?
A Moves cell pointer to previous column B Moves cell pointer to next column
C Moves cell pointer previous row D Moves cell pointer next row
Ans. b
31. What is the purpose of ‘Enter Key’ in MS Excel?
A Moves cell pointer to previous column B Moves cell pointer to next column
C Moves cell pointer to previous row D Moves cell pointer to next row
Ans. d
32. Which function key is used to open go to dialogue box in MS Excel?
A F2 B F5 C F7 D F11
Ans. b
33. Which option in MS Excel is used to display the rows that meet certain conditions?
A Find B Filter C Format D Sort
Ans. b
34. Which option in Excel is used to rearrange the rows base on the content of a particular
column?
A Find B Filter C Sort D Format
Ans. c
35. Which type of addressing is used to keep rows constant and column changes and vice versa
while copying a formula from one area of the worksheet to another in Excel?
A Mixed
B General
C Relative
D Absolute
Ans. a

36. Which one of the following is ‘no argument’ function?
A Now() B Lower() C Max() D IF()
Ans. a
37. Which key is used to move the insertion point to the beginning of the current sheet?
A Pageup B Home
C Ctrl + pageup D Ctrl + Home
Ans. d
38. Which key is used to make multiple line in a single cell?
A Alt+ ↵ B Tab+↵ C Ctrl+ ↵ D Shift+ ↵
Ans. a
39. Columns in MS Excel are named in the form of ______.
(a) alphabets (A, B, C, D,...) (b) numbers (1,2,3,4,...)
(c) roman numerals (I,II, III, IV,...) (d) none of them
Ans. a
40. Rows in MS Excel are named in the form of_____ .
(a) alphabets (A, B, C, D,...) (b) numbers (1,2,3,4,...)
(c) roman numerals (I,II, III, IV,...) (d) none of them
Ans. b
41. The intersection of a row and column in MS Excel is called _______ .
(a) spreadsheet (b) workbook (c) document (d) cell
Ans. d
42. The cell having and column number 3 and row number 6 is denoted by the name ______.
(a) F3 (b) C6 (c) C3 (d) F6
Ans. b
43. In MS Excel, a function is entered by typing ______ symbol first.
(a) @ (b) $ (c) # (d) =
Ans. d
44. MS Excel can ______given data.
(a) sort (b) statistically analyze (c) draw graphs for (d) all of them
Ans. d
45. The latest version of MS Excel can have ______rows.
(a) 10,48,576(b) 16,384 (c) 1024 (d) 512
Ans. a
46. The latest version of MS Excel can have ______columns.
(a) 10,48,576(b) 16,384 (c) 1024 (d) 512
Ans. b
47. Excel supports recording of repeated actions with the help of ______.
(a) graph (b) chart
(c) macro (d) other applications
Ans. c

48. MS Excel macros can be invoked using_______.
(a) button (b) keystroke (c) both a & b (d) neither a nor b
Ans. c
49. MS Excel supports a version of Visual Basic called ______for programming.
(a) Javascript (b) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
(c) ASP.NET (d) C#.NET
Ans. b
50. Each sheet in MS Excel file is called a ______.
(a) workbook (b) worksheet (c) notesheet (d) notebook
Ans. b
51. By default, Excel worksheets are named _______.
(a) book1, book2, book3, ... (b) sheet1, sheet2, sheet3,...
(c) page1, page2, page3, ... (d) note1, note2, note3, ...
Ans. b
52. Excel file without any macros has the default extension of ______.
(a) .xlsx (b) .xls (c) .xlsm (d) .xlst
Ans. a
53. Excel file containing macros has the default extension of______ .
(a) .xlsx (b) .xls (c) .xlsm (d) .xlst
Ans. c
54. MS Excel can reference data in _______.
(a) the same sheet
(b) different sheet in the same workbook
(c) different sheet in a different workbook
(d) all of them
Ans. d
55. In MS Excel, the common type of dataapplicable to any cell is called _____ data type.
(a) General (b) Number (c) Currency (d) Text
Ans. a
56. In MS Excel, the data type suitable forhandling numbers is called _______data type.
(a) General (b) Number (c) Currency (d) Text
Ans. b
57. In MS Excel, number data type can control the ________.
(a) digit grouping (b) number of decimal places
(c) both a & b (d) neither a nor b
Ans. c
58. In MS Excel, numbers can be grouped and prefixed with a currency symbol using _____ data
type.
(a) Accounting
(b) Currency
(c) both a & b
(d) neither a nor b
Ans. c

59. In MS Excel, ______data type is suitable for handling dates.
(a) Date (b) Time (c) Percentage (d) Fraction
Ans. a
60. In MS Excel, _______data type is suitable for handling time values.
Ans. b
61. In MS Excel, _______ data type takes values between 0 and 1 and displays them in
percentage format.
(a) Date
(b) Time
(c) Percentage
(d) Fraction
Ans. c
62. In MS Excel,_______ data type displays decimal fractions as vulgar or mixed fractions.
Ans. d
63. In MS Excel, ______data type displays numbers in scientific notation.
(a) Scientific (b) Text (c) Custom (d) Date
Ans. a
64. In MS Excel, _____data type is suitable for names and other character sequences.
Ans. b
65. In MS Excel, _____data type supports formatting of numbers with suitable customization.
Ans. c
66. In MS Excel, for the number 45453453to be displayed as 4,54,53,453.0, the custom format
could be________ .
(a) ##,##,##,##0.0 (b) ###,###,##0.0 (c) ########0.0 (d) ##,##,##,###.#
Ans. a
67. In custom formatting of numbers, an optional digit is denoted by ________symbol.
(a) 0 (b) # (c) $ (d) ^
Ans. b
68. In custom formatting of numbers, a compulsory/ mandatory digit is denoted by_____ symbol.
(a) 0 (b) # (c) $ (d) ^
Ans. a
69. When copying and pasting an excel formula, the method which permits formula to
progressively update cell references is called ______ referencing system.
(a) static (b) semi-relative (c) relative (d) none of them
Ans. c

70. When copying and pasting an excel formula, the method which permits formula to
progressively update either column reference or row reference (but not both column and row
references) is called ________referencing system.
Ans. b
71. When copying and pasting an excel formula, the method which keeps references to a
particular cell address is called ______ referencing system.
Ans. a
72. The formula = A5 *5is written in ______system.
Ans. c
73. The formula = A5 * 5, when copied tothe next row of the same column, willbecome _______
system.
(a) = A4 * 5 (b) = B5 *5 (c) = A7 *5 (d) = A6 *5
Ans. d
74. In MS Excel, _______ functions help to access databases stored in spreadsheets.
(a) Cube/ Database (b) Date/ Time (c) Engineering (d) Financial
Ans. a
75. ______functions help to access date and time functions in MS Excel.
Ans. b
76. _______ functions help to access base conversion, logarithmic and other Engineering features
in MS Excel.
Ans. c
77. In MS Excel, ______functions help to access interest calculation, accounting and currency
related calculations.
Ans. d
78. In MS Excel, ______functions help to check the status of cells, as to whether the cell is blank,
contains a number, text, type of data, etc.
(a) Information (b) Logical (c) Lookup & reference (d) Math & Trigonometric
Ans. a
79. In MS Excel, _______ functions help to make logical functions like AND, OR, NOT, etc.
Ans. b
80. In MS Excel, ______functions help to make lookup in other sheets and references.
(a) Information (b) Logical
(c) Lookup & reference (d) Math & Trigonometric
Ans. c

81. In MS Excel, mathematical functions like round, absolute, ceiling, floor, etc. and trigonometric
functions like sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, etc are containing the category of _______.
Ans. d
82. In MS Excel, statistical functions like average, standard deviation, median, mode, etc. can be
accessed under the category ________ .
(a) Logical (b) Lookup & reference (c) Math & Trigonometric (d) Statistical
Ans. d
83. In MS Excel, functions for length of text, text search, text concatenation, upper, lower and
proper, etc. can be accessed under the category _______ .
(a) Text (b) Logical (c) Lookup & reference (d) Math & Trigonometric
Ans. a
84. _______ function in MS Excel takes year, month and date values and displays given date.
(a) DATE (b) DATEDIF (c) DATEVALUE (d) DAY
Ans. a
85. _______ function in MS Excel takes a date value and returns the day of month.
Ans. d
86. _____function in MS Excel takes 2 date values and calculates the difference between the
dates in years ("Y"), months ("M") or days ("D").
Ans. b
87. _____function in MS Excel takes a date string and returns parsed date value.
Ans. c
88. ______function in MS Excel returns number of days between given dates.
(a) DAYS/ DAYS360 (b) EDATE (c) EOMONTH (d) HOUR
Ans. a
89. ______function in MS Excel takes a date, number of months to offset from that date and
returns new date.
Ans. b
90. ______ function in MS Excel returns last date of the month represented by given date.
Ans. c
91. _______ function in MS Excel returns the hour represented by the given time.
Ans. d
92. ______function in MS Excel returns minutes from a time value.
(a) MINUTES (b) SECOND (c) EOMONTH (d) HOUR
Ans. a

93. ______ function in MS Excel returns seconds from a time value.
(a) MINUTES (b) SECOND (c) EOMONTH (d) HOUR
Ans. b
94. ______function in MS Excel returns current time.
(a) MINUTES (b) SECOND (c) NOW (d) HOUR
Ans. c
95. ______function in MS Excel returns current date.
(a) MINUTES (b) SECOND (c) NOW (d) TODAY
Ans. d
96. _____function in MS Excel returns day of week for given date.
(a) WEEKDAY (b) WORKDAY (c) YEAR (d) YEARFRAC
Ans. a
97. _______ function in MS Excel returns the date after given number of working days.
Ans. b
98. ______ function in MS Excel returns the year part of given date.
Ans. c
99. ______function in MS Excel returns fractional year between given dates.
(a) WEEKDAY (b) WORKDA (c) YEAR (d) YEARFRAC
Ans. d
100. In MS Excel, _______function converts a binary number to decimal number.
(a) BIN2DEC (b) BIN2HEX (c) BIN2OCT (d) BITAND
Ans. a
101. In MS Excel, _______function converts a binary number to hexadecimal number.
Ans. b
102. In MS Excel, ______function converts a binary number to octal number.
Ans. c
103. In MS Excel, _______function performs bitwise AND operation.
Ans. d
104. In MS Excel, ______function performs bitwise OR operation.
(a) BITOR (b) BITSHIFT (c) BITXOR (d) BITAND
Ans. a
105. In MS Excel, function performs bitwise right shift operation.
(a) BITOR (b) BITSHIFT
(c) BITXOR (d) BITAND
Ans. b

106. In MS Excel,_______ function performs bitwise XOR operation.
(a) BITOR (b) BITSHIFT (c) BITXOR (d) BITAND
Ans. c
107. In MS Excel, ________ function converts decimal number to binary number.
(a) COVNERT (b) DEC2BIN (c) DEC2HEX (d) DEC2OCT
Ans. b
108. In MS Excel, _______function converts decimal number to hexadecimal number.
Ans. c
109. In MS Excel, _______function converts decimal number to octal number.
Ans. d
110. In MS Excel, _______ function returns 1 if given values are equal.
(a) DELTA (b) DEC2BIN (c) DEC2HEX (d) DEC2OCT
Ans. a
111. In MS Excel, _______ function converts hexadecimal number to binarynumber.
(a) DELTA (b) HEX2BIN
(c) HEX2DEC (d) HEX2OCT
Ans. b
112. In MS Excel, ______ function converts hexadecimal number to decimal number.
(a) DELTA (b) HEX2BIN (c) HEX2DEC (d) HEX2OCT
Ans. c
113. In MS Excel, ______function converts hexadecimal number to octal number.
(a) DELTA (b) HEX2BIN (c) HEX2DEC (d) HEX2OCT
Ans. d
114. In MS Excel, ______ function returns true if a cell is blank.
(a) ISBLANK (b) ISERR (c) ISEVEN (d) ISODD
Ans. a
115. In MS Excel, ______function returns true if there is an error in the formula contained in given
cell.
Ans. b
116. In MS Excel, ______function returns true if the given cell contains an even number.
Ans. c
117. In MS Excel, ________function returns true if the given cell contains an odd number.
Ans. d
118. In MS Excel, ______function returns true if the given cell contains a formula.
(a) ISFORMULA (b) ISERR (c) ISEVEN (d) ISODD
Ans. a

119. In MS Excel, _______function returns true if the given cell a logical value (TRUE or FALSE).
(a) ISNUMBER (b) ISNONTEXT (c) ISNA (d) ISLOGICAL
Ans. d
120. In MS Excel, ______ function returns true if the given cell contains a number.
Ans. a
121. In MS Excel, ______ function returns true if the given cell contains Logical value (TRUE or
FALSE).
Ans. d
122. In MS Excel, _______function returns true if the given cell contains a value other than text
(number, logical, etc.).
Ans. b
123. In MS Excel, _______function returns true if #NA error has occurred.
Ans. c
124. In MS Excel, _______ function returns number equivalent of text value.
(a) N (b) NA (c) TYPE (d) AND
Ans. a
125. In MS Excel, _______function returns #NA error number.
Ans. b
126. In MS Excel, _______function returns a number corresponding to the data type of the cell.
Ans. c
127. In MS Excel, ________function returns true only if all the given conditions are true.
(a) OR (b) FALSE (c) TRUE (d) AND
Ans. d
128. In MS Excel, ________function returns true even if just one of the given conditions is true.
(a) OR (b) FALSE (c) TRUE (d) AND
Ans. a
129. In MS Excel, ______function tests the condition given in the first part, executes second part if
the condition is true or executes third part if the condition is false.
(a) OR (b) IF (c) TRUE (d) AND
Ans. b
130. In MS Excel, ________function returns positive value irrespective of whether the input is
positive or negative.
(a) ABS (b) ASIN
(c) ACOS (d) ATAN
Ans. a

131. In MS Excel, ______ function returns aggregate value like count, sum, average, etc.
(a) ARABIC (b) ASINH (c) ATANH (d) AGGREGATE
Ans. d
132. In MS Excel, ______function returns hyperbolic sin value.
(a) ACOSH (b) ASINH (c) ATANH (d) AGGREGATE
Ans. b
133. In MS Excel, ______function returns hyperbolic cosine value.
Ans. a
134. In MS Excel, ______function returns hyperbolic tan value.
Ans. c
135. In MS Excel, ________function returns the integer just above a fractional number.
(a) CEILING (b) FLOOR (c) ROUND (d) ROUNDDOWN
Ans. a
136. In MS Excel, ______function returns the integer just below a fractional number.
Ans. b
137. In MS Excel, ______function returns the number rounded to the given digits.
Ans. c
138. In MS Excel, _____function returns the number rounded DOWN to the given digits, simply
discarding the trailing value even if it is greater than or equal to 5.
Ans. d
139. In MS Excel, ______function returns the number rounded UP to the given digits, simply
discarding the trailing value even if it is greater than or equal to 5.
(a) ROUNDUP (b) FLOOR (c) ROUND (d) ROUNDDOWN
Ans. a
140. In MS Excel, ______function converts given angle from radian to degrees.
(a) DEGREES b) RADIANS (c) EVEN (d) ODD
Ans. a
141. In MS Excel, ______function converts given angle from degrees to radians.
(a) DEGREES (b) RADIANS (c) EVEN (d) ODD
Ans. b
142. In MS Excel, ______ function returns the nearest even number.
Ans. c
143. In MS Excel, ______function returns the nearest odd number.
Ans. d

144. In MS Excel, _____function returns the exponential value for given number.
(a) EXP (b) LN (c) LOG/ LOG10 (d) FACT
Ans. a
145. In MS Excel, _______function returns the natural logarithm for given number.
Ans. b
146. In MS Excel, _____function returns the common logarithm (to the base 10) for given number.
Ans. c
147. In MS Excel, _______function returns the factorial of given number in integer format.
(a) FACTDOUBLE (b) LN (c) LOG/ LOG10 (d) FACT
Ans. d
148. In MS Excel, ______function returns the factorial of given number in double number format.
(a) FACTDOUBLE (b) LN (c) LOG/ LOG10 (d) FACT
Ans. a
149. In MS Excel, ______function returns the greatest common divisor for given numbers.
(a) FACTDOUBLE (b) GCD (c) LCM (d) INT
Ans. b
150. In MS Excel, _____ function returns the least common multiple for given numbers.
Ans. c
151. In MS Excel, ______function returns the integer equivalent of given number, after discarding
fractional parts.
Ans. d
152. In MS Excel, _____function returns the determinant of given matrix.
(a) MDTERM (b) MINVERSE (c) MMUL (d) MOD
Ans. a
151. In MS Excel, ______function returns the inverse of given matrix.
Ans. b
152. In MS Excel, ______function returns the multiplication result of given matrix.
Ans. c
153. In MS Excel, ______function returns the module remainder for given number and divisor.
(a) QUOTIENT (b) MINVERSE (c) MMUL (d) MOD
Ans. d
154. In MS Excel, _______function returns the quotient for given number and divisor.
(a) QUOTIENT (b) MINVERSE (c) MMUL (d) MOD
Ans. a

155. In MS Excel, _____function returns the number rounded to the nearest multiple of the second
argument.
(a) PI (b) POWER (c) MROUND (d) RAND
Ans. c
156. In MS Excel, ______function returns the power of given number raised by second argument.
Ans. b
157. In MS Excel, ______function returns a random number.
Ans. d
158. In MS Excel, ___function returns a random number between given lower limit and upper limit.
(a) PI (b) POWER (c) MROUND (d) RANDBETWEEN
Ans. d
159. In MS Excel, ______function converts a number from Roman numeral to Arabic numeral.
(a) ROMAN (b) ARABIC (c) SIGN (d) SQRT
Ans. b
160. In MS Excel, _______function converts a number from Arabic numeral to Roman numeral.
Ans. a
161. In MS Excel, ______ function returns the square root of the given number.
Ans. d
162. In MS Excel, ______function returns the subtotal of given numbers.
(a) SUBTOTAL (b) SUM (c) SUMIF (d) SUMSQ
Ans. a
163. In MS Excel, ______function returns the sum of given numbers.
Ans. b
164. In MS Excel, _____function returns the sum of squares of given numbers.
Ans. d
165. In MS Excel, _____function returns the sum of those numbers that fulfill given condition.
(a) SUBTOTAL (b) SUM (c) SUMIF d) SUMSQ
Ans. c
166. In MS Excel, _____function truncates decimal digits of given real number to produce an
integer value.
(a) TRUNC
(b) SUM
(c) SUMIF
(d) SUMSQ
Ans. a

167. In MS Excel, ______ function calculates the average absolute (unsigned) deviation.
(a) AVERAGE (b) AVEDEV (c) AVERAGEIFS (d) CORREL
Ans. b
168. In MS Excel, ______function calculates the average of given numbers.
Ans. a
169. In MS Excel, _______ function calculates the average of given numbers which fulfill the given
conditions.
Ans. c
170. In MS Excel, _______ function calculates the coefficient of correlation.
Ans. d
171. In MS Excel, _______function counts the number of objects.
(a) COUNT (b) DEVSQ (c) FORECAST (d) COUNTBLANK
Ans. a
172. In MS Excel, ______function counts the number of blank cells.
Ans. d
173. In MS Excel, ______function returns the sum of squares of deviations.
Ans. b
174. In MS Excel, ______function counts the items based on given condition.
(a) COUNT (b) DEVSQ (c) FORECAST (d) COUNTIF
Ans. d
175. In MS Excel, ______function counts the items based on given conditions.
(a) COUNT (b) DEVSQ (c) FORECAST (d) COUNTIFS
Ans. d
176. In MS Excel, ______function provides a linear estimate of the result expected for given input.
(a) COUNT (b) DEVSQ (c) FORECAST (d) COUNTIFS
Ans. c
177. In MS Excel, _______function provides an exponential estimate of the result expected for
given input.
(a) GROWTH (b) GEOMEAN (c) LARGE (d) MEDIAN
Ans. a
178. In MS Excel, ______function returns the median value of a list.
(a) GROWTH
(b) GEOMEAN
(c) LARGE
(d) MEDIAN
Ans. d

179. In MS Excel, ______function returns geometric mean.
(a) GROWTH (b) GEOMEAN (c) LARGE (d) MEDIAN
Ans. b
180. In MS Excel, ______function returns the largest value from a list.
(a) MAX (b) MIN (c) PERMUT (d) RANK
Ans. a
181. In MS Excel, ______function returns the smallest value from a list.
Ans. b
182. In MS Excel, ______function returns result of permutations.
Ans. c
183. In MS Excel, _______function returns the rank of given number when compared to a list of
numbers.
Ans. d
184. In MS Excel, _______ function returns the nth smallest value from a sorted list.
(a) MAX (b) SMALL (c) PERMUT (d) RANK
Ans. b
185. In MS Excel, ______function returns the standard deviation of given numbers.
(a) MAX (b) SMALL (c) PERMUT (d) STDEV
Ans. d
186. In MS Excel, _______function returns the character equivalent of numeric ASCII value.
(a) CHAR (b) CODE (c) DOLLAR (d) CONCATENATE
Ans. a
187. In MS Excel, ______function returns the ASCII code for given character value.
Ans. b
188. ASCII stands for ______.
(a) American Standard Code for Information Interface
(b) African Standard Code for Information Interchange
(c) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(d) American Standard Character for Information Interchange
Ans. c
189. In MS Excel, ______function formats a number as currency and prefixes the currency symbol
of the locale.
Ans. c
190. In MS Excel, ______function appends several strings one after the other.
Ans. d

191. In MS Excel, _______function compares two text values.
(a) FORMAT (b) LEFT (c) EXACT (d) FIND
Ans. c
192. In MS Excel, ______ function returns the location of the first string occurring within the
second, larger string.
Ans. d
193. In MS Excel, _______function formats given number based on rules provided using # and 0
characters.
Ans. a
194. In MS Excel, ______function returns the leftmost character of a string.
(a) FORMAT (b) LEFT (c) EXACT (d) RIGHT
Ans. b
195. In MS Excel,______ function returns the rightmost character of a string.
(a) FORMAT (b) LEFT (c) EXACT (d) RIGHT
Ans. d
196. In MS Excel, ______function returns the length of given string.
(a) LOWER (b) UPPER (c) PROPER (d) LEN
Ans. d
197. In MS Excel, ______function returns the lower case version of given string.
Ans. a
198. In MS Excel, ______function returns the upper case version of given string.
Ans. b
199. In MS Excel, ______ function returns the first letter capitalized version of given string.
Ans. c
200. In MS Excel, ______function returns a string after replacing given characters of first string
using the last string.
(a) SEARCH (b) REPLACE (c) REPT (d) LOWER
Ans. b
201. In MS Excel,______ function repeats a string for given number of times.
Ans. c
202. In MS Excel, ______function returns the location of the first string occurring inside the second
string.
Ans. a

203. In MS Excel, _____function returns a string only when the given input is a string, returning
blank value otherwise.
(a) TEXT (b) SUBSTITUTE (c) TRIM (d) T
Ans. d
204. In MS Excel, ______function returns formatted version of given number.
(a) T (b) TEXT (c) SUBSTITUTE (d) TRIM
Ans. b
205. In MS Excel, ______function substitutes new text in place of given old text.
(a) T (b) TEXT (c) SUBSTITTE (d) TRIM
Ans. c
206. In MS Excel, _____function removes space at the beginning or end of a string.
(a) T (b) TEXT (c) SUBSTITTE (d) TRIM
Ans. d
207. In MS Excel, _____function converts given text to number.
(a) T (b) VALUE c) SUBSTITTE (d) TRIM
Ans. b
208. Data can be sorted using _____ menu in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter
(b) Data>Sort
(c) Data>What if analysis>Data table
(d) Data>What if analysis>Pivot table
Ans. b
209. To sort data in MS Excel, _______containing data for sorting should be selected.
(a) all the cells (b) just the column (c) just one row (d) only one cell
Ans. a
210. The sort dialog in MS Excel contains a tick box named ______ to select whether the data
contains a header row or not.
(a) My data contains footers
(b) My data contains errors
(c) My data contains pictures
(d) My data contains headers
Ans. d
211. The sorting dialog in MS Excel contains ______boxes to choose sorting criteria.
(a) column name to be used for sorting (b) whether to sort by value, color or icon
(c) whetherto sort ascending or descending (d) all of them
Ans. d
212. In MS Excel, if the sorting requires several levels of criteria, the same can be added using
________ button in sorting dialog.
(a) Add level
(b) add row
(c) add column
(d) add filter
Ans. a

213. Data can be filtered using _____ menu in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter
(b) Data>Sort
(c) Data>What if analysis>Data table
Ans. a
214. For applying filtering, the data should contain ______.
(a)no header row (b) header row (c) footer row (d) pivot table
Ans. b
215. After selecting data and invoking Data>Filter from the menu, a _____appears in each column
of the first row to enable filtering.
(a) circle (b) square (c) triangular button (d) red dot
Ans. c
216. The triangular filter button at header row of data helps sorting of data using _____.
(a) ascending/descending order
(b) color
(c) search specific values or applying filter conditions for numbers
(d) all of them
Ans. d
217. After selecting the cells to be subjected to data validation, choose_____ from the menu to
validate data in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter (b) Data>Sort
(c) Data>Validation (d) Data>What if analysis>Pivot table
Ans. c
218. In MS Excel, permitting data values in specific range for entry in a cell is called _____of data.
(a) validation (b) sorting (c) filtering (d) chart
Ans. a
219. The data validation dialog shows, allow criterion with______ conditions.
(a) between/ not between (b) equal to/ not equal to
(c) >; <;_;_ (d) all of them
Ans. d
220. In MS Excel, data violating the validation rule may be_______ using Data>Validation>Circle
invalid data.
(a) encircled (b) deleted (c) sorted (d) coloured
Ans. a
221. In MS Excel, to display a specific error message for invalid data entry, _____tab in validation
dialog can be opened to set a custom message.
(a) Error display (b) Input message (c) Output message (d) Result message
Ans. a
222. MS Excel supports _____ type chart.
(a) column/ bar (b) pie/ area/ stock/ surface/ doughnut/ bubble/ radar
(c) scatter/ line (d) all of them
Ans. d

223. The data used for charting should have_____ to decide the graph parameters like axis name.
(a) header row (b) footer row (c) blank row (d) blank column
Ans. a
224. In MS Excel, pie chart may be inserted using_____ menu.
(a) Insert>Pie (b) Insert>Column (c) Insert>Bar (d) Insert>line
Ans. a
225. In MS Excel, bar chart may be inserted using _____menu.
Ans. c
226. In MS Excel, column chart may be inserted using _____menu.
Ans. b
227. In MS Excel, line chart may be inserted using _____menu.
Ans. d
228. In MS Excel, scatter chart may be inserted using_____ menu.
(a) Insert>Pie (b) Insert>Column (c) Insert>Bar (d) Insert>X-Y scatter
Ans. d
229. In MS Excel, charts may be customizedby _______ on appropriate element ofthe graph.
(a) selecting (b) right clicking (c) both a & b (d) none of them
Ans. c
230. Results for several input values can be calculated based on one sample result using_____
menu in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter
(b) Data>Sort
(c) Data>What if analysis>Pivot table
(d) Data>What if analysis>Data table
Ans. d
231. In MS Excel, for a row wise data table,fill input values in top row, calculate result for first
column ________ in the second row and choose in the Data table dialog.
(a) Row Input and Result
(b) Column Input and Result
(c) both row input and column input along with result
(d) none of them
Ans. a
232. In MS Excel, for a column wise data table, fill input values in left column, calculate result for
first row in the right side column and choose _______ in the Data table dialog.
(d) none of them
Ans. b

233. In MS Excel, to calculate results based on two input values (like a matrix), choose ______
from the Data table dialog.
(d) none of them
Ans. c
234. In MS Excel, summary of data in a table may be created using ______.
(a) data table (b) pivot table (c) chart (d) validation
Ans. c
235. In MS Excel, data meant for pivot table may be converted to a table using first.
(a) Insert>Table (b) Insert>Pie (c) Insert>Column (d) Insert>Scatter
Ans. a
236. In MS Excel, pivot table may be inserted using ______ first.
(a) Insert>Table
(b) Insert>Pivot>Pivot table
(c) Insert>Pivot>Pivot chart
(d) Insert>Scatter
Ans. b
237. In MS Excel, pivot chart may be inserted using first.
(a) Insert>Table
(b) Insert>Pivot>Pivot table
(c) Insert>Pivot>Pivot chart
(d) Insert>Scatter
Ans. c
238. After selecting the cells to be subjected to data validation, choose ______ from the menu to
apply goal seek in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter
(b) Data>What if analysis>Data table
(c) Data>What if analysis>Goal seek
Ans. c
239. In MS Excel, adjusting an input value to get specific result is called _______ .
(a) goal seek
(b) charting
(c) sorting
(d) validation
Ans. a
240. In MS Excel, after choosing Data>What if analysis>Goal seek from the menu, a dialog
appears to take _______values.
(a) desired result
(b) input cell in which values are to changed
(c) both a & b
(d) none of them
Ans. c

241. After selecting the cells to be subjected to data validation, choose from the menu to apply
scenario in MS Excel.
(a) Data>Filter
(b) Data>What if analysis>Data table
(c) Data>What if analysis>Goal seek
(d) Data>What if analysis>Scenario
Ans. d
242. In MS Excel, creating resulting conditions based on several uncertain future conditions is
called _______ .
(a) validation (b) scenario (c) goal seek (d) charting
Ans. b
243. Each scenario created using MS Excel may contain______ .
(a) a title (b) a selection of cells which are affected by that scenario
(c) both a & b (d) none of them
Ans. c
244. After creating several scenario representing future conditions, resulting conditions may be
displayed by choosing ______.
(a) appropriate scenario from the scenarios box
(b) charting
(c) validation
(d) sorting
Ans. a
245. Except for the …… function, a formula with a logical function shows the word “TRUE” or
“FALSE” as a result
a. IF b. AND c. OR d. NOT
Ans: a
246. Macros are “run” or executed from the …..menu.
a. Insert b. Format c. Tools d. Data
Correct Answer: c
247. You can open the consolidate dialog box by choosing Consolidate from the …..menu.
a. Insert
b. Format
c. Tools
d. Data
Correct Answer: d
248. Each excel file is called a workbook because
a. It can contain text and data
b. It can be modified
c. It can contain many sheets including worksheets and chart sheets
d. You have to work hard to create it
Correct Answer: c
249. Which types of charts can excel produce?
a. Line graphs and pie charts only b. Only line graphs
c. Bar charts, line graphs and pie charts d. Bar charts and line graphs only
Correct Answer: c

250. What does the VLOOKUP function do?
a. Looks up text that contain ‘v’
b. Checks whether text is the same in one cell as in the next
c. Finds related records
d. All of above
Correct Answer: c
251. Gridlines
a. May be turned off for display but turned on for printing
b. May be turned on or off for printing
c. The be turned off for display and printing
d. a, b and c
Correct Answer: d
252. You can print only an embedded chart by
a. Moving the chart to a chart sheet before you print. b. Formatting the chart before you print
c. Selecting the chart before you print d. a and c
Correct Answer: d
253. Which of the following is a correct order of precedence in a formula calculation?
a. Multiplication and division, exponential positive and negative value
b. Multiplication and division, positive and negative values, addition and subtraction
c. Addition and subtraction, positive and negative values, exponentiation
d. None of above
Correct Answer: d
254. How should you print a selected area of a worksheet, if you’ll want to print a different area
next time?
a. On the file menu, point to print area, and then click set print area.
b. On the file menu, click print, and then click selection under print what
c. On the view menu, click custom views, then click add
d. All of above
Correct Answer: b
255. Which function calculates your monthly mortage payment?
a. PMT (payments)
b. NPER (number of periods)
c. PV (present value)
d. All of above
Correct Answer: a
256. If you are working in English (US), Chinese or Japanese, Excel 2002 can speak data as you
enter it, to help you verify accuracy. How do you activate this feature?
a. Point to speech on the tools menu, and then click show text to speech toolbar.
b. Click validation on the data menu
c. Point to speech on the tools menu, and then click speech recognition
d. All of above
Correct Answer: a

257. Which of the following methods can not be used to enter data in a cell?
a. Pressing an arrow key
b. Pressing the tab key
c. Pressing the Esc key
d. Clicking the enter button to the formula bar
Correct Answer: c.
258. Which of the following will not set text in selected cells to italics?
a. Pressing Ctrl + I on the keyboard
b. Using the Tools > Wizard > Web Form menu item
c. Using the Format > Cells >Font menu item
d. None of the above
Correct Answer: b
259. Which of the following methods cannot be used to edit the content of cell?
a. Pressing the Alt key
b. Clicking the formula bar
c. Pressing F2
d. Double clicking the cell
Correct Answer: a
260. What type of charts is useful for comparing values over categories?
a) Pie chart b) Column chart c) Line chart d) Dot chart
Ans. b
261. A Feature that displays only the data in column according to specified criteria
a) Formula b) Sorting c) Filtering d) Pivot
Ans. c
262. Statistical calculations and preparation of tables and graphs can be done using
a) Adobe Photoshop b) Excel c) Notepad d) Wordpad
Ans. b
263. Which of the following format you can decide to apply or not in Auto Format dialog Box?
a) Number format
b) Border Format
c) Font Format
d) All of these
Ans. d
264. How can you remove borders applied in cells?
a) Choose None on Border tab of Format cells
b) Open the list on Border tool in Formatting toolbar then choose first tool (no border)
c) Both A and B
d) None of these
Ans. c
265. Where can you set the shading color for a range of cells in Excel?
a) Choose required color from Patterns tab of Format Cells dialog box
b) Choose required color on Fill Color tool in Formatting toolbar
c) Choose required color on Fill color tool in Drawing toolbar
d) All of these
Ans. d

266. You can set Page Border in Excel from
a) From Border tab in Format Cells dialog box b) From Border tool in Formatting toolbar
c) From Line style tool in Drawing toolbar d) You can not set page boarder in Excel
Ans. d
267. When all the numbers between 0 and 100 in a range should be displayed in Red Color, apply
a) Use =if() function to format the required numbers red
b) Apply conditional Formatting command on Format menu
c) Select the cells that contain number between 0 and 100 then click Red color on Text Color tool
d) All of these
Ans. b
268. Which of the following is invalid statement?
a) Sheet tabs can be colored
b) Some picture can be applied as a background of a sheet
c) You can set the column width automatically fit the amount of text
d) The width of a row and be specified manually or fit automatically
Ans. d
269. When a rang is selected, how can you activated the previous cell?
a) Press the Alt key b) Press Tab c) Press Enter d) None of these
Ans. d
270. Which tool you will use to join some cells and place the content at the middle of joined cell?
a) From Format Cells dialog box click on Merge Cells check box
b) From Format Cells dialog box select the Centered alignment
c) From Format Cells dialog box choose Merge and Centre check box
d) Click on Merge and center tool on formatting toolbar
Ans. d
271. Tab scroll buttons are place on Excel screen
a) towards the bottom right corner b) towards the bottom left corner
c) towards the top right corner d) towards the top left corner
Ans. b
272. The name box on to the left of formula bar
a) shows the name of workbook currently working on
b) shows the name of worksheet currently working on
c) shows the name of cell or range currently working on
d) None of these
Ans. c
273. Each excel file is a workbook that contains different sheets. Which of the following can not be
a sheet in workbook?
a) worksheet b) chart sheet c) module sheet d) data sheet
Ans. d
274. You can merge the main document with data source in Excel. In main merge operation, word
is usually
a) server b) source
c) client d) none
Ans. c

275. How can you update the value of formula cells if Auto Calculate mode of Excel is disabled?
a) F8 b) F9 c) F10 d) F11
Ans. b
276. You want to set such that when you type Baishakh and drag the fill handle, Excel should
produce jestha, Aashadh and soon. What will you set to effect that?
a) custom list b) Auto fill Options c) Fill Across Worksheet d) Fill series
Ans. a
277. Where can you change automatic or manual calculation mode in Excel?
a) Double CAL indicator on status bar
b) Go to Tools >> Options >> Calculation and mark the corresponding radio button
c) Both of above
d) None of these
Ans. b
278. How can you show or hide the gridlines in Excel Worksheet?
a) Go to tools>>Options>> View tab and mark or remove the check box named Gridline
b) Click Gridline tool on Forms toolbar
c) Both of Above
d) None of these
Ans. c
279. Which of the following Excel screen components can NOT be turned of or off?
a) Formula Bar b) Status Bar c) Tool Bar d) None of these
Ans. d
280. What happens when you press Ctrl + X after selecting some cells in Excel?
a) The cell content of selected cells disappear from cell and stored in clipboard
b) The cells selected are marked for cutting
c) The selected cells are deleted and the cells are shifted left
d) The selected cells are deleted and cells are shifted up
Ans. b
281. Which of the following option is not available in Paste Special dialog box?
a) Add b) Subtract
c) Divide d) SQRT
Ans. d
282. Which command will you choose to convert a column of data into row?
a) Cut and Paste
b) Edit >> Paste Special>> Transpose
c) Both A and B
d) None of these
Ans. b
283. Ii is acceptable to let long text flow into adjacent cells on a worksheet when
a) data will be entered in the adjacent cells
b) no data will be entered in the adjacent cells
c) there is no suitable abbreviation for the text
d) there is not time to format the text
Ans. b

284. Which of the cell pointer indicate you that you can make selection?
a) Doctor’s symbol (Big Plus)
b) small thin plus icon
c) Mouse Pointer with anchor at the tip
d) None of these
Ans. a
285. Which of the cell pointer indicates that you can fill series?
d) None of these
Ans. b
286. Which of the cell pointer indicate that you can move the content to other cell?
d) None of these
Ans. c
287. You can auto fit the width column by
a) double clicking on the column name on column header
b) double click on the cell pointer in worksheet
c) double clicking on column right border on column header
d) double clicking on the column left boarder of column header
Ans. c
288. Long text can be broken down into many lines within a cell. You can do this through
a) wrap text in format >> cells
b) justify in edit >> cells
c) Text wrapping in format >> cells, layout tab
d) All of these
Ans. a
289. MS excel provide the default value for step in fill series dialog box
a) 0 b) 1 c) 5 d) 10
Ans. b
290. Ctrl + D shortcut key in Excel will
a) Open the font dialog box
b) Apply double underline for the active cell
c) Fill down in the selection
d) None of these
Ans. c
291. The shortcut key ctrl + R is used in Excel to
a) Right align the content of cell
b) Remove the cell contents of selected cells
c) Fill the selections with active cells to the right
d) None of these
Ans. c

292. The command edit > fill across worksheet is active only when
a) One sheet is selected
b) when many sheets are selected
c) When no sheet is selected
d) None of these
Ans. b
293. Which of the following series type is not valid for fill series dialog box?
a) Linear b) Growth c) Autofill d) Time
Ans. d
294. Which of the following you can paste selectively using paste special command?
a) validation b) Formats c) Formulas d) All of these
Ans. d
295. Paste special allows some operation while you paste to new cell. Which of the following
operation is valid?
a) Square b) Percentage c) Goal seek d) Divide
Ans. d
296. Edit > Delete command
a) Delete the content of a cell b) Delete formats of cell
c) Delete the comment of cell d) Deletes selected cells
Ans. d
297. To remove the content of selected cells you must issue ____ command
a) Delete b) Clear contents c) Clear all d) Clear Delete
Ans. b
298. By default Excel provide 3 worksheets. You need only two of them, how will you delete the
third one?
a) Right click on sheet tab of third sheet and choose delete from the context menu
b) click on sheet 3 and from edit menu choose delete
c) both A and B
d) None of these
Ans. a
299. which of the following is not a valid data type in excel?
a) number b) character c) label d) Date/Time
Ans. b
300. Microsoft Excel is a powerful____
a) word processing package
b) spreadsheet package
c) communication s/w package
d) DBMS Package
Ans. b
1.Which function key is used to open save as dialogue box in MS Excel?
A F2 B F5 C F7 D F12
2.Which one of the following will starts with “=” sign in Excel 2010?
A Data B Text C Numbers D Formulas

3. Each file in MS Excel is called a ______.
(a) workbook (b) worksheet (c) notesheet (d) notebook
4. What function displays row data in a column or column data in a row?
a. Hyperlink b. Index c. Transpose d. Rows
5. How are data organized in a spreadsheet?
a. Lines and spaces b. Layers and planes
c. Rows and columns d. Height and width
6. A function inside another function is called a …..function.
a. Nested b. Round c. Sum d. Text
7. What is the intersection of a column and a row on a worksheet called?
a) Column b) value c) Address d) Cell
8. What is the extension of MS Excel 2010?
a) .xls b) .xlsx c) .doc d) .pptx
9. What is the shortcut key to replace a data with another in sheet?
a) ctrl + f b) ctrl + g c) Ctrl + h d) ctrl + i
10. Which language is used to create macros in Excel?
a) Visual Basic b) C c) C++ d) Java
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