Basic Excel Skills Assessment Test

This assessment tests the basic functions of Excel. Excel is a tool in the MS Office suite that features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It’s widely used across many business functions including accounting, data management, and administration.

Skills tested in this assessment

This assessment specifically examines the following skills: formulas, functions, charts, and data management.

What to test with this assessment

By using this assessment you can expect to learn how proficient someone is with Excel and if they understand the basics like creating formulas and charts and if they can use the workflow optimization functions that are critical to efficiency

About the Basic Excel Skills Assessment

Ready to find the best candidates with top Excel skills to grow your business? Use our Excel Basics skills assessment and never make another unqualified hire again. Excel is a part of the Microsoft Office suite that uses spreadsheets to organize numbers and data with formulas and functions. Excel is used around the world by businesses of all sizes to perform financial and data analysis. It is extremely valuable for many businesses that use it to record expenditures and income, plan budgets, chart data, and succinctly present fiscal results. This Excel Basics test assesses whether job candidates can create formulas and charts in Excel and if they can use the workflow optimization functions that are critical to the efficiency and basic mastery of the application. Candidates who perform well on this Excel Basics skills assessment will have all the technical skills to successfully manage and master spreadsheets in the software application. They will also have the necessary soft skills to critically think about data and interpret basic patterns. Looking to test more advanced skills? Check out our Advanced Excel Test

Creating charts with data allows stakeholders to visually explore and see the meaning behind the numbers or words. Charts make showing comparisons and trends much easier for an audience that’s not familiar with the raw data.

Excel Formulas

Excel formulas help identify relationships between the values in the cells of your spreadsheet, they also allow you to perform mathematical calculations using those values. Formulas are important for understanding aggregated data.

Excel Functions

A function is a predefined formula that calculates using specific values in a particular order. Excel includes a lot of common functions that can be used to quickly find the sum, average, count, maximum value, and minimum value for a range of cells.

Data Management

A significant part of using Excel is knowing the art of data management. This includes everything from knowing how to set up your worksheets to managing data entry to good maintenance practices.

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