Business Computing - Assignment 1

PGP 22 – 2018
Submit by, 23/07/2018, 11AM Max Marks – 33 Marks

This assignment is an individual exercise and you are expected to complete this on your
own without any consultation

File submission instruction

Name the solution file as RollNo_PGP22-BC_A1 (eg. 000_PGP22-BC_A1)

Note: Use the formulas covered in class so far (including the self-study chapters)

Download the workbook Data_BC22_Assignment1.xlsx for the following exercises from VC .

Create a copy of the original worksheet before starting with question 1 and name each worksheet
you create based on the corresponding question nos you are answering in each worksheet. For
example, if the worksheet has answer to questions 1 and 2 name the worksheet as Q.1_Q.2, if it has
answers to Q,3,4,5 then name it Q.3_Q.4_Q.5 and so on. You can use the worksheet you used for
answering one question to answer another question by making a duplicate copy of the worksheet.
For example, you will use the Q.1_Q.2 worksheet, make a copy of the worksheet,name it Q.3_Q.4 to
answer Q.3 and Q.4 in the same worksheet.

IMPORTANT: This assignment is to evaluate the topics addressed so far, use of other features and
functions to respond to the questions will be ignored.

I. Vigilante Enterprise is a small computer security contractor that provides computer security analysis,
design, and software implementation for the US government and commercial clients. Vigilante
competes for both private and US government computer security contract work by submitting
detailed bids outlining the work the company will perform if awarded the contracts. Because all the
work involves computer security, a highly sensitive area, almost all of Vigilante tasks require access
to classified material or company confidential documents. Consequently, all of the security
engineers (simply known as “engineers” within the company) have US government clearances of
either Secret or Top Secret. Some have even higher clearances for the 2 percent of Vigilante work
that involves so-called black box security work. Most of the employees also hold clearances because
they must handle classified documents.

Ms. Shania Mendelez is Vigilante’s human resource manager. She maintains all employee records
and is responsible for semi-annual review reports, payroll processing, personal records, recruiting
data, employee training, and pension option information. At the heart of an HR system are
personnel records. Personnel record maintenance includes activities such as maintaining employee
records, tracking cost center data, recording and maintaining pension information and absence and
sick leave record keeping. Although most of this information resides in sophisticated database
systems, Shania maintains a basic employee worksheet for quick calculations and ad hoc report
generation. Because Vigilante is a small company, Shania can take advantage of Excel’s excellent list
management capabilities to satisfy many of her personal information management needs.

Shania has asked you to assist with a number of functions (she has provided you with a copy of her
trusted personnel data):

Perform the following exercises for assisting her:

Q1 Name the whole data range (excluding the headers) provided as VE_employee. (1 point)

Q2. Name all column ranges with the corresponding column headers. (1 point)

Create separate row(s) for Q3 and Q4

Q3. Calculate the total and average of the appropriate columns. (1 point)

Q4. Calculate the number of records in the spreadsheet. (1 point)

Q5 In a separate column calculate the age (in Years) of the employees at the time of hiring.

(1 point)

Q6. Determine how many employees were between 35 to 40 years at the time of hiring?
(1 point)

Q7. You want to assign employees to work on a high level security assignment.
Use a formula so that when Shania enters the employee ID in one cell, the adjacent cell will
return the corresponding Clearance of the employee. (2 points)

ID Clearance
1441 S

Q8 Determine how many employees have “ara” in their names.(irrespective of the position)
(2 points)

Q9 Using formula determine what is the clearance status for the employee with the highest
salary?(Assuming there is only one person with the highest salary). (2 points)

Q10 Calculate the total salary expenditure for each department using formulas. Your output
should be arranged as follows: (4 points)

Department Total Salary

Engineering
Manager
Human
Resources
Management
Marketing

Q11 You want to determine if average male/female salaries are at par with each other across all
departments. How will you do it applying formulas? Format should be as follows. (3 points)

Department Female Male

Engineering
 Manager
Human
Resources
Management
Marketing

Q.12 Find the number of employees with title CSR that are amongst the top 20 paid employees
(2 points)

Q.13 Find the name of the person with the fifth highest salary using Index. (3 points)

Q.14 Using Text functions segregate the first names only in a separate column. (3 points)

Format the worksheet as follows:

Q15. Workbook theme – Basis (0.5 points)

Q16. Worksheet title (2.5 points)

a. Alignment – center across the start and end columns

b. Cell Style – Title
c. Font size – 18
d. Background color of title – Green, Accent 6, Lighter 60%
e. Border – thick box border around the entire range

Q17. Column titles (1.0 point)

f. Cell styles – Heading 3

g. Alignment – center

Q18. Data (2.0 points)

a. Hire Date and Birth Date– dd-mm-yy format

b. Alignment – center for department, title and gender and clearance
c. Top row for salary should be in accounting number format with USD currency
d. All of salary column should be comma style and 2 decimal places