INFO8785 – Data Flow

Cloud Data Management (CDM)

Title Assignment #1: INFO8785
Course Weight See Instructional Plan
Instructions This is an individual assignment. Students are responsible for submitting their
work to eConesotga

Each student is required to upload to eConestoga:

1. A Word document outline their response to the instructions
2. The completed Excel file where the data was imported and the steps we
followed from Evaluations Steps section

BACKGROUND AND SCENARIO:

Now that we are getting to know how to use Microsoft Excel, it’s time to try out
some of the features on your own in this independent assignment!

Using Microsoft Excel, you will explore some basic features to put what you have
learned in Week #2 and Week #3 into practice. Create a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet that will use to complete this assignment. Create a Microsoft Word
document to capture your progress with screenshots as you complete steps from
“Evaluation Steps” below to your Excel file.

Please note, this evaluation is an independent assignment. Seeking assistance

from another student during this evaluation will result in an academic penalty
which may include a 0 mark on the evaluation and an academic offense for both
the individual who requested information and the individual who provided
assistance.

Your Assignment:
SUBMIT 1 MS Word document that includes/combines all of the following (see last
page for naming convention):

3. Cover Page: See details below for expected information

4. Table of Contents: Live-Linked and steps 1,2,3 should NOT be listed in
ToC.
5. Steps: For each of the steps listed in the “Evaluation Steps” below, create
a new section with the heading title provided

SUBMIT 1 MS Excel file that was used to import and complete the steps below
(see last page for naming convention):

Evaluation Steps:
As a reminder, take screenshots for each of the steps below (use your judgement
to indicate how many are required but typically one screenshot per step is
sufficient):
Section #1: Creating the new Excel Workbook
1. Open Microsoft Excel
2. Create a new Blank Workbook
3. Rename the Worksheet from “sheet1” to your full name
4. Save the file as “Data Flow – Assignment 1 – [Your Name].xlsx”
o Replace your [Your Name] with your actual name

Section #2: Data Entry and Movement

1. In cell A1, enter your first name
2. In cell B1, enter your last name
3. In cell C1, enter your favourite colour
4. In cell D1, enter your favourite school subject
5. Highlight cells A1 through D1
6. Using the Arrow cursor move the highlighted cells to A15 to D15

Section #3: Autofill

1. In cell A1, enter 1
2. In cell B1, enter 2
3. In cell C1, enter 3
4. In cell D1, enter 4
5. In cell E1, enter 5
6. Highlight cells A1 through E1
7. Using the Autofill Handle, drag to the right until cell J1

Section #4: Formulas

1. In cell A5, enter your student number
2. In cell B5, enter your favourite whole number
3. In cell C5, enter the current day
4. In cell D5, enter the current month number (e.g. February is 2)
5. In cell E5, enter the current year
6. In cell F6, create the formula that will add your student number to your
favourite whole number, then subtract 10,000, then divide that number
by the current day added to the current month number then multiple the
result by the current year
o Hint: don’t forget to use brackets

Section #5: Aggregates

1. Create a new Worksheet
2. Name that Worksheet “Data – [Your Name]”
o Replace [Your Name] with your actual name
3. Add the following data into cells A1 through C13

Month Units Shipped Sales

1 4324 1042342
2 5453 1143233
3 2342 584321
4 2445 614324
 5 1245 384234
6 5459 1154324
7 4166 1014324
8 1244 310432
9 4550 1284244
10 5191 1458932
11 7738 2044324
12 8423 2452444

4. In A14, enter Totals

5. In A15, enter Average
6. In A16, enter Minimum
7. In A16, enter Maximum
8. Using cells B2 through B13 calculate the total units shipped and put it in
cell B14
o Hint: use a formula
9. Use the autofill handle to drag the formula from Cell B14 to C14
10. In cell A15, enter “Average”
11. Using cells B2 through B13 calculate the average units shipped and put it
in cell B15
o Hint: use a formula
12. Use the autofill handle to drag the formula from Cell B15 to C15
13. In cell A16, enter “Minimum”
14. Using cells B2 through B13 calculate the minimum units shipped and put it
in cell B16
o Hint: use a formula
15. Use the autofill handle to drag the formula from Cell B16 to C16
16. In cell A17, enter “Maximum”
17. Using cells B2 through B13 calculate the minimum units shipped and put it
in cell B17
o Hint: use a formula
18. Use the autofill handle to drag the formula from Cell B17 to C17
19. In cell D1, enter “Sales Value”
20. In cell D2, create a formula that divides Sales by Units shipped
21. Using the autofill handle, drag the formula in D2 down to D13
22. Format Sales Value column for Currency

Section #6: Formatting

1. Add Conditional Formatting to the Units Shipped (B2 to B13) column to

include 3 signs Icon Set (use the data set you created in Section #5)
2. Add the Green White Red Color Scale to the Sales column (C2 to C13)
3. Fill in the highest Units Shipped (B2 to B13) with Green fill colour using
Top/Bottom Rules Conditional Formatting

Section #7: Lookup

 1. Copy the following to the current Worksheet

Month # Month Quarter

1 January 1
2 February 1
3 March 1
4 April 2
5 May 2
6 June 2
7 July 3
8 August 3
9 September 3
10 October 4
11 November 4
12 December 4

2. Insert a column in between Month and Sales in the dataset you created in
Section #5. Name the column “Quarter”
3. Create a VLOOKUP that uses the Month to lookup the Quarter in the
dataset you pasted in step #1 above

Section #8: Pivot

1. Create a Pivot table based on data from A1 to E13 in the sheet in the
previous section (section #7)
2. Add Quarter to Columns
3. Add Months to Rows
4. Add Sales to the Values section twice:
a. One will be renamed to Total Sales
b. One will be renamed to “% of Sales”, set the value to be % of
Grand Total
5. Format all numeric values as Currency
6. Change the Pivot Table style to one of your choice

This assignment will evaluate your ability to:

1. Explain the core features of Microsoft Excel to familiarize with cells, rows,
formulas and more

STUDENT INFORMATION

Document MUST consider/follow Conestoga APA formatting guidelines.

Document MUST include a cover page with the following details:

2. Assignment #1: Microsoft Excel Basics
3. Student Name
4. Student #
 5. Course number
6. Professor name
7. Date Assigned
8. Date of evaluation

Each assignment must be sent to your professor via eConestoga submission by the
due date/time. Late submissions will not be accepted.

UPLOAD FILE NAME(S)

Word: 8785-ASN1-{date}-YourName
Excel: 8785-ASN1-{date}-YourName
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