Smartsheet Formulas Basics Quiz (Latest 2023 / 2024)
Questions and Answers Included
- Which function can you use to add up numerical values?
ANS: =SUM()
- Tricia has a task sheet where she is tracking both % Complete and Status.
Which function can she use to change the symbol in the Status column based on the value in the % Complete column?
ANS: =IF()
- Jennifer is building a sheet to calculate commissions for her sales team. They
earn a fixed percentage of each sale they make. She has entered the commission rate in a cell on her sheet. Which formula can Jennifer copy and paste into each row to correctly calculate her team's commissions?
ANS: -
=SUM([Opportunity Value]@row * [Commission Rate]$1)
- What symbols must you use when referencing another sheet?
ANS: {} Braces
- How do you reference the red ball in a symbol column in a formula?
ANS: "Red"
- Reginald is managing requests for his IT team using a sheet with a form.
Employees can request the completion date in the "Date Need By" column. The team member assigned to the work enters a date in the "Estimated Completion 1 / 2
Date" column. He wrote a formula to show if requests are on track. The formula will display On Time or the number of days late. The for- mula displays an error, #UNPARSEABLE. Reginald's formula
ANS: =IF(([Estimated Completion Datejl - [Date Need By]1) = 0, On Time,
([Estimated Completion Date]1 - [Date Need By]1)) Which section of the formula
does Reginald need to correct?: The value if true
- Yoko created a report to show collaborators on her project their assigned tasks.
They have told her that many tasks from different areas of the project plan look the same in the report. To solve the problem, she wants to add the parent name to the row in the report." Which formula should she use?
ANS: -
=JOIN(ANCESTORS())
- Olga added a field called "Budget Total" in their sheet summary. What is the
syntax to reference the "Budget Total" field in a formula?
ANS: [Budget Total]#
- Which field type is available in a sheet summary?
ANS: Contact List
- Guillermo owns a project tracking sheet. His sheet uses a hierarchy with all
tasks being children of a phase. He created a filter to help his team see only their tasks. They are reporting that it is difficult to understand the phase as there are tasks with the same name in multiple phases. To help them understand the phase, he has added a column titled "Phase." What function can he combine with JOIN() to show this information?
ANS: =ANCESTORS()
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