diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c16fa63..960fe67 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ Make a folder for your challenge and store all related documents and artifacts t ## Inventory +- `excel_leveling_test`: An Excel-based assessment designed to evaluate the current skill level of participants, covering key areas such as formulas, merging data and pivot tables. - `basic-excel-challenge`: a basic excel challenge that tests some skills that would be expected for someone to have basic analyst role. - `basic_sql_training`: A set of SQL learning materials and exercises designed to build foundational SQL skills and familiarity with the DWH. diff --git a/challenges/basic-excel-challenge/excel_leveling_test/Excel_Level_Test.xlsx b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/Excel_Level_Test.xlsx similarity index 100% rename from challenges/basic-excel-challenge/excel_leveling_test/Excel_Level_Test.xlsx rename to challenges/excel_leveling_test/Excel_Level_Test.xlsx diff --git a/challenges/excel_leveling_test/README.md b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bdfda8 --- /dev/null +++ b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# Excel Leveling Test + +An Excel leveling tests to test your current leven and skills with Excel. A data-team grade data analyst should fly through this. A Domain Analyst is expected to be able to complete it in the proposed timeline, with possible minor mistakes. + +## Goals + +The challenge requires the candidate to put to use the following skills: + +- Be able to read existing tables and understand what's in them. +- Formatting data to make it more readable. +- Perform filters on a clean table. +- Run basic arithmetic formulas. +- Perform calculations and adding new data. +- Import data from a csv file. +- Merge tables based on more than 1 field. +- Create pivot tables. +- Creating graphs and draw conclusions from it. + +Some of these can be solved manually, through formulas, with pivot tables, etc. It's possible that different candidates use different strategies. + +Besides this, you can emphasize more or less the importance of pretty result presentation, reproducibility, methodology explanations, etc. That's up to you and not really defined in the test. + +## Inventory + +- `Excel_Level_Test.xlsx`: the workbook that serves as both starting point and instructions for the challenge. Candidate can use a copy of it as his working area. +- `currency_data.csv`: a supplementary file that the candidate will have to import into the workboox. + +## How to use + +- Provide the candidate with both `Excel_Level_Test.xlsx` and `currency_data.csv`. +- Sprinkle any specific instructions you might want to add. +- Send it all to the candidate, provide a timeline and sit tight. + +## Solutions + +We will go through them together with the candidates. diff --git a/challenges/basic-excel-challenge/excel_leveling_test/currency_data.csv b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/currency_data.csv similarity index 100% rename from challenges/basic-excel-challenge/excel_leveling_test/currency_data.csv rename to challenges/excel_leveling_test/currency_data.csv diff --git a/challenges/excel_leveling_test/~$Excel_Level_Test.xlsx b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/~$Excel_Level_Test.xlsx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..742da95 Binary files /dev/null and b/challenges/excel_leveling_test/~$Excel_Level_Test.xlsx differ