Excel Leveling Test

README.md

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 ## 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.

challenges/excel_leveling_test/README.md

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+# 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.