Phase 4 · Gemini · Level 2 · Practitioner
Gemini: Practitioner Quiz · 10 min
Why it matters A quick check of your judgement before you move on. There's no penalty for a low score, and you can retake it, or take it first to test out of a level you already know.
These aren't trivia; they're the judgement calls you'll face using Gemini's practitioner features: the in-app side panels, Gems, Deep Research and Canvas. Pick the best option for each scenario, and you'll see an explanation after each one.
Passing this checkpoint: work through the level first, then score 70% or more here.
Skipping this level: already confident? Take this cold and score 80% or more to test out and jump ahead. Below that, nothing is lost, you just study the level as normal.
1. You show a colleague the Ask Gemini side panel in Gmail, but on their account there's no such button anywhere. What's the most likely explanation? Their Gmail is broken and needs reinstalling. The in-app Gemini features depend on account type and usually a paid plan, so their account may simply not include them. They're looking in the wrong browser. Google has removed the side panel for everyone. 2. The Ask Gemini panel summarises an open email thread and confidently states the deadline was moved to 25 August. You're about to act on it. What's the wise habit? Act on it; the panel can see the actual thread, so it must be right. Skim the real thread against the summary to confirm the date, since it can still misread or drop a detail. Ask the panel 'are you certain?' and trust it if it says yes. Ignore the summary entirely and read all five emails from scratch. 3. You ask Gemini in Sheets for a formula to total each rep's sales. It gives you one that looks right. What should you do before building a report on it? Paste it everywhere; a formula either works or errors, so if it runs it's correct. Check one rep's figure by hand against a couple of rows, since the formula could reference the wrong column or skip blank cells. Trust it because Sheets is a Google product. Rewrite the whole thing yourself to be safe. 4. You anchor a Gem to your Fernway sales sheet, and it reports the South region as weakest. But the sheet has rows misspelled 'Sotuh'. What's the risk? None; an anchored Gem reads the file, so its answer is guaranteed accurate. The Gem answers from the file but can still misread it: the typo may split South's total in two and make its ranking wrong. The Gem will automatically correct the spelling and get it right. The Gem will refuse to answer until the file is clean. 5. You start a Deep Research report and Gemini shows you a numbered research plan before it browses anything. What's the best move? Approve it immediately; the default plan is always well-aimed. Read and edit the plan to match your real question before approving, since steering it now is far cheaper than fixing the finished report. Ignore the plan; it doesn't affect the result. Cancel; the plan step means the tool is confused. 6. A Deep Research report comes back with clear sections, a confident conclusion and a list of citations. You need one of its figures for a client proposal. What should you do? Use the figure; a report this well-structured and cited is clearly reliable. Open the cited source for that figure and confirm it really says what the report claims before using it. Use the figure but delete the citation to keep the proposal tidy. Discard the whole report because AI can't be trusted at all. 7. You need a quick, catchy subject line for one email. Which Gemini feature fits best? Deep Research, so it can thoroughly investigate subject lines. A normal prompt in the app or the Gmail side panel; it's a quick job that doesn't need multi-source research. A file-anchored Gem built specially for subject lines. Canvas, so you can iterate on it as an app. 8. In Canvas, Gemini builds you a working discount calculator from a plain-English description. A colleague suggests rolling it out as the team's official pricing tool. How should you respond? Great idea; if Canvas built it and it runs, it's production-ready. It's a useful prototype, but Canvas builds quick, untested tools, not secured, maintained software to run the business on. Canvas apps can never do anything useful, so bin it. Rebuild it in Canvas a few more times and then it'll be production-grade. 9. You ask Gemini in Drive a question spanning several files, and it gives three points but names a source file for only two of them. How should you treat the unsourced point? Trust all three equally; they came from the same answer. Treat the unsourced point as suspect and check it, since a claim with no file behind it is where the model tends to fill gaps. Assume the unsourced point is the most important one. Discard the whole answer because one point lacks a source. 10. You've written a proposal in Canvas over several passes and also typed a few edits directly into the panel yourself. You now ask Gemini to 'make the tone more formal'. What should you keep in mind? Gemini only sees its own earlier drafts, so your manual edits will be ignored. Gemini works from the current combined draft, so it will act on your manual edits too; keep track so a change doesn't undo your own edit. Asking for any change will always regenerate the whole document from scratch. Manual edits lock the document so Gemini can no longer change it. Answered 0 of 10.
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