Level 1 exam — No-Code & Automation

Exam — fresh questions

12 questions to validate organising with Notion: pages & blocks, databases, filtered and linked views, relations, rollups and Notion AI.
Answer everything, then click Check: your score and explanations will appear.

1.1 · Recall

1. What is the logic of Notion based on?

Pages (tree) and blocks (everything is a block) Isolated Word files in folders Independent spreadsheet cells Slides to present in meetings

Nested pages + blocks inserted via «/», reorganised by drag and drop.

1.1 · Application

2. Lina wants to quickly insert a «Decision» box in her meeting notes. Which action?

Type «/callout» and pick the Callout block Print the page then write by hand Look for the feature with the mouse in each menu Copy a box from another piece of software

The «/» command inserts any block from the keyboard: faster than the mouse.

1.1 · Arbitration

3. Lina must share a file containing sensitive internal data. What is the right call?

Publish the page with a public «to the web» link to go fast Send a screenshot on an untracked channel Shared workspace with per-page rights, never a public link for confidential material Share nothing and keep the notes to herself

A public link exposes content to anyone who has it: confidential material goes through a workspace with rights.

1.2 · Recall

4. What is a Notion database?

A file for pixel-perfect printing A static table in free text A table where each row is a page and each column is a typed property A simple decorated bulleted list

Row = full page, column = typed property: filterable, sortable, multi-view.

1.2 · Application

5. Lina creates the Due date field of her «Projects» database. What is the right reflex?

Leave it empty, we'll see later Set it as the number of pages in the file Write it as free text («Monday», «soon») Type it as Date to filter «this week» and show it in Calendar

A Date field, not «Monday» as text: the type determines filters, views and automations.

1.2 · Application

6. Lina wants to steer her projects in columns by status AND track deadlines in a calendar. What should she do?

Add a Kanban view by Status and a Calendar view by Due date on the same database Copy the database into two separate tables Print the table and cut it into cards Re-enter everything in a spreadsheet

One dataset, several views: same projects from two angles, zero duplication.

1.3 · Application

7. Lina creates three views on «Projects» then corrects a due date in one of them. What happens?

Only that view is corrected, the others keep the old value Data is tripled: one independent copy per view The correction deletes the row from the other views The correction spreads everywhere: a single source, filtered windows

One dataset, a single place, several views: editing in one view edits everywhere.

1.3 · Application

8. Lina's manager wants to follow progress without touching the working database. What is the solution?

Duplicate the database for management Insert a linked view of the database on the «Dashboard» page Send them a copy of the table every Monday Print the database and pin it on the wall

The linked view shows the same source elsewhere, with its own filters, always synchronised.

1.3 · Arbitration

9. A colleague maintains «their» personal copy of the projects table. What is the right call?

Let them do it: more copies, more safety Replace it with a linked view filtered by Owner on the single source Also duplicate the database to compare versions Delete the source and keep their copy

Copies diverge; the linked view gives everyone their vision on the single source.

1.4 · Recall

10. What is the difference between a relation and a rollup?

The relation prints, the rollup translates None: both create identical links The rollup creates the link, the relation calculates The relation is the link; the rollup brings back and aggregates the linked info

The relation is the pipe, the rollup what flows through it and gets calculated — no relation, no rollup.

1.4 · Application

11. Lina wants each project to show its self-calculated task count. What is the setup?

Create a rollup with no relation, directly Relation Tasks → Projects then rollup «Number of tasks» (count) on Projects Count by hand every week in a notebook Copy the number into each project at each meeting

Relation first (the link), rollup second (the calculation): progress updates on its own.

1.4 · Arbitration

12. Lina hesitates to enable Notion AI on all her working files. What is the right call?

Pay for it upfront for the whole team without trying it Ban it without testing or evaluating it Test it on the trial quota, cost the gain vs the price, and exclude sensitive data Submit everything to it, including sensitive data, without checking

Trial to learn, cost justified by the gain, never any sensitive data — external automation (level 4) remaining the flexible alternative.

What's next?

Score ≥ 80%: move on to V3 Level 2 (Airtable: relational bases, linked records, lookups, formulas — the same logic, at scale).
Score < 80%: review the failed sections (pages & blocks 1.1, databases 1.2, views 1.3, relations & AI 1.4), reread the explanations above, then retake the test.