Microsoft Office Specialist Program
The Microsoft Office Specialist Program provides industry-leading assessments of skills and knowledge through our new project-based testing, giving students and professionals real-world exercises to appraise their understanding of Microsoft Office.
This guarantees that every certified user has demonstrated the ability to command the full features and functionality of Microsoft Office, preparing them for future academic or workforce opportunities.
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Microsoft Office Specialist Access Expert Certification
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Access Expert Certification demonstrates competency in database design principles. The new Access certification exam uses practical, performance-based scenarios to evaluate their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing.
Certified candidates will demonstrate their ability to use principle Access features to independently create custom, browser-based database applications. Tasks will include creating and managing a database, building tables, creating queries, creating forms and reports.
The exam is more relevant than past exams, featuring comprehensive, project-based testing. This means candidates are responsible for demonstrating the ability to complete a realistic Microsoft Office Specialist Access project.
Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Associate Certification
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: POFI 1349 Spreadsheets - Excel)
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: POFI 1349 Spreadsheets - Excel)
Our cutting-edge Excel certification program gives testing candidates practical, performance-based scenarios to gauge their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing.
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate Certification demonstrates competency in the fundamentals of creating and managing worksheets and workbooks, creating cells and ranges, creating tables, applying formulas and functions and creating charts and objects. The exam covers the ability to create and edit a workbook with multiple sheets, and use a graphic element to represent data visually. Workbook examples include professional-looking budgets, financial statements, team performance charts, sales invoices, and data-entry logs.
To make the exam more helpful, we've replaced individual tasks with comprehensive, project-based testing. This live-in-the-application environment confirms that certified individuals have demonstrated the ability to complete a realistic Excel project.
Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert Certification
Our cutting-edge Excel certification program gives testing candidates practical, performance-based scenarios to gauge their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing.
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Expert Certification demonstrates competency in creating, managing, and distributing professional spreadsheets for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to customize Excel environments to meet project needs and to enhance productivity. Expert workbook examples include custom business templates, multiple-axis financial charts, amortization tables, and inventory schedules.
To make the exam more helpful, we've replaced individual tasks with comprehensive, project-based testing. This live-in-the-application environment confirms that certified individuals have demonstrated the ability to complete a realistic Excel project.
Microsoft Office Specialist PowerPoint Associate Certification
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: ITSW 1310 Introduction to Presentation Graphics)
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: ITSW 1310 Introduction to Presentation Graphics)
Our interactive PowerPoint certification program provides candidates with performance-based scenarios to measure their ability to manage essential, day-to-day tasks.
The Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate Certification demonstrates competency to create, edit, and enhance presentations and slideshows. The exam covers the ability to create and manage presentations, insert and format shapes and slides, create slide content, apply transitions and animations and manage multiple presentations. Presentation examples include professional-grade sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows.
The unique benefit for candidates taking the new PowerPoint exam is the comprehensive, project-based testing format. This requires individuals to complete a project that depicts real-world functionality with project and standards-based outcome testing.
Microsoft Office Specialist Word Associate Certification
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: POFI 2301 Word Processing: MS Word 1)
(Three (3) Articulated College Credits: POFI 2301 Word Processing: MS Word 1)
Certified individuals will establish their ability to perform a number of Word tasks, such as creating and managing documents, formatting text, paragraphs and sections, creating tables and lists, applying references and inserting and formatting objects.
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Associate Certification demonstrates competency in the correct application of the principle features of Word by creating and editing documents for a variety of purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to create and maintain professional-looking reports, multicolumn newsletters, résumés, and business correspondence.
The straightforward Word evaluation challenges individuals to complete a comprehensive project that depicts real-world functionality with project and standards-based outcome testing.
Microsoft Office Specialist Word Expert Certification
Certified individuals will establish their ability to perform a number of Word tasks, such as creating and managing documents, formatting text, paragraphs and sections, creating tables and lists, applying references and inserting and formatting objects.
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert Certification demonstrates competency in creating and managing professional documents for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to customize Word environments to meet project needs, and to enhance productivity. Examples of expert-level documents include a business plan, a research paper, a book, a specialized brochure, and a mass mailing.
The straightforward Word evaluation challenges individuals to complete a comprehensive project that depicts real-world functionality with project and standards-based outcome testing.