Microsoft Office Specialist Program
Stand Out and Be Seen
The Microsoft Office Specialist Program provides industry-leading assessments of skills and knowledge through the 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.
An individual earning these certifications have approximately 150 hours of instruction and hands-on experience with each product, and have proven competency at an industry entry-level and is ready to enter into the job market.
Microsoft Office Specialist Excel
This 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.
Certification candidates will demonstrate the fundamentals of creating and managing worksheets and workbooks, creating cells and ranges, creating tables, applying formulas and functions and creating charts and objects.
To make the exam more helpful, individual tasks are replaced 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 Word
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 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 PowerPoint
Our interactive PowerPoint certification program provides candidates with performance-based scenarios to measure their ability to manage essential, day-to-day tasks.
Certification requires individuals to demonstrate their ability to create and manage presentations, insert and format shapes and slides, create slide content, apply transitions and animations and manage multiple presentations.
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 Outlook
Candidates will expand and prove technical skills by demonstrating how to customize the Outlook user interface format message content, create or insert graphic elements, and send and respond to emails and meeting requests.
They can also manage and share multiple calendars, schedule meetings and appointments, create contact records and tasks, and set up contact groups to facilitate communication with other Outlook users.
Microsoft Office Specialist Access
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.
An individual earning this certification has approximately 150 hours of instruction and hands-on experience with the product, has proven competency at an industry entry-level and is ready to enter into the job market.