Microsoft Office Specialist Certification

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification - Benefits

The Microsoft Office Specialist Certification is the globally recognized standard for validating expertise with the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity programs. 

Reasons for Microsoft Office Specialist Certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, and higher salaries. MOS-certified individuals report increased competence and productivity with Microsoft Office programs as well as increased credibility with their employers, co-workers and clients. A Microsoft Office Specialist Certification sets you apart in today's competitive job market, bringing employment opportunities, greater earning potential and career advancement, in addition to increased job satisfaction.

Proficiency certification is a sound investment in your career and your organizational objectives. Although certification does not guarantee success, research has shown that it can have a significant impact on:

• Morale and confidence
• Efficiency and productivity on the job
• Monetary rewards
• Career advancement

Benefits of a Microsoft Office Specialist Certification By Role:

Individuals

Earning a Microsoft Office Specialist Certification acknowledges you have the expertise to work with Microsoft Office programs. MOS-certified individuals report increased competence and productivity with Microsoft Office programs as well as increased credibility with their employers, co-workers, and clients. A Microsoft Office Specialist Certification certification sets you apart in today’s competitive job market, bringing employment opportunities, greater earning potential and career advancement, in addition to increased job satisfaction.

Businesses

Employers who encourage MOS certification and hire MOS-certified job candidates report increased employee competence and productivity with Microsoft Office programs. MOS certification also simplifies the employee selection and hiring process by easily identifying individuals with the skills to be productive from day one. Employers who invest in MOS certification experience a quick return on their training and certification investment. Investing in their skills brings improved employee morale, confidence, and productivity, while increasing your bottom line.

The results of an independent research study of participants in the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification program indicate MOS certification improves employee competence, productivity, and credibility, including the following:

• Up to 87 percent of employers observe increased competency in their MOS-certified employees.
• Up to 83 percent of employers feel their MOS-certified employees are more productive.
• Up to 77 percent of employers feel MOS certification has a positive effect on employee credibility among co-workers.
• Up to 74 percent of employers feel MOS certification has a positive effect on employee credibility with customers and clients.
• Up to 82 percent of employers believe MOS certification directly benefits an organization.
• Up to 67 percent of employers feel MOS simplifies hiring and advancement decisions.

Academic Institutions

Offering MOS certification to your students provides an opportunity for them to achieve a portable, globally recognized credential that proves their abilities as productive Microsoft Office users. Your students will appreciate the opportunity to gain better employment and be more efficient employees. Additionally, you can improve your business relations as they recognize the quality of learning your organization provides. Implementing MOS within your organization can improve internal productivity and efficiency by ensuring skills standardization.

Staffing Agencies

Your staffing agency can provide businesses with high quality, more productive job candidates by offering MOS certification to contract or temporary employees. With MOS certification as your standard benchmark for Microsoft Office skills, you can easily assess a potential employee’s abilities and reduce your agency’s placement failure. This standard enhances your agency’s reputation and potentially increases revenues.

IT Training Organizations

You can validate and distinguish the quality of your training courses and the credibility of your instructors by incorporating MOS certification into your training curriculum. The assurance that your organization provides dependable training combined with a comprehensive, globally recognized certification attracts new trainees and potentially increases your revenue.

Government Organizations

Your organization can provide constituents with a valuable service by implementing the MOS program as part of workforce development, training or rehabilitation initiatives. The MOS program establishes industry-recognized standards for Microsoft Office productivity that will enable employment and career advancement. The MOS program also is an independent means of validating the quality of training your constituents receive. Implementing MOS certification for your own employees also allows you to improve the efficiency and productivity of your organization.

Build Your Skills And Your Career: Certify Yourself

Our primary goal is your education. The Training Camp provides thorough instructor-led training to ensure that you learn the fundamentals, obtain hands-on skills, and earn your certification. You will emerge able to immediately apply your new knowledge in your career environment.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification - Curriculum

Skills measured by Exam 70-620 - TS: Windows Vista, Configuring

Firebrand Training provides thorough instructor-led training to ensure that you learn the fundamentals, obtain hands-on skills and earn your certifications. You will emerge able to immediately apply your new knowledge in your career environment.

7-Day Camp Schedule

Firebrand Training has an aggressive educational schedule that thoroughly covers all essential elements necessary for certification.

Day 1 to Day 2

Microsoft Word 2000

Day 3 to Day 4

Microsoft Excel 2000

Day 5 to Day 6

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

Day 7

Study, Testing

Firebrand Training uses Microsoft Office Specialist courseware for the highest standard training of MOS certified professionals:

• Master Track Word 2000
• Master Track Excel 2000
• Master Track PowerPoint 2000

Through lecture, group discussion, and lab work, you will learn the following concepts and skills:

Microsoft Excel 2000

Working With Cells and Cell Data

• Insert, delete, and move cells
• Enter and edit cell data including text, numbers, and formulas
• Check spelling
• Find and replace cell data and formats
• Work with a subset of data by filtering lists

Managing Workbooks

• Manage workbook files and folders
• Create workbooks using templates
• Save workbooks using different names and file formats

Formatting and Printing Worksheets

• Apply and modify cell formats
• Modify row and column settings
• Modify row and column formats
• Apply styles
• Use automated tools to format worksheets
• Modify Page Setup options for worksheets
• Preview and print worksheets and workbooks

Modifying Workbooks

• Insert and delete worksheets
• Modify worksheet names and positions
• Use 3-D references

Creating and Revising Formulas

• Create and revise formulas
• Use statistical, date and time, financial, and logical functions in formulas

Creating and Modifying Graphics

• Create, modify, position, and print charts
• Create, modify, and position graphics

Workgroup Collaboration

• Convert worksheets to Web pages
• Create hyperlinks
• View and edit comments

Microsoft Word 2000

Inserting and Modifying Text

• Insert, modify, and move text and symbols
• Apply and modify text formats
• Correct spelling and grammar usage
• Apply text effects
• Enter and format date and time
• Apply character styles

Creating and Modifying Paragraphs

• Modify paragraph formats
• Set and modify tabs
• Apply bullet, outline, and number format to paragraphs
• Apply paragraph styles

Formatting Documents

• Create and modify a header and footer
• Apply and modify column settings
• Modify document layout and Page Setup options
• Create and modify tables
• Preview and print documents, envelopes, and labels

Managing Documents

• Manage files and folders for documents
• Create documents using templates
• Save documents using different names and file formats

Working With Graphics

• Insert images and graphics
• Create and modify diagrams and charts

Workgroup Collaboration

• Compare and merge documents
• View and edit comments
• Convert documents into Web pages

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

Creating a Presentation

• Create presentations (manually and using automated tools)
• Add slides to and delete slides from presentations
• Modify headers and footers in the Slide Master

Inserting and Modifying Text

• Import text from Word
• Insert, format, and modify text

Inserting and Modifying Visual Elements

• Add tables, charts, clip art, and bitmap images to slides
• Customize slide backgrounds
• Add OfficeArt elements to slides
• Apply custom formats to tables

Modifying Presentation Formats

• Apply formats to presentations
• Apply animation schemes
• Apply slide transitions
• Customize slide formats
• Customize slide templates
• Manage a Slide Master
• Rehearse timing
• Rearrange slides
• Modify slide layout
• Add links to a presentation

Printing Presentations

• Preview and print slides, outlines, handouts, and speaker notes

Working with Data from Other Sources

• Import Excel charts into slides
• Add sound and video to slides
• Insert Word tables on slides
• Export a presentation as an outline

Managing and Delivering Presentations

• Set up slide shows
• Deliver presentations
• Manage files and folders for presentations
• Work with embedded fonts
• Publish presentations to the Web
• Use Pack and Go

Workgroup Collaboration

• Set up a review cycle
• Review presentation comments
• Schedule and deliver presentation broadcasts

Daily Educational Schedule

Our daily schedule incorporates different modes of instruction and learning environments to ensure that students learn, retain, comprehend, and can apply knowledge critical to the course.

Start Time	End Time	Activity	Intake Style
8:15 am	9:00 am	Breakfast	-
9:00 am	1:00 pm	Lecture	auditory/visual
1:00 pm	1:30 pm	Lunch	-
1:30 pm	5:30 pm	Instructor-led labs	kinaesthetic
5:30 pm	7:00 pm	Dinner	-
7:00 pm	8:00 pm	Review session	Auditory/visual/kinaesthetic
8:00 pm	9:00 pm	Breakout sessions	Auditory/visual/kinaesthetic
9:00 pm	as appropriate	Lab review sessions	kinaesthetic

Daily timetable shown for illustration purposes only. Significant changes may be made to the schedule on a daily basis to ensure that the goals of the course are met.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification - Exam Track

Certification candidates must pass one or more certification exams to earn MOS certification. The exams provide a valid and reliable measure of technical proficiency and expertise by evaluating overall comprehension of Microsoft applications. They test the ability to use the advanced features of the products and to integrate the products with other software applications.

Word 2000 Core Exam

This exam covers core competencies of Microsoft Word 2002. These include Inserting and Modifying Text, Creating and Modifying Paragraphs, Formatting Documents, Managing Documents, Working with Graphics, and Workgroup Collaboration.

Excel 2000 Core Exam

This exam covers core competencies of Microsoft Excel 2002. These include Working with Cells and Cell Data, Managing Workbooks, Formatting and Printing Worksheets, Modifying Workbooks, Creating and Revising Formulas, Creating and Modifying Graphics, and Workgroup Collaboration.

PowerPoint 2000 Core Exam

This exam covers core competencies of Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. These include Creating a Presentation, Inserting and Modifying Text, Inserting and Modifying Visual Elements, Modifying Presentation Formats, Printing Presentations, Working with Data from Other Sources, Managing and Delivering Presentations, and Workgroup Collaboration

Exam timetable shown can be changed by the instructor to ensure the goals of the course.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification - What's Included

A Microsoft Office Specialist Certification offers the highest quality technical education in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their educational objectives.

Our Microsoft Office Specialist Certification Certification Program includes

• Intensive Hands-on Training by Microsoft Certified Trainers utilizing our (Lecture | Lab | Review) Delivery
• Blended-Learning Instruction comprised of comprehensive study materials and pre-class mentoring, customized Microsoft Official Curriculum, official CompTIA courseware, comprehensive lab manuals, and Self-Test or Transcender Testing Software
• Seven (7) Days of Hotel Accommodation
• Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
• Examination Vouchers & On-site Certification Testing
• All Meals; Unlimited Beverages, Snacks and Freshly-brewed Coffee
• Transportation to/from designated local railway stations (if required)
• Examination Passing Policy

Firebrand Training offers a split week attendance option as well as multiple options for Microsoft MCSE training and testing based on the diverse needs of our students.

Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms.

Our Microsoft Certified Trainers teach to accommodate every student’s learning needs through individualized instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, question and answer drills, and friendly competitions between concurrently running classes.

Students will have 24-hour access to quality personal workstations, audiovisual equipment, supplies, and lab equipment.

Examination Passing Policy

Should a student complete an MCSEFirebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodation and vendor exam fees.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification - Prerequisites

staff interview all potential students regarding their computer applications background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and toward accelerated training and certification.

Students who are successful in the the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification course should possess:

• Windows operating system experience
• Microsoft Office experience

Students who are successful in accelerated training and certification ALL possess:

• The drive and motivation to succeed and advance their careers

Firebrand Training is an intense training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through.

A representative can skilfully assist you in determining your readiness for accelerated training, and the best training options for your career needs.

For more information about accelerated training and your educational needs, contact the Sales and Enrolment Department at 0844 888 1600.

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