Exam 77-422: Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) – Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
Skills Measured:
Candidates for this exam are IT professionals who use Office to build secure and flexible applications.
The topics examined are stated in detail below:
Create and manage presentations
- Create a presentation
- Create blank presentations, create presentations using templates, import text files into presentations, import Word document outlines into presentations
- Format a presentation using slide masters
- Apply a slide master, add new layouts, modify existing layouts, add background images, control page numbers, insert headers and footers, modify presentation themes
- Customize presentation options and views
- Change page setup options, change to view in color/grayscale, use views to navigate through presentations, modify presentation properties
- Configure presentations to print or save
- Set handout print options, print selections from presentations, package presentations for CD, save presentations as webpages, print presentations in grayscale, print speaker notes, maintain backward compatibility
- Configure and present slideshows
- Create custom slideshows, configure slideshow options, rehearse timing, configure slideshow resolution, use Presenter View, navigate within slideshows, annotate slideshows
Insert and format shapes and slides
- Insert and format slides
- Add slide layouts, duplicate existing slides, hide slides, delete slides, modify slide backgrounds, apply styles to slides
- Insert and format shapes
- Modify shape backgrounds, apply borders to shapes, resize shapes, insert shapes, create custom shapes, apply styles to shapes
- Order and group shapes and slides
- Insert section headers, modify slide order, align and group shapes, display gridlines
Create slide content
- Insert and format text
- Change text to WordArt, create multiple columns in a single shape, insert hyperlinks, apply formatting and styles to text, create bulleted and numbered lists
- Insert and format tables
- Create new tables, modify number of rows and columns, apply table styles, import tables from external sources
- Insert and format charts
- Create and modify chart styles, insert charts, modify chart type, add legends to charts, modify chart parameters, import charts from external sources
- Insert and format SmartArt
- Add shapes to SmartArt, change color of SmartArt, move text within SmartArt shapes, reverse direction, convert lists to SmartArt
- Insert and format images
- Resize images, crop images, apply effects, apply styles
- Insert and format media
- Adjust media window size, trim timing on media clips, set start/stop times, set media options, link to external media
Apply transitions and animations
- Apply transitions between slides
- Insert transitions between slides, manage multiple transitions, modify transition effect options
- Animate slide content
- Apply animations to shapes, apply animations to text strings, add paths to animations, modify animation options
- Set timing for transitions and animations
- Modify duration of effects, configure start and finish options, reorder animations, use the Animation pane
Manage multiple presentations
- Merge content from multiple presentations
- Merge multiple presentations, reuse slides from other presentations, view multiple presentations
- Track changes and resolve differences
- Set track changes, modify options for track changes, discard changes from specific users, manage comments
- Protect and share presentations
- Encrypt presentations with a password, proof presentations, mark as final, compress media, embed fonts, restrict permissions, remove presentation metadata, check for accessibility issues, check for compatibility issues