Microsoft Office Specialist

I know many people think this is a nonsensical exam, especially if you are in the technical IT world but my place of work is a Microsoft IT Academy so I bought some exam vouchers from my departmental budget to do the MOS exams when I get a spare few minutes during the day...
I took the first one today, the 77-883 (PowerPoint), and I have to say it was very very easy!
I passed the 70-642 yesterday so this one was a walk in the park today... I actually rather enjoyed it! How sad! Anyway, I will polish off the Outlook, Word Expert and Excel Expert in the coming weeks (Whilst studying properly for the 70-640) and complete the MOS Master.
Richard
I took the first one today, the 77-883 (PowerPoint), and I have to say it was very very easy!

I passed the 70-642 yesterday so this one was a walk in the park today... I actually rather enjoyed it! How sad! Anyway, I will polish off the Outlook, Word Expert and Excel Expert in the coming weeks (Whilst studying properly for the 70-640) and complete the MOS Master.
Richard
WIP: 70-417, Security+, Project+, CCNA
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[ ] Security + [ ] 74-409 [ ] CEH
Future Goals:
TBD
I didn't study at all - In fact, I don't even use PowerPoint! I support staff who up until about a month ago used PowerPoint 2003 and that's it... To be honest, knowledge of the layout and function of Outlook, Word and Excel is what helped me with this.
Richard
I think I'll do Outlook next - Think I should find that one even easier seen as I use Outlook extremely heavily on a daily basis!
Richard
Was that the 'Expert' exam or the standard specialist exam that you did?
Richard
Nope, just standard on 2007. The Expert exam wasn't out yet at the time, this was awhile ago and I had just started using 2007 at home and still had no idea where anything was.
To be honest the one I struggled with the most was PowerPoint lol
content with your knowledge. " Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Decided to do the 2010 route, the standard exams were roughly the same difficulty as the 2007 standard, but the expert exam - I failed miserable.
Granted I didn't study for it, but lesson learnt. Just because I'm technical doesn't mean that I can just sit and pass an expert office exam...
-Ken
I spend 90%+ of my day in Excel and I would probably fail without studying.
I consistently use Vlookups, pivot tables/charts, match and index, if statements and macros. Everything but VBA coding.
Next up is the Excel and Word Expert exams to gain the Master title. Bit more dubious about these ones but I'll let you know how I get on...
Going to plough my way through a few chapters of the MS Press 70-640 book this weekend and then tackle the MOS exams next week hopefully.
Richard
That's totally worth it!