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I am a 10+2 passed student in India and pursuing honours in mathematics.Is it possible to get a MOS certification for me without being in an engineering or computer area.How to prepare for the exam? I am very much interested in formatting different types of documents in MS Office 2003 and have knowledge of basic computer applications.Please Help Me.
Answer by igorotboy
The MOS exams test your knowledge of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project. To earn the MOS certification, you only have to pass one of the tests on the any of the above programs. You mentioned formatting documents, so taking the Word exam will get you that certification.
Now as far as the certifications go, you can take more than one and get certified at different levels. Passing one makes you a MOS, and passing the expert version of either Word or Excel gets you a MOS Expert certification. A MOS Master will have passed the Word Expert, Excel Expert, PowerPoint, and either Access or Outlook. Finally, a MOS Master Instructor will have achieved the MOS Master certification and will have 2 years of instructional experience.
You don’t have to be a computer science student or anything like that – all you need is knowledge of the Office programs. As for preparing for the exams, nothing beats playing around with the software itself. There are programs out there that simulate the test, but if you’re handy with computers and you have access to a copy of Office, you can try to learn it yourself and save a few bucks. Download a study guide or review the test objectives to see if you know how to do all of the things listed. Use the help files to help explain functions you’re not sure about.
My advice to you would be to really learn where all the different functions are. For example, in Word, creating a footnote is done by going under Insert-Reference-Footnote. This is also the place where you convert footnotes to endnotes, and where you can change the style of the superscripted markings that denote footnotes. Again, if you’re handy with computers, trying to figure out how to do things will be much easier if you know in general where to look in the first place.
