Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Microsoft Exam 77-883
Course outline
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About this Exam The typical candidate for the exam is a student, office worker, or instructor who needs to navigate PowerPoint 2010 at the feature and functionality level. |
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Exam Topics Covered Users create complex slide shows, such as product plans, reports, and marketing materials. They create slide shows based on custom templates generated by others and frequently reuse slides. Their slides include sophisticated data presented in visual formats. These users know how to pause and move back and forth in slide shows, jump to specific slides, drill down to supporting data, and mark up slides. |
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Credit Toward Certification When you pass Exam 77-883: PowerPoint 2010, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s): Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS): PowerPoint 2010 |
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Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your
ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The
percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the
exam. |
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Managing the
PowerPoint Environment ·
Adjust views. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: adjusting
views by using ribbon or status bar commands ·
Manipulate the PowerPoint window. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: working with
multiple presentation windows simultaneously ·
Configure the Quick Access Toolbar. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: showing the
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) below the ribbon ·
Configure PowerPoint file options. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: using
PowerPoint, Proofing, and Save options Creating a Slide
Presentation ·
Construct and edit photo albums. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: adding
captions to pictures, inserting text, inserting images in black and white,
reordering pictures in an album, and adjusting image rotation, brightness,
and contrast ·
Apply slide size and orientation settings. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting up a
custom size and changing the orientation ·
Add and remove slides. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: inserting an
outline, reusing slides from a saved presentation, reusing slides from a
slide library, duplicating selected slides, deleting multiple slides
simultaneously, and including non-contiguous slides in a presentation ·
Format slides. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: formatting
sections, modifying themes, switching to a different slide layout, applying a
fill color, gradient, picture, texture, or pattern to a slide, and setting up
slide footers ·
Enter and format text. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: using text
effects, changing the indentation, alignment, line spacing, and direction of
text, changing the formatting of bulleted and numbered lists, entering text
in a placeholder text box, converting text to SmartArt, copying and pasting
text, using Paste Special, and using Format Painter ·
Format text boxes. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: applying a
fill color, gradient, picture, texture, or pattern to a text box, changing
the outline color, weight, or style, changing the shape of the text box,
applying effects, setting the alignment, creating columns in a text box,
setting internal margins, setting the current text box formatting as the
default for new text boxes, adjusting text wrapping, sizing and positioning a
text box, and using AutoFit Working with Graphical
and Multimedia Elements ·
Manipulate graphical elements. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: arranging,
positioning, and resizing graphical elements, applying effects, applying
styles, applying borders, and adding hyperlinks ·
Manipulate images. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: applying color
adjustments, applying image corrections (sharpen, soften, brightness,
contrast), adding artistic effects to an image, removing a background,
cropping a picture, compressing selected pictures or all pictures, changing a
picture, and resetting a picture ·
Modify WordArt and shapes. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting the
formatting of the current shape as the default for future shapes, changing
the fill color or texture, changing the WordArt, converting to SmartArt ·
Manipulate SmartArt. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: adding and
removing shapes, changing SmartArt styles, changing the SmartArt layout,
reordering shapes, converting a SmartArt graphic to text, converting SmartArt
to shapes, making shapes larger or smaller, and promoting or demoting bullet
levels ·
Edit video and audio content. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: applying a
style to video or audio content, adjusting, arranging, and sizing video or
audio content, and adjusting playback options Creating Charts and
Tables ·
Construct and modify tables. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: drawing a
table, inserting a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, setting table style options,
adding shading, borders, and effects, changing the alignment, resizing,
merging or splitting columns and rows, distributing columns and rows,
arranging columns and rows ·
Insert and modify charts. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting a
chart type, entering chart data, changing the chart type, changing the chart
layout, switching row and column, selecting data, editing data ·
Apply chart elements. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: using chart
labels, axes, gridlines, and backgrounds ·
Manipulate chart layouts. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting
chart elements and formatting selections ·
Manipulate chart elements. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: arranging
chart elements, specifying a precise position, applying effects, resizing
chart elements, applying Quick Styles, applying a border, and adding
hyperlinks Applying Transitions
and Animations ·
Apply built-in and custom animations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: using More
Entrance, More Emphasis, and More Exit effects, and using More Motion paths ·
Apply effect and path options. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting timing
and start options ·
Apply and modify transitions between slides. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: modifying a
transition effect, adding a sound to a transition, modifying transition
duration, and setting up manual or automatically timed advance options ·
Manipulate animations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: changing the
direction of an animation, attaching a sound to an animation, using Animation
Painter, reordering animations, and selecting text options Collaborating on
Presentations ·
Manage comments in presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: inserting and
editing comments, showing or hiding markup, moving to the previous or next
comment, and deleting comments ·
Apply proofing tools. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: using Spelling
and Thesaurus features, comparing and combining presentations Preparing
Presentations for Delivery ·
Save presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: saving the
presentation as a picture presentation, PDF, XPS, outline, or OpenDocument presentation, saving a slide or object as a
picture file, and saving a presentation as a show (.ppsx) ·
Share presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: packaging a
presentation for CD delivery, creating video, creating handouts (send to
Microsoft Word), and compressing media ·
Print presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: adjusting
print settings ·
Protect presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting a
password, changing a password, and marking a presentation as final Delivering
Presentations ·
Apply presentation tools. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: adding pen and
highlighter annotations, changing the ink color, erasing an annotation, and
discarding or retaining annotations upon closing ·
8.2. Set up slide shows. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting up
Slide Show, playing narrations, setting up Presenter view, using timings,
showing media controls, broadcasting presentations, and creating a Custom
Slide Show ·
Set presentation timing. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: rehearsing and
keeping timings, adjusting a slide's timing ·
8.4. Record presentations. o
This objective may include but is not limited to: starting
recording from the beginning of a slide show and starting recording from the
current slide of the slide show |