The Microsoft Office Specialist Program provides industry-leading assessments of skills and knowledge through our new project-based testing, giving students and professionals real-world exercises to appraise their understanding of Microsoft Office.

This guarantees that every certified user has demonstrated the ability to command the full features and functionality of Microsoft Office, preparing them for future academic or workforce opportunities.

The Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019 exams include multiple, smaller projects to assess student skills within Microsoft Office. Students are tested on one project at a time, once that project is complete they will move onto the next within the Microsoft Office Specialist program. These small projects test their skills as they would in the real world and validate their understanding of the Microsoft Office program functionality.

Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019 exams

Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Associate Certification

Our cutting-edge Excel certification program gives testing candidates practical, performance-based scenarios to gauge their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing.

Certification candidates will demonstrate the fundamentals of creating and managing worksheets and workbooks, creating cells and ranges, creating tables, applying formulas and functions and creating charts and objects.

To make the exam more helpful, we've replaced individual tasks with comprehensive, project-based testing. This live-in-the-application environment confirms that certified individuals have demonstrated the ability to complete a realistic Excel project.

Microsoft Office Specialist Word Associate Certification

Certified individuals will establish their ability to perform a number of Word tasks, such as creating and managing documents, formatting text, paragraphs and sections, creating tables and lists, applying references and inserting and formatting objects.

The straightforward Word evaluation challenges individuals to complete a comprehensive project that depicts real-world functionality with project and standards-based outcome testing.

Microsoft Office Specialist PowerPoint Associate Certification

Our interactive PowerPoint certification program provides candidates with performance-based scenarios to measure their ability to manage essential, day-to-day tasks.

Certification requires individuals to demonstrate their ability to create and manage presentations, insert and format shapes and slides, create slide content, apply transitions and animations and manage multiple presentations.

The unique benefit for candidates taking the new PowerPoint exam is the comprehensive, project-based testing format. This requires individuals to complete a project that depicts real-world functionality with project and standards-based outcome testing.

Microsoft Office Specialist Outlook Associate Certification

Candidates will expand and prove technical skills by demonstrating how to customize the Outlook user interface format message content, create or insert graphic elements, and send and respond to emails and meeting requests. They can also manage and share multiple calendars, schedule meetings and appointments, create contact records and tasks, and set up contact groups to facilitate communication with other Outlook users.

Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert Certification
The Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Expert Certification demonstrates competency in creating, managing, and distributing professional spreadsheets for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to customize Excel environments to meet project needs and to enhance productivity. Expert workbook examples include custom business templates, multiple-axis financial charts, amortization tables, and inventory schedules. 
Microsoft Office Specialist Word Expert Certification

The Microsoft Office Specialist: Word Expert Certification demonstrates competency in creating and managing professional documents for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. The exam covers the ability to customize Word environments to meet project needs, and to enhance productivity. Examples of expert-level documents include a business plan, a research paper, a book, a specialized brochure, and a mass mailing. 


You can demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of Word at an expert-level and can complete tasks independently

Microsoft Office Specialist Access Expert Certification

The new Access certification exam uses practical, performance-based scenarios to evaluate their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing.

Certified candidates will demonstrate their ability to use principle Access features to independently create custom, browser-based database applications. Tasks will include creating and managing a database, building tables, creating queries, creating forms and reports.

The exam is more relevant than past exams, featuring comprehensive, project-based testing. This means candidates are responsible for demonstrating the ability to complete a realistic Microsoft Office Specialist Access project.

The Microsoft Office Specialist Program now has multiple levels: Associate and Expert

You still earn a certification for each exam you pass, however if you earn any three of the four available associate certifications you will become a Microsoft Office Specialist - Associate and earn an additional certification for your accomplishment.

If you would like to advance even further and earn the Associate certification and any two of the three available expert certifications you will become a Microsoft Office Specialist - Expert and achieve the highest certification within the Microsoft Office Specialist Program