My MCAS journey

zyzzyva57 · #1 12-18-2009, 02:20 PM

If you are trying to get certified in M$ Office products, you might appreciate my journey this year

I finally got certified in Office 2007's Word, Excel, PP, and Access

I used the official study guide

then MeasureUp, because it also showed me how things were done

I also used YouTube a lot (most forget YouTube has many excellent training videos, some better than others)

Another excellent source of help is offered FREE by M$!

Also, the Help files with a particular product CANNOT be discounted

My tests were Certipoint

Speed is the big deal, so you have very little time to think, and this is rough with the more obscure things you can do with Office products

I found Excel hard with charts, because you can change so much with coloring and legends and axises, etc...Otherwise, I had NO problems

PP was hard for me, because I am NOT artistic and care little about all the crap you can do with coloring and gee-whiz graphics

I am one of the few who loves Access, so I breezed through this test--only one chart question, and I did NOT answer the two on Pivot Tables

The future...

When Office 2010 comes out, I plan on investigating more Certipoint's products since this company does the testing

What I will be looking for is does its products show you how a question is done, as does MeasureUp

With MeasureUp, this company offers great deals, so look for the best price or ask for it or get on its mailing list

The weakness to the Official M$ study guide is the example questions does NOT show you how to do them