The 77-881 exam is part of the new Microsoft Office Specialist certification for Office 2010. Due for release in the summer of 2010, the exam credits a candidates proficiency in Word 2010.
Requirements:You should be comfortable navigating the features of the new Office 2010 software at both feature and function level. Microsoft suggests that you should know at least 80% of the Office 2010 capabilities. As you might expect, candidates should be able to produce and edit professional documents for a variety of purposes and scenarios.
Some of the scenarios include:
- Clerical, Office professionals
- Consultants
- Executives/Managers
- Help desk personnel
- Instructors/Trainers
- Marketing personnel
- Product developers
- Sales
- Students
- Writers
Typical uses for Word 2010 would be:
- Blogging
- Business plans
- Business reports
- Case studies
- Creating Forms
- Documentation
- Journals
- Letters
- Marketing materials
- Outlining
- Papers
- Publications (books, articles)
- Recipes
- Reports
- Scrapbooking
- Studies
- User manuals
- Web info/papers
- White papers
Skills measured:- Sharing and Maintaining documents
- Formatting Content
- Applying Page Layout and Reusable Cont
- Including Illustrations and Graphics in a Document
- Proofreading documents
- Applying References and Hyperlinks
- Performing Mail Merge Operations
Credit TowardsPassing the 77-881 exam earns you credit towards the Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Office 2010 certification.