Microsoft Office Specialist:
Microsoft Office Specialist 2 Fast Facts on Office Specialist
The Office Specialist program is available in more than 100 countries and in 19 different languages.
More than 2.5 million Office Specialist certificates have been issued.
Approximately 38,000 Office Specialist certificates are issued each month.
More than 8,000 Office Specialist Master Instructors have been certified.
Network of courseware vendors supporting the program worldwide Customers are saying:
Help me use Microsoft Office products with confidence
Make it easy for me to use certification in the hiring, managing, promoting process
Help me turn my knowledge into deliverables
PC User Taxonomy Pivots onAttitudes, Behaviors & Dual/Personal:
PC User Taxonomy Pivots on Attitudes, Behaviors andamp; Dual/Personal Absolute PC Usage Low High Low High Tech Enthusiasm Key: (US data shown) % Personal Only Users % Dual Users Note: Size of pie chart reflects size of segment in US Tech Enthusiasm Dimensions: I am enthusiastic about consumer electronics and digital devices, I am excited about PCs (difference between average agree and disagree).
Y-Axis: % of scenarios done on a PC out of ones eligible to participate in (based on users status; personal only users = 19, work only users = 14, dual users = 33); not including Non-Electronic Games and Taking Pictures (which cannot be done on a PC) Reluctant Personals Uninspired
Basics Uninspired
Practicals Uninspired Personals Enthused
Practicals Pioneers Enthused
Personals Super
Engaged Sweet Spot
Business Certification Strategic Vision:
With Office 2007 Microsoft Learning will grow the number of certified individuals to approximately 5% of the target audience. Business Certification Strategic Vision 4 31M Students / Instructors 37M Office Workers 43M Office Managers Today, Microsoft Learning certifies about 2% of the target audience – compared to about 6% of the IT Professional and Developer audience. Microsoft Learning is investing in:
Marketing to drive awareness
Greater integration with Office and Office Online
New products to provide greater flexibility in delivering and certifying skills
Increased delivery partners Target Office 2007 Certification Markets
Product Attributes:
Product Attributes Application Specialist Exams
Focused on students, entry level professionals, experienced professionals wanting to show breadth of skills
Validates the candidate's features and functionality skills within a single product, for example Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word
Focuses on individual efforts Application Professional Exams
Focused on experienced business professionals
Validates the candidate’s ability to use the Office 12 suite of products, and SharePoint to accomplish industry-agnostic job functions, for example Budget Analysis and Forecasting, or Content Management and Collaboration
Focuses on collaborative, complex efforts
Exams will not test knowledge of concepts such as Return on Investment (ROI), but will test the candidate’s ability to calculate ROI based on a data set, share it out in various documents, and automatically update information as inputs change
Does NOT test 'soft skills' Official Assessments
Focused on students, learning environments
Assesses current skills and provides learning plans to gain skills in deficient areas
One to one relationship with Application Specialist Exams
Business Certification Future:
6 Business Certification Future Professional Series
Application Series
Pre Test Microsoft offers core expert and master certifications in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access for Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 Products Connect with the CPLS channel! Opportunity Live in the application testing
Available through Certiport and other partners
Logo’s for individual, Private site on MS.com
~$75 SRP Live in the application testing
Available through Certiport
No benefits
~$75 SRP Program Current Microsoft Office Certification Program Office 2007 Microsoft Office Certification Program Ability to focus on Professional Series learning material
Continue driving business with your 'Sweet Spot' products
Supply vouchers with learning materials Product based learning materials