MOS 2013 Study Guide for Microsoft Excel Expert
Mark Dodge
Published by Microsoft Press
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Introduction
The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification program has been designed to validate your knowledge of and ability to use programs in the Microsoft Office 2013 suite of programs, Microsoft Office 365, and Microsoft SharePoint. This book has been designed to guide you in studying the types of tasks you are likely to be required to demonstrate in Exam 77-427: Microsoft Excel 2013 Expert Part One, and Exam 77-428: Microsoft Excel 2013 Expert Part Two.
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See Also For information about the tasks you are likely to be required to demonstrate in Exam 77-420: Microsoft Excel 2013, see MOS 2013 Study Guide for Microsoft Excel by Joan Lambert (Microsoft Press, 2013).
Who this book is for
MOS 2013 Study Guide for Microsoft Excel Expert is designed for experienced Excel users seeking Microsoft Office Specialist Expert certification in Excel 2013. This certification requires that the candidate pass two exams. This book covers the objectives of both exams.
MOS exams for individual programs are practical rather than theoretical. You must demonstrate that you can complete certain tasks or projects rather than simply answering questions about program features. The successful MOS certification candidate will have at least six months of experience using all aspects of the application on a regular basis; for example, using Excel at work or school to manage and share workbooks, apply and share custom formatting, present data in PivotTables and Pivot Charts, create models and scenarios, and create advanced formulas by using functions.
As a certification candidate, you probably have a lot of experience with the program you want to become certified in. Many of the procedures described in this book will be familiar to you; others might not be. Read through each study section and ensure that you are familiar with not only the procedures included in the section, but also the concepts and tools discussed in the review information. In some cases, graphics depict the tools you will use to perform procedures related to the skill set. Study the graphics and ensure that you are familiar with all the options available for each tool.
How this book is organized
The exam coverage is divided into chapters representing broad skill sets that correlate to the functional groups covered by the exams, and each chapter is divided into sections addressing groups of related skills that correlate to the exam objectives. Each section includes review information, generic procedures, and practice tasks you can complete on your own while studying. When necessary, we provide practice files you can use to work through the practice tasks. You can practice the procedures in this book by using the practice files supplied or by using your own files.
Throughout this book, you will find Strategy tips that present information about the scope of study that is necessary to ensure that you achieve mastery of a skill set and are successful in your certification effort.
The exam objectives are divided into four functional groups. The mapping of the exam objectives to the certification exams is shown in the following table.
Functional group | Objectives covered by Exam 77-427 | Objectives covered by Exam 77-428 |
Candidates must pass both exams to earn the Microsoft Office Specialist Expert certification in Excel 2013.
Download the practice files
Before you can complete the practice tasks in this book, you need to download the books practice files to your computer. These practice files can be downloaded from the following page: http://aka.ms/mosExcelExp2013/files
Important
The Excel 2013 program is not available from this website. You should purchase and install that program before using this book.
If you would like to be able to refer to the completed versions of practice files at a later time, you can save the practice files that you modify while working through the exercises in this book. If you save your changes and later want to repeat the exercise, you can download the original practice files again.
The following table lists the practice files for this book.
Folder and functional group | Files |
MOSExcel2013Expert\Objective1 | ExcelExpert_1-1a.xltx ExcelExpert_1-1b.accdb ExcelExpert_1-1c.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-1d.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-2.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-3a.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-3b.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-3c.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-3d.xlsx ExcelExpert_1-3e.xlsx |
MOSExcel2013Expert\Objective2 | ExcelExpert_2-1.xlsx ExcelExpert_2-2.xlsx ExcelExpert_2-3.xlsx ExcelExpert_2-4.xlsx |
MOSExcel2013Expert\Objective3 | ExcelExpert_3-1a.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-1b.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-2.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-3.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-4a.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-4b.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-4c.xlsx ExcelExpert_3-4d.xlsx |
MOSExcel2013Expert\Objective4 | ExcelExpert_4-1.xlsx ExcelExpert_4-2a.xlsx ExcelExpert_4-2b.xlsx ExcelExpert_4-3.xls x |
Adapting exercise steps
The screen images shown in this book were captured at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, at 100 percent magnification. If your settings are different, the ribbon on your screen might not look the same as the one shown in this book. For example, you might have more or fewer buttons in each of the groups, the buttons you have might be represented by larger or smaller icons than those shown, or the group might be represented by a button that you click to display the groups commands. As a result, exercise instructions that involve the ribbon might require a little adaptation. Our instructions use this format:
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