Vendor Approved Courseware

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Vendor Approved Courseware

• For Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista

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Microsoft Office Specialist

• 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

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PC User Taxonomy Pivots onAttitudes, Behaviors
Dual/Personal
High
Enthused Practicals
Sweet Spot
Super Engaged
Pioneers
Uninspired Practicals
Key (US data shown)
Personal Only Users
Uninspired Personals
Reluctant Personals
Dual Users
Absolute PC Usage
Enthused Personals
Note Size of pie chart reflects size of segment
in US
Uninspired Basics
Low
High
Low
Tech Enthusiasm
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)
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Business Certification Strategic Vision
Target Office 2007 Certification Markets
Today, Microsoft Learning certifies about 2 of
the target audience compared to about 6 of the
IT Professional and Developer audience.
31MStudents / Instructors
37M Office Workers
With Office 2007 Microsoft Learning will grow the
number of certified individuals to approximately
5 of the target audience.
43M Office Managers

• 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

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Product Attributes

• Application Professional Exams
• Focused on experienced business professionals
• Validates the candidates 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
  candidates 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

• 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

• 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

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Business Certification Future
Current Microsoft Office Certification Program
Office 2007 Microsoft Office Certification Program
Microsoft offers core expert and master
certifications in Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Outlook and Access for Office 2000, Office XP and
Office 2003
Professional Series Application Series Pre Test
Products
Live in the application testing Available through
Certiport No benefits 75 SRP
Live in the application testing Available through
Certiport and other partners Logos for
individual, Private site on MS.com 75 SRP
Program
Product based learning materials
Connect with the CPLS channel!
Ability to focus on Professional Series learning
material Continue driving business with your
Sweet Spot products Supply vouchers with
learning materials
Opportunity