Exam Skill Sets: What You Need to Know for Tech Level I


[Word Portion] [Excel Portion] [PowerPoint Portion]

20 Skills you need for the Word exam:

  1. Cut and paste text
  2. Copy and paste text
  3. Find and replace text
  4. Insert symbols
  5. Italicize text
  6. Check spelling
  7. Use the Thesaurus
  8. Apply super/subscript font effect
  9. Count words in a document
  10. Create a document header
  11. Insert page numbers
  12. Modify page margins
  13. Change page orientation
  14. Create tables
  15. Use print preview
  16. Insert next page section break
  17. Create folders for document storage
  18. Insert Clip Art
  19. Create footnotes
  20. Use Save As

20 Skills you need for the Excel exam:

  1. Move cells
  2. Insert columns and rows
  3. Delete rows and columns
  4. Center across selection
  5. Edit numbers in cells
  6. Apply currency and percent formats
  7. Apply dates and comma formats
  8. Sort a list on one field
  9. Wrap text
  10. Modify column widths
  11. Set print areas
  12. Insert worksheets
  13. Delete worksheets
  14. Name worksheets
  15. Create formulas
  16. Edit formulas
  17. Absolute reference
  18. Create formulas using functions
  19. Create charts
  20. Position a chart

20 Skills you need for the PowerPoint exam:

  1. Create presentations from a blank presentation
  2. Create presentations using Design Wizard
  3. Add slides to a presentation
  4. Delete slides from a presentation
  5. Add text to slides
  6. Edit text
  7. Format text
  8. Check spelling
  9. Add Clip Art images to slides
  10. Add charts to slides
  11. Format slides differently in a presentation
  12. Apply an animation schemes
  13. Apply transition effects
  14. Change the order of slides in a presentation
  15. Change the slide layout
  16. Print slides
  17. Print handouts
  18. Print speaker notes
  19. Add streaming audio/video
  20. Run a slide show