Hello and Happy Holidays Season Everyone,
You may be wondering why I skipped writing about my experience taking MOS-300, the Microsoft PowerPoint certification. Today, Saturday, December 12, 2020, I had the pleasure to take MOS-400, the Microsoft Outlook certification exam. This is not by error, but by personally challenging myself to test my abilities. Rest assured, I will be tackling MOS-300 tomorrow, December 13, 2020. Proudly, I passed the MOS-400 exam with a great score with having no preparation or outside test-study at all. This truly was a test of my ability to utilize my current knowledge of Microsoft Outlook while also being able to deductive reason and logically think about how to complete the task without having no knowledge of how to do so. I will say, having no test preparation or really knowing the types of questions that would be present on the exam was difficult, some questions really had me pause and think. I use Outlook every day at work so I was confident going into this certification, but many tasks within the examination I have never done or seen, and I’ve certainly never utilized at my workplace; it truly posed a great challenge. I am so proud to pass the Microsoft Outlook certification because I believe it is much more utilized in the workplace than Microsoft PowerPoint (at least at the organization I intend to pursue a career with), allows me to bring new knowledge to my workplace, and this certification certainly sets me apart from others. With the passing of three exams thus far, MOS-100 (Microsoft Word), MOS-200 (Microsoft Excel), and MOS-400 (Microsoft Outlook), I attained the Microsoft Office Specialist - Associate Certification. I look forward to also attaining my Microsoft PowerPoint certification in the next 24 hours.
