Earning MOS certification validates that you have the expertise to work with Microsoft Office programs. Companies that have hired MOS certified candidates have found better performance, competence and increased productivity.
Since MOS certification has become an employee selection and hiring criteria, it is now a must for individuals considering this IT field as their career paths. The 2-week training program offered in London Waterloo Academy is instructor-led, hands-on, with unlimited practice hours and a practice test that mocks the real exam.
Microsoft Office Specialist Course Content
- Lesson 1
- • Windows unattended setup
• Install and configure server hardware devices
• Configure driver signing options
• Configuring a network
• Manage servers remotely
• Troubleshooting networks
• Troubleshoot server hardware devices
- Lesson 2
- • Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
• Planning and Implementing OU structure
• Creating groups, group scopes
• Troubleshoot computer accounts.
• Troubleshoot user authentication issues
• Automatic creation of users, groups and Import user accounts.
- Lesson 3
- • Planning and implementing user profiles
• Local, Roaming, Mandatory profiles
• NTFS and Fat32 permissions
• MBSA – Hardening servers
- Lesson 4
- • Monitor file and print servers. Tools might include Task Manager, Event Viewer, and
• Printers and Printer Management
• Troubleshoot print queues.
• Optimize server disk performance
• Implement a RAID solution.
• Volumes and partitions.
- Lesson 5
- • Planning ADC and Child domains
• Install and configure an Active Directory domain controller
• Plan and Manage an Active Directory site
• Configure replication schedules
• Configure site link costs
• Configure site boundaries
• Plan and Manage Global Catalogue
- Lesson 6
- • Set an Active Directory forest and domain functional level based on requirements
• Establish trust relationships. Types of trust relationships might include external trusts, shortcut trusts, and cross-forest
• Plan flexible operations master role placement
• Plan for business continuity of operations master roles
• Identify operations master role dependencies
- Lesson 7
- • Plan Group Policy strategy
• Create and configure GPOs
• Configure Group Policy refresh rates and Group Policy settings
• Manage GPOs
• Verify and troubleshoot Group Policy
• Delegate administrative control of Group Policy
• Plan a Group Policy strategy for the enterprise
- Lesson 8
- • Introduction to System Services
• Organizing Networked Systems
• File Sharing Services
- Lesson 9
- • Introduction to Managing Software Deployment
• Deploying Software
• Configuring Software Deployment
• Maintaining Deployed Software
• Troubleshooting Software Deployment
• Planning a Software Deployment Strategy
• Preparing for Disaster Recovery
• Backing Up Data
• Scheduling Backup Jobs
• Restoring Data
• Configuring Shadow Copies
• Recovering from Server Failure, ASR, Recovery Console
• Backing Up Active Directory
• Perform an authoritative restore operation.
• Perform a non-authoritative restore operation.