Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) — Lesson 1: Presentation Creation and Management

Learning Objectives

• Create presentations from templates and existing content
• Manage slides, sections, layouts, views, properties, and options
• Configure print, handout, export, and presentation settings

Detailed Topics

• Create presentations from templates and existing content: Create presentations from templates and existing content
• Manage slides: Manage slides, sections, layouts, views, properties, and options
• Configure print: Configure print, handout, export, and presentation settings

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Complete an exam-style presentation setup and management exercise.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Presentation Creation and Management in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.