Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) — Lesson 3: Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Design

Learning Objectives

• Create and format tables and charts
• Build SmartArt and convert content into visual structures
• Use themes, Slide Master, alignment, guides, and design consistency

Detailed Topics

• Create and format tables and charts: Create and format tables and charts
• Build SmartArt and convert content into visual structures: Build SmartArt and convert content into visual structures
• Use themes: Use themes, Slide Master, alignment, guides, and design consistency

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

Create a data and process presentation using exam-aligned object tasks.

• 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 Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Design in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.