Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS) certification is the globally recognized standard for demonstrating desktop skills with the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. MCAS is the ONLY approved certification program designed to measure and validate users' skills with the Microsoft Office suite of desktop productivity applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook). MCAS certification has provided thousands of people with the proof that they are able to more fully utilize the functionality of the software. This also proves to an employer that this person actually knows the software.

The Business Education Division of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education agreed to provide testing and training for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS) certification. DESE announced this offering during the Summer of 1999 and provided applications for interested schools in the fall. The Hannibal Career and Technical Center, as a result of this application process, was approved to be one of 24 testing and training centers in the state of Missouri. During this process, we have become an Authorized Testing Center (ATC) which means that we can administer the MCAS test to community people that are interested.

The Office 2007 version is available. Training is hands-on and may require some practice outside of class time. For more information on MCASS certification, go to the website at www.certiport.com

Tests available:
 

Office 2007

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Outlook

Windows Vista - also available

Each test is $70. The students must have maintained an A or B in Computer Applications or a related course at the Career and Technical Center, show aptitude toward passing the test and be willing to work on practice exams.

For more information concerning the MCAS program or questions about testing, please call Darla Brocksmith, MCAS Authorized Instructor, at the Hannibal Career and Technical Center at (573) 221-4430.