Exam 77-421 - Microsoft OneNote 2013
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
Manage the OneNote environment (25–30%)
- Manage page layout
- Combine and rearrange containers, collapse and expand paragraphs and lists, insert background images, work with templates, set page layout options
- Configure OneNote Backstage
- Configure notebook settings and properties, pin notebooks to lists
- Create a OneNote notebook
- Create new notebooks, create notebooks on OneDrive, create notebooks on a network, create local notebooks
- Personalize OneNote
- Set default fonts and sizes, change display settings, manage proofing and language settings, set research and translation options, set page format options, customize workspaces, customize the ribbon, expand/collapse panels
Share and collaborate with other users (15–20%)
- Share OneNote notebooks
- Share notebooks on OneDrive, share notebooks on SharePoint, share notebooks on a network, synchronize shared notebooks across devices
- Share OneNote content via email
- Send notebooks via email, configure OneNote email options, invite others to view notebooks, send pages via email in shareable formats, send to a blog
- Collaborate with other users in OneNote
- Mark coauthor edits as read, view recent edits, find notes by author, hide author initials, mark notes as read or unread
Organize and find notes (20–25%)
- Organize notebooks
- Merge sections, create new section groups, use color to group notebooks and sections, protect with passwords, group and display sub-pages, use Quick Notes, add new pages
- Search for content in OneNote
- Search for content across notebooks, sections, and pages; display search results panes, search indexed recordings
- Save and manage OneNote history and backups
- Manage page versions, manage notebook recycle bins, manage backups, save notebooks, save current pages, save pages as alternate file types, convert for backward compatibility
- Configure Quick Filing
- Send email messages, insert notes from Outlook (messages, meetings, contacts, and tasks), insert webpages, insert screenshots, print to OneNote, insert media, set default locations
- Create and manage tags
- Apply tags, create new tags, modify existing tags, create tag summary pages, configure tag options, find tags
Edit and link content in OneNote (25–30%)
- Apply links and linked notes
- Link Quick Notes to pages, sections, notebooks, and wiki links; create new docked windows; link Quick Notes to web browsers; link Quick Notes to Office applications; copy links
- Insert files in OneNote
- Insert links to files, embed files, embed a spreadsheet or Visio document
- Edit text in OneNote
- Use the Format Painter, use styles, manage paste options, use format options, insert tables
- Insert and modify visual elements
- Insert images, insert symbols, work with the drawing tools, manage the pen options