MO-300 Interview Questions

Looking for resources to prepare for the Microsoft PowerPoint (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) (MO-300) interview? Well, you are at the right place. As you know that interview preparation requires an equal amount of attention as the exam itself. Therefore we provide you a combination of frequently asked (basic to advanced level) MO-300 interview questions. So, before beginning with the questions, let’s look into what the exam is all about.

The Exam MO-300: Microsoft PowerPoint (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) examination offered by Microsoft and is a part of the requirement for the Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019). The exam MO-300: Microsoft PowerPoint (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) tests the abilities and skills of a candidate to make and manage presentations, insert and format shapes and slides, apply transitions and animations, create slide content and manage multiple presentations. Moreover, presentation examples include professional-grade sales presentations, instructional materials, employee training, and kiosk slideshows. The candidates are expected to demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of PowerPoint and complete tasks independently. Hence, the candidate who successfully passes the Exam MO:300 gets a credential as a business user.

Now, let’s look at the MO-300 interview questions:

Q1. What do you know about PowerPoint?

Well, Microsoft PowerPoint is a tool for making presentations. It is inclusive of slides to present the data. Hence, with the help of MS PowerPoint, we can represent our ideas or plan virtually with the use of text, images, and videos.

Q2. What is Elephants Dream H.264 720p.zip.?

Elephants Dream H.264 720p.zip. is a sample Smooth Streaming video presentation, in a zipped folder. This is encoded with H.264 video and AAC audio codecs in 8 standard bitrates. Additionally, this presentation consists of alternate language and director’s commentary audio tracks, and a text stream track including caption text in Timed Text Markup Language format.

Q3. What is the Smooth Streaming extension?

The Smooth Streaming extension for Internet Information Services dynamically detects the local bandwidth and CPU conditions and switches, the video quality of a media file that a player receives. Moreover, consumers with high-bandwidth connections can experience high definition quality streaming while others with lower bandwidth speeds get the appropriate stream for their connectivity, enabling consumers across the board to enjoy a compelling, uninterrupted streaming experience along with alleviating the need for media companies to cater to the lowest common denominator quality level within their audience base. 

Q4. How can you add and delete slides?

A PowerPoint add-in can add slides to the presentation and optionally find out which slide master and layout of the master is used for the new slide. This add-in can also delete slides.

Q5. How do we insert slides?

A PowerPoint add-in can insert slides from one presentation into the current presentation with the use of the application-specific JavaScript library of PowerPoint. One can control whether the inserted slides keep the formatting of the source presentation or that of the target presentation.

Q6. What is a tag?

A tag is basically a key-value pair, where the value is always of type string and is represented by a Tag object. Moreover, each type of parent object, like a Slide, Presentation, or Shape object has a tags property of type TagsCollection.

Q7. What is the use of OfficeThemes.css file?

The use of OfficeThemes.css file with content add-ins for PowerPoint allows coordinating the appearance of add-in with the theme applied to the presentation that it is running with. Hence, using the OfficeThemes.css file with task pane add-ins for PowerPoint allows coordination of the appearance of add-in with the fonts and colors of the Office UI.

Q8. Explain the role of PowerPoint.run.

PowerPoint.run executes a batch script which performs actions on the PowerPoint object model with the use of RequestContext of a previously-created API object. Thus, when the promise is resolved then any tracked objects that were automatically allocated during execution will be released.

Q9. What does PowerPoint for the web do?

PowerPoint for the web expands the Microsoft PowerPoint experience to the web browser. Here, one can work directly with presentations on the website where the presentation is stored. Microsoft 365 customers with Office for the web can view, create, and also edit the files in one go.

Q10. How do we apply themes?

In order to apply themes, one needs to choose from a gallery of built-in themes and variants when one adds a new slide to the presentation. Themes that are not supported by PowerPoint for the web are preserved in the presentation. Though, the ability to modify themes is not available in PowerPoint for the web.

Q11. Define dropbox.

Dropbox is a file hosting service offering cloud storage, personal cloud, synchronization of file and client software.

Q12. Explain the real-time co-authoring.

Multiple authors can work in PowerPoint for the web and PowerPoint at the same time. Thus, real-time presence helps in seeing where your co-authors are working in the presentation so that you won’t create conflicts while editing and you can see changes as they are being made.

Q13. How do we broadcast slideshow?

To broadcast a slide show to a remote audience through PowerPoint for the web, the PowerPoint desktop app is needed. So, viewers can watch live presentations through PowerPoint for the web, regardless of them having the PowerPoint desktop app installed. 

Q14. What are the types of PowerPoint add-ins?

The two types of PowerPoint add-ins are:

• Content add-ins: to add dynamic HTML5 content to the presentations.
• Task pane add-ins: to bring in reference information or to insert data into the presentation through a service.

Q15. What is the purpose of RequestContext?

The RequestContext object helps in facilitating requests to the PowerPoint application. As the Office add-in and the PowerPoint app run in different processes, the request context is needed to get access to the PowerPoint object model from the add-in.

Q16. What do you understand by Requirements element?

Requirements element in the add-in manifest finds its use in specifying the minimal requirement sets and API methods that the add-in needs to activate. In case, the Office platform or application does not support the requirement sets or API methods specified in the Requirements element of the manifest then the add-in won’t run in that application or platform, and won’t display in the list of add-ins shown in My Add-ins. Moreover, if an add-in needs a specific requirement set for full functionality, but it can give value even to users on platforms that do not support the requirement set

Q17. Mention the JavaScript object models.

A PowerPoint add-in interacts with objects in PowerPoint by using the Office JavaScript API, which includes two JavaScript object models:

• PowerPoint JavaScript API: The PowerPoint JavaScript API provides strongly-typed objects that you can use to access objects in PowerPoint.
• Common APIs: Introduced with Office 2013, the Common API can be used to access features such as UI, dialogs, and client settings that are common across multiple types of Office applications.

Q18. Name the office add-ins generated by Yeoman generator?

The office add-ins generated by Yeoman generator are:

• PowerPoint
• Excel
• Outlook
• OneNote
• Word
• Project
• Excel custom functions

Q19. What is Visual Studio?

Visual Studio can create Office Add-ins for Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. An Office Add-in project is generated as part of a Visual Studio solution and uses CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

Q20. What does the term BYOD mean?

BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. It is an idea of allowing employees to use their own laptops, smartphones, tablets, or any other devices in the work environment.  So, instead of the IT department mandating specific hardware or technologies, users are absolutely free to use the platforms and gadgets that they prefer.

Q21. What is Script Lab?

Script Lab is none other than an add-in that enables exploring of the Office JavaScript API and runs code snippets while one is working in an Office program like Excel or Word. It is available for free from AppSource and is a useful tool to include in the development toolkit as we prototype and verify the functionality needed in the add-in. Also, in Script Lab, one can access a library of built-in samples so as to quickly try out APIs or even use a sample as the starting point for the code.

Q22. What does the term trigger mean in the context of animation?

Well, trigger comes under the advanced animation category. It is an action or an event that performs on the slides when clicked.

Q23. What is the purpose of Smooth Streaming Presentations page?

The Smooth Streaming Presentations page in IIS Manager displays the Smooth Streaming presentation files in a directory at a glance. 

Q24. What is a tile?

A tile is none other than a rectangular button that behaves like a menu item button. It finds its use in navigating or opening pages. Also, tiles can display relevant data, like counts or key performance indicators. A tile can be inclusive of images that give additional visual context.

Q25. What is a Microsoft account?

A Microsoft account that is free of cost is useful to access many Microsoft devices and services, be it the web-based email service Outlook.com, Office Online apps, OneDrive, Skype, Xbox Live, Windows, Bing, or the Microsoft Store.

Q26. What does Microsoft 365 apps for businesses include?

Microsoft 365 apps for business include-

• Up-to-date desktop and mobile versions of Office apps: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, plus Access and Publisher (only for PC).
• Storage of and sharing with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.
• Web versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• One license inclusive of fully-installed Office apps on 5 phones, 5 tablets, and 5 PCs or Macs per user

Q27. What is Microsoft AppSource?

Microsoft AppSource gives us a convenient location to upload new Office and SharePoint add-ins, Microsoft Teams apps, and the Power BI visuals that offer solutions both for consumers and businesses. Hence, when we add the app solution to Microsoft AppSource, we also make it available in the in-product experience within Office.

Q28. Elaborate the term app catalog.

An app catalog is basically a dedicated site collection in SharePoint web application or SharePoint Online tenancy useful for hosting document libraries for Office and SharePoint Add-ins. So, in order to make Office add-ins accessible to users within the organization, the administrators can upload Office Add-ins manifest files to the app catalog for their company.

Q29. What is Microsoft 365 admin center?

The Microsoft 365 admin center eases the administrator’s need to deploy Office Add-ins to users and groups in their company. The add-ins deployed through the admin center are available to users right away in their Office applications, with no client configuration needed. We can use Centralized Deployment so as to deploy internal add-ins and add-ins provided by ISVs.

Q30. What is the use of slide insertion APIs?

The slide insertion APIs are usually useful in presentation template scenarios. There are a small number of presentations that serve as pools of slides inserted by the add-in. In that case, either you or the customer needs to create and maintain a data source correlating the selection criterion with slide IDs.

Q31. Define sourceSlideIds.

The sourceSlideIds specifies the slides from the source presentation that are inserted into the current presentation. Further, these slides are represented by their IDs retrieved from a Slide object.