Microsoft® Office Access® 2010: Part 3

Course Description

Overview:

You've covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Office Access® and now you're ready to learn advanced Access features such as, database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multi-user access and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers. Today's training added to that which you've gained from the previous two days round out your Access education and provide you with marketable job skills.

You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams for Microsoft Access 2010.

Course Objectives:

Target Student:

Students taking this course are database administrators or prospective database administrators who have experience working with Access 2010 and need to learn advanced skills.

This course is also for students who seek the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification and who want to prepare for Exam 77-885, Microsoft Office 2010.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in your course you should have experience working with Microsoft Access 2010, including a working knowledge of database design and creation, form design and creation, report design and creation, a working knowledge of database querying and the various table relationships. You can obtain this level of skill and knowledge by taking the following Logical Operations courses:

Microsoft® Office Access® 2010: Part 1
Microsoft® Office Access® 2010: Part 2

Course-specific Technical Requirements

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
CD-ROM drive
Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
1024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
Network cards and cabling for local network access
Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen

Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2010
Microsoft® Office Suite Service Pack 1
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional with Service Pack 1

Course Content

Lesson 1: Advanced Form Design

Topic A: Adding Controls to Forms

Topic B: Creating Subforms

Topic C: Organizing Information with Tab Pages

Topic D: Displaying a Summary of Data in a Form

Topic E: Applying Conditional Formatting

Lesson 2: Data Validation

Topic A: Field and Record Validation

Topic B: Form Validation

Lesson 3: Using Macros to Improve User Interface Design

Topic A: Creating a Macro

Topic B: Restricting Records Using a Condition

Topic C: Validating Data Using a Macro

Topic D: Automating Data Entry Using a Macro

Topic E: Converting a Macro to VBA

Lesson 4: Advanced Database Management

Topic A: Linking Tables to External Data Sources

Topic B: Managing a Database

Topic C: Determining Object Dependency

Topic D: Documenting a Database

Topic E: Analyzing the Performance of a Database

Lesson 5: Distributing and Securing a Database

Topic A: Preparing a Database for Multiple User Access

Topic B: Implementing Security

Topic C: Setting Passwords

Topic D: Converting an Access Database to an ACCDE File

Topic E: Packaging a Database with a Digital Signature

Lesson 6: Managing Switchboards

Topic A: Creating a Database Switchboard

Topic B: Modifying a Database Switchboard

Topic C: Setting Startup Options