ITIL service management essentials

ITIL Service Management Essentials is an intensive instructor-led course that:

  • Provides a complete overview of All 11 ITIL components, including goals, key terms, responsibilities, and keys to success

  • Prepares students to pass the ITIL Foundation exam

  • Helps students leverage ITIL concepts and practices in their daily work

duration

2 days

level

Introductory

prerequisites

None

class size

Up to 16 students

examination

Includes the exam leading to the Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (40 questions, multiple-choice)

course materials

  • Student workbook including classroom presentation, sample exams, job aids, and glossary
  • ITIL Pocket Guide

course content

  • Introduction to Service Management
  • Introduction to ITIL
  • Service Level Management
  • Planning and negotiating SLRs and SLAs
  • SLA structure
  • OLAs and UCs
  • Financial Management
  • Budgeting
  • IT accounting
  • Charging
  • Service Desk
  • Function and role
  • Local, central, and virtual Service Desks
  • Structural considerations
  • Incident Management
  • Incidents, Problems, and Known Errors
  • Integration with Problem and Change Mgmt.
  • Incident lifecycle
  • Major Incidents
  • Problem Management
  • Reactive and proactive Problem Management
  • Problem Control and Error Control
  • Codification and categorization
  • Problem solving techniques
  • Configuration Management
  • The Config. Management Database (CMDB)
  • CI planning, identification, control, and audit
  • The DHL and the DHS
  • Planning and implementing the CMDB
  • Change Management
  • Integration with Incident and Problem Mgmt.
  • The Change Advisory Board (CAB)
  • Change types
  • The Change lifecycle
  • Release Management
  • Release policies, rollout, units, and types
  • The DHL and DHS
  • Planning, communication, and testing
  • Capacity Management
  • Business and Service Capacity Management
  • The Capacity Database (CDB)
  • The Capacity Plan
  • Monitoring, modeling, and sizing
  • Availability Management
  • Availability, reliability, maintainability
  • Serviceability and security
  • Availability plan
  • Availability methods and techniques
  • Security Management
  • Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
  • Privacy, anonymity, and verifiability
  • IT Service Continuity Management
  • Business Continuity Management
  • Business Impact Analysis and Risk Mgmt.
  • IT recovery options
  • Operational management
  • Course Summary
  • Exam preparation
  • ITIL Foundation Certification Exam