IT Service Management Essentials™

This certification provides IT professionals with the essential knowledge required to understand IT service management as a quality system as well as for ensuring IT services are provisioned for and support high standards of effectiveness, availability, and reliability – and produce results.

The certification focuses on an IT service management quality system model that includes the following major components: IT services and alignment with a business strategy; the subset of 10 core operational processes that are universal to all IT organizations; and the underpinning processes involved with continual service improvements that enable IT organizations to add ever-increasing business value.

The core IT service management processes included in the curriculum are:

1. Incident Management
2. Change Management
3. Request Management
4. Problem Management
5. Configuration Management
6. Service Level Management
7. Service Catalog Management
8. Release and Deployment Management
9. IT Asset Management
10. Business Relationship Management

Who is this for?

This certification is suitable for anyone working in IT or in roles that interact with IT. The knowledge gained from this certification enables recognition of international terms and concepts used by supplier organizations including ITSM software services providers. Additionally, candidates whose organizations are seeking ISO/IEC 20000 certification will find this certification a compatible and valuable introduction to the standard.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this certification.