ITIL Fundamentals
- Origins, development and governance of the ITIL methodology
- Defining IT Service Management
- Reviewing the structure and scope of the Foundation Certification examination
- People, process and technology
The Service Desk Function and Incident Management
Establishing the Service Desk
- Distinguishing the Service Desk from call centers and help desks
- Costing the Service Desk
- Service Desk business benefits
Managing an incident life cycle
- Identifying, categorizing and prioritizing incidents
- Investigating and processing incidents through to closure
Problem Identification and Resolution
Demystifying problem control with Problem Management
- Minimizing the adverse effects of incidents and problems
- Proactive and reactive Problem Management
Achieving error control
- Getting to the root cause
- Progressing error correction
Evaluating Change via Change Management
- Setting up a change advisory board
- Analyzing the impact of proposed changes
- Establishing standard methods and procedures for managing change
Assessing Infrastructure Through Configuration Management
- Relationship with incidents, problems, changes and releases
- Identifying, controlling and maintaining configuration items
- Measuring compliance
Release Management from Planning to Deployment
- Working through Release Management stages
- Managing Definitive Hardware Store (DHS) and Definitive Software Library (DSL)
- Accounting for technical and non-technical aspects of the release
| The Service Level Management (SLM) Life Cycle
- Planning, implementing and delivering Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Operational Level Agreements (OLA)
- Supporting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Underpinning Contracts (UC)
Ensuring Availability
- Planning, improving, measuring and reporting for availability
- Applying the ARMSS model of Availability Management
- Measuring system unavailability
Maintaining IT Service Continuity
- Identifying, planning and managing for risks and risk impacts
- Invoking contingency plans in crisis situations
Effective Capacity Management
- Implementing Capacity Management (CM)
- Managing business, service and resource capacity
- Monitoring capacity
- Tuning systems to optimize performance
Planning Effective Financial Management
- Developing, budgeting, charging and accounting systems for IT services
- Providing essential management information for workable and cost-effective operations
Securing Infrastructure Processes
- Managing confidentiality, integrity and availability (C-I-A) of data
- Integration of Security Management with other ITIL processes
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