Course Description
About this course:
Earn your ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver & Support (CDS) certification!
The key to successfully managing IT is to treat it as an interconnected system. Designing, building, testing, launching, running, and supporting IT-enabled products and services must be done as part of a combined operation in order to create real and sustainable value. This is the purpose of ITIL 4 CDS: helping users establish an ongoing and seamlessly integrated process for creating, delivering, and supporting IT services while continuously delivering value to customers. Kickstart your ITIL 4 training today!
Who is this course aimed at?
- Organizations hoping to adopt ITIL 4 CDS best practices
- ITIL 4 students looking to become qualified ITIL 4 Masters
- IT managers seeking to expand their ITIL qualifications for the sake of taking on more responsibilities and higher-paying roles
- ITIL students hoping to complete the ITIL 4 Specialist branch of modules
What will you learn by taking this course?
- How different value streams are built, tested and delivered, as part of an end to end process of continual iterations and feedback loops
- How to integrate various value streams
- How to assess service performance and utilize methods designed to improve service quality
- How to use ITIL 4 in practice to plan and build value streams and chains, creating, delivering and supporting services that deliver essential value
- Everything needed to pass the official ITIL 4 CDS exam
Why should you take this course?
- This course was independently certified as a 'Market Leader' for ITIL training by Course Conductor
- The course features regular knowledge checks to help students retain their training, along with a practice exam simulator to help them prepare for the ITIL DPI examination
- The course features interactive slides, instructor-led videos, and other assets created alongside experienced subject matter experts
- Passing all the ITIL 4 modules is a requirement for reaching the level of 'ITIL Master'
- We offer each student a FREE exam voucher, as well as a FREE resit with Exam Pledge (T&Cs apply)
- This course is fully accredited by PeopleCert on behalf of AXELOS
Self-paced • Totally Online
Key Features:
- Fully accredited
- Exam voucher included
- Free resit (terms & conditions apply)
- Course duration: 14+ hours
- Access period: 6 months
- Tutor support
- Quizzes & practice exams
- Mobile compatible
Prerequisites:
Syllabus
An Introduction to ITIL 4 Specialist: CDS
Learning Objectives
This introductory module gets students up to speed with the main features, aims, objectives, and structure of the course, along with the overall learning plan.
Students receive a syllabus, diagram pack, glossary, further reading and links document, and a collection of refresher materials. The module also covers some of the most frequently asked questions for the ITIL 4 Managing Professional stream.
Module 1: Professionalism in IT Service Management
Learning Objectives
This module examines the role of different business skills in IT service management, including:
- How organizations are typically structured, with people, teams, cultures all creating potential challenges to service value systems (SVS)
- What kind of impact good communication can have on an SVS
- How to plan and manage resources and utilize results-based reporting
- The importance of creating and sustaining cultures that support continual improvement
- The inherent value of information and technology, and how they can be used to create, deliver and support services. This can include collaboration, robotic process automation, integration and data sharing, machine learning and artificial intelligence
- How to choose and implement effective information models
Module 2: Using ITIL Practices & Value Streams to Create, Deliver & Support Services
Learning Objectives
This module examines ITIL value chains and value streams, as well as several ITIL practices. It addresses:
- Key terminology, definitions, and analogies
- The structure of typical ITIL service value chains and value streams, and how they are utilized within businesses and organizations
- How to design value streams and describe steps within a value stream
- Value stream mapping and processes, along with their considerations
- How to create value streams for new services and apply core ITIL practices to ensure their success
- How to restore live services by creating value streams and applying core ITIL practices to ensure their success
- What a user support journey map looks like
Module 3: Prioritization and Managing Work
Learning Objectives
This module looks at how to coordinate and manage work activities, including:
- How to prioritize and structure work in order to create, deliver and support IT-enabled services
- Various techniques which can be used to support work prioritization, such as ‘swarming’
- Important commercial considerations, including sourcing and building components for individual services
- Defining requirements, sourcing models and commodification
- How to integrate and manage services
Module 4: 2x Practice Exam Simulators
Learning Objectives
These practice exams are designed to simulate the conditions that students will face when taking the official ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver & Support examination. It will be well worth testing your knowledge on ITIL 4 before booking your exam, as it will give you the chance to highlight and revise any modules which you have been struggling with.
When you feel you are ready to sit the ITIL CDS exam, simplyrequest your FREE exam voucher.
Module 5: Course Wrap-Up
Learning Objectives
This is a short module that sign-posts the end of the course.
Exams
This course is designed to prepare students to sit and pass the ITIL Specialist: Create, Deliver & Support examination. In order to sit the exam, students must satisfy one of the following criteria:
This course comes with a FREE exam voucher and is eligible for exam pledge (a free resit on us!) - That's how confident we are that you'll pass first time!
Before booking your exam, it will be a good idea to make sure that your device meets the technical requirements. You can do so via this online test. This test will examine the suitability of your webcam, microphone and internet connection. Please visit the PeopleCert website for more information and guidance.
Exam voucher requests are typically processed within 2 working days but please allow up to 5. Students must request their exam voucher within the course access period which starts from the date of purchase. For more information, please visit our Support & FAQs page.
ITIL 4 Specialist: CDS exam:
- This is a multiple choice 'Objective Test Question' (OTQ) exam consisting of 40 questions
- There is a time limit of 90 minutes to complete the exam
- The exam is closed book, with only the provided materials being permitted for use
- The pass mark for the exam is 70%: you must get 28 out of 40 questions correct
- In countries where English is a second language, the time allocated for the exam is extended to 113 minutes
You will be tested on:
- How to integrate value streams and activities
- How to create and deliver IT-enabled products, services, practices, methods and tools
- How to support IT-enabled products, services, practices, methods and tools
- Your understanding of service performance
- Your understanding of quality and improvement
- How to use ITIL 4 in practice to plan and build value streams and chains
FAQs
What is ITSM?
ITSM stands for 'IT Service Management': using policies, procedures, and best practices to optimize IT services for clients and employees.
What is ITIL 4?
ITIL 4 is the latest iteration of ITIL, the world's leading framework for ITSM. It offers a series of best practices to help IT-powered organizations design, develop, and continually improve their IT services.
What does the ITIL certification path look like?
Students start with 'ITIL Foundation'. Passing the Foundation exam then enables them to choose modules in the 'ITIL Managing Professional' or 'ITIL Strategic Leader' streams.
After passing all intermediate modules, students can then move on to the rank of 'ITIL Master'.
How much is an ITIL certification worth?
According to Payscale, certified ITIL practitioners can earn between $51,000 and over $259,000 (or £18,000 and over £118,000), depending on their experience, role, and certification level.
How does ITIL work?
ITIL provides users with a set of best practices for creating optimized IT services. It establishes cultures of continuous improvement, ensuring that users can enjoy long term benefits with IT services continually aligned with business goals and strategies.
It also aims for resource optimization and looks to continually improve essential processes.
How can ITIL benefit businesses?
ITIL 4 is a modernized framework that fully-equips users to optimize their IT practices. It creates cultures of continuous improvement, enabling organizations to deliver top-quality IT products and services whilst also continually reviewing their own processes.
ITIL 4 is also highly adaptable, not only making it future-proof but also allowing users to combine it with other popular methodologies such as DevOps.
What's new with ITIL 4?
There were three major changes with the release of ITIL 4. Firstly, it is more industry and community-driven, with ITIL practitioners helping to update the framework. Next, it can be easily integrated with other popular frameworks, such as DevOps, Agile, and Lean. Finally, ITIL 4 has an all-new certification path.
What is AXELOS?
AXELOS is a joint venture company behind a variety of highly popular best practice frameworks, including ITIL 4, PRINCE2, MSP, and AgileSHIFT.
What other frameworks can complement ITIL?
ITIL 4 can be integrated with several other frameworks, including Agile, DevOps, and Lean. Some practitioners even use it alongside PRINCE2.
Pricing & Offers
Pricing:
- ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver & Support (CDS)
Payments:
- We accept all major credit cards.
Other Offers:
- All discounts may not be combined with any other discounts or offers.
Registration Policies
Registration Policies:
- All confirmed registrations must be paid in advance.
- Special arrangements can be made for select government agencies. Please contact us for these special arrangements.
- Registrations are transferable within your organization (to a colleague) on request.
- Confirmation of registrations will be subject to timely receipt of payment.
- Prices stated here include tax. Import duties and/or local taxes/GST/VAT, if applicable, are NOT INCLUDED in prices and must be borne by the registrant.
- Registration allows us to use the name of your organization in our future marketing activities as our customer and you also release us to publish any images taken of the student for marketing purposes.
Cancellation Policy:
- No cancellations are available.
