ITIL Practitioner offers practical guidance on how to adopt and adapt the ITIL framework to support your business objectives. Practitioner is the next step after ITIL Foundation for professionals who have already learned the basics of IT Service Management (ITSM). ITIL Practitioner covers the Continual Service Improvement (CSI) approach as the way to structure any improvement initiatives.
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The ITIL Intermediate Qualification: Service Design Certificate is a free-standing qualification, but is also part of the ITIL Intermediate Lifecycle stream, and one of the modules that leads to the ITIL Expert Certificate in IT Service Management. It focuses on the design of IT services and covers the architectures, processes, policies and documentation that will enable you to design services that meet the needs of the organization or program.
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ITIL Service Transition provides guidance on how to manage many different kinds of transition. Following this guidance will help to ensure that the requirements from service strategy, developed in service design, are effectively realized in service operation while controlling the risks of failure and subsequent disruption. The main focus of Service Transition is the introduction of new and changed services, but includes transition of service provider capabilities such as management information systems and tools, technology and management architectures, processes, and measurement methods and metrics.
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ITIL Continual Service Improvement provides guidance for the identification of improvement opportunities in all aspects of the service lifecycle. ITIL Continual Service Improvement also looks at the changing business outcome requirements and suggests how these requirements can be met by the delivery of ever increasing quality IT services.
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ITIL Planning, Protection and Optimization focuses on the practical application of PPO practices in order enable capacity, availability, IT service continuity, information security and demand management. PPO provides guidance on developing organizations’ and individuals’ understanding of the ITIL Service Design processes.
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ITIL Release, Control and Validation focuses on the practical application of RCV practices in order to enable the successful planning, testing and implementation of new services that meet the organization’s or users’ needs. RCV provides guidance on developing organizations’ or individuals’ understanding of the ITIL Service Transition processes.
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ITIL Managing Across the Lifecycle (MALC) is between the Intermediate and Expert qualification levels. The MALC certification is necessary to obtain Expert status. MALC helps individuals apply and integrate their ITIL knowledge in real-world settings.
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