IT Service Management is a discipline that helps provide services with a focus on customer needs and in a professional manner. It is widely used in the commercial and public sectors to manage IT services of all types, but current solutions are very heavyweight with high barriers to entry.
FitSM is a lightweight approach to professionally managing services. It brings order and traceability to a complex area and provides simple, practical support in getting started with ITSM. FitSM training and certification provide crucial help in providing services and improving their management. It provides a common conceptual and process model, sets out straightforward and realistic requirements and links them to supporting materials.
This is one-day Foundation level course aims to provide the basic IT service management concepts and terms (based on FitSM-0), outline the purpose and structure of FitSM standards and their relationship to other standards and understand the process framework underlying FitSM and requirements defined within it.
Duration
- 8 hours (plus 30-minute exam)
Training Prices
- €399 - Base Training Fee*
- €339 - EGI Participant Discounted Training Fee (e.g. NGI/EIRO)*
- €80 - Exam Fee (charged by certification authority APMG)
- Required for formal certification
- Registration and payment required via Eventbrite
*Prices includes coffee breaks, room facilities, administration overhead, EGI Foundation is VAT exempt for delivery of professional training courses.
Target audience
- All individuals involved in the provisioning of (federated) IT services
- Candidates who wish to progress to the advanced level of the qualification and certification scheme
Entry requirements
- None
Contents
- Basic IT service management concepts and terms (based on FitSM-0)
- Purpose and structure of FitSM standards and their relationship to other standards
- Full process framework underlying FitSM
- Requirements defined in FitSM-1
Exam
- 30 minutes, at the end of the training
- Closed book, i.e. no aids are allowed
- 20 multiple choice questions (four possible answers for each question, one correct answer per question)
- At least 65% correct answers (13 of 20) are required to pass the examination
Training Outputs
- Exam scores
- Certificates for those passing the exam with unique certificate license number
*Communication of results, and availability for download through personal client area, provided by the third-party certification authority
Related downloads
The current version of the FitSM Foundation training slides can be found here: https://www.fitsm.eu/downloads/
