ITIL 4 FOUNDATION

Master IT Service Management fundamentals with ITIL 4 Foundation. Learn the guiding principles, service value chain, and key practices needed to manage modern IT-enabled services and drive business value.

Course Overview

The ITIL 4 Foundation certification is designed to introduce candidates to the management of modern IT-enabled services. This course provides you with an understanding of the common language and key concepts of ITIL 4, showing you how to improve your work and the work of your organization. The training covers a holistic approach to facilitating co-creation of value with customers and stakeholders through products and services. You’ll gain insights into the ITIL 4 service management framework and how it has evolved to adopt modern technologies and ways of working, including Agile, DevOps, and digital transformation. This course emphasizes collaboration, transparency, automation, and working holistically across your organization.

Course Objective

  • Understand the definition of key ITIL 4 concepts including service, utility, warranty, customer, user, and service management
  • Describe the key concepts of creating value with services including cost, value, organization, outcome, output, risk, utility, and warranty
  • Explain the four dimensions of service management: organizations and people, information and technology, partners and suppliers, and value streams and processes
  • Understand the seven guiding principles of ITIL 4 and how to apply them to your organization
  • Describe the ITIL service value system and how components interact
  • Understand the six activities of the ITIL service value chain: Plan, Improve, Engage, Design & transition, Obtain/build, and Deliver & support
  • Recall the purpose of 18 ITIL practices and how they fit within the service value chain
  • Explain key ITIL practices including continual improvement, change control, incident management, problem management, service request management, service desk, and service level management
  • Understand how ITIL practices maintain value while expanding to different areas of service management and IT
  • Prepare successfully for the ITIL 4 Foundation certification exam

Pre-requisites

  • No formal prerequisites required
  • Basic understanding of IT Service Management concepts is beneficial
  • Familiarity with IT operations or service delivery environment is helpful
  • No prior ITIL knowledge or experience required

Course Curriculum