Course Description
GogoTraining is an ITIL® accredited ATO and the course videos along with the exercises fulfill the 21 contact hours required to sit for your exam.
Service Operation (SO) provides you with an intense and focused exploration of the new and modified topics in ITIL® 2011. The course is intended for those who work within a Service Operation environment and require a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts, processes/functions and activities involved and management responsibilities and how they may be used to enhance overall service quality and service provision. The course focuses on the managerial and control aspects of the operational environment.
In This Course You Will Learn:
- Discuss the Service Lifecycle and Service Management as a Practice: Understand the Service Lifecycle and the objectives and business value for each phase in the lifecycle; understand and articulate “service” and be able to explain the concept of Service Management as a practice
- Explain the basic Service Operation Principles: Understand common principles and guidelines that influence the performance of SO processes/functions with a focus on operational support and improvement activities
- Identify Service Operation Processes & Functions: Understand the managerial and supervisory aspects of the SO processes as well as the operational activities shared across the lifecycle. Other areas of discussion include the roles and responsibilities, challenges, critical success factors and risks within each of the processes. The processes and function (in italics) include:
- Event Management
- Incident Management
- Request Fulfillment
- Problem Management
- Access Management
- Service Desk
- Technical Management
- IT Operations Management (IT Operations Control, Facilities Management)
- Application Management
- Discuss common Service Operation activities: Understand the role and the responsibilities of each of the activities (e.g., Monitoring and Control, Network Management, Storage and Archive, Desktop Support, Middleware Management, etc…) and their input to all lifecycle phases
- Explore Technology and Implementation Considerations: Understand the role of technology to Service Operation and explore concepts that have great impact on SO process/function implementation
Prerequisites
ITIL® Foundations training is required prior to taking this course and it is highly recommended that all ITIL Intermediate Candidates have 2 to 4 years of Service Management Experience. If you plan on taking the ITIL® 2011: Service Operation certification exam, then you must have taken and passed the ITIL® Foundations exam (or v2, v3 or 2011equivalent) and present the certificate to the testing organization in order to sit for this exam.
Before attending training for the certification it is also strongly recommended that candidates read the ITIL Service Lifecycle core publications and, in particular, the ITIL Service Operation publications.