Course Description
GogoTraining is an Accredited ITIL® ATO and the course videos along with the exercises fulfill the 30 contact hours required to sit for your exam.
This Accredited Training Program is for individuals seeking specialist certification in the ITIL® Release, Control and Validation practice area. In order to sit for the Release, Control and Validation exam you need to have passed your ITIL® Foundation exam and completed the GogoTraining Accredited Release, Control and Validation course.
You will be guided through the material by expert instructor Dr. Suzanne Van Hove. Dr. Van Hove covers the process aspects of Release, Control and Validation from a practical perspective and covers the following key ITIL process and role areas: Change Management; Release and Deployment Management; Service Validation and Testing; Service Asset and Configuration Management; Knowledge Management; Request Fulfillment and Evaluation.
The ITIL Intermediate Qualification: Release, Control and Validation (RCV) Certificate is a freestanding qualification, but is also part of the ITIL Intermediate Capability stream, and one of the modules that leads to the ITIL Expert in IT Service Management Certificate. The purpose of this training course and the associated exam and certificate is, respectively, to impart, test, and validate the knowledge on industry practices in Service Management as documented in the ITIL Service Lifecycle core publications.
In This Course You Will Learn:
- The importance of Service Management as a Practice concept and Service Transition Principles, Purpose and Objective
- The importance of ITIL® Release, Control and Validation while providing service
- How all processes in ITIL® Release, Control and Validation interact with other Service Lifecycle Processes
- What are the processes, activities, methods and functions used in each of the ITIL® Release, Control and Validation processes
- How to use the ITIL® Release, Control and Validation processes, activities and functions to achieve operational excellence
- How to measure ITIL® Release, Control and Validation
- The importance of IT Security and its contributions to ITIL® Release, Control and Validation
- The technology and implementation considerations surrounding ITIL® Release, Control and Validation
- Change Management as a capability to realize successful service transition
- Service Validation and Testing as a capability to assure the integrity and the quality of service transition
- Service Asset and Configuration Management as a capability to monitor the state of service transition
- Knowledge Management as part of enhancing the on-going management decision support and service delivery capability
- Request Fulfillment and Evaluation to assure meeting committed service level performance
- Release Control and Validation process roles and responsibilities
- Technology and Implementation Considerations
- Challenges, Critical Success Factors and Risks associated to ITIL® Release, Control and Validation
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: Release, Control and Validation certification exam, you must have taken and passed the ITIL® Foundations exam (or v2, 2007 or 2011 equivalent) 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 Transition and ITIL Service Operation publications.