ITIL® Practitioner Code ITIL4-PRAC-IM

ITIL®4 Practitioner: Incident Management

1 Day Live Instructor-Led Online
Minimum 6 months' access Self-Paced
Minimum 6 months' access Self-Paced + Extras

The ITIL 4 Practitioner: Incident Management practice module is for IT professionals who are involved in minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.

The individuals can demonstrate their understanding and application of the concepts covered in the ITIL 4 Incident Management practice at both strategic and operational levels maximizing value from this practice area.

ITIL 4 Practitioner: Incident Management enables professionals to efficiently

  • Coordinate incident handling in the organization or in a specific area, such as territory, product, or technology, depending on the organizational design
  • Monitor and review the work of teams that handle and resolve incidents
  • Coordinate manual work with incidents, especially those involving multiple teams
  • Ensure sufficient awareness of the incidents and their status across the organization
  • Conduct regular incident reviews and initiate improvements of the incident management practice, the incident models, and the incident handling procedures
  • Measure, assess and develop the Incident Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model.
Course Topics

The key concepts of the Incident Management practice

  • Explain the purpose of the Incident Management practice
  • Describe the practice success factors (PSF) & key metrics of the Incident Management practice
  • Explain the key terms/concepts
    • incident
    • incident model
    • major incident
    • workaround
    • technical debt
    • task priority
    • prioritization

The processes of the Incident Management practice

  • Describe inputs and outputs of the Incident Management processes
  • Describe the key activities of the Incident Management processes
  • Know how to integrate the Incident Management practice in the organization’s value streams

The roles and competences of the Incident Management practice

  • Describe the responsibilities of the key roles of the Incident Management practice
    • Incident Manager
    • Other roles involved in incident management
  • Know how to position the Incident Management practice in the organizational structure

How information and technology support and enable the Incident Management practice

  • Explain the tools application
  • Apply the recommendations on automation

The role of partners and suppliers in the Incident Management practice

  • Explain the dependencies of the Incident Management practice on third parties
  • Explain how partners and suppliers can support the Incident Management practice

How the ITIL capability model can be used to develop the Incident Management practice

  • Explain how capability criteria support the Incident Management practice capability development

The recommendations for the Incident Management practice success

  • Understand the recommendations for incident management success and how they are supported by the ITIL guiding principles

The examination consists of 20 multiple-choice questions. Each question is worth one mark, and candidates must achieve 13 marks out of 20 to pass.

20 Questions
30 Minutes
65% Pass Mark
Multi Choice Format
Closed Book
1 Mark Each

To attend this course, delegates must hold any ITIL v3 certification, ITIL 4 Foundation or the ITIL 4 Managing Professional designation. Accredited training is mandatory before examination results can be released.

Virtual Training • Live Instructor-Led Online

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e-Learning • Self-Paced

Study through professionally produced online learning at your own pace, with extended platform access so you can work around your existing commitments. The package includes the learning materials, interactive activities, practice questions and the relevant examination voucher where applicable.

e-Learning+ • Self-Paced + Extras

e-Learning+ includes everything provided with the standard e-Learning package (learning materials, interactive activities, practice questions and the relevant examination voucher where applicable), together with additional preparation and reassurance. This includes a mock examination and the PeopleCert Take2 exam re-sit option, subject to the applicable examination terms.

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