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Exam Delivery
Online
Exam Format
Closed Book
Exam Proctoring
Web Proctoring
Exam Duration
90 minutes
Exam Pass Grade
70% of 40 simple multiple choice questions
Course Details
Course Content
The ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, & Improve course is based on the ITIL® 4 Strategist Direct, Plan, and Improve candidate syllabus from AXELOS. The course provides the practical skills necessary to create a “learning and improving” IT organization, with a strong and effective strategic direction. With the help of ITIL® 4 concepts and terminology, activities, exercises, and examples included in the course, you will acquire relevant knowledge to pass the ITIL® Strategist: Direct, Plan, and Improve certification exam.
The ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, and Improve course is designed to provide practitioners with a practical and strategic method for planning and delivering continual improvement with necessary agility. It is aimed at managers of all levels involved in shaping direction and strategy or developing a continually improving team. It will cover both practical and strategic elements. Therefore, it is the universal module that will be a key component of both ITIL® 4 Managing Professional and ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader streams.
The ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve course fundamentally targets the participants in the IT and business domains who wish to take first steps in service management or who are familiar with earlier versions of ITIL and/or other sources of industry best practice and wish to learn about ITIL® 4. This course and the related certification can be beneficial for the following roles:
- IT Support Staff
- IT Consultants
- Business Managers
- Business Process Owners
- IT Developers
- Service Providers
- System Integrators
- Anyone working in a DevOps team
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the key concepts of direction, planning, improvement.
- Understand the scope of what is to be directed and/or planned, and know how to use key principles and methods of direction and planning in that context.
- Understand the role of GRC and know how to integrate the principles and methods into the service value system.
- Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of continual improvement for all types of improvements.
- Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of Communication and Organizational Change Management to direction, planning, and improvement.
- Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of measurement and reporting in direction, planning, and improvement.
- Understand and know how to direct, plan, and improve value streams and practices
- Self-Study e-book
- Video Lessons
- Exam Voucher
- Practice Questions
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As of 1st Nov 2019, no training associated with an AXELOS product can be sold without the corresponding official assessment.
Prerequisites
To take the ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve course, a candidate must have passed the ITIL® 4 Foundation examination.
Please note that if an exam voucher is included, you are able to schedule your exam for up to twelve months.
Certificate: ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve
Duration: 24 Hours
Domain: Service Management
Delivery Method:
- Self-Study e-book
- Video Lessons
- Exam Voucher
- Practice Questions
Accreditation: PEOPLECERT
Delivery: Online
Format: Closed Book
Proctoring: Web Proctoring
Duration: 90 minutes
Number of questions: 40 simple multiple choice
Pass grade: 70%
Once you feel comfortable with the content of the course, our service desk will book the PEOPLECERT (official ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan & Improve exam provider) exam or assessment for you.






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About the Course Author

As an IT Service Management trainer, consultant and line manager with over 25 years of experience in IT, Marcel has performed strategic and tactical assignments in a wide variety of areas. For the ITIL 4 update, Marcel has been part of the ITIL 4 Lead Architect Team and Review Team at AXELOS. Through his association with AXELOS, Marcel comprehends the background, the architecture, and the underlying reasons of the ITIL 4 update.

Madeleine du Toit has been an active member of the IT Service Management community for over 20 years, of which 15 years are focused on training and consulting different elements of the ITIL framework. She has been part of and led several implementation projects within the IT Service Management framework, with a key focus on practical governance for maximum benefit. Madeleine is an accredited trainer for all products within the ITIL v3 certification scheme, she has assisted many thousands of people in getting their ITIL Foundation and ITIL Expert accreditations.
