PeopleCert ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management Certification Course Including Official Exam

Learn best practices for making new and changed services available for use, in line with your organisation's policies and any agreements between the organisation and its service consumers.

What will you learn?
Key concepts
Understand the purpose and key concepts of Release Management, elucidating its significance in planning, scheduling, and controlling the build, test, and deployment of releases to ensure they deliver the expected outcomes.
 
Practice success factors
Learn about practice success factors (PSF) and key practice metrics, essential for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of Release Management in achieving timely and successful releases.
 
Practice processes
Explore Release Management processes, including key activities, and learn how to integrate them into your organisation's value stream to ensure seamless and coordinated release deployments.
 
Roles and competencies
Focus on key roles within Release Management, and understand how to position the practice effectively within your organisation. Develop the necessary competencies for managing and overseeing release activities.
 
Information and technology
See how Information and Technology can support and enable Release Management to deliver improvements, providing tools and systems for effective planning, tracking, and deployment of releases.
 
Partners and suppliers
Explore the role of partners and suppliers in Release Management, understanding how to collaborate effectively to enhance release processes and ensure successful delivery.
 
The ITIL Capability model
Discover how the capability criteria support the practice's capability development, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and organisational requirements for effective Release Management.
 
Practice success
Learn strategies for succeeding with Release Management and understand how it is supported by the ITIL guiding principles, ensuring the establishment of robust release practices to achieve business goals and deliver value.

What skills will you acquire?
Service design
Learn how to design products and services that are fit for purpose and use, that can be delivered by the organisation and its ecosystem.
Change
Gain expertise in developing, implementing, monitoring, and communicating change plans, schedules, and the status of changes to IT products and services for stakeholders.
AI and automation
Ensure that applications and IT systems meet stakeholder needs, and product features are released on time, within budget and to a high standard of quality.

Target Audience:
IT Specialist: Development
IT Specialist: Changes
IT Manager: Operations
IT Service Manager

Course Prerequisites
The candidate must have passed the ITIL® 4 Foundation examination.

Test Certification
Upon passing the ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management exam, you’ll receive the official certification.

Exam Overview
Material allowed: None. This is a ‘closed book’ exam. The ITIL 4: Release Management Practice publication should be used for study but is NOT permitted to be used in the exam.
Exam duration: 30 minutes. Candidates taking the exam in a language that is not their native or working language may be awarded 25% extra time, i.e. 38 minutes in total.
Number of marks: 20 marks. There are 20 questions, each worth 1 mark. There is no negative marking.
Pass mark: 13 marks. You need to answer 13 questions correctly (65%) to pass the exam.
Level of thinking: Bloom’s levels 2 & 3.
“Bloom’s level” describes the type of thinking needed to answer the question.
For Bloom’s 2 questions, you need to show understanding of the concepts, methods and principles of the ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management module.
For Bloom’s 3 questions, you need to demonstrate application of these concepts, methods and principles of the ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management module.
Question types: Standard, Missing word, Negative, & List. The questions are all ‘multiple choice’.
For the ‘standard’ questions, you have a question and four answer options.
‘Negative’ questions are ‘standard’ questions in which the stem is negatively worded.
For the ‘missing word’ questions, there is a sentence with a word missing and you have to select the missing word from four options.
For the ‘list’ questions, there is a list of four statements and you have to select two correct statements from the list.
 
The exam is available in: English

Package Includes:
PeopleCert Official Training Materials (OTM)
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management eBook
Sample exam papers and rationales
Official PeopleCert ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management Exam Voucher (valid for 12 months)