This extension module course focuses on providing the learners with the understanding of the key concepts, principles, value and challenges of IT Asset Management. It is intended to provide learners with best practice guidance at both strategic and operational levels on how to maximise value creation, control costs, manage risks, meet regulatory and contractual requirements, and support decision making about the purchase, re-use, retirement, and disposal of IT assets including their impact on sustainability
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Description
- Understanding the key concepts of IT Asset Management
- Purpose, scope, and value of the ITAM practice
- IT asset types, IT asset lifecycle, IT asset lifecycle models
- Practice success factors, ITAM sustainability, challenges
- Understand the ITAM value streams and processes
- Managing the IT asset lifecycle and records process
- The managing a common approach to ITAM process
- Verifying, auditing and analysing IT assets process
- ITAM and Service configuration management
- Understanding roles, skills, and organisational solutions
- Typical roles in ITAM and associated skills
- Organisational structures and role design
- ITAM compliance, policies
- Understanding information and technology relevance
- Inputs, outputs, ITAM register
- ITAM technology
- Understanding the role of partners and suppliers
- Service relationships, Service Integration and Management
- Know how to develop the ITAM capability
- ITIL4 maturity model
- Capability assessment
- Key metrics
- Exams and assessments
- 40 multiple-choice questions
- 90 minutes duration
- Closed book format
- Pass mark: 26 out of 40 (65%)
- Exam conducted online with virtual invigilation
- From 2023, all PeopleCert Global Best Practice certifications must be renewed every three years.
- Hands-on learning
- Learners will participate in:
- Scenario exercises applying lifecycle decisions for assets
- Group work to define metrics, success factors, and maturity assessments
- Case study analysis on compliance, sustainability, and risk trade-offs
- Peer discussion on integrating ITAM with other practices (configuration, financial, change)
- Practical tasks to map asset lifecycles and improvement steps in a sample organisation
Audience
This course is aimed at:
- Individuals interested in the discipline of IT Asset Management
- Those working at operational or strategic levels in asset management
- Professionals seeking to contribute toward the ITIL Practice Manager qualification (this module counts toward /5 of the required knowledge)
Prerequisites
A valid ITIL® 4 or ITIL® v3 Foundation certificate is required.