Today I got the results of my exam for the ITIL V3 Foundation course, and I passed. It’s not something I still totally understand, and I think that’s what most of my co-workers are like as well. Given that we had 5 books of information rammed into our heads over 2 and a half days, followed by an exam was a hard feat. ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
ITIL is valuable in my career, but I think I’m going to need to read into it more. I managed 70% on the course, but if you don’t know what ITIL is, then here is an extract from Wikipedia.
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and practices for managing Information Technology (IT) services (ITSM), IT development and IT operations.
ITIL gives detailed descriptions of a number of important IT practices and provides comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that any IT organization can tailor to its needs. ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which covers an IT management topic. The names ITIL and IT Infrastructure Library are registered trademarks of the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library