Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM)

Course Description:

This is a 3-day course.  In an increasingly interconnected and complex IT environment, IT management is under pressure to deliver more agile IT services and adapt to change. Organizations are adopting strategies that include cloud computing to meet these challenges and offer repeatable, flexible and scalable services. Service Management professionals are challenged to help organizations optimally ensure measurable service delivery and management in cloud environments. The Cloud Service Design, Deployment and Run course enables Senior (ITIL) Service Managers to design and deliver cloud services. This training is delivered as a 3-day classroom or virtual classroom program and provides a hands-on, practical approach to understanding how cloud impacts operational processes, and how to adapt these processes to deliver better services. The course materials include comprehensive reference materials that help to continue participants’ educational experience post the course. The course prepares candidates for the Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM) Exam provided by the Cloud Credential Council. The PCSM is endorsed, recognized and/or supported by several key technology vendors and standards bodies. The content for this course, as well as the PCSM certification is based on the cloud standards developed by NIST.

Audience:

The Cloud Service Design, Deployment and Run course will be of interest to:

• Service Managers (with an ITIL background)
• Service Management professionals
• Cloud Strategy and Management Consultants

What You’ll Learn:

• Compare Suppliers, Brokers and Carrier Management
• Design Cloud Service Strategy
• Deconstruct Federated Cloud Service Desk
• Comprehend Cloud Asset Transition Management
• Apply Cloud Ecosystem Management
• Outline Service Management in different Cloud Scenarios
• Differentiate Cloud Tiers and analyze Service Management Availability
• Illustrate Distributed and Federated SLA
• Show Cost of Quality, Acquisition, Transition and Operation in Cloud
• Spot Cloud Market Operations (IaaS)
• Analyze key issues for managing cloud platform services
• Analyze stages in effective capacity management across platforms
• Outline Platform Capacity Management
• Illustrate role of SaaS Service Manager
• Construct different on-line sourcing environment options: directories, catalogs, apps stores, marketplaces, crowd sourcing scenarios
• Distinguishes the key service management factors involved in marketplace and catalog provision
• Analyze the key license management issues in a variety of given scenarios, including on-premise and off-premise models.

This course is also available publicly via Live Virtual Classroom:

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