CITP - Certified IT Professional

• Understand the role and importance of Information Technology in the organisation
• Describe the function of the IT organisation, roles and responsibilities
• Provide technical input for vendors Request for Proposal
• Cooperate and coordinate with vendors for delivery, maintenance, support and monitoring activities
• Execute basic projects using principles of project management
• Perform application test activities
• Deploy applications and understand application life cycle management
• Identify the options for virtualisation
• Perform basic system administration
• Identify the options for storage solutions
• Create, publish and maintain documentation
• Operate incident- and event management and request ful-lment
• Design and implement controls for the business continuity plan
• Identify risk and understand the principles of risk management
• Design, implement and operate security logging and understand the principles of information security management
• Monitor and report on quality in IT

This course is most suited for existing and aspiring IT professionals from entry level up to two years of actual working experience in IT, with basic knowledge of (operating) systems, network and/or applications, and service desk operations. It is also suited for people who are (re)entering the IT professional world and/or require (re)training in IT.

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IT Strategy

• The need for Information Technology
• IT strategy and key objectives of IT
• IT services and service catalogue
• IT infrastructure and Data Center

IT Organisation

• IT organisation
• Data center operations
• IT operations
• Data center roles
• IT operations roles

Vendor Selection

• Vendors
• Vendor selection
• RFP / technical coverage / due diligence
• Place and receive orders
• Verifying deliveries
• Invoice verification
• Maintenance and support
• Monitoring and reporting

Project Management

• Project management methods
• Business case
• Project constraints
• Scope
• Time
• Cost
• Monitor and control
• Change request
• Closing

Applications

• Application program and API’s
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• DevOps
• Design
• Development
• Testing
• Deployment

System Administration

• Server hardware / server administration
• Storage
• Virtualisation
• Database administration
• Network fundamentals

Documentation

• Importance of document
• management
• Documentation guidelines
• Documentation lifecycle
• Types of documents
• Document categories
• Content Management System (CMS)

Service Management

• Service desk
• Event management
• Request fulfilment
• Incident management

Business Continuity Planning

• Business continuity strategy
• Resource requirements
• Relocation of staff
• Information requirements
• Back-up strategies
• Site selection
• Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
• Test and exercise
• Review, report and follow-up
• Monitor and review

Risk

• Guidelines
• Risk management
• Identification of assets, threats,
• vulnerabitities, existing controls and consequences
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Treatment

Information Security

• Standards and guidelines
• Confidentiality, integrity and availability
• Administrative controls
• Physical controls
• Technical (logical) controls
• Security logging

Quality

• Quality
• Quality control and assurance
• Quality metrics
• Key Performance Indicator