Professional Cloud Service Manager Certification

Course details

What is the CCC Professional Cloud Service Manager certification?

The Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM) certification from the Cloud Credential Council (CCC) is the first course in the world focused on IT Service Management for Cloud Computing. This certification is globally known as the standard of achievement for service management professionals involved with cloud-based solutions. Organisations that employ PCSMs will have experts on board that can help maximize the business opportunities that cloud is creating.

Why get certified?

CCC’s PCSM designation is a globally recognized certification for Service Management professionals. Being PCSM certified showcases your service management experience in a cloud environment, relevant skills and knowledge, and demonstrates you are capable to manage the various stakeholders within the enterprise.

Cloud Service Manager is aligned to ITIL

• Provides advice on how to adapt ITIL processes for Cloud Computing
• Introduces new approaches not provided by ITIL
• PCSM was designed to complement and work with organisation’s adoption of ITIL and ITSM
• Course syllabus, content, eBook and white paper written by ITIL Master

Course Description

In an increasingly interconnected and complex IT environment, IT management is under pressure to deliver more agile IT services and adapt to change. Organisations are adopting strategies that include cloud computing in order to meet these challenges and offer repeatable, flexible and scalable services. Service Management professionals are challenged to help organisations optimally ensure measurable service delivery and management in cloud environments.

The Cloud Service Manager Course enables participants to design and deliver cloud services. This training is delivered as a 3-day classroom program. The course provides a hands-on, practical approach to understanding how cloud computing and cloud-based services impacts operational processes, and how to adapt existing processes to deliver better services.

The Cloud Service Manager course prepares candidates for the Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM) exam provided by the Cloud Credential Council. The Cloud Service Manager course is endorsed, recognized and supported by several key technology vendors and Standards bodies.

Target Audience

The Cloud Service Manager course will be of interest to:

IT Managers and CIOs Service Managers (with or without an ITIL background) Service Management Professionals Cloud Strategy and Management Consultants Service Architects, Technical Pre-Sales Consultants IT Professionals.

Course Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites. However, it is recommended that participants are conversant with cloud concepts and vocabulary, and have achieved the Cloud Technology Associate certification (or its equivalent) from the Cloud Credential Council.

Participants further benefit from a strong background in IT service management; who have one or more ITIL certifications or practical experience in applying ITIL and IT service management best practices.

About the Exam

The Cloud Service Manager Certification is the most recognized and well-respected professional certification provided by the Cloud Credential Council (CCC). Professional certifications are awarded to candidates who have completed an approved certification training program.

• Exam Format: Web based or paper based, Closed Book
• Question: 25 scenario-based questions
• Pass score: 65%
• Proctoring: Live or webcam

Learning Objectives

At the end of this Cloud Service Manager course, participants will gain competencies in, and be able to:

• Recall cloud service management terminology, definitions, and concepts.
• Explain basic terminology related to cloud service management.
• Analyze an organisation’s strategic assets and capabilities to successfully design, deploy, and run cloud services.
• Identify and explain important roles involved in cloud service management.
• Compare the relationship between cloud provider and cloud consumer.
• Differentiate between potential risks and benefits of adopting a cloud strategy.
• Produce an initial cloud adoption strategy.
• Illustrate the benefits and drive the adoption of cloud-based services within an organisation.
• Identify strategies to reduce risk and remove issues associated with the adoption of cloud computing and cloud-based services.
• Analyse the impact of demand and how to “right-size” cloud services at the design stage.
• Outline what a cloud marketplace is and differentiate between the consumer’s and provider’s perspective of a cloud marketplace.
• Analyse effective demand management across cloud-based service models.
• Illustrate the benefits, risks and issues of Dev-Ops within an IT organisation.
• Select appropriate structures for designing, deploying, and running cloud-based services within traditional IT organisations.
• Outline the various pricing models for cloud services.
• Examine the challenges with purchasing cloud-based services.
• Diagram a hybrid IT cost model.
• Discover key governance requirements of cloud service provision.
• Model cloud service management principles into ICT operations and IT service management.
• Demonstrate how to link cloud value back to IT strategy.
• Name a number of popular and relevant IT frameworks and standards.
• Predict the complexities involved in designing, deploying, and running cloud services.
• Compare and contrast cloud service management with traditional IT service management in the existing IT organisation.

Course Content

Day 1 Course Introduction Cloud Service Management Fundamentals Cloud Service Management Roles Cloud Service Strategy

Day 2 Cloud Service Design, Deployment and Migration Cloud Service Management (Part 1) Cloud Service Management (Part 2)

Day 3 Cloud Service Economics Cloud Service Governance Showing the Value of Cloud Services to the Business Popular Service Management Frameworks Certification Exam Preparation