MISD-L1: Foundation & Operative
3-Days

This 3-day training course covers the terminology, concepts, and practices applicable to the Foundation & Operative primary study level in the programme ‘Mastering IT Support Delivery’. The training’s purpose is to provide the student with guidance in basic professionalism in... READ MORE

Price: £1,280 * (including exam)

Course:MISD-FOC ( £1,095 )
Exam:MISD-L1: Foundation & Operative ( £185 )

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MISD-L1: Foundation & Operative

Description

This 3-day training course covers the terminology, concepts, and practices applicable to the Foundation & Operative primary study level in the programme ‘Mastering IT Support Delivery’.

The training’s purpose is to provide the student with guidance in basic professionalism in IT Support, including attitude, role comprehension, approach, technique, and conduct. A core focus here is the business imperative that creates the need for IT Support; how that need supersedes technological considerations and influences everything in IT Support from priority-setting to how the support service should be structured and delivered.

This is essentially how to understand and do the job of an IT Support operative in first or second line, production or development ICT, user or systems support, internal or external users.

Objectives

Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding and application of IT Support principles and techniques in the following areas:

ICT industry terms and concepts pertinent to the IT Support sector, their meaning and use; to include specialist IT Support considerations in addition to, and expanding on existing de facto IT industry vocabulary
Key IT Support procedures and workflow
The true purpose of IT Support, which has a business basis, as opposed to a technical one, and how that reality dictates the whole of how the sector should conduct itself, including departmental structure in addition to workload allocation and prioritisation.
Building, maintaining and conducting an effective working partnership with managers and other superiors, including the key concepts of differences of perspective and mutual expectations. Understanding what your manager is there for, and why the sometimes has to make decisions that are not always popular
Understanding ‘teamwork’, and how your individual skillset relates to, and often must supersede it
A practical grasp of customer service from a technician’s perspective – how to deliver excellent service by using your own personality and professionalism, not requiring scripts and pretence
A pragmatic approach to handling stress in the workplace as part of self-motivation and personal success

Target Audience

Primarily, entry-level and operational IT staff from any IT department where IT support resolutions are part of the typical workload, especially where that work comprises interaction with end users and corporate authorities. So not necessarily limited to classic front-end IT Support workers, but will also involve development and systems support.

Also, ideally all candidates for any other management-level MISD certificate, so that managers can know at first hand what their operatives have been taught.

Benefits

Organisational

Business understanding for technicians

Professionalism
Practice
Universality

The core purpose of the MISD curriculum is to professionalize IT support so that the business receives consistent, rapid resolutions to arising production IT issues; thus those issues’ detrimental effect to the business is minimised.
For consistency, read universality – a support resolution can and does come from anywhere in IT, not just the obvious front line ‘Service Desk’ – so a professional approach to IT Support must be universal. This qualification inculcates that professionalism into potentially all IT Support staff, regardless of their core function. It provides for all IT staff having the same, business-oriented view of IT Support and their role in it.

Professional staff are easier to engage and to manage from the point of view of professional managers; but this qualification cuts both ways, as it also teaches those staff to expect a similar level of professionalism from their superiors.

The ‘Foundation and Operative qualification is about how to contribute efficiently and effectively to IT Support delivery, so as to provide a solid platform for that professionalism.

Individual

This qualification has been designed by one of the world’s leading experts in this field; one who originated much of what we now think of as IT Support. The material is practical, proven and based on a powerful principle – that job satisfaction in IT Support is crucial.

This course not only instructs in how to do your job competently and professionally but also how to get the best out of it for yourself. This is why it shows how to handle stress and how to work for your manager, even if your manager is not so good at managing you.

In addition, you gain a portable qualification in a programme that spans the whole of IT, not just the Service Desk, leading to further qualifications should you choose to take a managerial route through your career.

This programme is not just for technicians – it is equally applicable to anybody who performs any function in IT that ultimately leads to the delivery of IT support for users and systems.

Pre-requisites & Exam

There are no Pre-Requisites for this course.

Examination Format

Paper-based, in classroom invigilated by tutor

40 multiple choice questions over maximum of 80 minutes
Pass mark 28/40 (70%)
Results within 2 weeks; examiner’s decision is final
In case of failure, 2 maximum examination retakes; thereafter, examination opportunities require entire course retake

Dates For MISD-L1: Foundation & Operative

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