ITIL is the world's leading and most popular framework for ITSM that powers organizations to develop, design the continual improvement in their IT services. To be an ideal practitioner, one has to start from the ITIL 4 foundation certification. After completion of ITIL four foundational certification, a professional is left with two certification track, and they are;
· ITIL managing professional
· ITIL service strategist
The DPI module of ITIL certification is a must-have for both the tracks; after completion of DPI certification, a professional is halfway through the service strategist certification track and a quarter way through the ITIL managing professional certification track. The best part of ITIL certification training is you get 18 PDUs after completion of the training, whether it's online or in the personal medium.
The examination
To be eligible for this certification, one is to simply qualify and achieve the ITIL 4 Foundation certificate along with attending a training course from an accredited organization of AXELOS.
The LDP exam format follows a closed book examination but 40 question items in MCQ form. To pass this certification, a professional has to secure 28 marks out of 40, which is 70% in the examination. All the applicants will be given 90 minutes of duration to complete the exam. The only exception is if an applicant is a non-English speaking professional, then they will get 113 minutes to complete the examination.
The certification course benefits
This certification aims to make its applicants' job ready for ITIL strategic leadership and managing professional stream rules. In these roles, a professional is intensively involved in planning, directing action, and contributing to continual improvement.
This certification amplifies career opportunities for professionals and helps the organizations to build their business in a universal module that derives selecting assessment methods by defining policies and continual improvement.
This creates business strategies with the long term vision of learning and improving. It also strategically plans, analyses, and improves the services and the products offered by the business. The DPI concepts firstly check the compatibility of the business process is in a real-time environment with the latest industry standards done. It goes for the utilization of lean and agile ways of working to the best after advantage.
The expiry
The best part of having a DPI certification is that there is no expiration date to this certification unless you continually fulfil the PDUs, That is, the professional development units. There are several ways to achieve minimum PDUs requirements. earning professional development units can be achieved in many ways, as suggested by AXELOS:
Studying
Informal discussions
Self-eLearning
Organizational meetings
Training courses
Creating content
Working as a practitioner in project management
Giving presentations
Coaching other juniors
Volunteering
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As an applicant, you must understand that just getting a certification of ITIL is not enough; it’s important to update time and again in order to stay updated all the time and maintain the relevance of your certification. This also gives you a push to match with the candidates who are newly joining the race. The motive behind professional development units is to make the applicants aware of the latest trends. That is highly important for continual improvement and learning.
Though the DPI certification comes with no expiry, the individuals need to retake the certification exam every five years, which serves as the renewal of their certification.
One of the best and effective way for registration of professional development units at early stages by studying books, white papers, and different articles present in the AXELOS community and library. The community holds we've been arson podcasts time and again bringing in the industry experts in the podcast and webinar. You can be a part of it by paying some minimum fees; this measure can be fruitful in the future ahead.
If you are a professional with ten years of experience, then you can create contents right white papers and create learning resources that will be helpful for entry level ITIL experts. You can coach or mentor other juniors in the industry and volunteer the AXELOS by contributing a bit in the certification and other individuals in the ITIL course and other courses.
Conclusion
Suppose you are someone who is in a dilemma whether to opt for this certification or not. You must be clear and rest assured that this is a world-class certification that has more than two million certified professionals working around the globe.