Certified IT Operator

CITO® is the fi­rst level in the EPI IT Training Framework©. CITO® is a 2-day course designed to teach the competencies required of the modern IT professional working at the operations level in IT. Also known as the IT engineer’s course, CITO® candidates will become instantly productive having gained knowledge and understanding of the demands in today’s IT infrastructures. Theirimproved capabilities will deliver immediate results, increasing efficiency and significantly reducing the margin of error.

CITO® is aligned with the latest European e-Competence (e-CF) Framework – addressing proficiency levels 1 and 2 (Associate & Professional). In 2016, the e-CF became a European standard and was published officially as the European Norm EN 16234-1.

Audience Profile

System administrators/engineers, service desk operators/agents, network administrators/engineers, software developers/engineers, account managers.

This course is most suited for aspiring and existing 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 changing careers and entering the IT professional world.

Course Benefits

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 RFP (Request for Proposal)

Cooperate and coordinate with vendors for delivery, maintenance, support and monitoring activities

Execute basic projects using principles of project management

Deploy applications and understand application life cycle management

Identify the options for virtualisation and storage solutions

Create, publish and maintain documentation

Operate incident and event management and request fulfilment

Identify risk and understand the principles of risk management

Design, implement and operate security logging

Understand the principles of information security

Monitor and report on quality in IT

Course Syllabus

The need for IT

IT strategy and key objectives

IT services and service catalogue

IT and data centre infrastructure

IT organization

Data centre operations

IT operations

Data centre roles

IT operations roles

Vendor selection

Technical coverage and due diligence of RFP

Place and receive orders

Verifying deliveries

Invoice verification

Maintenance

Support

Monitoring and reporting

Project management methods

Business case

Project constraints

Scope

Time

Cost

Monitor and control

Change request

Closing

Application Programming Interface (API)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

DevOps

Design

Development

Testing

Deployment

Server hardware/administration

Storage

Virtualisation

Database administration

Network essentials

Documentation guidelines

Documentation lifecycle

Types of documents

Document categories

Service desk

Event management

Request fulfilment

Incident management

Assets

Threats

Vulnerabilities

Existing controls

Consequences

Risk analysis

Risk evaluation

Risk treatment

Standards and guidelines

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Administrative controls

Physical controls

Technical (logical) controls

Security logging

Cloud computing

Big Data

Internet of Things (IoT)

Social media

Mobile applications

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Quality control

Quality assurance

Quality metrics

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Exam

The CITO® exam is a 60-minute closed book exam, with 40 multiple-choice questions. The candidate requires a minimum of 26 correct answers to pass the exam. 

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