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Plan time to read these documents as well. Some of them,
including the case study, the process guides and the
sample exams, are referenced and used in the lesson and
the exercises.
Overall impression of this e-learning is that it is well
structured and covers the syllabus to an extent that will
give you a good preparation for the exam.
The e-learning can be purchased with online access for either a
month or two. One month should be enough as the expected
total usage of time is 18 hours. Plan to do an hour or two on a
daily basis and you should be fine.
In addition to the online e-learning there are a number of short
PDF documents included for one or more lessons, the syllabus,
the case study, exercises & answers and the SIAM process
guides, which is referenced in the e-learning:
SIAMF Study Tracker
SIAMF Syllabus
SIAM Foundation Process Guides
SIAMF Sample Exam & Answers
Seylon Ordnax Case Study
SIAMF Course Exercises
SIAMF Course Exercises & Solutions
SIAMF Lesson 1 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 2 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 3 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 4 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 5-8 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 9-11 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 12-13 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 14-15 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 16-18 Study Guide
SIAMF Lesson 19-20 Study Guide
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The final lesson includes exam preparation with the usual
tips on how to prepare and do a multiple-choice exam.
Just like many other foundation exams it’s one hour, 40
questions with 4 choices for each, and a passing point at
65% i.e. 26 correct answers.
Currently BCS and EXIN offer this exam. At the point in
time of writing this article I haven’t done the exam and
can’t tell if the e-learning do a good job preparing for the
exam. I’m sure it does and there is no doubt that it gives a
good introduction to SIAM, exam or not.
Michael
Imhoff-Nielsen
Working with client relations, process design, assessment, education
Michael is Chair of the Board of itSMF Denmark and is accountable for
strategy, governance and the publications committee. Michael is also a
Member of itSMF International Qualification and Certification Executive
Sub Committee, a Senior member of Danish IT Society (Dansk IT) and a
Silver member of ISACA.
His Specialities include: ITSM, ITIL, ISO/IEC 20000, COBIT, MOF,
Governance, network management, Management of Organizational Change
(MOC)