ITIL (foundation) certification costs

Done with your ITIL Foundation exam prep? Next step... the actual certification exam itself!

There’re two ways in which you can book an ITIL Foundation cert. exam - directly on PeopleCert’s website (www.peoplecert.org), and via your accredited training course provider. If you go for the former option (booking an exam with PeopleCert), you’ll need to opt for either an online proctored test or a computer-based test at a Pearson Vue test center. Getting the exam booked by your course provider instead opens up another testing mode - the old-school pen and paper test.

You can buy an online proctored ITIL foundation exam voucher on PeopleCert’s website for US $314 if you’re in the US or Canada. The exam fee does vary by country though - if you’re in the United Kingdom your exam fee would be £269 instead. The exam fee is based on the country you’d take up the certification exam in - so forget about booking your exam from a lower fee country and taking it up in your home country. Here's the exam. prices for some of the top countries (by a number of test takers) - a global price list is available at the end of this post.

If you want to book a computer-based test with Pearson Vue, please bear in mind that you’ll be
spending a little more than a PeopleCert exam. As an example, the ITIL Foundation exam fee for US candidates is currently US $383.90, around US $70 more than the PeopleCert exam fee. Another point to note - Pearson Vue provides only 2 language options for the certification exam - English and Japanese - unlike the 20 language options available with PeopleCert.

The most affordable option for your ITIL foundation certification?

Check with your training course provider - in all probabilities, they’ll give you a better deal on the cert. exam than either PeopleCert or Pearson Vue. This is so because official ITIL training can be offered only by PeopleCert Accredited Training Organizations (ATOs). Almost all ATOs get discounted prices from PeopleCert for ITIL exams, and most of them usually pass on at least a portion of this benefit to their customers. This means that if you take up an ITIL foundation exam voucher as part of your ITIL Foundation course from an ATO, you would end up saving some money on the entire package. An example - you can get this ITIL foundation online course with an included PeopleCert online proctored exam voucher for US $350 (use coupon code ONLINE50), which is, in fact, lower than just the exam fee with Pearson Vue. 

You can lower the exam fee by having a voucher from PeopelCert but what about the learning cost? Apart from the online training and courses that charge a hefty amount of money, one of the most affordable yet significant prep materials you can use is ITIL V4 exam dumps from Dumpsgate. These ITIL V4 dumps are a comprehensive array of meticulously crafted real-exam questions deliberately designed to stimulate real exam experience and validate your expertise in the ITIL V4 framework. With the help of these exam dumps, you can elevate your learning experience and ace your exam.

What happens if you fail your ITIL Foundation exam?

The ITIL Foundation cert. is an entry-level certification, and failing the exam isn’t very common (more of “bad luck” than “poor preparation”).

If you’ve taken a course, any course to prepare, chances are you’ll pass. Just ensure you complete your course!

However in case you fail, you can either buy a fresh exam voucher and attempt the exam again, or
(particularly if you’ve taken your exam via an ATO) you can appeal for a re-evaluation of your answers for a fee. This fee currently stands at US $100 - US $150 and is refundable if the outcome is decided in your favor. If it isn’t though, you’ll end up losing the appeal fee, and would need to buy a fresh exam voucher.

And now, here’s the full price list for the ITIL-Foundation certification exam. from Peoplecert’s website (as on the date of this post). These prices are exclusive of discounts and offer that Peoplecert runs from time to time.

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