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I have been getting many emails from people who are very distressed about what the “New ITIL” means to advanced ITIL 4 Certification Holders and those who are in the middle of their studies for Practice Manager, Managing Professional, Strategic Leader and Master.<\/p>\n
My first piece of advice is Take a Deep Breath!<\/em> There is nothing available in ITIL version 5 now for Advanced Certification Holders. Keep on track and finish your ITIL 4 courses. Take your ITIL4 exams and receive your ITIL 4 designations.<\/p>\n The advanced ITIL version 5 courses will begin being released in Q2 of 2026, and they start with the Transformation Certification. The Transformation exam will be required for all ITIL 4 Practice Managers, Managing Professionals, Strategic Leaders and I believe also for ITIL 4 Masters. The Masters and Managing Professionals may also have another course to take. This has not been determined yet.<\/p>\n You can finish 4 in 2026 and then when you are ready to add the ITIL 5 Designation you can take the Transformation Course\/Exam and, for Masters and MP’s the additional exam if PC decides to have a second exam for these designations.<\/p>\n In a nutshell, there are no advanced ITIL 5 courses now. If stay with ITIL 4, then you have 1 or 2 courses to take to get the ITIL 5 designation when they come out. If you stop and wait for ITIL 5, then you will have to take all the new courses for each area which is a greater expense.<\/p>\n My advice, stay the course. Get your ITIL 4 Designations. The content is here. The exam prices are lower and PeopleCert has none of the advanced content available now.<\/p>\n I hope this is helpful and look forward to your comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been getting many emails from people who are very distressed about what the “New ITIL” means to advanced ITIL 4 Certification Holders and those who are in the middle of their studies for Practice Manager, Managing Professional, Strategic Leader and Master. My first piece of advice is Take a Deep Breath! There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[3,490,491,492,81,292,302,485,488,157,487,489,486],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itil-5","tag-gogotraining","tag-gogotraining-itil","tag-gogotraining-itil-4","tag-gogotraining-itil-5","tag-itil","tag-itil-4","tag-itil-4-foundation","tag-itil-5","tag-itil-5-foundation","tag-itil-foundation","tag-itil-version-5","tag-itil-version-5-foundation","tag-the-new-itil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}