ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support

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ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support Pass Rate

ITIL-4-CDS

The score you need to pass the ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

70% to pass
40 questions
2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
70%
70% (minimum required score to pass)
Margin
30%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
12
out of 40 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support it is 70%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. PeopleCert generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Stakeholders25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 10 practice questions here.

Continual improvement13%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 13% of the exam, and it has 5 practice questions here.

Value streams and processes34%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 34% of the exam, and it has 14 practice questions here.

Service management practices28%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 28.000000000000004% of the exam, and it has 11 practice questions here.

The practical version: the ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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