FCGIT Exam Information and Guideline
Foundation Certificate in Green IT
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EXAM CODE: FCGIT
EXAM NAME: Foundation Certificate in Green IT
Understand the overall environmental need for an organisation to adopt a Green IT strategy including:
• Climate Change
• Dangerous and exploitive working practices
• The effect of hazardous waste use and disposal
• Consumption of precious resources such as oil, gas and water
Identify and understand an organisation’s external drivers and opportunities for greening its IT including:
• Political
• Environmental
• Social
• Legal
Identify and understand an organisation’s internal drivers, opportunities and benefits of adopting a Green IT strategy including:
• Cost
• Reputation
• Culture
Understand the main government policies and the goals and objectives of UK and EU legislation pertaining to Green IT including:
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• Eco Design of Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and UK Regulations
• EU Code of Conduct
• WEEE Directive
• Batteries Directive
• ISO14001
• BSI PAS 2050
• EPEAT
• ECMA (European Computer Manufacture Association) International
• Kyoto Protocol
• Energy STAR
Provide an understanding of the historic development of the Kyoto Protocol covering:
• The formation of the International Panel on Climate Change
• The Rio Earth Summit
• The 2001 Bonn Agreement
• UK Climate Change Bill
• UK Government Carbon Budget System
• UK Government Climate Reduction Commitment
Explain the benefits of adopting Green IT for both the IT service provider and the organisation
Internal assessment of your organisation: where are we now?
Describe how to assess an Organisation’s business operations, IT use and products/services in terms of their energy consumption and understand the associated Primary and Secondary carbon footprint.
Gain an understanding of product lifecycles including:
• Material extraction
• Transport
• Manufacture
• Usage
• Disposal
Auditing & assessing an organisation’s functions and processes to identify energy and carbon inefficiencies and opportunities for IT to realise energy efficiencies, and carbon reductions
Understand the contribution that IT is making to those carbon footprints and the opportunities that IT brings to reduce those footprints
Understand the importance, risks, issues and opportunities around:
• Printing and recycling
• Energy efficient computing
• Mobile and Remote working
• Resource sharing platforms
• Assessment of environmental and property impacts
• Virtualisation
• Power efficiency technology
• Data Centre rationalisation
• Out-sourcing opportunities
• Best Practice frameworks e.g. ITIL®
Gain an understanding of the difference between embodied emissions and those related to consumption
Understand how to make sustainable IT procurements and how to best use and recycle/re-use/dispose of IT assets to meet external expectations and requirements by enhancing sustainability
Gain a practical understanding of the benefits of a Green IT Action Plan
Understand the opportunity for the organisation’s to reduce its Carbon Footprint by investing in IT growth and the concept of Silicon Trading
Understand the concept of ‘Green Wash’ and how it can be overcome
Improve your Organisation’s Green IT credentials (4hrs)*
Understand how to create and implement a joined-up Green IT strategy
Explain the importance of aligning the Green IT strategy to an organisation’s environmental and sustainability policy
Discuss the roles and responsibilities associated with Green IT including
• The Green IT Champion
• The Procurement Manager
• Sustainability Officer
• Finance and Cost Benefit Analysis including:
• End to end costing (lifecycle approach)
• TCO (total cost of ownership) and equipment refresh
• Calculating the payoff period of investments in Green IT