Ervin S. Wright writes plain-English guides to ISTQB, ITIL, and PRINCE2 — each one built around practice questions and mock exams, not jargon you have to decode first.
Certification syllabuses are often technically accurate and genuinely hard to learn from. Each book in this series works through the official syllabus the way a colleague would explain it over coffee — plain English, worked examples instead of bare definitions, and practice questions that tell you exactly what to go back and re-read when you get one wrong.
Your Friendly Guide to Passing the Exam and Applying It in Real Life (v4.0 Syllabus)
The friendly ISTQB guide that finally makes sense — now fully revised for the v4.0.1 syllabus. Testing, Simplified turns the entire Foundation Level syllabus into clear, conversational English, like a helpful colleague explaining things over coffee instead of a dense technical manual.
An Independent CTAL-TA v4.0 Study Guide with 100 Practice Questions and a Timed Mock Exam
You passed Foundation. Then you opened the Advanced syllabus, and the confidence drained out of the room. That reaction is normal — Foundation teaches you the rules, Advanced asks for judgment. The official syllabus tells you what you must be able to do; it doesn't teach you how to think. This book does.
Your Friendly Guide to Passing the 2026 Exam — 100 Referenced Practice Questions, the 6C AI Model, and All 34 Practices in Plain English
ITIL 5 launched in February 2026. Most guides just reprinted their ITIL 4 notes — this one was written against the new syllabus from the ground up, anchored to a running bakery example that makes abstract service management concrete and memorable.
The Plain English Study Guide 2026 — Complete PeopleCert Syllabus, 346 Practice Questions, Two Full Mock Exams
A self-contained course for the PRINCE2 7 Foundation exam — no training provider, no project management background, no wrestling with the official manual. Every concept is anchored to one running example: Sarah and Michael Wright, building a house, from first conversation to benefits review.
Get the Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst guides together and save — see the ISTQB Foundation page for the bundle offer.