ITS Series Exam Resources
Updated September 2025 from Christopher Ford:
Exams for the ITS Series, Project Manager Series, and Business Analyst Series of promotional exams are tentatively scheduled. If you are new to the exam process or have questions, you can bring them to a discussion to be held, October 2, 2025 and October 28, 2025, even if you are not in these exam series. Please send an email to Christopher.Ford@its.ny.gov if you would like an invitation to these Q&A discussions. We will focus on the exam process, how to prepare, and how the scores are generated after the exams. There are additional resources for exam content and those will be discussed as well.
ITS/PM/BA Series Civil Service Exam Study Group / Q&A
Dates: October 2 (Thursday), October 28 (Tuesday),
Times: 12:15pm to 12:45pm
Applications for these exams are tentatively scheduled to be announced on September 26, 2025. If they are held as planned, applications will be due October 29, 2025, and the exams will be held December 13, 2025.
Business Systems Analyst 3
Business Systems Analyst 3 (Health)
Business Systems Analyst 4
Business Systems Analyst 4 (Health)
Project Manager 3
Project Manager 4
Project Manager 5
Applications for these exams are tentatively scheduled to be announced on October 24, 2025. If they are held as planned, applications will be due November 26, 2025, and the exams will be held January 10, 2025.
Assistant Director Information Technology Services 1
Assistant Director Information Technology Services 2
Assistant Director Information Technology Technical Services 1
Director Information Technology Services 2
Director Information Technology Services 3
Information Technology Specialist 3
Information Technology Specialist 3 (Data Communications)
Information Technology Specialist 3 (Database)
Information Technology Specialist 3 (Programming)
Information Technology Specialist 3 (Systems Programming)
Information Technology Specialist 4
Information Technology Specialist 4 (Data Communications)
Information Technology Specialist 4 (Database)
Information Technology Specialist 4 (Operations)
Information Technology Specialist 4 (Systems Programming)
Manager Information Technology Services 1
Manager Information Technology Services 1 (Data Communications)
Manager Information Technology Services 1 (Database)
Manager Information Technology Services 1 (Operations)
Manager Information Technology Services 1 (System Programming)
Manager Information Technology Services 1 (Technical)
Manager Information Technology Services 2
Manager Information Technology Services 2 (Technical)
This is a peer-to-peer activity and not an official function of Civil Service, ITS, or any agency or union. We have conducted these mentoring calls for years and people have found them very helpful. We will answer the questions that we can or record your question for additional research. Feel free to attend as well if you are experienced in the exams and are willing to share. This is a good opportunity to mentor incoming leaders.
Resources
Civil Service Tentative Exam List
Study Group Collaboration SharePoint Site
Exam Preparation for Exam Content (NYSITS.org, Private 3rd Party, not affiliated with NYS.)
Note: In order to promote participation, we do not record these sessions and we ask that you make no attempt to record it using 3rd party tools, including AI recorders. Realtime translation and captioning is permitted, if needed.
Thank you for all you do and your drive to go farther!
Christopher J. Ford