What is the purpose of the service configuration management practice?
A) To ensure that services deliver agreed levels of availability to meet the needs o... [Show More] f customers and users
B) To ensure that service availability and performance are maintained at an adequate level in case of a disaster
C) To set clear business-related targets for service performance so that delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against the targets
D) To ensure that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services and the CIs that support them is available when and where it's needed
To ensure that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services and the CIs that support them is available when and where it's needed
Which of the following is not an example of a supportive service-desk technology?
A) Big-bang deployment
B) Incorporating computer-telephony integration
C) Workforce management and resource planning systems
D) Configuration management systems
Big-bang deployment
Which term is defined as a cause—or potential cause—of one or more incidents?
A) Known error
B) Failure
C) Problem
D) Event
Problem
Which of the following is not an approach to continual improvement?
A) Lean methods for providing perspectives on the elimination of waste
B) Agile methods for focusing on making improvements incrementally at a cadence
C) Procedures for managing information security-related changes, such as firewall configuration changes
D) DevOps methods for working holistically and ensuring that improvements are not only designed well but applied effectively
Procedures for managing information security-related changes, such as firewall configuration changes
Which type of changes are not typically included in a change schedule?
A) Exception changes
B) Emergency changes
C) Standard changes
D) Normal changes
Emergency changes
Which method advocates a "systems view" that emphasizes close collaboration between enterprise governance, service teams, software development, and technology operations?
A) Deployment management
B) Risk management
C) DevOps
D) Relationship management
DevOps
Which of the following statements about the plan value chain activity are true?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) It outputs a product and service portfolio for the engage activity.
B) Key outputs are strategic, tactical, and operational plans.
C) A key output is service performance information for design and transition.
D) It receives inputs regarding knowledge and information about third-party service components from the engage value chain activity.
It outputs a product and service portfolio for the engage activity.
Key outputs are strategic, tactical, and operational plans.
It receives inputs regarding knowledge and information about third-party service components from the engage value chain activity.
What is the term for any financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service?
A) Asset
B) Incident
C) Event
D) Configuration item
Asset
Which of the following is not an activity of information security management?
A) It must be driven from the senior-most level of the organization, according to clearly understood governance requirements and organizational policies.
B) It creates controls that each practice must consider when planning how work is to be done.
C) In high-velocity environments, information security is integrated as much as possible into the daily work of development and operations.
D) It creates closer, more collaborative relationships with key suppliers to uncover and realize new value and reduce the risk of failure.
It creates closer, more collaborative relationships with key suppliers to uncover and realize new value and reduce the risk of failure.
When making improvements, what is the benefit of employing the continual improvement model?
A) It balances the need to make beneficial changes that deliver additional value with the need to protect customers and users from the adverse effect of change.
B) It can be applied to any type of improvement, from high-level organizational changes to individual services and CIs.
C) It manages the people aspects of change to ensure that improvements and organizational transformation initiatives are implemented successfully.
D) Stakeholders' satisfaction is high, and a constructive relationship between the organization and stakeholders is established and maintained.
It can be applied to any type of improvement, from high-level organizational changes to individual services and CIs.
Which statements about problem management are true?
Reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents.
Manage workarounds and known errors.
Make new and changed services and features available for use.
Record and report selected changes of state identified as events.
A) 3 and 4
B) 1 and 3
C) 1 and 2
D) 2 and 4
1 and 2
The purpose of the SVS is to ensure that:
A) there is a need or desire for products and services among the organization's internal or external consumers.
B) the organization defines value streams.
C) the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders via the use and management of products and services.
D) an organization is directed and controlled.
the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders via the use and management of products and services.
If the improvement has delivered the expected value, the focus of the initiative should shift to marketing the success and reinforcing any new methods introduced. Which of the following steps of the continual improvement model describes this?
A) How do we keep the momentum going?
B) Where are we now?
C) Where do we want to be?
D) Take action.
How do we keep the momentum going?
How is value co-created?
A) By establishing mutually beneficial, interactive relationships with customers, thus empowering them to become creative contributors to the service value chain
B) By the cooperation of partners and suppliers
C) By enabling the organization to maintain the alignment of its operations with the strategic direction determined by its governing body
D) By providing services to business customers that are fit for their purpose, stable, and so reliable that businesses perceive the service organization offering them as a trusted provider
By establishing mutually beneficial, interactive relationships with customers, thus empowering them to become creative contributors to the service value chain
What two skills are required for service-level management?
A) Engagement and listening
B) Detailed understanding of cloud-based infrastructure and risk management
C) Troubleshooting and supplier knowledge
D) Listening and expediency
Engagement and listening
Which of the following is not a key input of the deliver and support value chain activity?
A) Portfolio, architectures, and policies provided by plan
B) Improvement status reports from improve
C) Knowledge and information about new and changed service components and services from design and transition and obtain/build
D) User support tasks, and knowledge and information about third-party service components provided by engage
Portfolio, architectures, and policies provided by plan
Which of the following statements are true regarding the interaction of guiding principles?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) Organizations should use only one principle in each situation.
B) Not all guiding principles are critical in every situation, but they should all be reviewed continuously to determine how appropriate they are to each situation.
C) It's important to recognize that all guiding principles interact with and depend upon each other.
D) Organizations should consider the relevance of each of the guiding principles and how they apply together.
Not all guiding principles are critical in every situation, but they should all be reviewed continuously to determine how appropriate they are to each situation.
It's important to recognize that all guiding principles interact with and depend upon each other.
Organizations should consider the relevance of each of the guiding principles and how they apply together.
How should problems be prioritized and managed for analysis?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) According to their potential impact and probability
B) By identifying faulty components
C) According to the risks that they pose
D) According to the availability of staff capable of addressing each problem
According to their potential impact and probability
According to the risks that they pose
Which service value system component is an ongoing organizational activity of continuous re-evaluation performed at all organizational levels to ensure that performance continually meets stakeholders' expectations?
A) Guiding principle
B) Service value chain
C) Continual improvement
Continual improvement
In the continual improvement model, once you have identified the destination for your organization, what is the next question to ask?
A) Where are we now?
B) Did we get there?
C) What is the vision?
D) How do we get there?
How do we get there?
Which of the following steps of the continual improvement model describes the below function?
A plan for addressing the challenges of the initiative can be created by understanding the vision of the improvement and the current and target states and combining that knowledge with subject matter expertise.
A) How do we get there?
B) Where do we want to be?
C) What is the vision?
D) Take action.
How do we get there?
Which of the following statements describes the service value system?
A) A model that helps to guide organizational decisions and actions, and ensure a shared understanding and unified approach to ITSM throughout the organization
B) A key component of the ITIL 4 framework that describes how the components and activities of an organization interact to create value through IT-enabled services
C) A system that enhances the flexibility of the service value chain by supporting multiple chain activities, thereby providing a comprehensive and versatile tool set for ITSM practitioners
D) A flexible model for the creation, delivery, and continual improvement of services
A key component of the ITIL 4 framework that describes how the components and activities of an organization interact to create value through IT-enabled services
How is an organization defined in the ITIL context?
A) A person with their own internal functions and set of responsibilities, authorities, and relationships necessary to achieve objectives.
B) Someone who reviews a proposed service arrangement and approves the cost of the negotiated contract.
C) Someone who sells their services on the open market to other business or individual customers.
D) A person who defines service requirements and takes responsibility for the outcome of service consumption.
A person with their own internal functions and set of responsibilities, authorities, and relationships necessary to achieve objectives.
Which of the following are examples of stakeholders other than service providers and service consumers?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) Investors
B) Investigator
C) Shareholders
D) Government organizations
Investors
Shareholders
Government organizations
Which of the following are the guidelines for service request workflow and management?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) Policies should be established regarding what service requests are to be fulfilled with required additional approvals, to streamline fulfillment.
B) Policies and workflows should be included for documenting and redirecting any requests that are submitted as service requests, but which should actually be managed as incidents or changes.
C) Opportunities for improvement should be identified and implemented to produce faster fulfillment times and take advantage of automation.
D) The expectations of users regarding fulfillment times should be clearly set in accordance with what the organization can realistically deliver.
Policies and workflows should be included for documenting and redirecting any requests that are submitted as service requests, but which should actually be managed as incidents or changes.
Opportunities for improvement should be identified and implemented to produce faster fulfillment times and take advantage of automation.
The expectations of users regarding fulfillment times should be clearly set in accordance with what the organization can realistically deliver.
______________ includes the products provided by the service organization and typically determines how the consumer feels about the organization, its products, and its services.
A) Feedback loop
B) Customer experience
C) Organizational silo
D) Automation
Customer experience
Which of the following statements defines service customers/consumers?
A) This is someone who sells their services on the open market to other business or individual customers.
B) This can be another entity outside the customer's organization, or both can be part of the same organization.
C) This is the generic role an organization takes on when it receives services.
D) This describes a person or group with its own internal functions, and with its own set of responsibilities, authorities, and relationships necessary to achieve its objectives.
This is the generic role an organization takes on when it receives services.
Why are all four dimensions of service management constrained or influenced by external factors?
A) Access to resources is granted/licensed to the consumer under the terms and conditions of an agreement.
B) Organizations might prefer to focus on core competencies and outsource "non-core" supporting functions to third parties.
C) Outcome, cost, and risk have profound effects on the delivery of services.
D) Service providers don't operate in isolation as they function in dynamic, complex environments with high degrees of volatility and uncertainty.
Service providers don't operate in isolation as they function in dynamic, complex environments with high degrees of volatility and uncertainty.
Which of the following are direct effects of using the continual improvement model?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) It increases the likelihood that ITSM initiatives will be successful.
B) It ensures that improvement efforts can be linked back to the organization's vision.
C) It creates opportunity and demand.
D) It places a strong focus on customer value.
It increases the likelihood that ITSM initiatives will be successful.
It ensures that improvement efforts can be linked back to the organization's vision.
It places a strong focus on customer value.
The purpose of the ______________________ practice is to ensure that service availability and performance are maintained at acceptable levels in case of disaster.
A) service continuity management
B) incident management
C) IT asset management
D) service configuration management
service continuity management
Which of the following are the needs of the target customers that are addressed in a service offering?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A) Goods
B) Access to resources
C) Service actions
D) Value streams, processes, and suppliers
Goods
Access to resources
Service actions
Which guiding principle ensures that everything the organization does must map, directly or indirectly, to stakeholder value and encompasses many perspectives, including customer and user experiences?
A) Progress iteratively with feedback
B) Focus on value
C) Optimize and automate
D) Collaborate and promote visibility
Focus on value
High-level demand for services and products provided by internal and external customers; incidents, service requests, and feedback from users; and marketing opportunities from current and potential customers and users are key inputs of which value chain activity?
A) Engage
B) Design and transition
C) Obtain/build
D) Improve
Engage
What type of service facilitates value creation for its users by maintaining and providing accurate information about an organization's active network connections and utilization, thus allowing it to adjust its network bandwidth capacity?
A) Availability management
B) Capacity and performance management
C) Network management
D) Configuration management
Network management
Which of the following describes organizational resilience?
A) The ability of an organization to move and adapt quickly, flexibly, and decisively to support internal changes
B) The ability to establish procedures to incorporate and prioritize management of unplanned interruptions (incidents), and to investigate causes of failure
C) The ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental changes and sudden disruptions as external conditions change
D) The ability to create and support a culture that supports its objectives and has the appropriate level of capacity and competency throughout its workforce
The ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental changes and sudden disruptions as external conditions change
A service is a means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes desirable to customers—without their having to manage:
A) cost and risk.
B) utility.
C) warranty.
D) partners and suppliers.
cost and risk.
How is value defined in the ITIL context?
A) The perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something
B) A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity
C) The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need
D) The activities, workflows, controls, and procedures necessary to achieve agreed-upon objectives
The perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something
How does a service enable value co-creation?
A) By providing a result enabled by one or more outputs
B) By providing a tangible or intangible deliverable
C) By imposing costs on the consumer
D) By facilitating outcomes desirable to customers
By facilitating outcomes desirable to customers
Multichannel access is highly desirable for which organizational function?
A) Deployment management
B) Service desk
C) Service-level management
D) Availability management
Service desk
When choosing whom to collaborate with, which stakeholder group should be considered first?
A) Internal and external suppliers
B) Customers
C) Developers
Customers
Which of the following is not a problem identification activity of problem management?
A) Identifying what services, systems, or other service components should be monitored, and establishing the monitoring strategy
B) Performing trend analysis of incident records
C) Identifying a risk that an incident could recur (during major incident management)
D) Analyzing information received from internal software developers, test teams, and project teams
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