What is this a definition of?
"The assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements."
A) Utility
B) Warranty
C) Service offering
D) IT Asset Management
Which is the correct set of statements about the Change Authority?
1. The Change Authority is always the chairperson of the CAB
2. The Change Authority can be embedded into automation
3. The Change Authority should be assigned for each type of Change
4. The Change Authority for each type of Change should be regularly be reviewed
A) Items 1, 2 and 3
B) Items 1, 2 and 4
C) Items 2, 3 and 4
D) Items 1, 3 and 4
What is this a definition of
"A problem that has been analysed and has not been resolved.”
A) An Incident
B) Root Cause
C) A Known Error
D) A Release
Which word is missing from the following purpose of a practice?
“minimize the negative impact of [...] by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible”
A) Problems
B) Incidents
C) CIs
D) Security
Service Offerings may include?
A) Goods, access to resources and service actions
B) Resources, assets, and capabilities
C) Service consumption, service provision, and service relationships
D) Value realisation, value loss and profit realisation
What is the description of the skill set of the ideal staff member?
A) U-Shaped
B) T-Shaped
C) I-Shaped
D) Ship-Shaped
Which of these is NOT a guiding principle?
A) Focus On Value
B) Start Where You Are
C) Adopt An Agile Mentality
D) Progress Iteratively With Feedback
“Activities performed by an organization to consume services."
A) Resource Utilization
B) Resource Allocation
C) Relationship Management
D) Service Consumption
Which statement is true of the Service Value Chain?
A) All activities in the SVC always follow the same path
B) Demand and value are activities in the SVC
C) The SVC activities are interconnected
D) The Service Value System is an activity of the SVC
Which phrase is missing from the following statement?
“The purpose of the [...] practice is to protect the information needed by the organization to conduct its business”
A) Service configuration management
B) Obtain/Build
C) IT asset management
D) Information security management
Which is the correct statement?
A) Each Practice is associated with a specific Value Chain activity
B) Only one practice is associated with each Value Chain activity
C) Practices have no input to Value Chain activities
D) Each Practice supports multiple Value Chain activities
The purpose of the ______________ practice is to make new and changed services and features available for use.
A) Information Security Management Practice
B) Project Management Practice
C) Monitoring & Event Management Practice
D) Release Management Practice
What is true of the Guiding Principle “Collaborate and promote visibility”?
A) Everyone must agree with the next course of action
B) Every stakeholder must agree the next course of action
C) Collaboration does not mean consensus
D) Collaboration does mean consensus with everyone
Which of the following statements about Incident Management is true?
A) Every Incident must be resolved immediately
B) Every Incident must have its cause determined
C) Every Incident must be resolved in less than the target time
D) Every Incident must be managed in line with agreed, realistic targets
Name the Four dimensions of Service Management.
A) Organisations & people, Information & technology, partners & suppliers, value streams & processes.
B) Value streams & processes, organizations & technology, partners & resources, costs & benefits.
C) Value, outcomes, costs & risks.
D) Budgeting, accounting, charging & value on investment
Which Value Chain Activity has an output of “knowledge and information about new and changed products and services to all value chain activities”?
A) Design and Deliver
B) Deliver and Support
C) Design and Transition
D) Transition and Support
The purpose of the _____________ practice is to move new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to live environments. It may also be involved in deploying components to other environments for testing or staging.
A) Incident Management Practice
B) Problem Management Practice
C) Service Request Management Practice
D) Deployment Management Practice
Which statement is true of Continual Improvement? It must ….
A) be embedded into every role
B) be embodied in a single team
C) be embodied in a single person
D) be embedded into a single improvement technique
What are the 5 components of the SVS?
A) Processes, functions, teams, organisations, partners.
B) Guiding principles, governance, service value chain, practices, continual improvement.
C) Problem, incident, event management, request management, access management.
D) Availability, reliability, resilience, continuity, mean time to restore service.
Why are Incidents Categorised?
A) Because priority needs to be determined
B) Because root cause needs to be determined
C) To identify the correct team to escalate to
D) To enable impact to be determined
What is this a description of?
"A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity”.
A) Outcome
B) Output
C) Utility
D) Warranty
“Functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need."
A) An assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements.
B) Utility
C) Information security management
D) Service relationship management
Which of the following are correct Dimensions of Service Management?
1. Information and people
2. Information and technology
3. Value streams and people
4. Value streams and processes
A) Items 1 & 2
B) Items 2 & 3
C) Items 1 & 4
D) Items 2 & 4
Change control should …?
A) Authorise every change to increase agility
B) Balance the cost of the change against the risk
C) Balance the costs and risks of making the change against the expected business benefits
D) Authorise only those changes that will not fail
How are Value Streams created?
A) Value Streams are created by specific combinations of Value Chain activities & Practices
B) Value Streams are created by a combination of Assets & Capabilities.
C) Value Streams are created by a combination of Incidents & Problems.
D) Value Streams are created by a combination of defined inputs & outputs.
"A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents.”
A) A Service Disruption
B) A Service Interruption
C) An Incident
D) A Problem
The Service Desk should be …?
A) Outsourced whenever possible to save money
B) Adequately resourced, motivated, lead and supported
C) Only outsourced if there are problems with the Service Desk
D) Automated in every case
Dealing with stakeholders outside the organisation’s Value Chain always involves which activity?
A) Plan
B) Improve
C) Obtain & Build
D) Engage
The statement "the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services" is…?
A) The purpose of Change Control
B) The definition of a Change
C) The purpose of Release Management
D) The definition of a Release
Match the following roles with the correct description
1) User
2) Service Consumer
3) Sponsor
4) Customer
W) What is described as a “generic role that is used to simplify the definition and description of the structure of service relationships”.
X) Who is defined as a “person who authorizes budget for service consumption.”
Y) Who is defined as a “person who defines the requirements for a service”.
Z) Who is defined a “person who uses services.”
A. 1Y, 2X, 3Z, 4W
B. 1Y, 2W, 3Y, 4X
C. 1Z, 2W, 3X, 4Y
D. 1Z, 2X, 3Y, 4W
What are the three phases of Problem Management?
A) Problem Resolution, Problem Solving, Problem Eradication
B) Problem Identification, Problem Control, Error Control
C) Problem Resistance, Problem Recovery, Problem Fixing
D) Problem Review, Problem identification, Problem analysis
Once designed, Value Streams should.
A) Not improved until the next full audit review
B) Only improved if an issue is identified.
C) Improved continually.
D) Not improved at all
What type of model is the Service Value System (SVS)?
A) Sense-Making Model
B) Operational Model
C) Organisational Model
D) Resource Model
The ITIL Guiding Principles?
A) Should be used instead of the Agile Manifesto and 12 Guiding Principles
B) Replace the 3 Ways of DevOps
C) Are not needed if you are using Scrum
D) Are in tune with the messages of Agile, DevOps and Scrum
Which statement about SLA targets is correct?
A) Use of a single target can result in the “watermelon effect”
B) Use of a single target is ideal
C) Use of multiple targets is desirable, the more the better
D) In line with the Guiding Principle “Keep it simple and practical”, SLAs should never have more than one target
"To set clear business-based targets for service performance, so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.”
A) Service Strategy Practice
B) Service Level Management Practice
C) Information Security Management Practice
D) Workforce & Talent Management Practice
What is the output of the SVS?
A) System Validation
B) Value
C) Return On Investment
D) Restoration Of Service
The practice that is responsible for management of interactions with Suppliers is named?
A) Relationship Management
B) Stakeholder Management
C) Supplier Management
D) Service Configuration Management
Service desk staff require training and competency in several areas, especially which customer service skills?
A) Empathy, Incident analysis, Incident prioritization, Effective communications, Emotional intelligence
B) Socialising, categorisation, prioritisation, conflict analysis, root cause analysis
C) Change assessment, major problem reviews, customer service review meetings, supplier management.
D) Metrics analysis, time management skills, negotiation skills, team leadership skills.
What are the 7 Steps of the Continual Improvement Model?
A) Where are we now, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, how do we get there, where do we want to be.
B) How do we keep the momentum going, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we get there, where are we now, take action, where do we want to be
C) Did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, where are we now, how do we get there, what’s the vision, where do we want to be
D) What’s the vision, where are we now, where do we want to be, how do we get there, take action, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going
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