ITIL® 4 Foundation Quiz Questions and Answers

ITIL® 4 is the very latest version of ITIL®. This one hour, 40 question quiz should really test your knowledge of the very latest thinking in IT Service Management 'Best Practice'.
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Question 1 ID: 889

What is this a description of?

"A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity”.

A) Outcome

B) Output

C) Utility

D) Warranty

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Question 2 ID: 652

The Purpose of the Service Desk ...?

A) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and problems"

B) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and service requests"

C) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and changes"

D) “is to capture demand for changes and problems"

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Question 3 ID: 903

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.

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Question 4 ID: 634

Risks …?

A) Cannot be avoided

B) Should be avoided

C) Are always negative

D) Can represent the possibility of something good happening

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Question 5 ID: 884

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

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Question 6 ID: 911

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

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Question 7 ID: 651

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

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Question 8 ID: 667

The Problem management practice contributes to the Deliver & Support Value Chain Activity by:

A) preventing incident repetition and supporting timely incident resolution

B) by preventing incident causes and supporting quality incident resolution

C) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Incident Management practice

D) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Change Control practice

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Question 9 ID: 669

Channels for accessing the Service Desk can include:

1. Telephone systems

2. Corporate social media tools

3. Physical visits to the service desk by users

4. Complaints made directly to a Supplier by a user

A) Items 1, 2 and 3

B) Items 1, 2 and 4

C) Items 1, 3 and 4

D) Items 2, 3 and 4

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Question 10 ID: 882

What is this a definition of?

"A means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks.”

A) A Service

B) Service Management

C) Supplier Management

D) Service Continuity Management

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Question 11 ID: 650

Which practice has the purpose of planning and managing the full lifecycle of all IT assets?

A) IT Asset Management

B) Service Configuration Management

C) Plan and Engage

D) Partners and Suppliers

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Question 12 ID: 658

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

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Question 13 ID: 662

The purpose of Service Level Management includes …?

A) The setting of clear business-based targets for service performance

B) The setting of clear technically-based targets for service performance

C) The setting of stretching targets that are very difficult to achieve

D) The setting of targets that can always be achieved

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Question 14 ID: 896

What is this a definition of?

“Joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings.”

A) Cost Realization And Benefit

B) Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)

C) Value On Investment (VOI)

D) Service Relationship Management

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Question 15 ID: 660

Service Requests should …?

A) Not be automated, as they are all different

B) Should all be automated

C) Be automated to the greatest degree possible

D) Should be automated only if they trigger other processes, such as Change Control

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Question 16 ID: 638

What is true of the Guiding Principle “Optimize and automate”

A) Before an activity is automated, it should be simplified and optimized

B) Before an activity is optimized, it should be simplified and automated

C) All activities should be automated

D) All activities with which we have difficulties should be automated

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Question 17 ID: 888

What is this a definition of?

"A person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.”

A) A Team

B) A Function

C) A Process

D) An Organisation

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Question 18 ID: 637

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

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Question 19 ID: 654

What is the definition of an Event?

A) “any change of state that has significance for the management of a service value chain”

B) “any change of state that has significance for the management of a service or other configuration item”

C) “any change of state that has significance for the management of a service value system”

D “any change of state that has significance for the management of a service’s value”

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Question 20 ID: 905

What is the output of the SVS?

A) System Validation

B) Value

C) Return On Investment

D) Restoration Of Service

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Question 21 ID: 902

What type of model is the Service Value System (SVS)?

A) Sense-Making Model

B) Operational Model

C) Organisational Model

D) Resource Model

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Question 22 ID: 898

What is this a definition of?

“Activities performed by an organization to consume services."

A) Resource Utilization

B) Resource Allocation

C) Relationship Management

D) Service Consumption

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Question 23 ID: 917

What document should be ‘widely published and produced’ so everyone is aware of changes that have been logged, and are coming up for discussion?

A) Project Plan

B) Release Plan

C) Deployment Plan

D) Change Schedule

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Question 24 ID: 909

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.

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Question 25 ID: 647

Which of the following are outputs of Obtain/Build?

1. Service components for deliver and support

2. Service components for design and transition

3. Knowledge and information about new and changed service components to all value chain activities

4. Improvement status reports from improve

A) Items 1, 2 and 4

B) Items 2, 3 and 4

C) Items 1, 2 and 4

D) Items 1, 2 and 3

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Question 26 ID: 918

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

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Question 27 ID: 893 What is this a definition of? "A description of one or more services, designed to address the needs of a target consumer group". A) Service Outage B) Strategy Management C) Service Result D) Service Offerings

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Question 28 ID: 928

"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

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Question 29 ID: 894

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

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Question 30 ID: 914

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

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Question 31 ID: 639

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

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Question 32 ID: 644

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

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Question 33 ID: 899

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

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Question 34 ID: 648

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

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Question 35 ID: 920

What is this a definition of?

"A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents.”

A) A Service Disruption

B) A Service Interruption

C) An Incident

D) A Problem

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Question 36 ID: 901

What are the factors that can affect multiple dimensions?

A) Positional, equitable, sociable, testable, legal, essential

B) Political, economical, social, technological, legal, environmental

C) Practical, ergonomically, social, technological, lethal, essential

D) Problematical, economical, societal, traceable, legitimate, environmental.

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Question 37 ID: 926

How may the Service Desk be delivered?

A) With Full/Part-Time Staff

B) Using A Virtual Approach

C) With Mixed Teams

D) There Is No ‘’Right Way’’

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Question 38 ID: 925

What is this the Purpose of?

"To capture demand for incident resolution and service requests. It should also be the entry point and single point of contact for the service provider with all of its users.”

A) Workforce & talent management practice

B) Problem management practice

C) Incident management practice

D) Service desk practice

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Question 39 ID: 929

How regularly should Service Review Meetings be held?

A) At least annually

B) At least half-annually

C) At least quarterly

D) No precise time, but these meetings should be held regularly.

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Question 40 ID: 891

What is this a definition of?

"The amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource”.

A) Outgoings

B) Income

C) Costs

D) Value

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