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
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
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
What is the best definition of Utility?
A) The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need
B) The amount of capacity available
C) The network bandwidth available
D) A company that supplies gas or electricity
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
Known Errors are?
A) Incidents that have had their cause identified.
B) Problems that are awaiting identification.
C) A problem that has been analysed and has not been resolved.
D) Problems that have had Changes raised against them.
Analysing causes is an activity of which phase of Problem management?
A) Problem Identification
B) Problem Mitigation
C) Error Control
D) Problem Control
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
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
Guiding Principles are?
A) Ubiquitous and endangering
B) Utility and enduring
C) Universal and enduring
D) Utility and endangering
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’’
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
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
"Activities performed by an organization to provide services."
A) Work Commitments
B) Work Schedule
C) Service Provision
D) Service Commitment
"A possible event that could cause harm or loss or make it more difficult to achieve objectives".
A) Event Management
B) Risks
C) Outcomes
D) Result
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”
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
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
"A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents.”
A) A Service Disruption
B) A Service Interruption
C) An Incident
D) A Problem
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
“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
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
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
What is this the definition of?
"A request from a user or user’s authorized representative that initiates a service action that has been agreed as a normal part of service delivery.”
A) Access Management practice
B) Service request
C) Availability management practice
D) Capacity & performance management practice
What are the six Value Chain Activities?
A) Plan, support, enable, create, deliver, restore
B) Support, repair, restore, enhance, enable, retire
C) Plan, improve, engage, design & transition, obtain & build, deliver & support
D) Strategy, design, transition, operation, continual improvement, enhancement.
Which statement about the relationship of Service Request Management to Value Chain Activities is correct?
A) Service Request Management has no involvement with Obtain/Build
B) Service request Management may contribute Incident causes to Design and Transition
C) Service request Management may contribute Incident causes to Improvement
D) Service Request Management’s involvement with Obtain/Build is that service requests may require acquisition of pre-approved service components
"A co-operation between a service provider and service consumer."
A) A Friendship
B) An Understanding
C) Outsourcing
D) A Service Relationship
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
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
What is the trigger for activities in the SVS?
A) A Service Request
B) A Third-Party Contract
C) Desire For New Functionality
D) Opportunity & Demand
"The assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements."
A) Utility
B) Warranty
C) Service offering
D) IT Asset Management
“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
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
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.
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.
Dealing with stakeholders outside the organisation’s Value Chain always involves which activity?
A) Plan
B) Improve
C) Obtain & Build
D) Engage
An organisation has a responsibility for the care and control of its hardware, software, people, and any other element involved in providing and maintaining services. Which practice is responsible for this?
A) IT Asset Management Practice
B) Change Enablement Practice
C) Service Configuration Management Practice
D) Service Portfolio Management Practice
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.
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.
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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