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7.3 Service Level Agreements Flashcards

1
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What is an SLA?

A

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) typically is a written agreement that outlines the commitment between a service provider and its customers.

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What is a commitment?

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A commitment is a service level that all parties have agreed to, such as:
- asset reliability
- availability

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What does the SLA describe?

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  • one or more commitments
  • the escalation actions or notifications associated with each commitment
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Why might escalation actions or notifications be associated with an SLA?

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to ensure that commitments are met

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How does the escalation process within SLA serve its purpose?

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To ensure that commitments are met, can do the following:
- can monitor all activities
- send notifications or perform other activities

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6
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What level do SLAs exist at?

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SLAs exist at the system level.

However, the organization or site can be specified to restrict the SLA to that organization or site.

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7
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What can SLAs be applied to?

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Any main object

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What can an SLA be associated to?

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  • Contracts
  • Related SLAs
  • Assets
  • Locations
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9
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List the 3 SLA types

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  • Customer
  • Internal
  • Vendor
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SLA Types

Customer SLA

Describe this

A

Agreement between user & external customer

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SLA Types

Internal SLA

Describe

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Agreement between user & internal customer

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SLA Types

Vendor SLA

Describe

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Agreement between user & vendor

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What are commitments and how can they be measured?

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Commitments are a level of service that is agreed upon by the service provider and the customer

They can be measured in a qualitative or quantitative way

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14
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List predefined commitment types

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  • Contract
  • Response
  • Resolution
  • Other
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Commitment Types

Contract

What does this apply to?

A

Ticket applications

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Commitment Types

Response

What does this apply to?

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Ticket and Work Order applications

17
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Commitment Types

Resolution

What does this apply to?

A

Ticket and Work Orders

18
Q

Commitment Types

Other

What does this apply to?

A

All objects

19
Q

Commitment Types

Contact

Describe

A
  • Set the target contact date for a ticket when a service desk agent applies a service level agreement
  • A measure of time
20
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Commitment Types

Response

Describe

A
  • Set the target start date for a ticket or work order when a service desk agent applies a service level agreement
  • A measure of time
21
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Commitment Types

Resolution

Describe

A
  • Set the target finish date for a ticket or work order when a service desk agent applies a service level agreement
  • A measure of time
22
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Commitment Types

Other

Describe

A
  • Apply to any business object
  • Possible synonyms for other include: availability, reliability, and downtime
  • No business rules are associated with this type
  • A value + a unit of measure + a time period
23
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List commitment types that are classified with an internal value of OTHER

A
  • AVAILABILITY
  • CAPACITY
  • DELIVERY
  • DOWNTIME
  • RELIABILITY
  • OTHER
24
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Rules pertaining to adding commitment types to an SLA

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Except for the commitment type OTHER, only one of each commitment type can be added to an SLA

25
Q

List the attributes used to define the commitment types

A
  • value
  • unit of measure
  • time period (in days)
26
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Editability of attributes upon choosing commitment type

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editable or read-only as needed

27
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How can an SLA be associated with a record?

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  • An SLA might automatically be applied to a record from within a workflow or escalation process, or from another SLA
  • The action to apply an SLA can be selected, which applies the best match automatically
  • SLAs can be viewed and use an action to select or clear the SLAs to manually apply to the record
28
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List events that occur when an SLA is applied to a record

A
  • The SLA Applied check box is checked off to document the action
  • Any escalations associated with the SLA are activated
  • The Target Start, Target Finish, and Contact values might be calculated automatically as follows:
  • If SLA includes a response commitment, the response commitment date populates the Target Start date field of the record
  • If SLA includes a resolution commitment, the resolution commitment date populates the Target Finish date field of the record
  • If SLA includes a contact commitment, the contact commitment date populates the Target Contact date field of the record
29
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List organizational settings that can be set in the Organizations application, pertaining to SLAs

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  • Allow application of one or multiple SLAs?
  • Apply multiple SLAs based on ranking or commitment stringency?
  • Use or disable calendar for calculating escalation point condition?
30
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How can an escalation be set pertaining to an SLA? Why would this be done?

A

From the Service Level Agreements application, an escalation can be created to ensure that SLAs are compliant.

31
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Rules on creating escalations for SLAs

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One escalation can be created per SLA

32
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How does escalation setup relate to commitments within an SLA?

A

individual escalation points can be added for each commitment within an SLA

33
Q

Escalations for SLAs

What do values for escalation points default to?

A

values specified in the associated commitment

34
Q

Escalations associated to SLAs

Where can the escalation then be viewed/modified?

A

Escalations tab

35
Q

What can SLAs be ranked by, and why?

A

According to precedence, which determines which SLAs to apply

36
Q

How can an SLA be used to drive a workflow process?

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Can set:
- effective start date
- end date
- review date
for an SLA

37
Q

What can be created to support commitments in an SLA?

A

Escalations

38
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How can SLA performance be tracked?

A

Can create key performance indicators or metrics for an SLA

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