Change & Release Management (25%) Flashcards
The Change Velocity Dashboard has 3 tabs:
- Current Pipeline
- Historical Pipeline
- Process KPIs
Minimum required role to update a change record.
sn_change_write
Who can perform the first level of approval in a low-risk normal change request?
Change Manager
Group Member
5 things checked for conflict detection in change requests
- Conflicts for all Affected CIs
- Conflicts with changes to parent and child CIs
- Not executing during a blackout time period
- Not running in a period that conflicts with other changes for related CIs
- Executed during approved maintenance window for CIs
6 Release types
Major
Minor
Upgrade
Emergency
Maintenance
Patch
Tool used in a change request to view and avoid (resolve) conflicts.
Scheduling Assistant
Collision Detector identifies potential scheduling conflicts based on 2 things
CI in scope for the change or user/group assigned to fulfill the change
Change Risk Calculator is used for what 2 things?
Simple Risk and Impact Calculations
Risk Assessment allows what to be created?
Risk Assessment Questionnaires
Indicates how successful each change model or type is.
Change Model Success
The success probability for a change request is calculated based on 3 things.
- Change model success
- Change success score
- Calculated
2 fields automatically calculated by completing the risk assessment on a change request.
Impact
Risk
Type of change request that does NOT require CAB authorization.
Standard
You can’t pause a change by placing it ‘On Hold’ while it is in _____ state.
New, Cancelled or Closed
Value that determines sequence change should be implemented.
Priority
State NOT used in Standard change requests.
Assess
Database view used to report on change requests resolved by SLA
change_request_sla
3 states you can cancel a change request.
Authorize
Implement
Schedule
CAB workbench feature that allows you to specify when CAB meeting is held, which days and how often.
Schedule Entries
If you incorrectly classify an emergency change as a normal change during creation and scope change, what do you do?
Select Revert to New and update the type to Emergency
5 main features of change success score
- calculated daily based on peformance yesterday
- enables approvers to take decisions on change requests
- change success score indicator allows you to adjust multipliers
- score value lets you determine how likely team is to complete change request without issues
- change success score dashboard helps compare individual team scores
Configure on a change model to enable user criteria-based security and role-based security to tailor change creation landing page views.
Advanced Security
_________ Changes are frequently implemented and repeated implementation steps.
Standard Changes
4 Different stages in the Change Management lifecycle
- Review and Closure
- Creation and Scope
- Implementation
- Approval
Where can you find info about the CAB forum, CAB name, members, delegates, locations, time zones, and scope of changes?
CAB Definition
3 things CAB Definition contains
- Info about CAB forum
- Meeting schedule definitions
- Links to meeting sessions
3 fields that need populated in a change request so conflict check can run?
- Planned start date
- Planned end date
- CI
Change request type that is pre-defined, pre-authorized, and low risk
Standard
7 Release phase options on a release record
- Requirements Gathering
- Design
- Development
- Build
- Deployment
- QA
- User Acceptance
5 ways to create change requests
- manual creation
- incident management
- problem management
- configuration management
- service catalog
3 different close codes on a change request form
- successful with issues
- successful
- unsuccessful
What table does the change_request extend?
task
What attribute is used to route a change request
Assignment Group
What can you do within the Conflict Calendar?
- view change schedule
- view details of the change
- resolve conflicts
- customize views
Actual start and actual end dates in a change request are populated automatically when the change state is updated to _____ (start) and then ______ (end)
Implement, Review
Performance Analytics dashboard that demonstrates the success probability of the change requests based on their model and lets you drill down into change models to monitor trends over time
Change Model Success
Icons that appear next to populated Service field in a change request.
- Show other active tasks
- Preview this record
- Open in Dependency Views
3 Asset actions for a CI from the ‘Affected CI’ list on a change request
- Update/Repair
- Deploy
- Retire
3 actions you can take on the CAB Meeting form?
- Send meeting request to attendees
- Go to this meeting in CAB Workbench
- Refresh Agenda Items
Next Generation Change Risk uses 2 things to improve precision and provide additional change automation for change processes.
- impact
- Success Probability
Persona required to check whether the change plan is technically sound
Peer approval
What state an Emergency change request can be reverted to the New state and modified to a Normal change request
Authorize
Change type frequently implemented with repeatable implementation steps and a proven history of success
Standard
Container for change requests and manages execution of change management
Release management
How can you automatically populate the change request assignment group on creation when ‘Assignment group’ and ‘Assigned to’ fields are empty?
Based on change group of the CI/Service Offering
Which plugin enables dynamic calculations of the risk and impact of a change?
Change Management - Change Risk Calculator
What application can you use to quickly build and extend Change Management workflows on a single platform.
Flow Designer
An admin can share the Change Schedules with others. What audience can they share the Change Schedules with?
- Everyone
- Roles
- Groups
Attribute used to route a Change Request.
Assignment Group
Before Quebec, when you went to Change > Create New, where did it take you to?
Legacy Change Interceptor
__________ allows change managers to tailor change activities and flows for specific use cases in an easy and convenient way.
Multimodal Change
An individual change model will have what 3 things defined?
- State models
- State transitions
- State transition conditions
What do Change Metrics track?
Length of time changes stay in each approval state (not yet requested, requested, approved)
___________ facilitate reporting if/when SLAs are associated with change or the incident time_worked field is leveraged.
Database Views
What database view would join sc_request to SLA (task_sla)
sc_request_sla
Database view that joins sc_req_item to SLA (task_sla)
sc_req_item_sla
Database Views combine information related to SLAs and metrics with requests, requested items, and catalog tasks. They are equivalent to ______
SQL joins
What must be developed for customers, since they are NOT defined in baseline instances.
Metrics and SLAs are not defined for request in baseline instances.
When an unauthorized Emergency Change Request moves to a state of Review, which change task is automatically created?
Post Implementation Review
The Post Implementation Review change task would be assigned to ________ with a Short Description of “Post Implementation Review”
Change Management Group
On a change approval definition record, what does the ‘wait for’ condition define?
The number or % of users from the approval group that must approve the change.