CyberVista Flashcards
Which IT management practice provides a list of services available and instructions on how to obtain these services?
Request fulfillment
Which type of change is low risk, pre-authorized, and fully documented?
Can be implemented without needing additional authorization and are often initiated as service requests. They can also be operational changes.
Standard change
Which of the following service value system components is defined as a system or framework used to control and manage activities in an organization?
One of five service value system components.
Governance
Which statement is true of traditional/waterfall environments but NOT true of Agile/DevOps environments?
Release management and deployment are a single process.
Which of the following statements are CORRECT about the outcomes of services?
They can be a tangible delivery of an activity.
They can be an intangible delivery of an activity.
There can be multiple outputs of a single service.
They are enabled by one or more outputs.
The provider and consumer can work together to understand the desired outcomes.
Which of the following is NOT one of the six value chain activities?
Six Value Chain Activities: Plan, Engage, Design and Transition, Obtain/Build, Deliver and support, Improve.
Improvise is the correct answer.
Which set of functions, processes, methods, roles, and activities of a service provider provide value to the customer?
Service Management
Which dimension of service management is “concerned with how various parts of an organization work in an integrated and coordinated way to enable value creation through products and services?
Value Streams and Processes
7 ITIL Guiding Principles
Focus on value.
Start where you are.
Progress iteratively with feedback.
Collaborate and promote visibility.
Think and work holistically.
Keep it simple and practical.
Optimize and automate.
Re-create the Continual improvement model in the correct order.
What is 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?
What are the four dimensions of Service Management?
Organizations and People
Information and Technology
Partners and Suppliers
Value streams and Processes
Organization and people dimension (4 Dimensions of Service Management)
Addresses roles and responsibilities, formal organizational structures, culture, and required staffing and competencies. People are a key element of this dimension, and in addition to skill and competencies, attention should be paid to management and leadership styles, and to communication and collaboration skills.
People
Key element of the organization and people dimension.
Information and Technology dimension
Addresses both the information created, managed, and used to facilitate value co-creation and deliver a service, as well as the technologies that support and enable that service. A key element of this dimension is how information is exchanged between different services and service components, and optimization of the information architecture of the various services.
Partners and suppliers dimension
Addresses an organization’s relationships with other organizations involved in value co-creation and service delivery, including contracts and other agreements. There are many factors that may influence an organization strategy when using suppliers.
Value stream and process dimension
Addresses the activities that organizations undertake, and how they are organized to efficiently and effectively enable value co-creation for stakeholders.
Value Stream
A series of steps used to create and deliver products and services.
Process
A specific set of activities that transforms inputs into outputs.
Information and technology dimension
For many services, information management is the primary means of enabling customer value.
Information and technology dimension
Key consideration is this dimension is how information is exchanged between different services and service components.
Information and technology dimension
Security and regulatory compliance requirements are a focus of this dimension.
Culture
May have a significant impact on the technologies it chooses to use.
Partners and Suppliers dimension
One method an organization may use to address this dimension is service integration and management.
Value Stream and Processes dimension
Dimension to successfully create, deliver, and improve a service.
Value Stream
A series of steps used to create and deliver products and services.
Process
is a specific set of activities that transforms inputs into outputs.
Which of the following tasks is NOT the responsibility of information security management?
Measuring resource and service performance.
Which statement is true regarding the relationship between Problem management activities and Incident management activities?
They can both complement or conflict with each other.
Which guiding principle covers considering what is already available to be leveraged before building something new?
Start where you are.
Which of the following factors may influence an organization’s strategy when using suppliers?
All of the options.
Strategic focus
Corporate culture
Subject matter expertise
Collating and analyzing customer engagement is an important part of Service level management. Which questions should be considered when participating in customer engagement?
All of the opttions
What is the best measure of your success?
How could we help you further?
Does technology help, and how?
What are your goals for this year?
Which practice can uncover issues that are managed through Continual Improvement?
Problem management
Which of the following statements is/are an example of a service request?
Request to access an Instant Messenger (IM) application.
Request to reset a user password.
Which practice is responsible for interfacing with Incident management to evaluate Service Level Agreements (SLAs)?
Service level management
Which of the following are inputs to Problem management?
All of the options
Incident records
Known errors
CI information from the CMDB
Information from other processes
When applying the Collaborate and promote visibility principle, which advice should be considered?
All of the options
Collaboration does not mean consensus.
Communicate in a way the audience can hear.
Decisions can only be made on visible data.
A recent security breach on a single computer at your organization has resulted in the need to deploy a security fix on several computers. You develop a procedure for deploying the fix on the computers and record everything in the Configuration Management System (CMS). Of which of the following items is this example?
Change
What is one way that automation, AI, and chatbots could influence Service desks?
They provide more self-service logging and resolution.
Which of the following service value system components encompasses the creation of organizational resources to reach an objective or conduct work?
Practices
Which of the following statements is/are NOT correct about the service desk staff?
The service desk should employ high-level technical staff.
Which of the following terms accurately represent the letters in the acronym used in PESTLE, which are the external factors that influence or constrain service providers?
Political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental.
Which ITIL management practice uses a management tool or agent to indicate when an abnormal operation, such as an incorrect password, has occurred?
Monitoring and event management
How should an organization focus on applying the guiding principles?
Focus on the relevance of each guiding principle and how they all apply together.
Which of the following statements can be CORRECT regarding the utility of a service?
All of these statements are true
It is the functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
It can be summarized as “what the service does”.
It can be used to determine whether a service is “fit for purpose”.
It can support the performance of the consumer.
It can remove the constraints from the consumer.
Which entity is responsible for paying for a service?
Customer
Which value chain activities involve Continual Improvement?
All value chain activities
Plan, Improve, and Engage
Plan and Improve
Plan, Improve, and Obtain/Build
Your organization’s IT department has identified a change that is extremely important and must be implemented as soon as possible. What should be implemented?
An emergency change.
Which statement regarding IT asset management is INCORRECT?
IT asset management develops and manages appropriate Operational Level Agreements (OLAs).
Which statement regarding Service level management is INCORRECT?
Service level management provides a single source of consistent information on all of the agreed upon services.
Working in a time-boxed, iterative manner with feedback loops embedded into the process allows for which of the following?
All of these options
Greater flexibility
Faster responses to customer and business needs.
The ability to discover and respond to failure earlier.
An overall improvement in quality.
What is the standard whereby a change becomes part of the Service request management practice?
Cost and risk are low.
_______ includes application and data architectures that detail physical and logical data assets.
Information systems architecture
Which of the following would be a technology required by a centralized Service desk?
All of these options.
Remote access tools
Configuration management systems
Workflow systems
Dashboard and monitoring tools
Which of the following is NOT a high-level step on the path to optimization?
Inform stakeholders of the optimization after implementation.
Both _____ and _____ could affect the technology an organization chooses to use.
Nature, culture
Which of the following examples could be considered the warranty of a cloud service?
24/7 uptime