ITIL 4 Foundation Glossary Flashcards
A list of minimum requirements that a service or service component must meet for it to be acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance criteria
Service Validation concerns address:
utility
warranty
Note:
-Must be based on customer requirements.
-The acceptance criteria are then measured via testing, based on the organization’s test strategy.
An umbrella term for a collection of frameworks and techniques that together enable teams and individuals to work in a way that is typified by collaboration, prioritization, iterative and incremental delivery, and timeboxing. There are several specific methods (or frameworks) that are classed as Agile, such as Scrum, Lean, and Kanban.
Agile
The practice of providing an understanding of all the different elements that make up an organization and how those elements relate to one another.
Architecture management practice
Business architecture:** allows the organisation’s capabilities to be compared with its strategy to identify gaps.
**Service architecture: provides a view of all services and interactions between services. *
Information systems architecture: provides a view of the logical and physical data and information assets of the organisation, including how they are managed and shared.
Technology architecture**: defines the software and hardware infrastructure of the organisation. **Environmental architecture: describes external factors affecting the organisation, and environmental controls. This could include a PESTEL analysis.
A database or list of assets capturing key attributes such as ownership and financial value.
Asset register
Scope:
The scope of asset management will usually include: •Software •Hardware •Networking •Cloud services •Client devices
The ability of an IT service or other configuration item to perform its agreed function when required.
Availability
The practice of ensuring that services deliver agreed levels of availability to meet the needs of customers and users.
Availability management practice
Service level management and relationship management can help availability management to talk to the customer and get precise definitions for ‘service up’ and ‘service down’.
A report or metric that serves as a starting point against which progress or change can be assessed.
Baseline
A way of working that has been proven to be successful by multiple organizations.
Best practice
The practice of analysing a business or some element of a business, defining its needs and recommending solutions to address these needs and/or solve a business problem, and create value for stakeholders.
Business analysis practice
Business analysis takes a holistic view, considering: *Process *Organisation change *Technology *Policies *Information *Strategic planning
A justification for expenditure of organizational resources, providing information about costs, benefits, options, risks, and issues.
Business case
A key activity in the practice of service continuity management that identifies vital business functions and their dependencies.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Service continuity management “The purpose of the service continuity management practice is to ensure that the availability and performance of a service are maintained at sufficient levels in the case of a disaster.
A role responsible for maintaining good relationships with one or more customers
Business Relationship Manager (BRM)
An interaction (e.g. a telephone call) with the service desk, which could result in an incident or a service request being logged.
Call
An organization or business unit that handles large numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and other interactions.
Call/contact centre
The ability of an organization, person, process, application, configuration item, or IT service to carry out an activity.
Capability
The practice of ensuring that services achieve agreed and expected performance levels, satisfying current and future demand in a cost-effective way.
Capacity and performance management practice
The activity of creating a plan that manages resources to meet demand for services
Capacity planning
The addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services
Change
A person or group responsible for authorizing a change.
Change authority
The practice of ensuring that risks are properly assessed, authorizing changes to proceed and managing a change schedule in order to maximize the number of successful service and product changes.
Change control practice
A repeatable approach to the management of a particular type of change
Change model
A calendar that shows planned and historical changes
Change schedule
The activity that assigns a price for services.
Charging
A model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provided with minimal management effort or provider interaction.
Cloud computing
The act of ensuring that a standard or set of guidelines is followed, or that proper, consistent accounting or other practices are being employed.
Compliance
A security objective that ensures information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized entities.
Confidentiality
An arrangement of configuration items (CIs) or other resources that work together to deliver a product or service. Can also be used to describe the parameter settings for one or more CIs.
Configuration
Any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service.
Configuration Item (CI)
A database used to store configuration records throughout their lifecycle. The CMDB also maintains the relationships between configuration records.
Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
A record containing the details of a configuration item (CI). Each configuration record documents the lifecycle of a single CI. Configuration records are stored in a configuration management database.
Configuration record
The practice of aligning an organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification and improvement of all elements involved in the effective management of products and services.
Continual improvement practice
An integrated set of practices and tools used to deploy software changes into the production environment. These software changes have already passed predefined automated tests.
Continuous deployment
An integrated set of practices and tools used to merge developers’ code, build and test the resulting software, and package it so that it is ready for deployment.
Continuous integration/continuous delivery
The means of managing a risk, ensuring that a business objective is achieved, or that a process is followed.
Control
The amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource.
Cost
A business unit or project to which costs are assigned.
Cost centre
A necessary precondition for the achievement of intended results.
Critical success factor (CSF)
A set of values that is shared by a group of people, including expectations about how people should behave, ideas, beliefs, and practices.
Culture
A role that defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption.
Customer
The sum of functional and emotional interactions with a service and service provider as perceived by a service consumer.
Customer experience (CX)
A real-time graphical representation of data.
Dashboard
The value chain activity that ensures services are delivered and supported according to agreed specifications and stakeholders’ expectations.
Deliver and support
Input to the service value system based on opportunities and needs from internal and external stakeholders.
Demand
The movement of any service component into any environment.
Deployment
The practice of moving new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other service component to live environments.
Deployment management practice
The value chain activity that ensures products and services continually meet stakeholder expectations for quality, costs, and time to market.
Design and transition
A practical and human-cantered approach used by product and service designers to solve complex problem sand find practical and creative solutions that meet the needs of an organization and its customers.
Design thinking
An environment used to create or modify IT services or applications.
Development environment
An organizational culture that aims to improve the flow of value to customers. DevOps focuses on culture, automation, Lean, measurement, and sharing (CALMS).
DevOps
The evolution of traditional business models to meet the needs of highly empowered customers, with technology playing an enabling role.
Digital transformation
A sudden unplanned event that causes great damage or serious loss to an organization. A disaster results in an organization failing to provide critical business functions for some predetermined minimum period.
Disaster
A set of clearly defined plans related to how an organization will recover from a disaster as well as return to apre-disaster condition, considering the four dimensions of service management.
Disaster recovery plans
Something that influences strategy, objectives, or requirements.
Driver
A measure of whether the objectives of a practice, service or activity have been achieved
Effectiveness
A measure of whether the right amount of resources have been used by a practice, service, or activity
Efficiency
A change that must be introduced as soon as possible
Emergency change
The value chain activity that provides a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, continual engagement, and good relationships with all stakeholders.
Engage
A subset of the IT infrastructure that is used for a particular purpose, for example a live environment or test environment. Can also mean the external conditions that influence or affect something.
Environment
A flaw or vulnerability that may cause incidents
Error
Problem management activities used to manage known errors.
Error control
The act of sharing awareness or transferring ownership of an issue or work item.
Escalation
Any change of state that has significance for the management of a service or other configuration item.
Event
A customer who works for an organization other than the service provider
External customer
A loss of ability to operate to specification, or to deliver the required output or outcome
Failure
A technique whereby the outputs of one part of a system are used as inputs to the same part of the system.
Feedback loop
The four perspectives that are critical to the effective and efficient facilitation of value for customers another stakeholders in the form of products and services.
Four dimensions of service management
Tangible resources that are transferred or available for transfer from a service provider to a service consumer, together with ownership and associated rights and responsibilities.
Goods
The means by which an organization is directed and controlled.
Governance
A unique name that is used to identify and grant system access rights to a user, person, or role.
Identity
The value chain activity that ensures continual improvement of products, services, and practices across all value chain activities and the four dimensions of service management.
Improve
An unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in the quality of a service.
Incident
The practice of minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.
Incident management
One of the four dimensions of service management. It includes the information and knowledge used to deliver services, and the information and technologies used to manage all aspects of the service value system.
Information and technology
The practice of protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
information security management practice
The policy that governs an organization’s approach to information security management.
Information security policy
The practice of overseeing the infrastructure and platforms used by an organization. This enables the monitoring of technology solutions available, including solutions from third parties.
Infrastructure and platform management practice
A security objective that ensures information is only modified by authorized personnel and activities.
Integrity
A customer who works for the same organization as the service provider
Internal customer
The interconnection of devices via the internet that were not traditionally thought of as IT assets, but now include embedded computing capability and network connectivity.
Internet of Things
Any financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service.
IT asset
The practice of planning and managing the full lifecycle of all IT assets
IT asset management practice
All the hardware, software, networks, and facilities that are required to develop, test, deliver, monitor, manage, and support IT services.
IT infrastructure
A service based on the use of information technology.
IT service
Best-practice guidance for IT service management.
ITIL
Recommendations that can guide an organization in all circumstances, regardless of changes in its goals, strategies, type of work, or management structure.
ITIL guiding principles
An operating model for service providers that covers all the key activities required to effectively manage products and services.
ITIL service value chain
A method for visualizing work, identifying potential blockages and resource conflicts, and managing work in progress.
Kanban